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The New York Times

Part of Forest City Ratner’s MetroTech Center development, in Downtown Brooklyn, a 5.2 million-square-foot office complex. Commercial tenants are finding the rents attractive.

Among office tenants, bargain hunting is back in style. After years of paying skyrocketing rents in Manhattan, some companies have decided to cross the East River.

“Our lease is up next year, and when we looked around the city, it was difficult to find the kind of space we wanted at a reasonable price,” said Byron E. Lewis, the chairman and chief executive of UniWorld Group, a New York advertising agency that focuses on African-American consumers.

Office Tenants Flee Manhattan Rents for Brooklyn

The New York Times

Part of Forest City Ratner’s MetroTech Center development, in Downtown Brooklyn, a 5.2 million-square-foot office complex. Commercial tenants are finding the rents attractive.

Among office tenants, bargain hunting is back in style. After years of paying skyrocketing rents in Manhattan, some companies have decided to cross the East River.

“Our lease is up next year, and when we looked around the city, it was difficult to find the kind of space we wanted at a reasonable price,” said Byron E. Lewis, the chairman and chief executive of UniWorld Group, a New York advertising agency that focuses on African-American consumers.

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Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
by Rabbi Shmuly Boteach - the huffington post
November 4th, 2008, 11pm, Times Square, New York City — The taxis horns are honking, the young people are jumping. Barack Obama has just been declared President-elect of the United States. Amidst the collective euphoria, a young man on a bicycle sees me and my yarmulke, rides over and says, “Hey man, you didn't vote for Obama, did you.” Why would you say that, I ask him. You don't even know me. “Because I'm from Israel. And I didn't either.” Interesting assumption. That Jews are not applauding the election of America's first black President.

It's an impression that we best quickly correct. Because an African-American's victory as President of the United States is a triumph for every Jewish man, woman, and child.

Shmuley Boteach: Obama’s Victory is a Triumph for Every Jewish Man, Woman, and Child

by Rabbi Shmuly Boteach – the huffington post

November 4th, 2008, 11pm, Times Square, New York City — The taxis horns are honking, the young people are jumping. Barack Obama has just been declared President-elect of the United States. Amidst the collective euphoria, a young man on a bicycle sees me and my yarmulke, rides over and says, “Hey man, you didn’t vote for Obama, did you.” Why would you say that, I ask him. You don’t even know me. “Because I’m from Israel. And I didn’t either.” Interesting assumption. That Jews are not applauding the election of America’s first black President.

It’s an impression that we best quickly correct. Because an African-American’s victory as President of the United States is a triumph for every Jewish man, woman, and child.

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Eyewitness account of the Rebbe’s arrival in America!

Chassidim and friends of Lubavitch have a vivid memory of the Previous Rebbe’s arrival in America on 9 Adar II (March 19), 1940 in front of a large crowd, but not many were present when the Rebbe and Rebbetzin arrived in 28 Sivan (June 23), 1941. Rabbi Yitzchok Groner, OBM, was present at the pier that fateful day and was interviewed by JEM in January, 2006. The Previous Rebbe sent out a few Chassidim to the pier and Rabbi Groner, a young teenager at the time, went along with his father. He vividly recalls that day and will be featured in the upcoming film, The Early Years, Volume IV which is due to come out in a few weeks.

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Another one of the thousands of participants in the New York Marathon on Nov. 2, 2008, Sruly Bryski of Crown Heights, shows his Jewish pride as he runs the marathon, which he completed in 4 hours and 38 minutes!

Picture of the Day! – Take 2 – Lubav Running the Marathon

Another one of the thousands of participants in the New York Marathon on Nov. 2, 2008, Sruly Bryski of Crown Heights, shows his Jewish pride as he runs the marathon, which he completed in 4 hours and 38 minutes!

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Global Media Covers Crown Heights on Election Day

Dove Malachowski (c) finds his election district by checking in with a poll worker as his sons Yehuda, left, and Avraham watch (By Kathy Willens/AP)

Reporters and photojournalists hung about in Crown Heights on Tuesday, November 4, reporting on the local Chassidic and African-American vote. AP’s Kathy Willens, Haaretz’s Shlomo Shamir, IsraelNN’s Hana Levi Julian and Ben Piven and Gaia Pianigiani from Columbia Journalist pointed out the uniqueness “in the visibility of its voter distribution.”

by Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz

NEW YORK — A second wave of voters hit the ballot box at Brooklyn’s 43rd district at around 9 a.m. yesterday. The rectangular box, which over the course of the day gradually filled up with presidential voting slips, was positioned in the cellar of an old public school at the corner of Brooklyn St. and President St., in the heart of Crown Heights, with its mixed population of blacks and ultra-Orthodox Jews, mostly of the Lubavitch-Chabad sect.

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POSTVILLE, IA [AP] — A kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa has filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming a May immigration raid for financial difficulties.

Agriprocessors' move to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday comes a day before the meatpacker was to meet in court with its biggest lender, First Bank of St. Louis.

Agriprocessors Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

POSTVILLE, IA [AP] — A kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa has filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming a May immigration raid for financial difficulties.

Agriprocessors’ move to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday comes a day before the meatpacker was to meet in court with its biggest lender, First Bank of St. Louis.

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msnbc

Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in the history of the United States, according to projections by NBC News.

Obama reached the 270 electoral votes he needed for election at 11 p.m. ET, when NBC News projected that he would win California, Washington and Oregon.

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States

msnbc

Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in the history of the United States, according to projections by NBC News.

Obama reached the 270 electoral votes he needed for election at 11 p.m. ET, when NBC News projected that he would win California, Washington and Oregon.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovie and Sabrina (nee Harari) Lozenik (Bal Harbor, FL) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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

Mazel Tov's

New Zealand Welcomes Record Number of New Shluchim

CANTERBURY, New Zealand [CHI] — This week Chabad of New Zealand has welcomed it’s largest group of Shluchim ever! Seven young Yeshivah graduates, who will be spending the year in the Country’s South Island, where they will be running the Chabad House in the regional Capital of CHCH. They will be under the directorship of Hatomim Berri Spitetzki who was recently appointed to oversee the development of Chabad’s activities in the region.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Shlichus
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R. Moshe in 770 earlier this week. Photo: col.org.il

ALLENTOWN, PA [CHI] — Court reconvened this morning in Allentown, Pennsylvania and the judge handed down his verdict. Reb Moshe was sentenced to 16 months in prison with the possibility of parole after a third of that, along with a fine of $450,000.

Once again many Crown Heightsers turned out in show of support, a bus and many private cars showed up, all leaving as early as 6:30 in the morning.

Moshe Rubashkin Sentenced to 16 Months Prison and $450,000 in Fines and Restitutions

R. Moshe in 770 earlier this week. Photo: col.org.il

ALLENTOWN, PA [CHI] — Court reconvened this morning in Allentown, Pennsylvania and the judge handed down his verdict. Reb Moshe was sentenced to 16 months in prison with the possibility of parole after a third of that, along with a fine of $450,000.

Once again many Crown Heightsers turned out in show of support, a bus and many private cars showed up, all leaving as early as 6:30 in the morning.

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NY Post

Tech-savvy Orthodox Jews can now reach out for the handset of God.

Two entrepreneurs who attended Yeshiva University have written software that turns the BlackBerry from a device to check e-mail and stocks into a pray phone.

Faith Goes Wireless

NY Post

Tech-savvy Orthodox Jews can now reach out for the handset of God.

Two entrepreneurs who attended Yeshiva University have written software that turns the BlackBerry from a device to check e-mail and stocks into a pray phone.

Jewish News
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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi and Layla (nee Shpigelman) Zirkind (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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

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