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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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Yariv and Malkie (nee Kershner) Sharabi from Parkland, FL had a baby girl!
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Ari and Chava (nee Notik) Rendler from Riverwoods, IL on the birth of a baby girl.
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Eli Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) to Risa Drizin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at The Arches
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Levi Its’hak Ben Soussan (Courbevoie, France) to Sterna Sarah Gagueche (Brunoy, France)
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Shea Shmotkin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Jacobs (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 585 Albany Ave
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Ariel Benchimoun (Levallois, France) to Rivka Bouzna (Sarcelles, France)
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Moshe Leib and Chaya Mushka (nee Friedman) Yaras from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Mendel Shemtov (Crown Heights) to Mushka Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at 1345 President Street
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Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
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Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
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Levi Katan (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Miriam Krichevsky (London, UK)

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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KALININGRAD, Russia [FJC] — On Sunday, November 16, Kaliningrad’s ‘Zarya’ Cinema hosted an event dedicated to the promotion of tolerance. The event was organized by the ‘Holocaust’ Scientific and Educational Center, together with the Jewish community of Kaliningrad – a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia – the Moscow City Administration, and the Ministry of Education of the Kaliningrad Region.

The event was organized to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the anti-Semitic pogroms in Germany and Austria, known as “Kristallnacht” (Crystal Night).

Kaliningrad Promotes Tolerance

KALININGRAD, Russia [FJC] — On Sunday, November 16, Kaliningrad’s ‘Zarya’ Cinema hosted an event dedicated to the promotion of tolerance. The event was organized by the ‘Holocaust’ Scientific and Educational Center, together with the Jewish community of Kaliningrad – a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia – the Moscow City Administration, and the Ministry of Education of the Kaliningrad Region.

The event was organized to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the anti-Semitic pogroms in Germany and Austria, known as “Kristallnacht” (Crystal Night).

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SHARON, MA [CHI] — Its official an email was just sent out by Wells Fargo confirming that Leah Larson, founder, editor, and publisher of the Yaldah magazine has won the Someday Stories Contest sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank.

The email, confirming that she won with more details in the Extended Article!

Its Official – Leah Larson, Yaldah Magazine Wins the $100,000!

SHARON, MA [CHI] — Its official an email was just sent out by Wells Fargo confirming that Leah Larson, founder, editor, and publisher of the Yaldah magazine has won the Someday Stories Contest sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank.

The email, confirming that she won with more details in the Extended Article!

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Rara Report – Stories from the Trail

Its Yossi Spigler and Sholom Rapaport (Atlantic City, NJ) here. We’re the next group of Roving Rabbis to hit the streets of Australia. We’re going to be out on the RARA trail for the next five weeks; our plans are to head up to Rockhampton, QLD, then chuck a U-ey and make our way back down the Coastal Highway till we hit Melbourne. We hope you enjoy just a few of the stories that have taken place over the past week.

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A nasty argument caught on tape raises some serious questions about Jimmy Justice and whether the unions order to arrest Jimmy when caught video taping. Fox 5's John Deutzman shows you video that has one local union fuming. Watch John's report and decide.

Video of the Day! – City Workers Going After Jimmy Justice!

A nasty argument caught on tape raises some serious questions about Jimmy Justice and whether the unions order to arrest Jimmy when caught video taping. Fox 5’s John Deutzman shows you video that has one local union fuming. Watch John’s report and decide.

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Rabbi YY Schochet (right) and Mr Alan Millet (left), sponsor of the special Kristlenacht event at the Westcliff.

LONDON, Englad [CHI] — In a special address given at the Kristelnacht 70th year commemoration event in Westcliff last Saturday night, leading rabbi Yitzchak Schochet delivered a key note address in which he warned of the increasing anti semitism in all parts of Europe. The Rabbi drew references from the current credit crunch about which he said, “we live in a changing world as ever shifting cautionary winds sweep through our lives. And whatever the challenges that the current global crisis presents, there are always those looking for scapegoats – somewhere to vent. And with the proliferation of modern technology it is all too easy to spew venom and put malicious rumors out there. And there are always going to be those who listen to them and amongst those, some who actually believe them.”

Rabbi Warns of Dangerous Trends in Europe

Rabbi YY Schochet (right) and Mr Alan Millet (left), sponsor of the special Kristlenacht event at the Westcliff.

LONDON, Englad [CHI] — In a special address given at the Kristelnacht 70th year commemoration event in Westcliff last Saturday night, leading rabbi Yitzchak Schochet delivered a key note address in which he warned of the increasing anti semitism in all parts of Europe. The Rabbi drew references from the current credit crunch about which he said, “we live in a changing world as ever shifting cautionary winds sweep through our lives. And whatever the challenges that the current global crisis presents, there are always those looking for scapegoats – somewhere to vent. And with the proliferation of modern technology it is all too easy to spew venom and put malicious rumors out there. And there are always going to be those who listen to them and amongst those, some who actually believe them.”

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