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Tell Chaya that Mrs. Schneerson from President Street called

“Alle Chassidim zainen dem Rebbe’s kinder (”All Chassidim are the Rebbe’s children).“ This the Rebbetzin would say about her husband’s followers. Just as they were his children, they were hers as well.” The following story, as retold by Rabbi Shmuel Lew, Principal of Lubavitch Girls’ School in London, UK, illustrates the Rebbetzin’s maternal care and concern for the “Rebbe’s daughters” of Bais Rivkah.it’s an excerpt from the new book on the Rebbe to see more Visit: www.inspiringageneration.com

“While my oldest daughter Chaya was studying at Bais Rivkah, in New York, my father- and mother-in-law Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Jaffe went to visit the Rebbetzin. It was during Tishrei—the start of the Jewish year, a month full of holidays, and an auspicious time for blessings–so they took along with them other family members, including my daughter.

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New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)
By Joshua Runyan

The University of Nevada, Las Vegasí Lied
Library (Photo: Roy Tennant)
LAS VEGAS, NV — Jewish students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were making final preparations Friday for the school's first-ever mega Shabbat event.

According to freshman Jackie Honig, organizers of the Shabbat100 dinner sponsored by the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center along with Hillel and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity are expecting about 80 people to attend.

“It's going really well,” she said on Thursday in the midst of handing out flyers. “We've been advertising and talking about it a ton.”

UNLV All Set For First-Ever Shabbat Mega-Dinner

By Joshua Runyan

The University of Nevada, Las Vegasí Lied
Library (Photo: Roy Tennant)

LAS VEGAS, NV — Jewish students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were making final preparations Friday for the school’s first-ever mega Shabbat event.

According to freshman Jackie Honig, organizers of the Shabbat100 dinner sponsored by the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center along with Hillel and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity are expecting about 80 people to attend.

“It’s going really well,” she said on Thursday in the midst of handing out flyers. “We’ve been advertising and talking about it a ton.”

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Tomorrow, Chof Ches Nissan marks 17 years to the Sicha the Rebbe said unexpectedly in 5751 after returning from the Ohel. The Rebbe said with great pain “that all that I have done… it is up to you to do all that you can to bring Moshiach down here…” AD MOSAI?!

Click Here To Listen To The Sicha (Courtesy of Sichos.com)

Click Here to see a transcript of the Sicha in Hebrew (PDF)

A translation of excerpts of the Sicha can be read in the Extended Article.

17 Years to the Sicha – “Do All That You Can”

Tomorrow, Chof Ches Nissan marks 17 years to the Sicha the Rebbe said unexpectedly in 5751 after returning from the Ohel. The Rebbe said with great pain “that all that I have done… it is up to you to do all that you can to bring Moshiach down here…” AD MOSAI?!

Click Here To Listen To The Sicha (Courtesy of Sichos.com)

Click Here to see a transcript of the Sicha in Hebrew (PDF)

A translation of excerpts of the Sicha can be read in the Extended Article.

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By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Visitors to Ascent, a Chabad-Lubavitch center in Safed, Israel, listen to a presentation on Jewish mysticism.

SAFED, Israel — It's where a nose-ringed backpacker, elderly tourist, undergraduate, yeshiva student and middle-aged secretary meet. It's where they ascend a mountain to learn, tour an ancient city and discover the mysteries and spirituality of their Jewish heritage. Welcome to Ascent of Safed, Israel.

A Safed Hostel and Outreach Center Offers Mysticism

By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Visitors to Ascent, a Chabad-Lubavitch center in Safed, Israel, listen to a presentation on Jewish mysticism.

SAFED, Israel — It’s where a nose-ringed backpacker, elderly tourist, undergraduate, yeshiva student and middle-aged secretary meet. It’s where they ascend a mountain to learn, tour an ancient city and discover the mysteries and spirituality of their Jewish heritage. Welcome to Ascent of Safed, Israel.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yudi and Sarah (nee Spangenthal) Dukes (Crown Heights) 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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Rave reviews are still pouring in about the JLI’s Mission to Israel. The mission comprised of 35 Shluchim and over 300 participants from JLI affiliates worldwide who just concluded a 6 week course entitled “The Land & the Spirit- Why We All Care About Israel”.

New Video Footage From JLI’s Mission to Israel

Rave reviews are still pouring in about the JLI’s Mission to Israel. The mission comprised of 35 Shluchim and over 300 participants from JLI affiliates worldwide who just concluded a 6 week course entitled “The Land & the Spirit- Why We All Care About Israel”.

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By Joshua Runyan

Henry Mayer, left, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joined Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of Jewish Educational Media; Sarah Stauderman, preservation manager for the Smithsonian Institute; Joshua Harris, chief archivist for the National Geographic Society; and Lucy G. Barber of the National Archives at a reception coinciding with a JEM presentation of its Living Archive, containing more than 4,000 hours of footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

A delegation of archivists representing several U.S. government and private institutions joined several dozen members of Jewish communities in suburban Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., for a rare presentation given by Jewish Educational Media, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization responsible for preserving and disseminating footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

Archival Community Witnesses Film Preservation Effort

By Joshua Runyan

Henry Mayer, left, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joined Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of Jewish Educational Media; Sarah Stauderman, preservation manager for the Smithsonian Institute; Joshua Harris, chief archivist for the National Geographic Society; and Lucy G. Barber of the National Archives at a reception coinciding with a JEM presentation of its Living Archive, containing more than 4,000 hours of footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

A delegation of archivists representing several U.S. government and private institutions joined several dozen members of Jewish communities in suburban Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., for a rare presentation given by Jewish Educational Media, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization responsible for preserving and disseminating footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

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International Friendship Circle's teen-driven Leadership Club impresses with new initiatives.

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Much talk is heard about today's teens, corrupted more than ever by messages of how to dress, eat, think, socialize, shop, recreate or otherwise indulge in endless decadence to gross excess.

But should one have been in attendance at the recent annual convention of the Volunteer Leadership Club, quite the opposite picture emerges.

When Young Idealism Leads

International Friendship Circle’s teen-driven Leadership Club impresses with new initiatives.

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Much talk is heard about today’s teens, corrupted more than ever by messages of how to dress, eat, think, socialize, shop, recreate or otherwise indulge in endless decadence to gross excess.

But should one have been in attendance at the recent annual convention of the Volunteer Leadership Club, quite the opposite picture emerges.

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BROOKLYN, NY — If you find yourself in the foreseeable future in one of the synagogues or schools in the FSU you might have an illusion that you are by the Western Wall. Well this illusion is nearly reality! Tzivos Hashem of the C.I.S. under the directorship of Rabbi Yossi Glick is responsible for the vast amount of noise erupting lately in the FSU. Their Publishing House, directed by Rabbi Shmuli Brown has printed the first of a kind Siddur with Russian translation and transliteration.

The Siddur for daily prayers comes with a new translation geared to young adults, and with numbered paragraphs making it easy for the reader to switch from the Hebrew to the translation or transliterated text. Prayers are marked with symbols that let the reader know whether to sit or stand at that prayer.

The New Siddur causing a revolution in the FSU

BROOKLYN, NY — If you find yourself in the foreseeable future in one of the synagogues or schools in the FSU you might have an illusion that you are by the Western Wall. Well this illusion is nearly reality! Tzivos Hashem of the C.I.S. under the directorship of Rabbi Yossi Glick is responsible for the vast amount of noise erupting lately in the FSU. Their Publishing House, directed by Rabbi Shmuli Brown has printed the first of a kind Siddur with Russian translation and transliteration.

The Siddur for daily prayers comes with a new translation geared to young adults, and with numbered paragraphs making it easy for the reader to switch from the Hebrew to the translation or transliterated text. Prayers are marked with symbols that let the reader know whether to sit or stand at that prayer.

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By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Jewish children in Uruguay learn about the mitzvah of charity with a larger-than-life charity box during a program by Jewish Kids in Action, a Chabad-Lubavitch project.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Reaching Uruguay's thousands of Jews one kid at a time. That's what Rochel Shemtov's initiative does through a series of fun-filled educational programs it brings to local schools monthly.

“Kids in Action” Brings Holidays to Life for Uruguayans

By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Jewish children in Uruguay learn about the mitzvah of charity with a larger-than-life charity box during a program by Jewish Kids in Action, a Chabad-Lubavitch project.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Reaching Uruguay’s thousands of Jews one kid at a time. That’s what Rochel Shemtov’s initiative does through a series of fun-filled educational programs it brings to local schools monthly.

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