Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sruly Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Kesselman (Detroit, MI) on their engagement.

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

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Hit and Run Driver Convicted

Ryan Gierach – WeHoNews

At the scene of the accident Tuesday, August 2nd 2007, and Lindsay Ellingsworth, inset

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — Lindsay Ellingsworth, age 27, pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a hit and run accident in which she killed a West Hollywood man on Fountain Avenue.

Lindsay Ellingsworth, age 27, pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a hit and run accident in which she killed a West Hollywood man.

Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut Congestion

William Neuman – The New York Times

NEW YORK, NY — Soaring gas prices and higher tolls seem to be doing for traffic in New York what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious congestion pricing was supposed to do: reducing the number of cars clogging the city’s streets and pushing more people to use mass transit.

In May, with gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, traffic at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s bridges and tunnels dropped 4.7 percent compared with the same month the previous year.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid and Chanie (nee Hauck) Levine (Torrance, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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

Photo Gallery: Preparations at the Ohel

Some of the massive generators brought in to power the air conditioning units.

LAURELTON, Queens [CHI] — The preparations at the Ohel are at the peak, after weeks of planning by the management of ‘Ohel Chabad Lubavitch’ led by Rabbi Abba Refson, to greet the tens of thousands that will come to the Tziyon of the Rebbe on Gimmel Tammuz.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)

Mazal Tov! – 3 Thursday Night L’Chaims!

Zalmy Blachman (Crown Heights) and Shoshy Goodman (Melbourne, Australia) .
IYH at Maple St Shul, 612 Maple St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Sruly Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Mushka Kesselman (Detroit, MI) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Mendel Grossbaum (S Paul, MN) and Chaya Mushka Cunin (Westwood, CA) .
IYH at West Coast Chabad, 741 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA.

To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info

Video of the Day! – My Job Description

This weeks Living Torah, titled “My Job Description” (Volume 50, Episode 199)

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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

New Torah Welcomed to Town

Rocky Mountain News

Orthodox Jews, including Neryo Kalendarev, right, celebrate the arrival Tuesday of the Torah at DIA.

DENVER, CO — The purple-and-gold package on the Denver-bound flight from Jerusalem wasn’t a typical piece of carry-on luggage.

Its arrival Tuesday at Denver International Airport was greeted with singing, dancing and “Welcome Home Torah” signs held by members of Chabad House, a Jewish synagogue and educational center.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman and Nechama Dina (nee Yarmush) Duchman (Shluchim to Roosevelt Island) on the birth of their daughter, Chaya Mushka.

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

A Letter the Rebbe sent out to all Gan Yisroels

Before the summer each year the Rebbe would send out a letter to all of the Gan Yisroel’s around the world. The following is a letter that was sent on the 12th of Tammuz 5742.

The full letter can be viewed in the Extended Article!

14 Years since Gimmel Tammuz: The Pictures

Pictures of the Rebbes Levaya on Gimmel Tammuz 5754: the pain, the sorrow, the mourning, the long lines that day to pass the Rebbe, waiting for the Levaya, the Levaya, the Rabbis and public figures partaking in the Levaya, the Aron driving to the Ohel, the crowds.

Continued in the Extended Article.

3 Tammuz Special: Where Was Ariel Sharon?

By Dovid Zaklikowski/Chabad.org

Ariel and Lily Sharon exit the Rebbe’s office on that fateful night in 1968 (Photo: Shmuel Rivkin)

In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.

Rabbi Zev Segal related this story about when the first and last El Al plane was hijacked. It was in July 1968, when a flight from Rome was seized by the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and forced to land in Algiers. Passengers and crew were held hostage there, with the last of them not released until five months later.

Fantastic 1st week in CGI Running Springs!

The campers and staff of CGI Running Springs have just concluded an amazing, action-packed 1st week of Camp! Campers arrived on Tuesday to meet their Counselors and head-staff: Fruma Wilshansky, Assistant Director and Brocha Katz, Head Counselor. Then, getting to know their counselors, they were treated to a staff talent show, featuring Counselors who dance, sing and play guitar behind their backs! They also met the specialty staff who are in camp once again, Mrs. Lolly Seidnfeld – Dance , Mrs. Deena Brandis – Drama and Mrs. Mushka Lightstone – Art and Photography.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Thousands are Arriving!

Hundreds of chassidim and Temimim from all over the world have started to arrive in 770 and at the Ohel for Gimmel Tamuz

On Sunday tens of thousands of people are expected to come to the Ohel. Many will take part on organized farbrengens too.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)

Metro area Jews Meet at the Ohel

LAURELTON, Queens [CHI] — Following last year’s success, the Lubavtich Youth Organization once again convened a special event for Shluchim and their Mekuravim in the Metro area marking the 14th Yom Hahilulah of the Rebbe.

More pictures in the Extended Article!