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Cheder Lubavitch Chicago First Grade Chumash Celebration

CHICAGO, IL [CHI] — The First Grade class of Cheder Lubavitch of Chicago, under the direction of Rabbi Pinchus Turk, held a Chumash Celebration last week. To commemorate this event, the boys presented a play (in Yiddish) based in Midrash of a childless couple who were blessed with a son in their old age. The boy and his Chumash were kidnapped by a king and his henchman. The boy was saved, by explaining to the king what Sefer Beraishis is all about.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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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)
Baby Girl!

Yakov and Tzivia (nee Fogel) Staschower from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Sender and Chana Sara Segel from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chaya Mushka (nee Vaisfiche) Labkowski from Buffalo, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Zalmy Liberow (Colorado Springs, CO) to Fraidel Werde (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, August 7th, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yaakov Levy (Crown Heights) to Mimi Stern (Houston, TX)
New Engagement!

Mendel Schaffran (Brooklyn, NY) to Chana Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)

Mazal Tov! – 11 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Shloime and Alyson Feldman.
IYH at 625 Empire Blvd, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Laivi and Dini (nee Klein) Freundlich.
IYH at 920 Eastern Pkwy, [bet Albany and Troy Ave].

Ahron Chayim and Estee Aronow.
IYH at 1394 Union St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Nochum and Chanie (nee Sanowicz) Schapiro.
IYH at 770 Lefferts Ave, Apt C4L, [bet Troy and Schenectady Ave].

Levi and Pessi Stolik.
IYH at 609 Montgomery St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Levi and Chana (nee Duchman) Banon.
IYH at 595 Lefferts Ave, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Tzvi and Hindy Boymelgreen.
IYH at Bais Shmuel, 885 Eastern Parkway [bet Troy and Albany Ave].

Levi and Pessy Notik.
IYH at 2749 W North Shore Ave, Chicago, IL 60645.

Motty and Chagit Stone.
IYH at 6207 N Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60659.

Mendel and Shaina Trapedo.
IYH at 12 Silver Fir, Irvine, CA 92604.

Nechemia and Nechama Dina Bluming (Brunoy, 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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In a new effort to inspire the busiest of its site visitors, the Chabad.org Web site unveiled a new section entitled “Mitzvah Minutes.” Designed as “a mitzvah navigator for those of us in the fast lane,” the section provides short articles ñ which shouldn't take longer than a minute to read ñ about specific good deeds and Divine commandments.

A Minute for a Mitzvah

In a new effort to inspire the busiest of its site visitors, the Chabad.org Web site unveiled a new section entitled “Mitzvah Minutes.” Designed as “a mitzvah navigator for those of us in the fast lane,” the section provides short articles ñ which shouldn’t take longer than a minute to read ñ about specific good deeds and Divine commandments.

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Alison Klayman

Rabbi Nosson Rodin of the Beijing Chabad scans Orthodox Union guidelines while inspecting the Dongfang Green Tree Food Company.

BEIJING, China [JTA] — As the sun rises on a crisp March morning, a van from the Hebei Dongfang Green Tree Food Company arrives at Rabbi Nosson Rodin’s home in this Chinese capital city.

During the four-hour journey to the company’s factory in Shenzhou, Rodin calls for abreak to recite his morning prayers. He wraps his tefillin at a rest stop as curious truck drivers look on, then gets back into the vehicle.

Kosher Certification: Made in China

Alison Klayman

Rabbi Nosson Rodin of the Beijing Chabad scans Orthodox Union guidelines while inspecting the Dongfang Green Tree Food Company.

BEIJING, China [JTA] — As the sun rises on a crisp March morning, a van from the Hebei Dongfang Green Tree Food Company arrives at Rabbi Nosson Rodin’s home in this Chinese capital city.

During the four-hour journey to the company’s factory in Shenzhou, Rodin calls for abreak to recite his morning prayers. He wraps his tefillin at a rest stop as curious truck drivers look on, then gets back into the vehicle.

Shlichus
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Earlier this morning, Thursday, Councilwoman Letitia James (D, Brooklyn) visited Crown Heights’s Yeshivas Darchai Menachem. Ms. James first met with the school’s principal Rabbi Eyal Bension who discussed the schools needs and future plans.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Councilwoman Letitia James visits Darchai Menachem

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Earlier this morning, Thursday, Councilwoman Letitia James (D, Brooklyn) visited Crown Heights’s Yeshivas Darchai Menachem. Ms. James first met with the school’s principal Rabbi Eyal Bension who discussed the schools needs and future plans.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Communal Matters
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The Rebbe says:

1. This week’s Torah portion begins a new Chumash (book) in the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) named Vayikra (Leviticus). Chumash Vayikra mainly deals with the sacrifices that the Jewish people brought to Hashem in the Beis Hamikdash (the Holy Temple) and it details the work of the Kohanim (the priests).

2. The Torah is everlasting and its lessons are eternal beacons of light which guide the life of every single Jew throughout every generation.

If this rule is generally true with the whole Torah, it is especially true with the lessons that we can learn from the Beis Hamikdash (the Holy Temple) because every single Jew is a “miniature Beis Hamikdash”. As we have pointed out many times, when Hashem promised to rest in the Tabernacle He said, “Make for Me a Temple and I will rest in them” , and our Sages explain that Hashem said, “in them”, in the plural sense, to tell us that every single Jew is just like His Temple in that if they act according to His will He will rest in them.

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Vayikra

The Rebbe says:

1. This week’s Torah portion begins a new Chumash (book) in the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) named Vayikra (Leviticus). Chumash Vayikra mainly deals with the sacrifices that the Jewish people brought to Hashem in the Beis Hamikdash (the Holy Temple) and it details the work of the Kohanim (the priests).

2. The Torah is everlasting and its lessons are eternal beacons of light which guide the life of every single Jew throughout every generation.

If this rule is generally true with the whole Torah, it is especially true with the lessons that we can learn from the Beis Hamikdash (the Holy Temple) because every single Jew is a “miniature Beis Hamikdash”. As we have pointed out many times, when Hashem promised to rest in the Tabernacle He said, “Make for Me a Temple and I will rest in them” , and our Sages explain that Hashem said, “in them”, in the plural sense, to tell us that every single Jew is just like His Temple in that if they act according to His will He will rest in them.

Something Jewish
Dovid Zaklikowski and Zalman Ruderman - Chabad.org

Soviet officials snapped this picture of a group of Jewish students who were arrested for attending an underground school in Berdichev, Ukraine.

BROOKLYN, NY — Eight young students sat around the table celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. In between singing stirring melodies, they ate bread, herring and hot potatoes, in the “Tailors' Synagogue” in Berdichev, Ukraine.

Seven Decades Later, Memories Fresh of Soviet Orphanage Escape

Dovid Zaklikowski and Zalman Ruderman – Chabad.org

Soviet officials snapped this picture of a group of Jewish students who were arrested for attending an underground school in Berdichev, Ukraine.

BROOKLYN, NY — Eight young students sat around the table celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. In between singing stirring melodies, they ate bread, herring and hot potatoes, in the “Tailors’ Synagogue” in Berdichev, Ukraine.

Chabad News

WASHINGTON, DC [CNN] — The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday began circulating a redesigned $5 bill. The first transaction was at a gift shop near President Lincoln's summer cottage overlooking Washington.

Also, “How to Catch a Counterfeit” in the Extended Article!

New Five Dollar Bill Goes into Circulation

WASHINGTON, DC [CNN] — The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday began circulating a redesigned $5 bill. The first transaction was at a gift shop near President Lincoln’s summer cottage overlooking Washington.

Also, “How to Catch a Counterfeit” in the Extended Article!

General
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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuly and Aviva (nee Bressler) Rosler (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter, Esther Chana.

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

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A car with plates that came back as a stolen vehicle prompted a large police response. The incident began at 6:15pm today, Wednesday on Empire Boulevard and Bedford Avenue where a police van spotted the vehicle and ran its plates which came back as stolen.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Stolen Car Prompts Massive Police Response

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A car with plates that came back as a stolen vehicle prompted a large police response. The incident began at 6:15pm today, Wednesday on Empire Boulevard and Bedford Avenue where a police van spotted the vehicle and ran its plates which came back as stolen.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Crime
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Fernanda Santos - The New York Times

Rabbi Jacob Horowitz, left, and Christopher P. St. Lawrence, a town official, opposed a plan for a Wal-Mart in Monsey, N.Y.

MONSEY, NY — It was Friday afternoon when the developer who had been intent on building a 215,000-square-foot Wal-Mart in this hamlet sent word to the town offices in Ramapo. The fax was terse, but its message clear: “We will not continue to proceed with the development.”

The news that the developer, and potentially Wal-Mart, had scrapped plans it had so diligently worked on gave observant Jews, who make up the bulk of the population here, reason to rejoice.

A Stand Against Wal-Mart and, for Now, a Victory

Fernanda Santos – The New York Times

Rabbi Jacob Horowitz, left, and Christopher P. St. Lawrence, a town official, opposed a plan for a Wal-Mart in Monsey, N.Y.

MONSEY, NY — It was Friday afternoon when the developer who had been intent on building a 215,000-square-foot Wal-Mart in this hamlet sent word to the town offices in Ramapo. The fax was terse, but its message clear: “We will not continue to proceed with the development.”

The news that the developer, and potentially Wal-Mart, had scrapped plans it had so diligently worked on gave observant Jews, who make up the bulk of the population here, reason to rejoice.

Jewish News
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Yogaiti Umatzasi Ta’amin!

SHAWNEE DELAWARE, PA [CHI] — Onlookers at Shawnee Mountain watched Yisroel sit at the Moshiach Shiur surrounded by teacher Rabbi Eli Sandhaus and classmates. Even away from the classroom, these boys chose to attend this voluntary class. Following the class, fellow skiers watched Yisroel ski with finesse, in a seemingly-effortless glide down the mountain.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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