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Orthodox Jewish Group Marks 50 Years of Outreach

Niraj Warikoo – The Detroit Free Press

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.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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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)

New Mikvah Inaugurated in Alpharetta, Georgia

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.”

More Pictures in the Extended Article!

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Is you camp having Moshiach day? Great! Because 'The International Moshiach campaign' has just produced a spectacular curriculum just for Moshiach day! Guaranteed to be fun, exciting and packed with toichen! Moshiach Day includes a learning class, arts and crafts, game, and activity. Best of all, its absolutely FREE!

Download it at MoshiachCampaign.com

Shluchim: Moshiach Day Curriculum


Is you camp having Moshiach day? Great! Because ‘The International Moshiach campaign’ has just produced a spectacular curriculum just for Moshiach day! Guaranteed to be fun, exciting and packed with toichen! Moshiach Day includes a learning class, arts and crafts, game, and activity. Best of all, its absolutely FREE!

Download it at MoshiachCampaign.com

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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?

Great News! Major Yechidus of The Rebbe to be Released Pirsum Rishon This Year Gimmel Tamuz!

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?

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By Gareth Jones

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.

Pride, Hope as Poland Ordains First Postwar Rabbis

By Gareth Jones

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.

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He’s Killed on Brooklyn Basketball Court

Jonathan Lemire – NY Daily News

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.

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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.

Reb Dov Ber Schneerson Honored with New Monument

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.

Chabad News

What an Amazing End of the Year at YNS Tzfas

TZFAS, Israel [CHI] — It all began after Shavuous when six bochurim made Siyumim on Mesechta Sota and one bochur on Meseches Brochos. Mazel Tov to Hatomim Danny Abush, Hatomim Eli Marks, Hatomim Shloime Litvin, Hatomim Chaim Cowen, Hatomim Meir Roetter, Hatomim Menachem Olensky and Hatomim Avi Habousha. Yasher Koach to the Shluchim who helped these bochurim accomplish this milestone.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Friendship Circle Lauds Volunteers

PHOENIX, AZ — On Thursday, June 12th, a gathering in excess of 150 people celebrated the accomplishments of the Friendship Circle of Arizona, focusing on those achieved over the past year. The “2nd Annual Evening of Recognition” took place at Chabad Of Phoenix and honored 44 teen volunteers – more than ever before! Here is some additional detail on the highlights.

Video and pictures in the Extended Article!

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Jewish Review
VANCOUVER, WA — More than 100 people gathered in Vancouver, Wash., to watch Rabbi Levi Kagan write the first verses of a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to the Clark County Jewish community.

The Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County hosted Kagan, a scribe from Detroit, to begin the scroll, which is expected to be completed in the next year.

Community members have the opportunity to participate by dedicating columns, chapters, portions or books in the Torah, in honor of family, special occasions or the memory of a loved one.

Writing a Torah for Clark County

Jewish Review

VANCOUVER, WA — More than 100 people gathered in Vancouver, Wash., to watch Rabbi Levi Kagan write the first verses of a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to the Clark County Jewish community.

The Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County hosted Kagan, a scribe from Detroit, to begin the scroll, which is expected to be completed in the next year.

Community members have the opportunity to participate by dedicating columns, chapters, portions or books in the Torah, in honor of family, special occasions or the memory of a loved one.

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By Tamar Runyan

Jewish residents and vacationers in Ventnor, N.J., enjoy a kosher cruise of the back bay coordinated by Chabad-Lubavitch of the Shore.

It’s almost a tradition in the mid-Atlantic states: When summer arrives, head for the shore.

But for the last few years, another tradition has steadily been taking hold in the New Jersey town of Ventnor, where Jewish community members and vacationers just celebrated the opening of a permanent home for Chabad-Lubavitch at the Shore.

Just in Time for Summer, Synagogue Finds Home on the Jersey Shore

By Tamar Runyan

Jewish residents and vacationers in Ventnor, N.J., enjoy a kosher cruise of the back bay coordinated by Chabad-Lubavitch of the Shore.

It’s almost a tradition in the mid-Atlantic states: When summer arrives, head for the shore.

But for the last few years, another tradition has steadily been taking hold in the New Jersey town of Ventnor, where Jewish community members and vacationers just celebrated the opening of a permanent home for Chabad-Lubavitch at the Shore.

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Candice Hannigan - Journal-Constitution

ALPHARETTE, GA — Jewish residents in north metro Atlanta will celebrate the grand opening of a community center built by Chabad of Alpharetta to accommodate a growing children's program. The new facility will feature a swimming pool, a “kiddie” pool with water play area, a sports field and a Mikvah, a ritual pool.

Pool an Attraction of New Chabad House

Candice Hannigan – Journal-Constitution

ALPHARETTE, GA — Jewish residents in north metro Atlanta will celebrate the grand opening of a community center built by Chabad of Alpharetta to accommodate a growing children’s program. The new facility will feature a swimming pool, a “kiddie” pool with water play area, a sports field and a Mikvah, a ritual pool.

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Mazal Tov! – 3 Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Yonason Gellman (Buffalo, NY) and Mushki Wilansky (Crown Heights)
IYH at Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway, [bet Troy and Albany].

Yossi Levy (Tucuman, Argentina) and Chaya Batya Lapidus (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Chaim Shmuel Zaetz (Crown Heights) and Mindle Raigorodsky (Los Angeles, CA) .
IYH at the Jewish Childrens Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy, [corner Kingston Ave].

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