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Chabad.org

TEL AVIV, Israel — A technical fault may have been the cause of the original delay of the launch of Israel's AMOS-3 communications satellite, but engineers decided to delay the liftoff until after Passover in deference to a member of the launch team who is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid.

Chasid Among Satellite’s Launch Team

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TEL AVIV, Israel — A technical fault may have been the cause of the original delay of the launch of Israel’s AMOS-3 communications satellite, but engineers decided to delay the liftoff until after Passover in deference to a member of the launch team who is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid.

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New Engagement!

Mordechai Lubecki (Paris, France) to Iscah Sarah Andrea (Jalisco, Mexico)
Baby Girl!

Yariv and Malkie (nee Kershner) Sharabi from Parkland, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chava (nee Notik) Rendler from Riverwoods, IL on the birth of a baby girl.
New Engagement!

Eli Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) to Risa Drizin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at The Arches
New Engagement!

Levi Its’hak Ben Soussan (Courbevoie, France) to Sterna Sarah Gagueche (Brunoy, France)
New Engagement!

Shea Shmotkin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Jacobs (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 585 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Ariel Benchimoun (Levallois, France) to Rivka Bouzna (Sarcelles, France)
Baby Boy!

Moshe Leib and Chaya Mushka (nee Friedman) Yaras from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Futerfas (Crown Heights) to Mussy Goldstein (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Mendel Shemtov (Crown Heights) to Mushka Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at 1345 President Street
New Engagement!

Moshe Maiman (Mequon, WI) to Hinda Teich (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
New Engagement!

Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Eliyahu and Chayale Citron from Portland, Oregon had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shneur Pink (Manchester, UK) to Sheindel November (Teaneck, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Levi Katan (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Miriam Krichevsky (London, UK)

The Rebbe's Tears and a Moshol for Golus

The Rebbe speaks on 15 Shevat, 5739.

Living Torah subscribers also saw the rest of the special edition for 28 Nissan, including the opening narration to the Sicha. To subscribe today, click here.

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The Rebbe’s Tears and a Moshol for Golus

The Rebbe speaks on 15 Shevat, 5739.

Living Torah subscribers also saw the rest of the special edition for 28 Nissan, including the opening narration to the Sicha. To subscribe today, click here.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Late Wednesday night Efraim Okonov (20), a member of the now infamous Shmira, was caught red handed by professional radio technicians as he was driving around in a blue ’96 Crown Victoria and ‘jamming’ Crown Heights Shomrim’s radio frequencies.

Jamming is a term used for when someone transmits an unauthorized transmission over a radio, such as those used by Police, Fire Department and Shomrim, with the intent of interfering with the legitimate transmissions. Radios have the ability to carry just one transmission at a time, thereby locking out any other attempts to broadcast messages.

Continued in the Extended Article.

6 Days of Persistent Torment Comes to a Screeching Halt for Crown Heights Shomrim

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Late Wednesday night Efraim Okonov (20), a member of the now infamous Shmira, was caught red handed by professional radio technicians as he was driving around in a blue ’96 Crown Victoria and ‘jamming’ Crown Heights Shomrim’s radio frequencies.

Jamming is a term used for when someone transmits an unauthorized transmission over a radio, such as those used by Police, Fire Department and Shomrim, with the intent of interfering with the legitimate transmissions. Radios have the ability to carry just one transmission at a time, thereby locking out any other attempts to broadcast messages.

Continued in the Extended Article.

Communal Matters
By Tamar Runyan

Members of the Jewish community in the middle-class Buenos Aires neighborhood of Colegiales march with their local Chabad Houseís new Torah scroll.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hundreds of community members took to the streets in the middle-class Colegiales neighborhood of Buenos Aires to welcome a new Torah scroll given to the local Chabad-Lubavitch center directed by Rabbi Eli and Devorah Leah Levy.

New Torah Scroll Evidence of Buenos Aires Community’s Growth

By Tamar Runyan

Members of the Jewish community in the middle-class Buenos Aires neighborhood of Colegiales march with their local Chabad Houseís new Torah scroll.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hundreds of community members took to the streets in the middle-class Colegiales neighborhood of Buenos Aires to welcome a new Torah scroll given to the local Chabad-Lubavitch center directed by Rabbi Eli and Devorah Leah Levy.

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Adam Dickter - The Jewish Week

A grand jury will determine if Shmira patrol group is “circling the wagons," says DA Hynes.

Brooklyn DA says chasidic members are 'stonewalling' assault investigation; some say case overshadows attacks on Jews.

BROOKLYN, NY — Likening a chasidic patrol group to the violent Crips and Bloods street gangs, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has taken the rare step of ordering a grand jury to investigate the April 14 beating of an African-American man in Crown Heights, an incident in which he says members of the patrol group may be involved.

Hynes at War Against ‘Renegade’ Crown Hts. Patrol

Adam Dickter – The Jewish Week

A grand jury will determine if Shmira patrol group is “circling the wagons,” says DA Hynes.

Brooklyn DA says chasidic members are ‘stonewalling’ assault investigation; some say case overshadows attacks on Jews.

BROOKLYN, NY — Likening a chasidic patrol group to the violent Crips and Bloods street gangs, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has taken the rare step of ordering a grand jury to investigate the April 14 beating of an African-American man in Crown Heights, an incident in which he says members of the patrol group may be involved.

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Kim O'Connor - Village Voice

A man who created extraordinary connections during his 13 years as the Rabbi at Sydney's Great Synagogue is now making links of a different kind in Bondi.

When Rabbi Mendel Kastel talks, people listen. He is an imposing presence, but his slightly American-accented-voice doesn't need to be raised for attention to swing his way. In the time since he moved to Sydney from New York in 1988, Rabbi Kastel has become a familiar figure in both the Jewish and wider community, creating programs that benefit teenagers and others in need.

Rabbi’s New Role

Kim O’Connor – Village Voice

A man who created extraordinary connections during his 13 years as the Rabbi at Sydney’s Great Synagogue is now making links of a different kind in Bondi.

When Rabbi Mendel Kastel talks, people listen. He is an imposing presence, but his slightly American-accented-voice doesn’t need to be raised for attention to swing his way. In the time since he moved to Sydney from New York in 1988, Rabbi Kastel has become a familiar figure in both the Jewish and wider community, creating programs that benefit teenagers and others in need.

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy Schechter (Crown Heights) and Chavie Kalmanson (Cincinati, Ohio) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

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CBS 4

Rabbi Yosef Biston, during an interview with the Sun Sentinel, with the Chabad House and swastikas in the background.

PARKLAND, FL — Swastikas were scrawled over parts of the Chabad Hebrew School of Parkland in Broward County on Wednesday.

The institution, located at 7170 Loxahatchee Rd., is affiliated with the Chabad Jewish Center on Miami Beach, which was vandalized last week.

Vandalism Strikes Another South Fla. Jewish Center

CBS 4

Rabbi Yosef Biston, during an interview with the Sun Sentinel, with the Chabad House and swastikas in the background.

PARKLAND, FL — Swastikas were scrawled over parts of the Chabad Hebrew School of Parkland in Broward County on Wednesday.

The institution, located at 7170 Loxahatchee Rd., is affiliated with the Chabad Jewish Center on Miami Beach, which was vandalized last week.

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Lubavitch.com

Chabad Shluchim in Accra, Ghana, getting into the spirit of Passover.

ACCRA, Ghana — It was a rocky start for two of the hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students dispatched by Merkos, the Lubavitch educational division (with the support of regional Chabad centers) to create a Passover experience for Jewish people in some 150 locations exotic and obscure. Among them: Esquel, Argentina; Nipawin, Canada; Hong Kong; and Pervoo, Finland.

Accra, Esquel, Pervoo . . . Jews Connect Despite Distance

Lubavitch.com

Chabad Shluchim in Accra, Ghana, getting into the spirit of Passover.

ACCRA, Ghana — It was a rocky start for two of the hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students dispatched by Merkos, the Lubavitch educational division (with the support of regional Chabad centers) to create a Passover experience for Jewish people in some 150 locations exotic and obscure. Among them: Esquel, Argentina; Nipawin, Canada; Hong Kong; and Pervoo, Finland.

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Jennifer Daddario - Cleveland Jewish News
KRAKOW, Poland — In Krakow, Poland, where Jewish life was nearly destroyed by Nazism and communism, Rabbi Eliezer Gurary and his wife Esther are hoping to bring it back, one Shabbat at a time.

Eliezer and Esther, granddaughter of Devorah and Rabbi Leibel Alevsky, who run the Chabad House of Cleveland, recently opened Chabad-Lubavitch of Krakow. The young couple was living in New York and decided they “were ready to go wherever” to open a Chabad center to help Jews, Esther explains. The rabbi at the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters offered them the chance to build a Chabad community in Krakow from the ground up.

Young couple brings Jewish life to Krakow

Jennifer Daddario – Cleveland Jewish News

KRAKOW, Poland — In Krakow, Poland, where Jewish life was nearly destroyed by Nazism and communism, Rabbi Eliezer Gurary and his wife Esther are hoping to bring it back, one Shabbat at a time.

Eliezer and Esther, granddaughter of Devorah and Rabbi Leibel Alevsky, who run the Chabad House of Cleveland, recently opened Chabad-Lubavitch of Krakow. The young couple was living in New York and decided they “were ready to go wherever” to open a Chabad center to help Jews, Esther explains. The rabbi at the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters offered them the chance to build a Chabad community in Krakow from the ground up.

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Mazal Tov! – 3 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!

Mendy Schechter (Crown Heights) and Chavie Kalmanson (Cincinati, OH) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Betzalel Bassman (Chicago, IL) and Chaya Weinstein (Pittsburgh, PA) .
IYH at Bais Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Menachem Bialo (Cleveland, OH) to Noemi Druin (N Miami Beach, FL) .
IYH at 17131 NE 11th Ave. North Miami Beach, FL.

To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info

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Chabad.edu

Students at Texas A&M University, including one of the school’s cadets, line up to receive Passover food from Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, co-director of the Chabad Jewish Student Center.

The Chabad Jewish Student Center serving Texas A&M University managed a special Passover dining program, providing students with meals throughout the eight-day holiday.

Texas Students Benefit From Passover Dining Program

Chabad.edu

Students at Texas A&M University, including one of the school’s cadets, line up to receive Passover food from Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, co-director of the Chabad Jewish Student Center.

The Chabad Jewish Student Center serving Texas A&M University managed a special Passover dining program, providing students with meals throughout the eight-day holiday.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yeshaya and Chani (nee Klein) Farron (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter, Menucha Rochel.

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


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