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With the new school year opening up this week we urge all Drivers, Parents and Kids to watch this video, and read the safety tips!

Safety Tips: A Must for Everyone!

For Children:
• Do Not approach the bus until it comes to a full, complete stop and the door / stop sign is open.
• When you get off the bus, take five giant steps away from the bus, out of the danger zone.
• Cross in front of the bus, and make sure the bus driver can always see you.
• Never Never go back for anything.
• Never bend down near or under the bus.
• Never walk behind the bus, even when the bus is not in motion.

V’nishmartem Meod L’Nafshoseichem:                 A MUST WATCH! School Bus Safety Video

With the new school year opening up this week we urge all Drivers, Parents and Kids to watch this video, and read the safety tips!

Safety Tips: A Must for Everyone!

For Children:
• Do Not approach the bus until it comes to a full, complete stop and the door / stop sign is open.
• When you get off the bus, take five giant steps away from the bus, out of the danger zone.
• Cross in front of the bus, and make sure the bus driver can always see you.
• Never Never go back for anything.
• Never bend down near or under the bus.
• Never walk behind the bus, even when the bus is not in motion.

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New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
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 Store on Kingston Ave – Toast Baguette

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — After opening two successful restaurants outside of Crown Heights, the founder a resident of Crown Heights decided to open one for his neighbors. The new store located on Kingston Ave [between Montgomery St and Empire Blvd] specializes in salads and toasted baguettes and is known to let customers stuff thier sandwiches and salads with whatever they want. The manager said that they will have their full and extended menu ready for after Tishrei.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Crown Heights News
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Hachnosas Safer Torah amid Labor Day Preps!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A different kind of music rang through the streets of Crown Heights Sunday afternoon, amid the preparation of the West Indian Day Parade, better known as the Labor Day Parade, residents gathered and danced to Chassidishe Nigunim as they welcomed a newly completed Safer Torah.

The Safer Torah was dedicated in loving memory of R. Sholom DovBer HaCohen OBM and his wife Mrs. Yachet OBM Eichorn by their family.

More pictures and a video in the Extended Article!

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Mazal Tov! – Its a Boy!

We would like to wish a Very Hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to Shmuli and Shainy (nee Ives) Evers (Crown Heights) 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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Joe Drape - New York Times
Rabbi Abba Rubin From Saratoga Chabad joins students from Maimonides Hebrew Day School in Albany visiting Maimonides, a colt named for a Jewish philosopher. Photo - Nathaniel Brooks

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — Rabbi Israel Rubin conceded that it was an unusual field trip for his students. They were here at Barn 70 on the backside of Saratoga Race Course on Friday morning to see a trainer about a horse. The trainer was Bob Baffert, and the horse, Maimonides, was a fast one who just may capture the Kentucky Derby next May.

Sharing a Name and a Message

Joe Drape – New York Times
Rabbi Abba Rubin From Saratoga Chabad joins students from Maimonides Hebrew Day School in Albany visiting Maimonides, a colt named for a Jewish philosopher. Photo – Nathaniel Brooks

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — Rabbi Israel Rubin conceded that it was an unusual field trip for his students. They were here at Barn 70 on the backside of Saratoga Race Course on Friday morning to see a trainer about a horse. The trainer was Bob Baffert, and the horse, Maimonides, was a fast one who just may capture the Kentucky Derby next May.

Chabad News
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Mark Schantz - Suncoast News
Rabbi Shalom Adler, left, and Rabbi Levi Hodakov of Young Israel of Pinellas in Palm Harbor look over the site of the temple's new Mikveh, or ritual bath.

PALM HARBOR, FL — Observant Jews in the North Pinellas area will someday not have to travel to Tampa to participate in the centuries-old Judaic practice of ritual bathing.

Mikvah Coming to Palm Harbor Synagogue

Mark Schantz – Suncoast News
Rabbi Shalom Adler, left, and Rabbi Levi Hodakov of Young Israel of Pinellas in Palm Harbor look over the site of the temple’s new Mikveh, or ritual bath.

PALM HARBOR, FL — Observant Jews in the North Pinellas area will someday not have to travel to Tampa to participate in the centuries-old Judaic practice of ritual bathing.

Shlichus
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The JC
PERTH, WA, Australia — Jews in the Australian Outback? It sounds like a Jewish joke, right? Wrong.

Had history turned out differently, there would have been a Jewish colony in the desolate far north of Western Australia, where 75,000 Jews from Nazi Europe would have been resettled with Aborigines as neighbours.

Dubbed the “Kimberley Project”, the little-known plan was quashed by Australian prime minister John Curtin in 1944.

Operation Outback

The JC

PERTH, WA, Australia — Jews in the Australian Outback? It sounds like a Jewish joke, right? Wrong.

Had history turned out differently, there would have been a Jewish colony in the desolate far north of Western Australia, where 75,000 Jews from Nazi Europe would have been resettled with Aborigines as neighbours.

Dubbed the “Kimberley Project”, the little-known plan was quashed by Australian prime minister John Curtin in 1944.

Merkos Shlichus
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The Acorn
An artist's drawing shows what the new synagogue will look like at the Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills.

CONEJO, CA — Conejo Chabad of the Conejo invites residents to a festival and ground breaking at 11 a.m. Sun., Sept. 9 at 30345 Canwood St., Agoura Hills.

Agoura Chabad Begins Construction

The Acorn
An artist’s drawing shows what the new synagogue will look like at the Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills.

CONEJO, CA — Conejo Chabad of the Conejo invites residents to a festival and ground breaking at 11 a.m. Sun., Sept. 9 at 30345 Canwood St., Agoura Hills.

Shlichus
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The Citizen Times
Rabbi Shaya Susskind presenting Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy with a honey cake in honor of the Jewish New Year.

ASHEVILLE, NC — In an effort to ensure that every Jewish individual in Western North Carolina has a place to go for the upcoming High Holy Days, Chabad, for the first time, will be holding its Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the new Chabad Center, 660 Merrimon Ave.

Chabad of WNC Starts the Year on a High Note

The Citizen Times
Rabbi Shaya Susskind presenting Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy with a honey cake in honor of the Jewish New Year.

ASHEVILLE, NC — In an effort to ensure that every Jewish individual in Western North Carolina has a place to go for the upcoming High Holy Days, Chabad, for the first time, will be holding its Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the new Chabad Center, 660 Merrimon Ave.

Shlichus
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Kobi Nachshoni - YNet News
Illustration Photo - Fingerprint identification device

JERUSALEM, Israel — The new school year brings with it innovative (and questionable) methods of guaranteeing students' attendance as students of a Jerusalem high school found on their first day of school last week. 
 
Pupils of the Chabad movement's Beit Hannah girls' high school in Jerusalem were surprised to find upon arrival that the school had installed a biometric fingerprint identification device.

Chabad School Fingerprints Pupils

Kobi Nachshoni – YNet News
Illustration Photo – Fingerprint identification device

JERUSALEM, Israel — The new school year brings with it innovative (and questionable) methods of guaranteeing students’ attendance as students of a Jerusalem high school found on their first day of school last week. 
 
Pupils of the Chabad movement’s Beit Hannah girls’ high school in Jerusalem were surprised to find upon arrival that the school had installed a biometric fingerprint identification device.

Chabad News
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Mazal Tov! – 3 Sunday L’Chaims!

Avrohom Zolotaryov (Crown Heights) and Devorah Gotfryd (Toronto) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Yonah Heidings (Teaneck, NJ) and Devorah Reboh (Montreal) .
IYH 5 PM at the Chabad House 513 Kenwood Pl, Teaneck, NJ.

Yossi Levy (Komemiyut, Israel) and Tiferes Horvitz (Miami Beach, FL) .
IYH at 1120 NE 174th St, Miami, FL 33162.

Mazel Tov's
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Todd Venezia - NY Post
Illustration Photo - Kaporos

BROOKLYN, NY — Rabbis in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities are taking a hard look at an annual religious ceremony in which the faithful swing live chickens over their heads.

Called kapparot, the fowl-whirling event occurs each year between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur - which take place next month - and is meant to transfer the sins of the believer to the chicken, which is then sacrificed.

Fowl Ritual, Rabbis Re-Examine Chicken Swinging

Todd Venezia – NY Post
Illustration Photo – Kaporos

BROOKLYN, NY — Rabbis in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities are taking a hard look at an annual religious ceremony in which the faithful swing live chickens over their heads.

Called kapparot, the fowl-whirling event occurs each year between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur – which take place next month – and is meant to transfer the sins of the believer to the chicken, which is then sacrificed.

Jewish News
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — On Sunday starting at 4 PM there will be no parking on Eastern Pkwy and on all avenues from President St to S Johns Pl, places where you cant park are marked in red in the <%popup(20070901-no-parking-800.jpg|800|405|MAP ABOVE)%>. Tow trucks will be going around starting at 4 PM towing and relocating violators.

Alternate side parking regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended Monday. Click the Extended Article for street closures info.

Parking Regulations for Sunday and Monday

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — On Sunday starting at 4 PM there will be no parking on Eastern Pkwy and on all avenues from President St to S Johns Pl, places where you cant park are marked in red in the <%popup(20070901-no-parking-800.jpg|800|405|MAP ABOVE)%>. Tow trucks will be going around starting at 4 PM towing and relocating violators.

Alternate side parking regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended Monday. Click the Extended Article for street closures info.

PSA
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