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Dvora Lakein - Lubavitch
Photo: Scott Morgan/Rockford Register Star

CHAMPAIGN, IL — The individual who opened fire in a Geology (104) class at Northern Illinois University Thursday, police revealed at a press conference early Friday morning, was a former student. Steven Kamierczak killed six and wounded 22 before turning the gun on himself. No immediate motive is known.

Following Shooting, Students at NIU Turn to Chabad Reps for Help

Dvora Lakein – Lubavitch
Photo: Scott Morgan/Rockford Register Star

CHAMPAIGN, IL — The individual who opened fire in a Geology (104) class at Northern Illinois University Thursday, police revealed at a press conference early Friday morning, was a former student. Steven Kamierczak killed six and wounded 22 before turning the gun on himself. No immediate motive is known.

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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)
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

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Leib and Malka Baila (nee Blasenstein) Wilansky (Shluchim to Sydney, Australia) on the birth of their son.

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

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This Sunday, February 17 a Chaim Fogelman Concert will take place at Bais Rivkah, 470 Lefferts Ave.

The Admission is $5 and Lunch will be sold from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, as well as an array of other activities including face painting and much more more! Boys 6 and under are invited too!

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SUNDAY: Concert for Girls!

This Sunday, February 17 a Chaim Fogelman Concert will take place at Bais Rivkah, 470 Lefferts Ave.

The Admission is $5 and Lunch will be sold from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, as well as an array of other activities including face painting and much more more! Boys 6 and under are invited too!

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Yitzchok Rabiski (Toronto, Ontario) and Sara (bas R Yaakov) Chazan (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

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

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by Moshe Bryski
Chana Stery Bryski, left, with her friend
Miranda
Our daughter, Chana Stery, is studying in a seminary in Israel this year.

As with most parents who send their children off to college out of town, we savor and enjoy every phone call, note, e-mail and text message we receive from our daughter. An added beauty to these communications is our knowing that we're not only the ones back home who get to hear from her on a regular basis. She continues to correspond with her very best friend: a lovely little girl named Miranda.

Miranda is a child with special needs. During Chana Stery's four years of volunteering for our community's Friendship Circle, she and a friend, Mushka Sapo, would visit Miranda at her home at least once a week.

Witness to the Transformative Power of a Teenager’s Friendship

by Moshe Bryski
Chana Stery Bryski, left, with her friend
Miranda

Our daughter, Chana Stery, is studying in a seminary in Israel this year.

As with most parents who send their children off to college out of town, we savor and enjoy every phone call, note, e-mail and text message we receive from our daughter. An added beauty to these communications is our knowing that we’re not only the ones back home who get to hear from her on a regular basis. She continues to correspond with her very best friend: a lovely little girl named Miranda.

Miranda is a child with special needs. During Chana Stery’s four years of volunteering for our community’s Friendship Circle, she and a friend, Mushka Sapo, would visit Miranda at her home at least once a week.

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New “Childrens Home” for Jewish Kids in Ukraine

FJC.ru

KRIVOY Rog, Ukraine – In the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School hosted a celebration to mark the opening of a dormitory for children from impoverished families. The new institution, appropriately named “Planet of Childhood”, will accommodate 12 children for now and that number may rise in future.

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Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
Chatzkel the tailor wanders into a small flophouse late one cold and stormy night. “Quite full,” says the innkeeper. “Let’s see . . . we’ve got a Cossack in one of the rooms up on the top floor. You can climb into the bed beside him.”

Thankfully accepting the offer, the wanderer climbs the stairs to the upper floor, but not before asking the innkeeper to wake him well before dawn. “Got a train to catch,” he says importantly.
Before he knows it, there’s a hand shaking him awake. “It’s well before dawn,” says a voice; “your train.”

He dresses hurriedly in the dark and rushes to the train station. On the way he passes a large mirror in an ornate frame. A Cossack in uniform looks back at him. “That idiot innkeeper!” he exclaims in dismay. “He woke up the Cossack instead of Chatzkel the tailor. I’ll never make it back in time to wake myself up and catch my train!”

The Weekly Sedra – Tetzaveh – Inside Out or Outside In?

Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

Chatzkel the tailor wanders into a small flophouse late one cold and stormy night. “Quite full,” says the innkeeper. “Let’s see . . . we’ve got a Cossack in one of the rooms up on the top floor. You can climb into the bed beside him.”

Thankfully accepting the offer, the wanderer climbs the stairs to the upper floor, but not before asking the innkeeper to wake him well before dawn. “Got a train to catch,” he says importantly.
Before he knows it, there’s a hand shaking him awake. “It’s well before dawn,” says a voice; “your train.”

He dresses hurriedly in the dark and rushes to the train station. On the way he passes a large mirror in an ornate frame. A Cossack in uniform looks back at him. “That idiot innkeeper!” he exclaims in dismay. “He woke up the Cossack instead of Chatzkel the tailor. I’ll never make it back in time to wake myself up and catch my train!”

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Picture description: the Rebbe at a Farbrengen Yud Beis Tamuz 1974. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.

PIcture of the Day! – The Rebbe 1974!

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Picture description: the Rebbe at a Farbrengen Yud Beis Tamuz 1974. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.

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Adar Joy Helps Long Island – Turn Kirby’s into Pickles

MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — One of the most popular, informative and delicious workshops in Chabad history came to Chabad of Mineola Long Island.  The class was called “The Art of Kosher Pickle Making,” and it’s taking America by storm.

The workshop, led by Rabbi Mendel Margolin, AKA Rabbi Pickle, taught the history of the American kosher dill, how to make one’s own pickles, as well as what makes a “kosher” pickle. In fact, America was named after a pickle peddler — Amerigo Vespucci.

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Mazal Tov! – 7 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Eli and Batsheva (nee Perlow) Kaminetzki (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 784 Montgomery St. [bet Albany and Troy Aves.]

Yossi and Nechamie Srugo (Aventura, FL) .

Yitzchok and Naomi Berman (Blatimore, MD) .

Yosef Leib and Aydla (nee Bluming) Wechter (Toronto, Canada) .

Sholom and Mirul (nee baumgarten) Edelman.
IYH at 6 Avenue Lucien Rémy, 77340 Pontault-Combault, France.

Menachem and Rena (nee Berkowitz) Traxler (Shluchim to Tzfat) .
IYH at Rechov Harav Kaplan 26/4, Tzfat, Israel.

Avremi and Rifka (nee New) Raskin (Melbourne, Australia) .

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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The Rebbe says:

1. The first verse of this week’s Torah portion says, “And you will command the children of Israel that they shall take for you clear olive oil, crushed, for illumination, to light a lamp continually”. Our Sages explain that there are actually three grades of olive oil and only the first grade, the pure olive oil, can be used for the Menorah.

2. In classic form, the Rebbe now points out that this law regarding the Menorah must also have pertinent repercussions for our daily lives and service to Hashem:

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Tetzaveh

The Rebbe says:

1. The first verse of this week’s Torah portion says, “And you will command the children of Israel that they shall take for you clear olive oil, crushed, for illumination, to light a lamp continually”. Our Sages explain that there are actually three grades of olive oil and only the first grade, the pure olive oil, can be used for the Menorah.

2. In classic form, the Rebbe now points out that this law regarding the Menorah must also have pertinent repercussions for our daily lives and service to Hashem:

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Dancing in celebration of Chabad at Brandeis.

LEXINGTON, MA — Neither icy roads nor blinding sleet deterred 90 students from stepping out in formal wear to fete Chabad at Brandeis University during the first annual Gala Student Dinner on February 10.

The dinner, planned and executed by the students, raised over $30,000 towards Chabad’s programs on campus led by Rabbi Peretz and Chanie Chein.

Brandeis Student Dinner, A First, A Success

Lubavitch.com

Dancing in celebration of Chabad at Brandeis.

LEXINGTON, MA — Neither icy roads nor blinding sleet deterred 90 students from stepping out in formal wear to fete Chabad at Brandeis University during the first annual Gala Student Dinner on February 10.

The dinner, planned and executed by the students, raised over $30,000 towards Chabad’s programs on campus led by Rabbi Peretz and Chanie Chein.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Darchai Menachem's Chinese Auction is in full swing, use this time to help support such a important couse in our comunity. order by the 18th of Feb. and double your luck. also put CH.info in the coupon box at check out and get a Free $10 ticket with your minimum order.

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

Only A Few Days Left to Double Your Luck (A)

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Darchai Menachem’s Chinese Auction is in full swing, use this time to help support such a important couse in our comunity. order by the 18th of Feb. and double your luck. also put CH.info in the coupon box at check out and get a Free $10 ticket with your minimum order.

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

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