CANTERBURY, New Zealand [CHI] — This week Israeli Ambassador to Ausralia Yuval Rotem made a special trip to ChCh City to meet with Chabad’s Shaliach to the Country Rabbi Mendel Goldstein. The Ambassador spent a couple of hours in the Chabad House where he was warmly welcomed by a team of six Temimim who have recently undertaken the directorship of the Chabad House.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — As this year’s Kinus Hashluchim gets underway the organizers arranged that the Rebbes Room along with the Library be open for the benefit of the Shluchim.
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TZFAS, Israel [CHI] — The bochurim at YNS enjoyed a wonderful Chof Cheshvan farbrengen together with the Bruchim Haboim for the new Shluchim of the yeshiva.
HaRav Levi Wilchanski, the Mashpia of the yeshiva, spoke about the greatness of the day by telling over many fascinating stories of the Rebbe Rashab.
Mordechai Greenberg (Crown Heights) and Chana Reinitz (Emanuel, Israel) .
IYH at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
Chaim Kocepolski (Sydney, Australia) and Dina Jaffe (Manchester, England) .
IYH at Chovevei Torah 885 Eastern Parkway, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — A federal prosecutor warned Wednesday that if a judge releases Sholom Rubashkin from jail, the former Agriprocessors executive could quickly flee to Israel.
“The risk of flight here is acute, it’s too great,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan said in court.
But Rubashkin’s lawyer said his client is tightly tied to his family and the community of Postville, where he ran the packing plant for years. The lawyer, Baruch Weiss, added that Israel has a strong extradition agreement with the United States. Even if he somehow could get to Israel after surrendering his U.S. passport, Weiss said, Rubashkin surely would be sent back. “With these sorts of charges, he will not find a home in Israel, and he knows that.”
S. PETERSBURG, Russia [FJC] — The Jewish Kindergarten at Novolitovskaya Street, 7 in Russia’s northern capital has once again re-opened and it is operating under a new name – the “Gan Chaya Mushka” Chana Epshtein Kindergarten. This new title was given to the kindergarten at the encouragement of S. Petersburg businessman Yevgeniy Kupsin, who is widely known in the community and renowned city-wide for his charitable work.
Yevgeniy Kupsin has taken the kindergarten under his wing so-to-speak. Not only did take it upon himself to cover the cost of the high-quality renovations to the premises, but he also provides funding for the pre-school’s ongoing support.
BROOKLYN, NY — Whether by plane, train or car, thousands of Jewish activists from all over the world made their way to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., for the much-anticipated 25th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. The rabbis began trickling in on Tuesday as their flights landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Simcha Yitzchok Zajac (Montreal,Canada) and Chanie Chanowitz (Monticello,NY) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Wednesday at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].
WILMINGTON, DE — How much is silver lining going for these days?
As 401 Ks plunge, attendance at Chabad center programs across the United States is surging. So are the calls for counseling and the requests for help paying the heating bills. From Florida to Delaware, Arizona to California, Chabad representatives are helping their communities cope with uncertain times.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Leib and Dina (nee Weiser) Perlstein (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine [FJC] — The Dnepropetrovsk-based ‘AS’ Company, a leading producer of kosher meat in this part of eastern Ukraine, has announced the provision of its new service – the delivery of its products to customers’ homes.
After the faxes kept pouring in yesterday the Rubashkin family would like to thank all those that took their time to write a letter, and are asking that we say Tehillim and learn something L’zchus Sholom Mordechai HaLevi ben Rivka.
The hearing taking place tomorrow is to determine if bail should be granted to Sholom Mordechai and if he is a flight risk.
There will be a Minyan at the Ohel at 3:00pm for Tehillim.
For more info and if you have ideas or something to offer or suggest for the case please email protestforkosher@aol.com
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Rabbi Yossi Jacobson farbrengen’ing with the congregates at Bais Shmuel Chabad on Eastern Parkway in honor of Chof Chechvan, the fifth Rebbe’s, the Rashab birthday, who was born Chof Cheshvan, 5621.
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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.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuly (ben R. Yaakov) Goldberg (Crown Heights) and Dina Bryski (Los Angeles, CA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tonight at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave]
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
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”.
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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:
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