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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — More gun violence erupts on the Streets of Crown Heights, only this time in broad daylight. At around 4:00pm a person was shot in the leg on Empire Boulevard and Schenectady Avenue.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

More Gun Violence, Man Shot on Empire Boulevard

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — More gun violence erupts on the Streets of Crown Heights, only this time in broad daylight. At around 4:00pm a person was shot in the leg on Empire Boulevard and Schenectady Avenue.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

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New Engagement!

Zalmy Chanowitz (Monticello, NY) to Rochele Klein (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Sunday, June 22nd, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Leibel Bernstein (Toronto, Canada) to Nechama Tzfasman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Meir Katz (Brooklyn, NY) to Racheli Yerushalmy (Surfside, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Yochi Scheiman from Carbondale, IL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Berel Simon (Crown Heights) to Mushky Kremer (Montreal, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Eshel 272 Kingston Ave
New Engagement!

Mendel Lerner (Boston, MA) to Mussia Wilschanski (Milan, Italy) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at The JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Schneur Deren (Greenwich, CT) to Mussie Wolf (Lincolnwood, IL) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 24th, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Levi Silverman (Dobbs Ferry, NY) to Bryna Rimler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Yossi Labkovski (Buffalo, NY) to Chayale Zaltzman (Toronto, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Girl!

Chaim and Rivky (nee Wilansky) Perl from Remsen Village had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

JJ Cohen (Boca Raton, FL) to Nechama Solomon (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)

Lined up along 770 is piles of used older Seforim with a sign in Hebrew which read “take a blessing into your home, all the seforim here are free, whatever remains by nightfall (late) will be taken from here”.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Photo Gallery: Free Seforim on Kingston!

Lined up along 770 is piles of used older Seforim with a sign in Hebrew which read “take a blessing into your home, all the seforim here are free, whatever remains by nightfall (late) will be taken from here”.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Shalom M. Rubashkin and the Jewish families of Postville are in URGENT need of your support TODAY (November 18, 2008) by 5:00pm Central Time (6:00pm Eastern Time).

We need personal letters faxed to (563) 864-3460 or (563) 864-6073 that can attest to:

PSA: A Fax Can Help with Pidyon Shvuyim

Shalom M. Rubashkin and the Jewish families of Postville are in URGENT need of your support TODAY (November 18, 2008) by 5:00pm Central Time (6:00pm Eastern Time).

We need personal letters faxed to (563) 864-3460 or (563) 864-6073 that can attest to:

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An MTA bus swiped a parked car on Kingston earlier today, the incident took place on Carroll and Kingston at around 12:30pm as the bus apparently tried to pull into the bus stop across the street and hit the parked car.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

City Bus Swipes Parked Car

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An MTA bus swiped a parked car on Kingston earlier today, the incident took place on Carroll and Kingston at around 12:30pm as the bus apparently tried to pull into the bus stop across the street and hit the parked car.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Bris Avrohom Celebrates 29

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TEANECK, NJ — The Marriot Hotel lobby was packed with Rabbonim, Shluchim, relatives, friends, mekurovim and supporters of Bris Avrohom of Hillside New Jersey and Shluchim Rabbi Mordechai and Shterna Kanelsky. The Rebbe’s Shluchim were celebrating 29 years to their Shlichus at a gala dinner and Hachnosas Sefer Torah.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Tony Leys - Des Monies Register

Earlier this month: A truckload of poultry is moved around inside the AgriProcessors plant in Postville on Nov. 3. The plant has now suspended its meat operation but says it will reopen its poultry lines this week.

POSTVILLE, IA — The Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville suspended production Monday, but one of its officials said the operation should reopen later this week.

Agriprocessors Poultry Production to Resume Thursday

Tony Leys – Des Monies Register

Earlier this month: A truckload of poultry is moved around inside the AgriProcessors plant in Postville on Nov. 3. The plant has now suspended its meat operation but says it will reopen its poultry lines this week.

POSTVILLE, IA — The Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville suspended production Monday, but one of its officials said the operation should reopen later this week.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mordechai and Leah (nee Cadaner) Kustiner (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.

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By Catherine Solyom - the Gazette

Rabbi Ronnie Fine addresses Jewish Learning Institute's Soul Maps lunchtime class, which teaches the Kabbalah, a set of spiritual lessons to achieve inner peace. The course is taught simultaneously in 300 locations around the world.
Photograph by Marcos Townsend for the Gazette

MONTREAL, Canada — Google “Soul Maps” and you'll get a self-help book published by the Anglican Church of Canada, an analysis of Karl Jung's human psychology and a question: Did you mean “Seoul Maps?” But you'll also be directed to a new course right here, right now in Montreal based on the Kabbalah, about how to map your own soul to find the road to spiritual happiness.

Mapping a Journey to Inner Peace

By Catherine Solyom – the Gazette

Rabbi Ronnie Fine addresses Jewish Learning Institute’s Soul Maps lunchtime class, which teaches the Kabbalah, a set of spiritual lessons to achieve inner peace. The course is taught simultaneously in 300 locations around the world.
Photograph by Marcos Townsend for the Gazette

MONTREAL, Canada — Google “Soul Maps” and you’ll get a self-help book published by the Anglican Church of Canada, an analysis of Karl Jung’s human psychology and a question: Did you mean “Seoul Maps?” But you’ll also be directed to a new course right here, right now in Montreal based on the Kabbalah, about how to map your own soul to find the road to spiritual happiness.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Brooklyn variety-store owner was critically wounded during a shootout Monday night in which he shot and killed two robbers, the police said.

The police said they thought the two dead men were armed and had attempted to rob the store, located at 1051 Nostrand Avenue, between Sterling and Lefferts, at about 8:20 p.m. It was unclear who fired first, the police said.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

2 Robbers Killed in Shootout at a Brooklyn Store

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Brooklyn variety-store owner was critically wounded during a shootout Monday night in which he shot and killed two robbers, the police said.

The police said they thought the two dead men were armed and had attempted to rob the store, located at 1051 Nostrand Avenue, between Sterling and Lefferts, at about 8:20 p.m. It was unclear who fired first, the police said.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Recording of a Beautiful Yechidus With the Rebbe!

Attached is a Audio Yechidus of the Rebbe in English. This private audience took place in the summer of 1977 with an American student who was studying in Kfar Chabad. Concerned about his next step in life; he sought the Rebbe’s advice. The Rebbe guides the young student with his learning, as well as provides advice on finding a Shidduch. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.InspiringAGeneration.org

The transcript below was taken from the audio recording (attached) of Yechidus with Rabbi Jacobs and his mother. In this Yechidus, the Rebbe directed Rabbi Jacobs to return to Israel, stating that his future wife would be easily found there. Two weeks later, Rami Antian OBM ‘dragged’ Rabbi Jacobs out of his yeshiva dorm bed at 3:00am excitedly notifying him that he had found him his future wife. Rabbi Antian had no knowledge of this Yechidus at the time. Finally, it was in this Yechidus that Rabbi Jacobs was told to begin learning for Smicha (Rabbinic Ordination).

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Time: 2:00 a.m.
Present: The Rebbe, Rabbi Jacobs and his mother (both seated facing the Rebbe)

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