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Chabad-Lubavitch of the Florida Keys plans to unveil this structure as a new synagogue in time for Rosh Hashanah.

As residents of Key West, Fla., Rabbi Yaakov and Chanie Zucker have seen their share of hurricanes and bear a healthy respect for them. But while they – like the thousands of others on the Florida Keys – kept their eyes to the skies last week as Tropical Storm Fay dumped inches of rain on the archipelago, they noted that it was a hurricane three years ago that ushered in a process of Divine Providence that left their Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of the Florida Keys with a brand new building.

Florida Building Left Stranded by Hurricane to Become a Synagogue

Chabad-Lubavitch of the Florida Keys plans to unveil this structure as a new synagogue in time for Rosh Hashanah.

As residents of Key West, Fla., Rabbi Yaakov and Chanie Zucker have seen their share of hurricanes and bear a healthy respect for them. But while they – like the thousands of others on the Florida Keys – kept their eyes to the skies last week as Tropical Storm Fay dumped inches of rain on the archipelago, they noted that it was a hurricane three years ago that ushered in a process of Divine Providence that left their Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of the Florida Keys with a brand new building.

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New Engagement!

Michel Blotner (Arizona) to Goldie Rosenberg (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, Nov. 12th, 8:00pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Coby Rosenberg (New Jersey/EY) to Rivka Brown (Manchester, UK)
Baby Boy!

Osher and Esti Gutnick from Remsen Village, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Cozocaru (Montreal, Canada) to Miriam Copeliovitch (S. Paulo, Brazil) L’Chaim: Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Ari Herzog (Encino, CA) to Mushkie Broshevitzky (Doral, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Small Hall
New Engagement!

Moshe Turk (Chicago, IL) to Chani Rav-Noy (Los Angeles, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaakov Caytak (Ottawa, Canada) to Chanchie Lowenthal (Copenhagen, Denmark) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Nov. 4th, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Yossi Jacobs (Cleveland, OH) to Moussia Shmotkin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Dovvi Gopin (Hartford, CT) to Rochelle Katzman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Sunday, Nov 9th, 7:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Mendel Belhamon (Cretail, France) to Nechami Malka (Kfar Chabad, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 7:00pm at 4 Rechov Baal Hatanya, Kfar Chabad
New Engagement

Shalom Marton (Beitar, EY) to Chavi Weber (Dnipro, Ukraine)
New Engagement!

Moshe Maness (Crown Heights) to Hinda Mendelow (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Aharon Tzvi and Chana (nee Reich) Altman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Levi and Rochel (nee Wolowik) Engel from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

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Baby Girl!

Eli Nochum and Mushky Baron from Bowie, MD had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Yudi and Chana Gerber from Glen Mills, PA had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Motty and Raizy (nee Konikov) Rosenfeld from Vero Beach, FL had a baby girl!

The London home of the Lubavitch Senior Girls School (Photo: Osher Litzman)

The results of the United Kingdom’s national examinations popularly known as the A-levels are in, and a Chabad-Lubavitch high school in London is reporting that its students once again scored record marks.

London School Earns More High Marks in National Exams

The London home of the Lubavitch Senior Girls School (Photo: Osher Litzman)

The results of the United Kingdom’s national examinations popularly known as the A-levels are in, and a Chabad-Lubavitch high school in London is reporting that its students once again scored record marks.

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Mazal Tov! – 7 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Chaim and Chani Miller.
IYH at 1511 Union St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Casey and Devorah (nee Klein) Mahr (Postville, IA) .
IYH at 326 Lull St Postville, IA 52162

Sholom and Sarah Rubashkin
IYH at 326 Lull St Postville, IA 52162

Avrohom Yitzchok and Fruma (nee Friedman) Perlstein (Shluchim to Salem, OR) .

Naftali and Henya Hertzel
IYH at 19849 Villa Medici Pl. Boca Raton, FL 33434

Nosson and Bassie Gurary.
IYH at 4464 Alamo St, Simi Valley, CA 93063.

Chaim Hilel and Chaya (nee Klein) Matusof (Shluchim to Toulouse, France) .

Stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info! Thank You.

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by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
When Robert A. Rockaway, a recognized authority on Jewish-American history, decided to chronicle the story of the Jewish mob, he sought out Jewish old-timers, their family and friends, in order to gather information on this less than reputable element.

Rockaway even interviewed his own mother, who, a native of Detroit, Michigan, knew some friends and family members of the nefarious subjects of his research.

Once, while talking to his mother about the reprehensible conduct of a particular mobster, his mother stopped him short in his tracks: “All that you say may be fine and good, no one said the guy was a saint. Between you and me, he was known to have made a few people disappear… But you shouldn’t rush to judgment. Don’t forget that he was always kind to his mother! Does that count for nothing? Trust me; the man was a real Mentch!”

The Weekly Sedra – Re’eh – A Vote Against “Change”

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

When Robert A. Rockaway, a recognized authority on Jewish-American history, decided to chronicle the story of the Jewish mob, he sought out Jewish old-timers, their family and friends, in order to gather information on this less than reputable element.

Rockaway even interviewed his own mother, who, a native of Detroit, Michigan, knew some friends and family members of the nefarious subjects of his research.

Once, while talking to his mother about the reprehensible conduct of a particular mobster, his mother stopped him short in his tracks: “All that you say may be fine and good, no one said the guy was a saint. Between you and me, he was known to have made a few people disappear… But you shouldn’t rush to judgment. Don’t forget that he was always kind to his mother! Does that count for nothing? Trust me; the man was a real Mentch!”

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The following article appeared yesterday in the Village Voice, a widespread NYC newspaper. The article takes focus on 'Lubavitch's Mainstream Missanics' with Mrs. Sara Kanevsky and her wacky antics as the center stage for this article, detailing her and her groups fast day celebration meals, belly dance classes and nightly dancing to 'traditional Yiddish hymns set to techno music'. Our pride and glory or embarrassment and shame? You be the judge.

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers
Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions


Sara Kanevsky, a woman in ecstasy

Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the night.

But you should see his ride. When he's not ensconced in 770 Eastern Parkway, the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch universe, the 26-year-old Israeli and his crew drive around in a blinged-out Cadillac, a regular kandy-kolored streamline baby. Oy vey.

Massive Chilul Hashem, or Kidush Hashem?

The following article appeared yesterday in the Village Voice, a widespread NYC newspaper. The article takes focus on ‘Lubavitch’s Mainstream Missanics’ with Mrs. Sara Kanevsky and her wacky antics as the center stage for this article, detailing her and her groups fast day celebration meals, belly dance classes and nightly dancing to ‘traditional Yiddish hymns set to techno music‘. Our pride and glory or embarrassment and shame? You be the judge.

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers
Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions

Sara Kanevsky, a woman in ecstasy

Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the night.

But you should see his ride. When he’s not ensconced in 770 Eastern Parkway, the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch universe, the 26-year-old Israeli and his crew drive around in a blinged-out Cadillac, a regular kandy-kolored streamline baby. Oy vey.

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Anti-Semitic Graffiti found on road in S. Fallsburg

Record Online

SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY — Fallsburg police removed anti-Semitic graffiti on Wednesday on a road in South Fallsburg.

Police found swastikas and nooses drawn on Westwood Drive near summer bungalows where orthodox Jews vacation.

“It was just somebody venting,” Chief Simmie Williams said. But Rabbi Yakov Barros said the matter should be investigated fully.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Minister Beaten with Hand-Gun during Robbery

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A black minister on his way home on Balfour Place was attacked when a perpetrator confronted him at the corner of Lefferts Avenue and demanded his money while pointing a handgun at him.

The incident took place at around 12:15am, and the lone perp was described as a Black male. After demanding his money the minister refused, the perp began beating him with the pistol in the middle of which the gun discharged, but thankfully the bullet did not hit anyone.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Twenty Five Years Later – the Rebbe’s Vision is Realized at the Illinois Kinus Hashluchim

PEORIA, IL [CHI] — On Shabbos Chof Av 5743, the Rebbe addressed a Sicha to the annual Kinus Hashluchim of the Shluchei Kodesh in Eretz Yisroel that was scheduling to begin that Sunday, Aleph d’Parshas Reah in Yerusahalyim. The Rebbe praised that Kinus that was to include men, women, and children and the Rebbe called on Shluchim around the world to emulate that Kinus and also arrange a Kinus for Anashim, Nashim & Taf. Twenty-five years later on Aleph d’Parshas Reah 5768, that horaah was brought to fruition at the Illinois Kinus Hashluchim that took place in Peoria, Illinois.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (photos by: Tzemach Aronow of TSA Productions)

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STAMFORD, CT [CHI] — Chabad Lubavitch is pleased to announce that Rabbi Chezkel and Elisheva Deren have joined its staff. Rabbi Deren who grew up in Stamford will assume the role of Development Director of Chabad’s acclaimed Friendship Circle. Mrs. Elisheva Deren, a native of Melbourne Australia has been appointed as Youth Director, overseeing Chabad’s extensive youth activities and programming.

New Shluchim Join Chabad of Stamford Staff

STAMFORD, CT [CHI] — Chabad Lubavitch is pleased to announce that Rabbi Chezkel and Elisheva Deren have joined its staff. Rabbi Deren who grew up in Stamford will assume the role of Development Director of Chabad’s acclaimed Friendship Circle. Mrs. Elisheva Deren, a native of Melbourne Australia has been appointed as Youth Director, overseeing Chabad’s extensive youth activities and programming.

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by Avraham Berkowitz - Chabad.org

Last August, I was visiting my grandparents at their home in Los Angeles. I live in Moscow and travel often to the US, and I try to make it a priority to fly to L.A. at least once a year to visit.

Sitting in the living room with my grandparents on that summer night, I inquired about a family member who was turning thirteen and whether he will be having a Bar Mitzvah, and how I could help him celebrate one.

Grandpa’s Bar Mitzvah

by Avraham Berkowitz – Chabad.org

Last August, I was visiting my grandparents at their home in Los Angeles. I live in Moscow and travel often to the US, and I try to make it a priority to fly to L.A. at least once a year to visit.

Sitting in the living room with my grandparents on that summer night, I inquired about a family member who was turning thirteen and whether he will be having a Bar Mitzvah, and how I could help him celebrate one.

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Nelson out for two Days, Re-Arrested

Nelson being arrested last year – Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Crown Heights’s most known and notorious car thief Terrance (Derrik) Nelson was arrested yesterday after he broke into a car and pulled out a knife on the owner.

More in the Extended Article.

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DRIVERS BEWARE! TAKE NOTE!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The intersection of Brooklyn Ave and Lefferts Ave has turned into a big source of income for the City as unsuspecting drivers are continuing to make the right turn from Brooklyn Ave onto Lefferts Ave, which is illegal during the stated hours.

Monday through Friday between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM then again between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM it is illegal to make that right turn, regardless if it’s a school day or not.

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