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Rabbi Yisroel Kotlarsky, from New York City, blows on a Shofar rams horn, used to help celebrate the Jewish new year. Along with Rabbi Simcha Zajac, from Montreal.

Kelowna, BC, Canada — Chabad-Lubavitch is a Jewish organization based out of New York, whose summer program for their university students aims to connect disparate members of the Jewish community together and give them support and resources for observance in everyday life.

Spreading the Jewish Faith

Capital News
Rabbi Yisroel Kotlarsky, from New York City, blows on a Shofar rams horn, used to help celebrate the Jewish new year. Along with Rabbi Simcha Zajac, from Montreal.

Kelowna, BC, Canada — Chabad-Lubavitch is a Jewish organization based out of New York, whose summer program for their university students aims to connect disparate members of the Jewish community together and give them support and resources for observance in everyday life.

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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
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
Rabbi Kluger

Jerusalem, Israel — Last Friday afternoon the phone rang in the offices of Yad Leachim in Jerusalem. The person on the other line asked to speak to Rabbi Binyamin Kluger (a Lubavitcher Chosid who lives in Jerusalem and is part of the anti-missionary department in Yad L'achim). When Rabbi Kluger took the call the person introduced himself as Hannania C. a member of a missionary cult in “Mevaseres malchus” that is headed by Mr Shimon Nochum, who threatened Rabbi Kluger with his life.

Lubavitcher Life Threatened

Rabbi Kluger

Jerusalem, Israel — Last Friday afternoon the phone rang in the offices of Yad Leachim in Jerusalem. The person on the other line asked to speak to Rabbi Binyamin Kluger (a Lubavitcher Chosid who lives in Jerusalem and is part of the anti-missionary department in Yad L’achim). When Rabbi Kluger took the call the person introduced himself as Hannania C. a member of a missionary cult in “Mevaseres malchus” that is headed by Mr Shimon Nochum, who threatened Rabbi Kluger with his life.

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Moscow, Russia -– A meeting took place between the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and the company VMK (War Memorial Company) to widen their cooperation. While established in 1997 at the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, VMK now is comprised of 300 branches in 76 regions of Russia.

FJC Russia expands cooperation with the Russian army to assist Jewish Soldiers

Moscow, Russia -– A meeting took place between the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and the company VMK (War Memorial Company) to widen their cooperation. While established in 1997 at the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, VMK now is comprised of 300 branches in 76 regions of Russia.

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Rabbis Levi Slonim and Yitzchok Steiner from Brooklyn, N.Y.
pack the trunk of their car before they leave Boise and head
to northern Idaho on a summer-long community outreach
to Jews living in isolated areas.
Boise, ID — ‘Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps' aims to spread joy, culture.

“The Nazis hunted down Jews with utter animosity.

”The antidote to such cruelty is to search for every Jew and reach out to them with absolute and unconditional love."

Traveling Rabbis Levi Slonim and Yitzchok Steiner will be heading back to Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday after a 15-day excursion to connect with Jews in rural Idaho.

Rabbis Reach Out to Rural Jews

Rabbis Levi Slonim and Yitzchok Steiner from Brooklyn, N.Y.
pack the trunk of their car before they leave Boise and head
to northern Idaho on a summer-long community outreach
to Jews living in isolated areas.

Boise, ID — ‘Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps’ aims to spread joy, culture.

“The Nazis hunted down Jews with utter animosity.

”The antidote to such cruelty is to search for every Jew and reach out to them with absolute and unconditional love.”

Traveling Rabbis Levi Slonim and Yitzchok Steiner will be heading back to Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday after a 15-day excursion to connect with Jews in rural Idaho.

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FJC.ru
Moscow, Russia — The 'Gan Israel' Camp near Moscow has wrapped up, putting an end to the 2007 season. Over 110 youth and 20 counselors involved in this last camp bid farewell and looked forward to the upcoming school year. This year, several retreats were held this year in order to give the opportunity to attend camp from over 20 surrounding cities.

Moscow Wraps Up 2007 Jewish Camp Season

FJC.ru

Moscow, Russia — The ‘Gan Israel’ Camp near Moscow has wrapped up, putting an end to the 2007 season. Over 110 youth and 20 counselors involved in this last camp bid farewell and looked forward to the upcoming school year. This year, several retreats were held this year in order to give the opportunity to attend camp from over 20 surrounding cities.

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Xiaolin Zhao - TheDartmouth

Hanover, NH — Hillel and Chabad, the two Jewish organizations on campus, served a mass home-cooked Shabbat meal to more than 200 students and 20 professors and administrators on Friday night in Alumni Hall.

“In Judaism there’s no better way to come together than over food,” Chabad Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray said.

Hillel and Chabad team up for the Sabbath of Sabbaths

Xiaolin Zhao – TheDartmouth

Hanover, NH — Hillel and Chabad, the two Jewish organizations on campus, served a mass home-cooked Shabbat meal to more than 200 students and 20 professors and administrators on Friday night in Alumni Hall.

“In Judaism there’s no better way to come together than over food,” Chabad Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray said.

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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.

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.

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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!

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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.

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.

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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?

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