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Jordana Horn - Forward

BROOKLYN, NY — Matisyahu, born Matthew Paul Miller, is well known as a genre-busting Hasidic reggae artist who performs in tzitzit. But with his new EP, ”Shattered,” and current tour, he shows a new, bold eclecticism that demonstrates a simultaneous evolution in his music and religious attitudes. He’s taken true steps — away from Chabad in his religious observance, and away from more conventional reggae in his musical development — and has opted instead to define his own new path.

Matisyahu: I Don’t Belong To Any Hasidic Group

Jordana Horn – Forward

BROOKLYN, NY — Matisyahu, born Matthew Paul Miller, is well known as a genre-busting Hasidic reggae artist who performs in tzitzit. But with his new EP, ”Shattered,” and current tour, he shows a new, bold eclecticism that demonstrates a simultaneous evolution in his music and religious attitudes. He’s taken true steps — away from Chabad in his religious observance, and away from more conventional reggae in his musical development — and has opted instead to define his own new path.

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Baby Girl!

Leiby and Mushka (nee Moscowitz) Brikman from Montreal, Canada had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Mendel Kulski (Paris, France) to Ro’hie Halperin (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
New Engagement!

Chmouel Lézeirovitch (Netanya, EY) to Haya Bitton (Paris, France) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The French Shul 471 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Menachem Farkash (Issaquah, WA) to Maya Rozenson (Jerusalem, EY) L’Chaim: Sunday, Sept. 14th, 8:00pm at The JCM Downstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Aharon Karpilovsky (Toronto, CA) to Chayale Silberstein (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Zevi Granat (Edgware, UK) to Sophie Dubin (Baltimore, MD)
New Engagement!

Mordechai Lubecki (Paris, France) to Iscah Sarah Andrea (Jalisco, Mexico)
Baby Girl!

Yariv and Malkie (nee Kershner) Sharabi from Parkland, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chava (nee Notik) Rendler from Riverwoods, IL on the birth of a baby girl.
New Engagement!

Eli Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) to Risa Drizin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at The Arches
New Engagement!

Levi Its’hak Ben Soussan (Courbevoie, France) to Sterna Sarah Gagueche (Brunoy, France)
New Engagement!

Shea Shmotkin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Jacobs (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 585 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Ariel Benchimoun (Levallois, France) to Rivka Bouzna (Sarcelles, France)
Baby Boy!

Moshe Leib and Chaya Mushka (nee Friedman) Yaras from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Futerfas (Crown Heights) to Mussy Goldstein (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Mendel Shemtov (Crown Heights) to Mushka Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at 1345 President Street
New Engagement!

Moshe Maiman (Mequon, WI) to Hinda Teich (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Larry Celona - NY Post

The thinning NYPD hopes auxiliary-police cars like this one will create the illusion of more cops.

NEW YORK, NY — The NYPD is making an unusual move to ensure no one notices a decline in the number of cops on the streets - decking out the vehicles used by traffic-enforcement agents, auxiliary police and school-safety agents so they look like regular cruisers.

The move will be phased in slowly with the special units - who have typically used cars painted dark blue - to be given the white cars that are taken out of use from the main fleet.

Finest Big Faux of Force – Fleet of “Fake Police Cars”

Larry Celona – NY Post

The thinning NYPD hopes auxiliary-police cars like this one will create the illusion of more cops.

NEW YORK, NY — The NYPD is making an unusual move to ensure no one notices a decline in the number of cops on the streets – decking out the vehicles used by traffic-enforcement agents, auxiliary police and school-safety agents so they look like regular cruisers.

The move will be phased in slowly with the special units – who have typically used cars painted dark blue – to be given the white cars that are taken out of use from the main fleet.

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Light of Recognition: Public Menorah Lighting Believed a First for Loveland

Shelley Widhalm – Loveland Reporter Herald

LOVELAND, CO — Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik was thrilled to have a standing-room-only crowd at possibly Loveland’s first public menorah lighting at sundown Sunday.

“For the first time in Loveland, happy Hanukkah,” said Gorelik of the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado in Fort Collins.

Gorelik greeted the nearly 200 people at the Loveland Museum/Gallery. Cold weather caused the menorah lighting to be moved from Peters Park outside the building to the museum basement.

Gorelik showed a short video on the menorah, an eight-branch candelabrum used in the Jewish faith to symbolize hope, religious freedom and perseverance.

Shlichus

Annual YU Crown Heights Shabbaton

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Close to one hundred students from Yeshiva University came together for the 12th annual Shabbaton in Crown Heights to spend a Shabbos full of inspiration. Organizers said that this year’s turnout eclipsed that of last year’s threefold.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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1st Nights Spinner… & Winners!

The first results are in from Darchai Menachems 8 days of spinners and winners Chinese Auction, the drawing took place at Sweet Expressions on Kingston Avenue and the Spiner Winner – Rivkah Leah Shenisky, Student Mendy Epstein spun the draidel and it landed on a hey, giving Rivkah Leah $100 in free auction tickets. And the first ones prizes were won by 1. Sterling Silver – Eli Wilansky, 2. Summer of fun – M. Feldman, 3. Board games – Bitzalel Steinhertz.

Each day another drawing will take place, and tomorrow’s is only hours away so hurry and visit DarchaiMenachem.com to place you order on the prizes that are still available!

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Chabad Orphan Lights Hanukkah Candle

Ynet

The father of Rivkah Holtzberg, who was killed along with her husband Gavriel during the terror attack on the Chabad house in Mumbai, India last month, held a menorah-lighting ceremony at his Afula home Sunday evening.

Moshe Holtzberg, the murdered couple’s 2-year-old son, lit the first Hanukkah candle.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Chabad News
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Manholes Explode Around Crown Heights

Smoke billows from a manhole beneath a car on Brooklyn Ave.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A series of manhole explosions shook the vicinity of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue and disrupting electricity and internet service. The explosions took place at around 3:30pm, filling the area with thick gray smoke, bringing residents out of their houses.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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In light of the recent tragedy in Mumbai, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch has received special permission to hold a public Menorah lighting ceremony at the Statue of Liberty.

The Menorah lighting will take place at the foot of Lady Liberty on Tuesday, December, 23 at 5:15pm-6:15pm to honor the memory of the shluchim Rabbi and Mrs. Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg and other victims of the Mumbai attack.

Tuesday: Mass Menorah Lighting at the Statue of Liberty

In light of the recent tragedy in Mumbai, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch has received special permission to hold a public Menorah lighting ceremony at the Statue of Liberty.

The Menorah lighting will take place at the foot of Lady Liberty on Tuesday, December, 23 at 5:15pm-6:15pm to honor the memory of the shluchim Rabbi and Mrs. Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg and other victims of the Mumbai attack.

Chabad News

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehuda and Bluma (nee Raskin) Blotner (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

Mazel Tov's
The New York Times

Dexter Bostic.
A man who prosecutors said fired two fatal gunshots into the face of Police Officer Russel Timoshenko during a traffic stop in Brooklyn last year was convicted of aggravated murder on Friday night, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

A jury also found the man, Dexter Bostic, 36, guilty of all the other charges he faced, including the attempted aggravated murder of Officer Timoshenko’s partner, Herman Yan, and three counts of illegal gun possession. He is to be sentenced in February.

Mr. Bostic’s was the second verdict in the trial of three men who face identical charges in the July 2007 shooting. The case was heard simultaneously by three separate juries. Earlier this week, Robert Ellis was acquitted of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, delivering a stinging defeat for prosecutors, who had said that Mr. Ellis shot and wounded Officer Yan. Mr. Ellis was convicted on gun possession charges.

Verdict No. 2: Conviction in Officer’s Murder

The New York Times

Dexter Bostic.

A man who prosecutors said fired two fatal gunshots into the face of Police Officer Russel Timoshenko during a traffic stop in Brooklyn last year was convicted of aggravated murder on Friday night, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

A jury also found the man, Dexter Bostic, 36, guilty of all the other charges he faced, including the attempted aggravated murder of Officer Timoshenko’s partner, Herman Yan, and three counts of illegal gun possession. He is to be sentenced in February.

Mr. Bostic’s was the second verdict in the trial of three men who face identical charges in the July 2007 shooting. The case was heard simultaneously by three separate juries. Earlier this week, Robert Ellis was acquitted of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, delivering a stinging defeat for prosecutors, who had said that Mr. Ellis shot and wounded Officer Yan. Mr. Ellis was convicted on gun possession charges.

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SUNDAY: ‘Discover our Treasures’ Exhibit Open to the Public!

After we published the photo gallery of the amazing exhibit Beis Rivkas 12th grade made in honor of Yud Tes Kislev many comments and requests came in asking to open the Exhibit to the public, and the administration agreed.

Today, Sunday, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm there will be shifts every half hour for mothers and children to come and view the exhibits. Boys up to the age of 9 are welcome along with their mothers are welcome as well.

The exhibits are located at 310 Crown Street.

PSA
The family of Reb Yoel Silkes OBM who is survived by his wife Kayla along with his children, Bashi Levilev, Eli Silkes, Raizy Cousin, Malky Schwartz, Yitty Grafstein and Yaffe Silkes, is sitting shiva until Thursday morning at 681 Crown St.

Shacharis: Sunday: 8:15am the rest of the week: 7:15am. Mincha: 4:00pm. Maariv: bizmana

Phone: (718) 493-9002 Email: silkesfamily@gmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Silkes Family

The family of Reb Yoel Silkes OBM who is survived by his wife Kayla along with his children, Bashi Levilev, Eli Silkes, Raizy Cousin, Malky Schwartz, Yitty Grafstein and Yaffe Silkes, is sitting shiva until Thursday morning at 681 Crown St.

Shacharis: Sunday: 8:15am the rest of the week: 7:15am. Mincha: 4:00pm. Maariv: bizmana

Phone: (718) 493-9002 Email: silkesfamily@gmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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Every parent has felt that gut-wrenching tug on their child's first day at school, with the nagging anxiety, “Will my child be happy?”

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“How can you ever repay someone for giving the love of learning to your child?”

That is the question asked time and time again about Darchai Menachem.

Every parent has felt that gut-wrenching tug on their child’s first day at school, with the nagging anxiety, “Will my child be happy?”

Crown Heights News