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Woman Arrested In Fatal Hit-And-Run In West Hollywood

KNBC
At the scene of the accident Tuesday, August 2nd 2007.

Los Angeles, CA — A woman was in custody Tuesday in lieu of $250,000 bail for allegedly driving a truck that fatally injured a man in West Hollywood, authorities said. Lindsay Rae Ellingsworth, 27, was arrested Monday at her office in Century City and booked for “hit-and-run causing death,” said Deputy Denise Fuchs of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

CGI Running Springs is Running Strong in Second Season

Chabad.com

Running Springs, CA — On a warm July evening, the children of Camp Gan Israel – Running Springs cheered as the skies above the S. Bernardino Mountains exploded with color and light in celebration of Independence Day. The campers also have cause to celebrate as one of the most unique summer camps on the West Coast strives to make 2007 a truly spectacular summer.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Chabad brings Kabbalah to Bozeman

Bozeman Gazette News

Bozeman, MT — From its rapid rise on the popularity map just about a decade ago, the study of Kabbalah – Jewish mysticism – has remained all the rage, with Jews and non-Jews alike, from celebrities to unknowns, finding more meaning in life through ancient spiritual teachings.

And now, thanks to the Chabad Lubavitch of Montana and the Chabad Jewish Student Group at MSU, Kabbalah is coming to town.

At Albert Einstein, Med Students Explore Spirituality With Chabad

R. C. Berman – Lubavitch.com
Sara Quaytman and Dan Machleder, Albert Einstein med students who met at Chabad’s Shabbat dinner table, have plans to be married.

New York, NY — Today, more than two-thirds of medical schools in the U.S. offer courses on religion, spirituality and medicine. Tomorrow’s doctors are taught to value the prayer circle, to halt the pre-op schedule for Native American healing rituals. But who is tending to the spiritual needs of the medical students?

GILLIGAN’S ‘OY-LAND’

The New York Post

August 9, 2007 — Lost in a fog so thick and dark that they might well have been in the belly of Jonah’s whale, six Hasidic fishermen drifted off the eastern end of Long Island for 14 hours before they were finally rescued early yesterday.

More in the Extended Article.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sruly and Rivka (nee Grossman) Bryski (Crown Heights) firstborn baby girl Chana.

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

Early Morning Fire Tears Through Home

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 2:20 last night a fire broke out in the basement of a home at 1607 Carroll Street between Schenectady and Utica. FDNY arrived on scene within minutes and immediately began battling the fire, the cause of which remains under investigation, which they had subdued shortly after their arrival.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal tov to Yona Edelkopf (Jerusalem, Israel) and Devorah Leah Gerlitzky (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

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

‘Escape From Golus’ – A Big Hit!

Over 300 Shluchim from across the globe played the new game ‘Escape from Golus,’ produced by the International Moshiach Campaign. From Argentina to Australia, Poland to Belgium, and in many of the states across the U.S., the game proved to be a tremendous success.

A day of Merkos Shlichus in Hungary

By Yankel Behrman
Szekesfehervar Holocaust Memorial

To say that I enjoy visiting small Hungarian villages looking for that one lonely Jew would be a lie. Demanding, exhausting and nerve-racking would be the honest way to describe it. Even If I did find that one Jew living alone in some old eastern european house,in a village filled with the aroma of goulash and grantetush. I don’t speak Hungarian nor do they speak Hebrew, Yiddish or  English, so communication consisted of me asking are you Jewish in Broken Hungarian, showing them Tefilin and getting back on the road for another two hour drive.

Siyum Sefer Torah in the Berkshires

Berkshires, MA — Sunday night, in a huge tent behind the Chabad House, directed by Rabbi & Mrs. Levi Volovik, a Siyum Sefer Torah was held in the presence of nearly 200 people who came from far and wide to participate in the historic occasion.