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Legal Scholar and Rabbi to Rabbis Passes Away at 79

Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein talks to Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries about contemporary questions in Jewish law.

CINCINNATI, OH — Associates of Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, the chief rabbi of Cincinnati, Ohio’s Vaad Hoeir rabbinical authority who died on Monday, remembered him as a brilliant authority on Jewish law who spent hours each day responding to questions from around the globe. Sharfstein, a New Yorker by birth, was 79.

Increasingly, American Adult Jewish Males Request Ritual Circumcision

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com

CITY ISLAND, NY — “Culturally Jewish” is the self-described label offered up by Russell Harmon, a 19-year-old City Island, NY, native currently pursuing a degree in computer science at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Chabad is Opening New Doors

Carleigh Kate Knight – Marietta Daily Journal

Rabbi Zalman Charytan and his wife Nechami moved to Acworth to establish the Chabad Jewish Center of Acworth. Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen

ACWORTH, GA — Michelle Gilbert of Kennesaw drives her son Mitchell to Sandy Springs every morning so he can attend the Jewish-based The Epstein School.

Special Needs Children Bond With Young Buddies

Amy Taxin – OC Register

NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Arye Kramsky sits by the window Thursday afternoons, waiting for his “buddy” to come over and put together a puzzle or go for a bike ride.

It’s an excitement his mother Allison says she hasn’t seen before in her 14-year old son, who is autistic.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Menachem and Rena (nee Berkowitz) Traxler (Shluchim to Tzfat, Israel) on the birth of their son.

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


Self-Made Millionaire Who Supported Education Dead at 81

Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Businessman Mel Landow dances with a Torah scroll at the 1974 opening of the new Landow Yeshivah Center.

Mel Landow, a self-made South Florida millionaire and benefactor of Jewish education in the region, died Feb. 4 after suffering a heart attack while playing a game of tennis. He was 81.

Gov Spitzer Announces Additional Heating Assistance To Combat Rising Energy Prices

NYS PR

Second Grant Available to Those in Crisis

Governor Eliot Spitzer today announced that additional emergency home heating assistance is being made available to New York’s most vulnerable residents, in response to rising energy costs. The state has approved offering a second emergency benefit to qualified applicants through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP). HEAP, a federally-funded program administered by the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), assists eligible households in meeting their home energy needs. So far this winter heating season, HEAP has issued benefits to more than 719,000 families, totaling more than $178 million.

OTDA Commissioner David A. Hansell appeared today at Senior Services of Albany on Delaware Avenue to help publicize the additional benefits.

Baruch Dayan HoEmes – Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid Rabbi Ezriel Zelig Sharfstein of Cincinnatti, OH. Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, 79, one of the oldest Rabbis of Chabad in North America, was sent to Cincinnati over 50 years ago where he served as Rabbi of the City and was a member of the Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch Hakloli.

The Levaya will be Tuesday, 9:00 AM at Shomrei Hadas and passing by 770 at 9:30 AM

Boruch Dayan Haemes

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The excitement is growing as the next addition of the KIDS Magazine is getting ready for print. Just over the past few days, over 25,000 orders have been placed from nine new shluchim. The Chanukah edition reached 273,000 families worldwide and the Pesach issue is expected to reach over 300,000.