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NEW YORK, NY [CBS] — With a growing number of individual investors and organizations surfacing as victims in the Bernard Madoff ponzi scheme, one disturbing aspect is that the scandal may be fanning the flames of stereotypes about Jews.

In the heavily Jewish area of Crown Heights, if you say Bernie Madoff, you get strong reaction.

Some Jews Fear Madoff Case Stokes Anti-Semitism

NEW YORK, NY [CBS] — With a growing number of individual investors and organizations surfacing as victims in the Bernard Madoff ponzi scheme, one disturbing aspect is that the scandal may be fanning the flames of stereotypes about Jews.

In the heavily Jewish area of Crown Heights, if you say Bernie Madoff, you get strong reaction.

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New Engagement!

Yosef Gordon (Cincinnati, OH) to Dina Ives (Pomona, NY)
Baby Boy!

Bentzi and Osnas Cousin from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 580 Crown Street Ground Floor, #009 between Albany and Troy Aves
New Engagement!

Tzemach Sanowicz (Crown Heights) to Esther Browd (Jacksonville, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendy Wolff (Yerucham, EY) to Chaya Wolf (Chicago, IL)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Shayna (nee Perl) Konikov from Kingston, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Zalman Niassof (Crown Heights) Chanie Shapiro (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Lustig (New Haven, CT) to Basie Zalmanov (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Aryeh Wuensch (Crown Heights) to Rochele Liberow (Barranquilla, Colombia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at La Sala 1345 President St
Baby Girl!

Sholom Ber and Simi Stiefel from Arcadia, CA had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Lippy Baumgarten (Rockaway, NJ) to Chana Rivkin (New Orleans, LA)
New Engagement!

Meir Levy (Crown Heights) to Rashi Rubashkin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, April 15th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Hecht (Stores, CT) to Aidela Zirkind (Toronto, Canada)
Baby Girl!

Tuvya and Shaina (nee Goldstein) Gewirtz from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

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Baby Boy!

R’ Dovber and Lulu (nee Kievman) Koncepolski from Irvine, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Dov Werner (Five Towns, NY) to Mushka Miriam Weingarten (Kingston, PA)
New Engagement!

Shmuli Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) to Chayle Groner (Calgary, Canada)
New Engagement!

Chaya Saacks (Crown Heights) to Shmuli Brecher (Boro Park)

If It Involves Jews, Chabad’s Tiny but Far-Flung News Organization Is on It

Alan Feuer – The New York Times

BROOKLYN, NY — When the news broke on Thursday of a freakish traffic accident that injured several people at the Chanukah Wonderland workshop run by the Lubavitch community of Woodmere, on Long Island, the story was picked up by the usual suspects: Newsday, The Daily News, The New York Post and The Associated Press. It also happened to be that day’s top North American offering of a much smaller — and somewhat more specialized — journalistic venture: Chabad.org News.

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With sadness we inform you of the passing of Bina Clapman of Flatbush.

She is survived by her sons Yehuda (Crown Heights) and Binyomin (Far Rockaway), and her daughter Chana Leah Chaifetz (Flatbush).

The Levaya will be leaving from Shomrei Hadaas Chapel at 11:30am.

They will be sitting shiva at 1324 E 10th St, Brooklyn, NY 11230

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

Boruch Dayan Emes – Mrs. Bina Clapman OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Bina Clapman of Flatbush.

She is survived by her sons Yehuda (Crown Heights) and Binyomin (Far Rockaway), and her daughter Chana Leah Chaifetz (Flatbush).

The Levaya will be leaving from Shomrei Hadaas Chapel at 11:30am.

They will be sitting shiva at 1324 E 10th St, Brooklyn, NY 11230

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

Notices
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Chasoif: A Song In Honor of the Mumbai Shloishim

Everyone helps out in the way that they can. Since I work with many talented people in the Jewish music industry, I wanted to do something musical that would express our feelings on the upcoming Shloishim of the Kedoshim who were murdered in the Chabad House in Mumbai, India.

Click Play to Listen to the Song
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Mumbai Survivor Lights Tennessee Capitol Menorah

By Esther Tiechtel

NASHVILLE, TN — Delivered the strong into the hands of the weak… The words of the Al Hanissim prayer danced in my head side by side with the images of Mumbai….Chanukah was here: a time of celebrating miracles. What was our answer to bring about a contemporary miracle in our times? Was it our mission to become a Jewish version of warriors and rise up like a band of raggedy armed Maccabees against the scourge of evil?

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What Not to Wear – Some in Crown Heights Detect Modesty Crisis

Marissa Brostoff – Next Book

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An outsider visiting Crown Heights might be forgiven for thinking that the women in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood represent the height of modesty. But some in the Brooklyn community, where the Chabad-Lubavitch movement is based, are concerned that modesty standards are slipping, and have launched a campaign to counter the trend.

Thus far, the effort—organized by a woman named Sheyna Goldin, with the approval of Chabad’s women’s organization, N’Shei Chabad—has involved putting up 500 posters encouraging adherence to modesty laws. But not everyone in the organization agrees with Goldin’s approach, and a frisson of disagreement has broken out over it—and whether the declining standards are even anything new.

“It’s Not Just a Good Idea, IT’S THE LAW!” proclaim the posters, which appeared recently on Kingston Avenue and other neighborhood thoroughfares. The fliers go on to list the laws of tznius, or modesty (modest dress must begin at age three; shirts must cover collarbones; skirts must cover knees) and their talmudic sources. Fine print at the bottom explains the spiritual rewards for modest dress and the consequences for disregarding it.

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BP Markowitz Ushers in Chanukah with Chabad

Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz and Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin (to his left) hand out Chanukah treats to children at Brooklyn Borough Hall

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — On Monday, December 22, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham hosted a celebration of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Marking the holiday again this year is Brooklyn’s official 29-foot menorah in front of the Supreme Court building in Borough Hall Plaza.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (by Stephen Lipuma)

Shlichus
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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Zalmanov (Tzfas, Israel) and Chana (bas R Yisroel) Prus (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Monday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Mazel Tov's

Dear Friends,

Our hearts and prayers are with those who were injured in today's accident at the Chanukah Wonderland.

We appreciate and are comforted by the tremendous outpouring of support, and are also overwhelmed with requests for additional information.

At this time, all information points to this being an unfortunate incident, wherein a car accidentally crashed through the building housing our community's family Chanukah celebration.

Statement from Chabad of the Five Towns

Dear Friends,

Our hearts and prayers are with those who were injured in today’s accident at the Chanukah Wonderland.

We appreciate and are comforted by the tremendous outpouring of support, and are also overwhelmed with requests for additional information.

At this time, all information points to this being an unfortunate incident, wherein a car accidentally crashed through the building housing our community’s family Chanukah celebration.

PSA
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by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
“Nothing you have acquired is real unless you worked for it. If you were born a nice guy, the niceness isn’t yours. If you started off not so nice, and now you do a little, that's Divine.”
– Tzvi Freeman, Be Within Stay Above
“Nothing of real substance comes without work. Our pioneer forebears could never plow a field by turning it over in their minds. They had to put their hands to the plow and walk forward. The work is, by and large, easier now than in earlier times, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful privilege it is. . . When pleasure or recreation becomes an end in itself, we are in danger. We are in trouble. We simply cannot expect to refine the substance of character from hunks of pleasures.”
– Gordon Hinckley, Standing For Something

Never having flown before, an old-timer was about to embark on his first such venture. Standing at the check-in counter he queried the ticketing agent: ”Nu, so tell me, how does the plane stay up in the air?”

A Tale of Two Dreams – The Importance of Human Effort

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

“Nothing you have acquired is real unless you worked for it. If you were born a nice guy, the niceness isn’t yours. If you started off not so nice, and now you do a little, that’s Divine.”

– Tzvi Freeman, Be Within Stay Above

“Nothing of real substance comes without work. Our pioneer forebears could never plow a field by turning it over in their minds. They had to put their hands to the plow and walk forward. The work is, by and large, easier now than in earlier times, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful privilege it is. . . When pleasure or recreation becomes an end in itself, we are in danger. We are in trouble. We simply cannot expect to refine the substance of character from hunks of pleasures.”

– Gordon Hinckley, Standing For Something

Never having flown before, an old-timer was about to embark on his first such venture. Standing at the check-in counter he queried the ticketing agent: ”Nu, so tell me, how does the plane stay up in the air?”

Something Jewish