In true camp sprit, campers and staff members packed into the three buses, Monday night, headed for Camp Gan Israel Montreal, which showed up quite late. Hugs and waves marked the departure from President and Kingston for what promises to be a fun filled summer!
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Brooklyn’s most dangerous neighborhoods are getting safer, thanks to an influx of cops.
Murders, thefts and assaults are down in traditionally violent precincts like East New York’s 75th, Police Department statistics show.
“Nine more people are alive [now] than this time last year in the 75th Precinct,” said Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson, the NYPD’s Brooklyn North borough commander. The 75th led the city in homicides last year, with 31.
MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — More than 250 people gathered for a special Gimmel Tammuz Conference and Farbrengen co-sponsored by the Chabad Centers of Mineola & Oceanside in Nassau County.
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Attention N’shei Yisrael:
Give nachas to the Rebbe in honor of Gimmel Tammuz – and bring the tremendous brochos of sholom bayis, nachas and YOUR health into your own life. Make a hachlota in the mitzva which is the foundation of our precious nation – Taharas Hamishpacha.
Once you make your hachlota, you may be included in a special P”AN that will be given over by the Ohel on Gimmel Tammuz.
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MANCHESTER, England [CHI] — This Sunday evening a beautiful Siyum Horambam took place in The Henry Seaberg Hall. An impressive set hall greeted the guests as they came in.
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NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Hundreds gathered at New York’s Cipriani 42 near Grand Central to celebrate Chabad of Midtown’s 12th annual dinner. The guest of honor was Brett Ratner, one of the most successful movie directors in the industry. Brett spoke movingly of his experiences as a yeshiva student and even regaled the audience with the yiddish song his grandmother would sing to him as a child.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sholom Ber and Perie (nee Brucstat) Wolosow on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
DETROIT, MI — “Hi, does anyone Jewish work in this office?”
Every Friday, that question is asked by 50 pairs of young men from an Orthodox Jewish group who fan out across metro Detroit to various buildings in a weekly mission to help nonobservant Jews get in touch with their faith. Marking 50 years in Michigan this month, the group — known as Chabad Lubavitch — has grown from just one center in Detroit to 18 institutions across Michigan, several schools and a network of emissaries who have brought alive Judaism in areas without any other Jewish centers such as Novi and Commerce Township.
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SYDNEY, Ausraila [CHI] — As the opening shot for the celebrations of 28 Sivan around the globe, the day the Rebbe and the Rebbitzen were saved from the Nazis and came to the safe shores of the USA.
ALPHARETTA, GA [CHI] — Since the town was founded the Jewish community has been lacking in something the Talmud says is a necessity: a Mikvah. Yesterday, June 29th, Rabbi Hirshy and Rashi Minkowicz of Chabad of Alpharetta opened their state of the art Mikvah and pool dedicated to the Rebbe and holding the name, “Mei Menachem.”
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BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — In time for Gimmel Tammuz, with help from the Rebbe’s secretaries, a very special Yechidus (Private audience) has been recovered and carefully transcribed. In the summer of 1959 the Rebbe met with a group of directors from Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, and engaged in a question-and-answer session. What is the Rebbe’s role in the world? Why didn’t the Previous Rebbe establish Chabad headquarters in Israel, instead of New York?
WARSAW, Poland [Reuters] — Nearly 70 years after most of his family was wiped out in the Holocaust, Shmuel Glitzenstein is proudly fulfilling what he knows they would have wanted.
Glitzenstein and eight other young men have just become the first rabbis ordained in Poland since World War Two, the latest sign of a revival of Jewish culture and spirituality in one of its historic heartlands.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yakov Silverstein (London, UK) and Sora Bayla Domnitz (Manchester, UK) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A 22-year-old man died after he was shot on a Brooklyn basketball court, staggered to the park’s rest room and collapsed, police said Saturday.
Ellison Butler was standing with friends in Lincoln Terrace Park (AKA Rochester Park) in Crown Heights when shots rang out just before 8:30 p.m. Friday, witnesses told police.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel Grossbaum (S Paul, MN) and Chaya Mushka Cunin (Westwood, CA) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine [FJC] — On the outskirts of Dnepropetrovks, near the village of Igren, a ceremony took place for the opening of a complex built in the memory of Reb Dov Ber Schneerson, the brother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory.
Nothing about this event is coincidental, with the memorial erected at the actual location of Dov Ber’s shooting and on the same day that he was died in 1941. At the time the Nazis occupied this region, he was located here as part of a health retreat. It was through the assistance provided by one individual that this site was pinpointed. This man shared the same hospital room as Reb Dov Ber, but instead of being shot was sent to a concentration camp to work. He survived and later helped the local Jewish community to identify the site of this tragic murder.
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