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Talmidei HaTmimim and Anash are cordially invited to attend a Yomiyun, a day of in depth studying and exploration of the Rebbe's torah.

It will take place, Monday, Beis Tamuz, Erev Yom Hahilulah Gimmel Tamuz at Beis-Rivkah 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Aves]. The will simultaneous Shiurim, Part One: 2 pm – 3:30 PM, Part Two: 3:45 PM – 5 PM.

The Main Session will be at 6:15 at the “Rosa Hall” - Campus Chomesh 470 Lefferts Avenue [Corner Brooklyn Ave]. There will speakers in English and Yiddish

More info and flyers in the Extended Article!

Tmimim and Anash are invited to a Yomiyun

Talmidei HaTmimim and Anash are cordially invited to attend a Yomiyun, a day of in depth studying and exploration of the Rebbe’s torah.

It will take place, Monday, Beis Tamuz, Erev Yom Hahilulah Gimmel Tamuz at Beis-Rivkah 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Aves]. The will simultaneous Shiurim, Part One: 2 pm – 3:30 PM, Part Two: 3:45 PM – 5 PM.

The Main Session will be at 6:15 at the “Rosa Hall” – Campus Chomesh 470 Lefferts Avenue [Corner Brooklyn Ave]. There will speakers in English and Yiddish

More info and flyers in the Extended Article!

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Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
The Brooklyn Paper
Rabbi Avram Chakoff will soon open a
Jewish community center in DUMBO.
Brooklyn, NY — DUMBO’s only yeshiva has closed — but there’s no Jewish Exodus going on; the yeshiva’s founders are about to open a community center nearby.

Chabad of DUMBO is remodeling a one-story building on Jay Street into a community center rather than continue operating the academy devoted solely to Torah study (which, unlike most, was co-ed).

The move is the result of continued growth of the Jewish population in DUMBO. Forelocks and black hats are becoming a normal sight in a place where goatees and black American Apparel tees are the norm.

The Chabadnik-ing of DUMBO

The Brooklyn Paper
Rabbi Avram Chakoff will soon open a
Jewish community center in DUMBO.

Brooklyn, NY — DUMBO’s only yeshiva has closed — but there’s no Jewish Exodus going on; the yeshiva’s founders are about to open a community center nearby.

Chabad of DUMBO is remodeling a one-story building on Jay Street into a community center rather than continue operating the academy devoted solely to Torah study (which, unlike most, was co-ed).

The move is the result of continued growth of the Jewish population in DUMBO. Forelocks and black hats are becoming a normal sight in a place where goatees and black American Apparel tees are the norm.

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A Still From the Live Video Feed

Now broadcasting LIVE, an ‘Evening of Tribute’ event at the Ohel featuring Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Rabbi Sholom D. Lipsker, Cantor Shneur Zalman Baumgarten and a special Video Presentation, will be broadcasted live via the Internet!

The LIVE broadcast has concluded.

Full flyer in the Extended Article

LIVE, Evening of Tribute

A Still From the Live Video Feed

Now broadcasting LIVE, an ‘Evening of Tribute’ event at the Ohel featuring Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Rabbi Sholom D. Lipsker, Cantor Shneur Zalman Baumgarten and a special Video Presentation, will be broadcasted live via the Internet!

The LIVE broadcast has concluded.

Full flyer in the Extended Article

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Mugging Turns into Vicious Beating – 2 Arrested

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A Bochur was viciously beaten last night by two Black men in an attempted mugging. The incident took place on President Street between Brooklyn and Kingston at around 10:30pm.

The two perpetrators pulled out what appeared to be a real gun and pointed at the Bochur and demanded his money, but the Bochur, who did not speak English tried to answer them and amongst the confusion the perps began to beat him.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Brooklyn, NY — A fading, barely-perceptible, magnetic signal on a 35 year-old videotape is about to give a shot in the arm to Jewish communities around the world.

Filmed on the tenth day of the Jewish month of Shevat in 1972, seven hour-long reels of a Farbrengen, public address, by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spent three-and-a-half decades in a storage box. If not for a team of archivists and producers, it might have stayed there for another 35 years.

Video of the Day – JEM restores 1970’s Farbrengen

Brooklyn, NY — A fading, barely-perceptible, magnetic signal on a 35 year-old videotape is about to give a shot in the arm to Jewish communities around the world.

Filmed on the tenth day of the Jewish month of Shevat in 1972, seven hour-long reels of a Farbrengen, public address, by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spent three-and-a-half decades in a storage box. If not for a team of archivists and producers, it might have stayed there for another 35 years.

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Please say Tehilim for Yaffa Zahava bas Sarah

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 10:15pm last night came the chilling calls for help from a patrolling Shomrim member saying that a pedestrian was struck by a bus and Hatzalah and 911 should be called. The member then began administering first aid to the victim and in attempt to stop the profuse bleeding he took his shirt off and used it.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Yiddishe Woman Critically Injured by a City Bus

Please say Tehilim for Yaffa Zahava bas Sarah

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 10:15pm last night came the chilling calls for help from a patrolling Shomrim member saying that a pedestrian was struck by a bus and Hatzalah and 911 should be called. The member then began administering first aid to the victim and in attempt to stop the profuse bleeding he took his shirt off and used it.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sruli Bard-Wigdor (Crown Heights) and Ilana Amrami (S. Paul, MN) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at the at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany ave].

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PR News Wire

Chicago, IL — TV News has covered it and Chicago's big dailies have covered it more than once. The Mayor is behind it and there are hundreds of residents who live near it who are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see it happen.

Right now, the Center for Jewish Life project is a gaping hole in the ground at the corner of Clark and Chestnut on Chicago's Gold Coast with some intricacies embedded that are not so visible to the naked eye — like the Holy infrastructures of Mivkas (ritual baths) unique to downtown Chicago.

Emergency Appeal Launched by Downtown Chabad Seeks Funds to Complete ‘Center for Life’

PR News Wire

Chicago, IL — TV News has covered it and Chicago’s big dailies have covered it more than once. The Mayor is behind it and there are hundreds of residents who live near it who are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see it happen.

Right now, the Center for Jewish Life project is a gaping hole in the ground at the corner of Clark and Chestnut on Chicago’s Gold Coast with some intricacies embedded that are not so visible to the naked eye — like the Holy infrastructures of Mivkas (ritual baths) unique to downtown Chicago.

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Chabad Rabbi Takes Award For Book on Comics

Shoshana Olidort – Lubavitch.com

Brooklyn, NY — For most of my life I’ve lived a Clark Kent existence . . . my desire to assimilate required no less.”

So begins Up Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero (Leviathan Press), a new book by Rabbi Simcha Weinstein that recently won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in independent publishing.

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Rabbi Sholom B. Kalmanson - The Jewish Press
Lately, I’ve been reading some very strange things in various Jewish media outlets about the history of kiruv (outreach) in America. I’ve had to read some of these articles several times over just to be certain my eyes weren’t deceiving me.

How can history be revised with such impunity? Anyone familiar with the development of Judaism in America knows that almost immediately after he arrived in the U.S. in March 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe proclaimed he’d come here to demonstrate that “America is not different” – that even in America one could live as a traditional Jew.

And so, as virtually his first order of business in America, the Rebbe founded the first Lubavitcher yeshiva on these shores. That very same day he also established Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad, thereby sowing the seeds of Torah-true education in America. The next day, he formally launched Chabad-Lubavitch outreach activities in the U.S.

Time To Give Chabad Its Due

Rabbi Sholom B. Kalmanson – The Jewish Press

Lately, I’ve been reading some very strange things in various Jewish media outlets about the history of kiruv (outreach) in America. I’ve had to read some of these articles several times over just to be certain my eyes weren’t deceiving me.

How can history be revised with such impunity? Anyone familiar with the development of Judaism in America knows that almost immediately after he arrived in the U.S. in March 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe proclaimed he’d come here to demonstrate that “America is not different” – that even in America one could live as a traditional Jew.

And so, as virtually his first order of business in America, the Rebbe founded the first Lubavitcher yeshiva on these shores. That very same day he also established Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad, thereby sowing the seeds of Torah-true education in America. The next day, he formally launched Chabad-Lubavitch outreach activities in the U.S.

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One sixty second phone call could save our community millions of dollars on tuition.

With just one week left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.

But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer’s office today at (800) 319 - 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them: “I’m calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill.”
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts! After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code: “I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX.”
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know. It’s a simple call, every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!

YESHIVA TUITION BREAK – PLEASE ACT NOW

One sixty second phone call could save our community millions of dollars on tuition.

With just one week left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.

But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer’s office today at (800) 319 – 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them: “I’m calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill.”
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts! After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code: “I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX.”
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know. It’s a simple call, every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!

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Boxes Teach Lessons of Charity

Four-year-old Mordechai “Motty” Slonim of Vestal puts coins into a tzedakah box. Such boxes serve as constant reminders to give to the needy.

Binghamton, NY — Family’s spare change offers help to those less fortunate

They’re boxes.

Big, little. Ornate, plain. Rectangles, ovals. Wood, metal, cardboard.

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