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LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — AskMoses.com, the world's leading website for Jewish information and the only one offering live chat services with scholars 24 hours-a-day, 6 days a week, has now launched a new website to better serve its visitors.

AskMoses Launches New Website

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — AskMoses.com, the world’s leading website for Jewish information and the only one offering live chat services with scholars 24 hours-a-day, 6 days a week, has now launched a new website to better serve its visitors.

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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)
New Engagement!

Moti Kulski (Paris, France) to Sharona Kuperman (Moscow, Russia)
New Engagement!

Yaakov Hirsch (Coral Springs, FL) to Chani Sulami (Beverly Hills, CA)

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New Engagement!

Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Nechama Dina Silberstrom from Remsen Village, Brooklyn had a baby boy.
Baby Boy!

Zalmy and Shevy Tauby from Toronto, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin from Hollywood Florida had a baby girl!
Naftali Silberberg - Chabad.org

Taibel Lipskier on her 25th wedding
anniversary in 1959
BROOKLYN, NY — Taibel Lipskier, who witnessed some of the worst of Soviet persecution and made her way to Brooklyn, N.Y., from where she catered to society's neediest, passed away Jan. 31 at the age of 94. Remembered as a woman of exceptional kindness, self-sacrifice and piety, Lipskier was a devoted Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid whose husband served as the caretaker of the central Lubavitch synagogue until his passing in 1985.

Born Luba Alte Toiba Lepkivker in Voznesensk, Ukraine, on Dec. 27, 1913 ñ the Shabbat of Chanukah that year ñ she was the eldest of nine children. Lipskier's father, Azriel Shalom Chaim Baruch, a follower of Boyan Chasidism, was a traveling ritual circumciser, who was also trained as a ritual slaughterer and led synagogue services as a cantor.

Taibel Lipskier, Soviet Survivor Who Cared for the Neglected

Naftali Silberberg – Chabad.org

Taibel Lipskier on her 25th wedding
anniversary in 1959

BROOKLYN, NY — Taibel Lipskier, who witnessed some of the worst of Soviet persecution and made her way to Brooklyn, N.Y., from where she catered to society’s neediest, passed away Jan. 31 at the age of 94. Remembered as a woman of exceptional kindness, self-sacrifice and piety, Lipskier was a devoted Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid whose husband served as the caretaker of the central Lubavitch synagogue until his passing in 1985.

Born Luba Alte Toiba Lepkivker in Voznesensk, Ukraine, on Dec. 27, 1913 ñ the Shabbat of Chanukah that year ñ she was the eldest of nine children. Lipskier’s father, Azriel Shalom Chaim Baruch, a follower of Boyan Chasidism, was a traveling ritual circumciser, who was also trained as a ritual slaughterer and led synagogue services as a cantor.

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Help support Aleph’s work by going to www.alephauction.org and buying tickets for fantastic prizes available including a GRAND PRIZE of $20,000 CASH and a two-year lease on a 2008 Cadillac Escalade!

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The New York Times

Another school day starts: Shimon Waronker, the principal of Junior High School 22, on station outside school, which is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic. Attending to the details Mr. Waronker was greeted with near disbelief when he arrived in 2004 after his training in the Leadership Academy. In the classroom Mr. Waronker has helped attendance rise to 93 percent.

NYT Video!

Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just over two years when Shimon Waronker was named the seventh.

On his first visit, in October 2004, he found a police officer arresting a student and calling for backup to handle the swelling crowd. Students roamed the hallways with abandon; in one class of 30, only 5 students had bothered to show up. “It was chaos,” Mr. Waronker recalled. “I was like, this can’t be real.”

Continued in the Extended Article!

In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival

The New York Times

Another school day starts: Shimon Waronker, the principal of Junior High School 22, on station outside school, which is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic. Attending to the details Mr. Waronker was greeted with near disbelief when he arrived in 2004 after his training in the Leadership Academy. In the classroom Mr. Waronker has helped attendance rise to 93 percent.

NYT Video!

Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just over two years when Shimon Waronker was named the seventh.

On his first visit, in October 2004, he found a police officer arresting a student and calling for backup to handle the swelling crowd. Students roamed the hallways with abandon; in one class of 30, only 5 students had bothered to show up. “It was chaos,” Mr. Waronker recalled. “I was like, this can’t be real.”

Continued in the Extended Article!

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Important info for all Crown Heights residents coming to the Soul II Soul concert this Motzoei Shabbos.

The producers of the concert encourage you to come to the concert by either being dropped off or using public transportation. The #3 train to the Brooklyn Museum stop, or the #2, 3, 4 or 5 to the Franklin Avenue stop are the closest stops to the auditorium. The Brooklyn School of Music is located at 883 Classon Avenue, between Union and President Streets. (The concert is NOT at Wingate!)

If you have to bring your car, Shomrim and the 71st precinct will be on hand to assist us with the parking. Please cooperate with their instructions to ensure a smooth and efficient parking experience.

Notice for Residents Attending the Concert on Motzoai Shabbos

Important info for all Crown Heights residents coming to the Soul II Soul concert this Motzoei Shabbos.

The producers of the concert encourage you to come to the concert by either being dropped off or using public transportation. The #3 train to the Brooklyn Museum stop, or the #2, 3, 4 or 5 to the Franklin Avenue stop are the closest stops to the auditorium. The Brooklyn School of Music is located at 883 Classon Avenue, between Union and President Streets. (The concert is NOT at Wingate!)

If you have to bring your car, Shomrim and the 71st precinct will be on hand to assist us with the parking. Please cooperate with their instructions to ensure a smooth and efficient parking experience.

PSA
Meir Gold and Dovid Zaklikowski - Chabad.org

Rabbi Sholom Feldman helps an Israeli
merchant put on tefillin.
TEL AVIV, Israel — One Thursday night in 1975, a group of Chasidic Jews who were crowded around a table in a small village outside of Tel Aviv decided to go out the next morning to help Jews whom they had never met put on tefillin.

They drew their inspiration for such a bold task from Rabbi Mendel Futerfas, the one-time-businessman from Russia who led the farbrengen ñ or gathering where sharing words of Torah, meaningful stories and Chasidic melodies plays an integral part ñ in Kfar Chabad, Israel.

Known as Reb Mendel and born in 1887, Futerfas had, in his home country, invested all of his money to assist the underground network of Jewish day schools supported by Chabad-Lubavitch and was sent to jail for the subversion of Soviet edicts against religious observance. He made it to London in 1962, where five years later he took up the call of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, for Jewish men everywhere to encourage other Jewish men to don tefillin.

Generations Follow in Footsteps of Door-to-Door Jewish Trailblazers

Meir Gold and Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Rabbi Sholom Feldman helps an Israeli
merchant put on tefillin.

TEL AVIV, Israel — One Thursday night in 1975, a group of Chasidic Jews who were crowded around a table in a small village outside of Tel Aviv decided to go out the next morning to help Jews whom they had never met put on tefillin.

They drew their inspiration for such a bold task from Rabbi Mendel Futerfas, the one-time-businessman from Russia who led the farbrengen ñ or gathering where sharing words of Torah, meaningful stories and Chasidic melodies plays an integral part ñ in Kfar Chabad, Israel.

Known as Reb Mendel and born in 1887, Futerfas had, in his home country, invested all of his money to assist the underground network of Jewish day schools supported by Chabad-Lubavitch and was sent to jail for the subversion of Soviet edicts against religious observance. He made it to London in 1962, where five years later he took up the call of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, for Jewish men everywhere to encourage other Jewish men to don tefillin.

Shlichus
Dvora Lakein - Lubavitch.com

Students at NYU with Rabbi Dov Korn

NEW YORK, NY — Mention of the Lower East Side often evokes images of heaving tenement buildings, anxious immigrants, and pungent pickles. While the pickles remain a landmark on Hester Street, the rest of the neighborhood has changed. The immigrants who came did everything they could to leave; today, their great-grandchildren are coming back in droves. Introducing them to a Jewish experience that packs a meaningful alternative to the faded memories of kitsch yiddishkeit portrayed in popular films, are Chabad-Lubavitch representatives.

Jewish Revival Greets Young Jews Moving to the Lower East Side

Dvora Lakein – Lubavitch.com

Students at NYU with Rabbi Dov Korn

NEW YORK, NY — Mention of the Lower East Side often evokes images of heaving tenement buildings, anxious immigrants, and pungent pickles. While the pickles remain a landmark on Hester Street, the rest of the neighborhood has changed. The immigrants who came did everything they could to leave; today, their great-grandchildren are coming back in droves. Introducing them to a Jewish experience that packs a meaningful alternative to the faded memories of kitsch yiddishkeit portrayed in popular films, are Chabad-Lubavitch representatives.

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagment!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy (ben R Chaim) Blachman (Crown Heights) and Chaya Sarah Wayden (Philadelphia, PA) on their engagment.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Maple St Shul, 612 Maple St, [between Kingston and Albany Ave].

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitzchak and Rivky (nee Spalter) Raskin (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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


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Jewish School Moves Into New Mediterranean Home

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Cannes Mayor Bernard Brochand, left, and Rabbi Yehuda Leib Matusof, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Cannes, cut the ribbon to inaugurate the new home of the cityís only Jewish school.

CANNES, France — A crowd of well-wishers and French politicians feted the recent expansion of the Jewish School of Cannes in a ceremony earlier this week.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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