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By Tamar Runyan

Michael Khelifi, whose son Yonathan Yitzchak Khelifi died in 2001 while saving the life of a drowning boy, embraces the Torah scroll dedicated to his memory during a welcoming ceremony in Elad, Israel.

ELAD, Israel — Residents of two Israeli cities came together for a Torah dedication ceremony honoring the life of a young man who in 2001, gave the ultimate sacrifice in saving the life of a drowning boy.

Torah Scroll a Tribute to Teenager’s Ultimate Sacrifice in Saving a Boy’s Life

By Tamar Runyan

Michael Khelifi, whose son Yonathan Yitzchak Khelifi died in 2001 while saving the life of a drowning boy, embraces the Torah scroll dedicated to his memory during a welcoming ceremony in Elad, Israel.

ELAD, Israel — Residents of two Israeli cities came together for a Torah dedication ceremony honoring the life of a young man who in 2001, gave the ultimate sacrifice in saving the life of a drowning boy.

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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
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Leibel and Chana’la (nee Kaplinsky) Fine (Shluchim to DDO, Quebec) on the birth of their son.

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

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DNEPRODZERZHINSK, Ukraine [FJC] — In the Ukrainian city of Dneprodzerzhinsk, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School hosted its final event of the academic year – a ceremony to mark the conclusion of studies for its graduates. After eleven years of schooling and equipped with a solid Jewish upbringing, these youth are now ready to embark on their unique individual paths.

Ukraine Jewish School Produces Graduating Class

DNEPRODZERZHINSK, Ukraine [FJC] — In the Ukrainian city of Dneprodzerzhinsk, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School hosted its final event of the academic year – a ceremony to mark the conclusion of studies for its graduates. After eleven years of schooling and equipped with a solid Jewish upbringing, these youth are now ready to embark on their unique individual paths.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A bizarre scene unfolded earlier this Tuesday morning, at around 11:00am a city bus pulled to a stop on Crown and Kingston alongside a few Community Policing Officers and the driver asked them for help with removing a passenger, a Black female who was spitting, being loud and did not pay the bus fair.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Woman Thrown Off City Bus Spits at Bystanders, Cops

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A bizarre scene unfolded earlier this Tuesday morning, at around 11:00am a city bus pulled to a stop on Crown and Kingston alongside a few Community Policing Officers and the driver asked them for help with removing a passenger, a Black female who was spitting, being loud and did not pay the bus fair.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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A live feed has been set up via the Internet, which will be telecasting the Levaya taking place Wednesday afternoon for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM.

The service is scheduled to commence at 2:00pm in Australia (12:00 midnight EDT)

Click Here for the live feed

Internet Broadcast of the Levaya of Rabbi Y. D. Groner OBM

A live feed has been set up via the Internet, which will be telecasting the Levaya taking place Wednesday afternoon for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM.

The service is scheduled to commence at 2:00pm in Australia (12:00 midnight EDT)

Click Here for the live feed

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Hillside, NJ [CHI] — Sunday, June 29th, Bris Avrohom of Hillside New Jersey dedicated the new Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah. The Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah was built in memory of Bat Sheva ob”m Kanelsky, an innocent infant taken from this world after only 65 days, and Rebbetzin Chaya Esther ob”m Zaltzman, a righteous woman who was tragically taken, on Erev Yom Kippur, in a horrific car accident. This Mikvah was built to give life to their legacies, as well as to provide a luxurious spa-like mikvah for the use of the Jewish community of New Jersey.

Bris Avrohom of Hillside Dedicate New Mikvah

Hillside, NJ [CHI] — Sunday, June 29th, Bris Avrohom of Hillside New Jersey dedicated the new Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah. The Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah was built in memory of Bat Sheva ob”m Kanelsky, an innocent infant taken from this world after only 65 days, and Rebbetzin Chaya Esther ob”m Zaltzman, a righteous woman who was tragically taken, on Erev Yom Kippur, in a horrific car accident. This Mikvah was built to give life to their legacies, as well as to provide a luxurious spa-like mikvah for the use of the Jewish community of New Jersey.

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Gala Chag HaSmicha in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Family and friends came to rejoice and share their good wishes amongst hundreds of guests as 29 talmidim ka’h from Kollel Tiferes Menachem in Los Angeles celebrated a gala Chag HaSmicha on Wednesday 15 Sivan. Hailing from Australia, England and across the States, parents came to radiate with pride as their sons reached this distinguishing milestone.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Gershon and Shlomo Shapiro are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father Reb Yaakov Shapiro of the Bronx, NY. At the residence of Besalel Jacobson, 668 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave], until Friday afternoon.

Shachris, 9:15am
Mincha, 7:30pm
Maariv Bizman (app.9:10pm)
Mincha Erev Shabbos 4:00pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel Shapiro Family

Gershon and Shlomo Shapiro are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father Reb Yaakov Shapiro of the Bronx, NY. At the residence of Besalel Jacobson, 668 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave], until Friday afternoon.

Shachris, 9:15am
Mincha, 7:30pm
Maariv Bizman (app.9:10pm)
Mincha Erev Shabbos 4:00pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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This is the 5th year that Anash in Crown Height have arranged special Summer program for Baley Batim, while the family is vacationing in the Catskill Mountains and the kids are in camp.

The shiurim take place in the center of Crown Heights at Reb Getzel's shull.

More information and full flyer in the Extended Article!

Summer Crown Heights Shiurim Program

This is the 5th year that Anash in Crown Height have arranged special Summer program for Baley Batim, while the family is vacationing in the Catskill Mountains and the kids are in camp.

The shiurim take place in the center of Crown Heights at Reb Getzel’s shull.

More information and full flyer in the Extended Article!

PSA

New Shluchim to North Carolina

Rabbi Yosef and Hindy (nee Zaklos) Plotkin of Crown Heights will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Greensboro, North Carolina, where they will establish a new Chabad House serving Jews in the area.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Yossi Groner head Shliach to the Carolina’s.

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at yosefplotkin@gmail.com

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

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By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
The Muscular Humility of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner


Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, who died on Monday, was one of a kind. It is rare that I refer to someone as a truly great man, but Rabbi Groner earned the epitaph in spades. If the test of Judaism lies in its ability to create men and women of outstanding righteousness and humanity, then Rabbi Groner was one of those rare individuals who made his faith sparkle. He was an outstanding scholar. A builder of enormous institutions. A world-class orator. The head of a large and prosperous family. A devoted disciple of the Lubavitcher Rebbe who spent 50 years heading Chabad in Australia.

A Larger-than-Life Jewish Giant

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The Muscular Humility of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner

Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, who died on Monday, was one of a kind. It is rare that I refer to someone as a truly great man, but Rabbi Groner earned the epitaph in spades. If the test of Judaism lies in its ability to create men and women of outstanding righteousness and humanity, then Rabbi Groner was one of those rare individuals who made his faith sparkle. He was an outstanding scholar. A builder of enormous institutions. A world-class orator. The head of a large and prosperous family. A devoted disciple of the Lubavitcher Rebbe who spent 50 years heading Chabad in Australia.

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The Levaya/Tehillim service for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner o’bm will be held in the Yeshivah Centre Werdiger Hall, 90 Hotham Street, St. Kilda East, at 2:00pm on Wednesday 6th Tammuz, 5768 July 9, 2008.

In line with Chabad customs and Rabbi Y.D. Groner's wishes, a eulogy will not be said.

People may come to say Tehillim for Rabbi Y.D. Groner o’bm at the Melbourne Chevra Kadisha 115 - 119 Inkerman Street, St Kilda at any time until 1:00pm on Wednesday July 9, 2008.

Levaya Info for Rabbi Y.D. Groner OBM

The Levaya/Tehillim service for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner o’bm will be held in the Yeshivah Centre Werdiger Hall, 90 Hotham Street, St. Kilda East, at 2:00pm on Wednesday 6th Tammuz, 5768 July 9, 2008.

In line with Chabad customs and Rabbi Y.D. Groner’s wishes, a eulogy will not be said.

People may come to say Tehillim for Rabbi Y.D. Groner o’bm at the Melbourne Chevra Kadisha 115 – 119 Inkerman Street, St Kilda at any time until 1:00pm on Wednesday July 9, 2008.

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Reb Yoel Kahan Farbrenges in the Catskills

SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY [CHI] — This past Shabbos hundreds of Chassidim from various krayzen joined together to hear Reb Yoel Kahan Farbreng in honor of Gimmel Tammuz. Mei Menuchos, a Lubavitcher Bungalow colony in South Fallsburg which is surrounded by several Chassidishe camps and bungalow colonies, hosted the Shiurim and Chassidishe Farbrengen which lasted all afternoon.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel and Dvora (nee Maister) Lakein (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.

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

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by Sue Fishkoff

BROOKLYN, NY [JTA] — On the first day of class at a new kosher cooking school in Brooklyn, 22-year-old Erica Zimmerman carefully slices raw potatoes into a stainless steel bowl.

Zimmerman, a student at New York University, says she’s always been interested in cooking, but as an observant Jew only wanted a kosher school. Why learn to cook food she'd never be able to eat?

Kosher Cooking School Steps up to the Plate in Brooklyn

by Sue Fishkoff

BROOKLYN, NY [JTA] — On the first day of class at a new kosher cooking school in Brooklyn, 22-year-old Erica Zimmerman carefully slices raw potatoes into a stainless steel bowl.

Zimmerman, a student at New York University, says she’s always been interested in cooking, but as an observant Jew only wanted a kosher school. Why learn to cook food she’d never be able to eat?

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmaryahu Baumgarten (Crown Heights) and Chanie Nash ( Crown Heights ) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

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