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by Erica Noonan - The Boston Globe

NEWTON, MA — A fast-growing Orthodox Jewish community that has battled the city for nearly five years scored a major victory last week, defeating the last municipal obstacle to building a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in a residential neighborhood in Newton Highlands.

By a vote of 19 to 3, the Board of Aldermen approved Beth Menachem Chabad's plan to provide just nine parking spaces alongside its new center at 349 Dedham St., at least 60 fewer spaces than zoning rules would generally require.

Jewish Center Wins OK from City

by Erica Noonan – The Boston Globe

NEWTON, MA — A fast-growing Orthodox Jewish community that has battled the city for nearly five years scored a major victory last week, defeating the last municipal obstacle to building a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in a residential neighborhood in Newton Highlands.

By a vote of 19 to 3, the Board of Aldermen approved Beth Menachem Chabad’s plan to provide just nine parking spaces alongside its new center at 349 Dedham St., at least 60 fewer spaces than zoning rules would generally require.

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New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Ari Drizin (New Haven, CT) to Batsheva Lisbon (San Diego, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Berel Laufer (Providence, RI) to Batya Deitsch (Columbus, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Stolik (Lantana, FL) to Mussie Chanin (Har Shmuel, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Israeli Ambassador to UN Dan Gillerman Calls JLI “An Incubator For Twenty-First Century Jewish Leadership”

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — The Israeli Ambassador to the UN, The Honorable Dan Gillerman recently endorsed the JLI fall course on Israel.

“The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s course on The Land & the Spirit informs the mind and inspires the soul, a ‘must-see’ for those learning about and advocating for Israel,” he wrote in his endorsement.

An Incubator For Twenty-First Century Jewish Leadership

Israeli Ambassador to UN Dan Gillerman Calls JLI “An Incubator For Twenty-First Century Jewish Leadership”

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — The Israeli Ambassador to the UN, The Honorable Dan Gillerman recently endorsed the JLI fall course on Israel.

“The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s course on The Land & the Spirit informs the mind and inspires the soul, a ‘must-see’ for those learning about and advocating for Israel,” he wrote in his endorsement.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid and Dorith (nee Mizrachi) Blachman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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

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The New York Times
Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.

The description of the target addresses one of the central mysteries surrounding the Sept. 6 attack, and suggests that Israel carried out the raid to demonstrate its determination to snuff out even a nascent nuclear project in a neighboring state. The Bush administration was divided at the time about the wisdom of Israel’s strike, American officials said, and some senior policy makers still regard the attack as premature.

Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria

The New York Times

Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.

The description of the target addresses one of the central mysteries surrounding the Sept. 6 attack, and suggests that Israel carried out the raid to demonstrate its determination to snuff out even a nascent nuclear project in a neighboring state. The Bush administration was divided at the time about the wisdom of Israel’s strike, American officials said, and some senior policy makers still regard the attack as premature.

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by R.C. Berman - Lubavitch.com

ASHEVILLE, NC — Mayor Terry Bellamy proclaimed a “Chabad Day of Goodness and Kindness” in honor of Chabad of Western North Carolina’s inauguration of its new home on 660 Merrimon Avenue.

Beneath the bold white-on-blue Chabad House sign, the door of the new space opens into a large room where prayer services and community events will be held. An enthusiastic bunch of 150 poured in, the fresh scent of new paint and carpet still in the air, and peered into the rabbi’s office and the children’s room during the grand opening event on September 30.

Chabad Day of Goodness & Kindnesss Proclaimed in NC

by R.C. Berman – Lubavitch.com

ASHEVILLE, NC — Mayor Terry Bellamy proclaimed a “Chabad Day of Goodness and Kindness” in honor of Chabad of Western North Carolina’s inauguration of its new home on 660 Merrimon Avenue.

Beneath the bold white-on-blue Chabad House sign, the door of the new space opens into a large room where prayer services and community events will be held. An enthusiastic bunch of 150 poured in, the fresh scent of new paint and carpet still in the air, and peered into the rabbi’s office and the children’s room during the grand opening event on September 30.

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Mazal Tov! – 8 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Yossi and Mindy (nee Golowinski) Wolff.
IYH at 539 Crown St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Avraham and Deena (nee Katz) Lehr.
IYH at 852 Eastern Pkwy Apt 4C, [bet Kingston And Albany Ave]

Dovid and Chaya Lev.
IYH at Hadar HaTorah, 824 Eastern Pkwy, 2nd Flr, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Chezky and Perry (nee Grossbaum) Wolff.
IYH at 1378 Union St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Shlomie and Rochel Leah (nee Ostrov) Danzinger.
IYH at 719 Montgomery St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Levi and Fraidy (nee Kahanov) Vogel.
IYH at 10129 Haley Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32257.

Dovid and Elisa (nee Erdvin) Goldstein.
IYH at 7715 Vickijohn Dr, Houston, TX 77071.

Chanoch and Sara (nee Rosenzwieg) Nelken.
IYH at 133 Theodore Pl, Thornhill, ON, Canada

Please 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 entering the Farbrengen of Yud Aleph Nissin 1972. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum.

To see pictures from previous weeks Click Here!

Picture of the Day! – Yud Aleph Nissin 1972!

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The Rebbe entering the Farbrengen of Yud Aleph Nissin 1972. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum.

To see pictures from previous weeks Click Here!

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by Joshua Runyan - Chabad.org

The Noah’s Ark Web page features high-resolution action photographs of animals, an “Ask Noah” feature, interesting factoids about individual species and Torah lessons culled from animal behavior.

For 300 days, Noah, his family and two of every non-kosher species of animal – minus those of the sea – and seven of every kosher one occupied a three-deck ark of wood.

Just what stories did Noah tell his children to pass the time?

Internet-based “Jewish” Zoo Debuts on Chabad-Lubavitch Web Site

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

The Noah’s Ark Web page features high-resolution action photographs of animals, an “Ask Noah” feature, interesting factoids about individual species and Torah lessons culled from animal behavior.

For 300 days, Noah, his family and two of every non-kosher species of animal – minus those of the sea – and seven of every kosher one occupied a three-deck ark of wood.

Just what stories did Noah tell his children to pass the time?

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Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
A Peak Into The Human Psyche
Two nations are in your womb. Two governments will separate from inside you; the upper hand will go from one government to the other.
– Genesis 25:23

The Holy One, blessed be He, created two impulses, one good and the other evil.
– Talmud Berochot 61a

Like it or not, we are each engaged in a battle against our own set of mean genes. They are wily opponents too. Masters of the visceral, they control through satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.
– Dr.’s Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Mean Genes

Destroy man’s desire to sin, our sages tell us, and you would destroy the world.
Not that anyone needs to sin. But one who lacks the desire to sin is not a citizen of this world. And without citizens, who will effect lasting change?
– Tzvi Freeman

As a child, Reb Herschel of Krakow was once scolded by his father for not arising early for prayer service. “I can’t help it,” complained the boy. “It’s that yetzer hara of mine. It keeps telling me to turn over and go back to sleep – that it’s too early to awake.”

The Weekly Sedra – Parashas Noach – A Tale Of Two Souls

Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

A Peak Into The Human Psyche

Two nations are in your womb. Two governments will separate from inside you; the upper hand will go from one government to the other.
– Genesis 25:23

The Holy One, blessed be He, created two impulses, one good and the other evil.
– Talmud Berochot 61a

Like it or not, we are each engaged in a battle against our own set of mean genes. They are wily opponents too. Masters of the visceral, they control through satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.
– Dr.’s Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Mean Genes

Destroy man’s desire to sin, our sages tell us, and you would destroy the world.
Not that anyone needs to sin. But one who lacks the desire to sin is not a citizen of this world. And without citizens, who will effect lasting change?
– Tzvi Freeman

As a child, Reb Herschel of Krakow was once scolded by his father for not arising early for prayer service. “I can’t help it,” complained the boy. “It’s that yetzer hara of mine. It keeps telling me to turn over and go back to sleep – that it’s too early to awake.”

Something Jewish
Moshe Blotner, left, and Gideon
Magier dance during an Oct. 2
Simchat Beit Hashoeva celebration.
Photo courtesy of Yossi Wolfe
During the days when the Temple was still standing in Jerusalem, a special ceremony was performed during Sukkot. This ceremony, called Beit Hashoeva, “the place of drawing water,” involved drawing water and pouring it on the altar. The ceremony was accompanied by a celebration, which involved dancing and juggling and was called “Simchat Beit Hashoeva.”

This ceremony is discussed at length in the Talmud, says Rabbi Laibel Blotner of Chabad of Mesa, in an e-mail. “The Talmud describes the ceremony as one that the streets of Jerusalem were lit up and the greatest Rabbis would participate in singing and dancing. The festivities would last throughout the night.”

A Joyful Concert

Moshe Blotner, left, and Gideon
Magier dance during an Oct. 2
Simchat Beit Hashoeva celebration.
Photo courtesy of Yossi Wolfe

During the days when the Temple was still standing in Jerusalem, a special ceremony was performed during Sukkot. This ceremony, called Beit Hashoeva, “the place of drawing water,” involved drawing water and pouring it on the altar. The ceremony was accompanied by a celebration, which involved dancing and juggling and was called “Simchat Beit Hashoeva.”

This ceremony is discussed at length in the Talmud, says Rabbi Laibel Blotner of Chabad of Mesa, in an e-mail. “The Talmud describes the ceremony as one that the streets of Jerusalem were lit up and the greatest Rabbis would participate in singing and dancing. The festivities would last throughout the night.”

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chabad.org
In a distance typically associated with that of a marathon, a group of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva students walked more than 23 miles – closer to 24 to be exact – last week to bring an additional measure of joy to the Simchat Torah celebrations in Merrick, N.Y.

The young men, all in their late teens and early 20s, began their journey the evening of Oct. 4 at the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in Queens. They walked 12 miles to the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in the Long Island community of Merrick, arriving just before 6:30 p.m. After a little refreshment, they then set out for the town's other synagogues. At the end of the night, they returned to Queens.

Long Island Holiday Walk Totals 24 Miles for Group of Yeshiva Students

chabad.org

In a distance typically associated with that of a marathon, a group of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva students walked more than 23 miles – closer to 24 to be exact – last week to bring an additional measure of joy to the Simchat Torah celebrations in Merrick, N.Y.

The young men, all in their late teens and early 20s, began their journey the evening of Oct. 4 at the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in Queens. They walked 12 miles to the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in the Long Island community of Merrick, arriving just before 6:30 p.m. After a little refreshment, they then set out for the town’s other synagogues. At the end of the night, they returned to Queens.

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Joshua Levi and Lexi Landsman - The Austailian Jewish News

AN A-list gathering, including Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, politicians and the community gathered at the Yeshiva Centre on Wednesday morning for the announcement that Yeshiva College Bondi has been officially registered as a school by the NSW Board of Studies (BOS).

The school – which was officially accredited only hours before the formal gathering – will open in 2008 and will be the first school in Australia to teach Torah education.

Yeshiva Re-Opens With A Bang

Joshua Levi and Lexi Landsman – The Austailian Jewish News

AN A-list gathering, including Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, politicians and the community gathered at the Yeshiva Centre on Wednesday morning for the announcement that Yeshiva College Bondi has been officially registered as a school by the NSW Board of Studies (BOS).

The school – which was officially accredited only hours before the formal gathering – will open in 2008 and will be the first school in Australia to teach Torah education.

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