Parents, Students, and Teachers gather at the Shluchim Online School’s annual Celebration

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Hand in hand with the concurrent Kinus Tzeirei Hashluchos, dozens of young Shluchos who attend The Shluchim Office’s Online School converged on Chovevei Torah’s social hall on Thursday January 24th, 2008 for a grand luncheon and class reunion, with many meeting their virtual classmates and teachers for the first time in real life.

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Rabbi Sees Miracle in Dimona’s Low Casualty Figure

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

An ambulance passes by the Dimona, Israel, street corner housing the city’s Chabad House and a shopping center that was struck by a suicide bomber.

DIMONA, Israel — Rabbi Yisroel Gellis had just finished hanging a big sign over the new branch of Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona when 60 meters away, a Palestinian suicide bomber’s explosion rocked the Israeli city’s downtown shopping center and the relative calm that had descended of late on the country’s interior.

Chabad in Beijing Prepapres for ’08 Olympics With a Second Kosher Eatery

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Dini’s Kosher Restaurant in Beijing, China.

BEIJING, China — Dini’s Kosher Restaurant, the only one in China’s capital city, will open a second location in the Olympic Village in Northern Beijing in time for the 08 Olympics, Chabad representative to Beijing, Mrs. Dini Freundlich, told Lubavitch.com.

Strong-armed Carjacking of a DHL Van

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 2:15 Tuesday afternoon, a DHL delivery van was carjacked in Crown Heights. The driver was assaulted, dragged from the van, and the perpetrators fled with the van. The incident took place on Crown Street between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues behind the Medger Evers College.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Devorah Leah (nee Levitin) Brownstein (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.

Cemetery Headstones Vandalized in Queens

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QUEENS, NY — Numerous headstones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in the Ozone Park section of Queens.

A worker is believed to have discovered the vandalism at the Mokom Sholom cemetery at 80-07 Pitkin Avenue Tuesday morning.

New Shluchim To Kentucky

Rabbi Boruch and Chaya Susman are joining the Shluchim of Kentucky. Boruch will be Chabad program director in Louisville, Kentucky, including activities at University of Louisville. Chaya will be teaching in the Chabad school.

The shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Avrohom Litvin head shliach to the state of Kentucky.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

Thai Tourism Veterans Unite in Cross-Section of Jewish Life

Joshua Runyan and Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Nechemya Wilhelm of Chabad of Bangkok-Ohr Menachem in Thailand dances with two Israelis during Chabad-Lubavitch of Thailandís 12th annual reunion party in Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM, Israel — Hundreds of revelers packed a Jerusalem ballroom Saturday night in tribute to an institution that from thousands of miles away has managed to unite Israelis of all political affiliations and modes of religious observance: Chabad-Lubavitch of Thailand.