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New JEM Release – Seeds

Sunday night, at the banquet of the Kinus Hashluchim, JEM premiered its latest release titled: Seeds – Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim inspire, one by one., the DVD is the latest in the popular Kinus Hashluchim series.

The DVD focuses on the importance the Rebbe, placed on every single individual.

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Con Edison Is Ordered to Return $18 Million to Customers

NY Times Blog

The New York State Public Service Commission ordered Consolidated Edison today to return $18 million to its customers for failing to provide safe and reliable service in 2006, a year that included a nine-day blackout that began in Long Island City, Queens, and affected 170,000 people. The highly critical decision could affect Con Edison’s request for a substantial increase in electric rates.

“One of the commission’s foremost areas of concern is to ensure that electric distribution systems are safe and reliable,” said the commission’s chairwoman, Patricia L. Acampora. “Con Edison did not meet four targets for systemwide reliability in 2006. As a result of the utility’s failure to meet these important targets, shareholders are directed to provide a credit to ratepayers. Hopefully, this sends a message to Con Edison that they must be diligent in efforts to maintain a reliable network, or they will face financial consequences.”

Force Behind Growth of Moroccan Jewry Passed Away at 91

Joshua Runyan and Dovid Zaklikowski

Image caption: Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, third from right, and his family sit down with Sephardic Jewish leaders in Morocco.

BROOKLYN, NY — Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, who was one of the leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational activities in Morocco for close to 50 years, died Saturday night in New York. He was 91.

The news came as a shock to the thousands of Lubavitch emissaries who had gathered in New York for their annual international conference.

Photo Gallery #2 of Kinus HaShluchim Banquet

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — This is the second gallery from the Kinus HaShluchim at pier 94. In this gallery the banquet begins, with the nearly 500 kids from the ‘Yaldei HaShluchim’ camp marching in singing with the band. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky then welcomed everybody to the banquet and asked Rabbi Halperin and Rabbi Begun to say the kaptilach of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin.

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Ticket Blitz in Crown Heights Leaves Residents Fuming

A car pulled over on Kingston Ave. – Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Ticket blitzing in Crown Heights isn’t unfamiliar, though this time it’s the timing that has resident up in arms.

With the International Conference of Shluchim underway in Crown Heights, police have added lots of extra patrols, both by foot and by car, with the addition of car 1733, also known as the ticket car.

Photo Gallery #1 of Kinus HaShluchim Banquet

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — This is the first gallery from the Kinus HaShluchim at pier 94, (just yards away from where the Frierdiker Rebbe first stepped into the United States). In this gallery you will see some last last minute preparation and as the hall started to fill up. More to come. ENJOY!

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Mazal Tov! – Its a Girl!

I would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to a good friend Shmuli and his wife Chanie (nee Lasker) Turk (Crown Heights) on the birth of their first born baby girl!

May the newborn be an endless source of Nachas to her parents, grand parents and Klal Yisroel!