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Ventura County Star
Search teams found the body of Anatoly (Naftoli) Smolyansky in Lake Piru on Monday, a week after he jumped into the water after his daughter and drowned.

Smolyansky, 39, of Los Angeles, and his family were in a boat on Lake Piru on the evening of Aug. 25 when his 5-year-old daughter fell overboard. Witnesses said he jumped in to rescue her and sank into the water as he was pushing her back toward the boat. He was presumed dead shortly afterward.

Man’s Body Found After 1-week Search

Ventura County Star

Search teams found the body of Anatoly (Naftoli) Smolyansky in Lake Piru on Monday, a week after he jumped into the water after his daughter and drowned.

Smolyansky, 39, of Los Angeles, and his family were in a boat on Lake Piru on the evening of Aug. 25 when his 5-year-old daughter fell overboard. Witnesses said he jumped in to rescue her and sank into the water as he was pushing her back toward the boat. He was presumed dead shortly afterward.

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Mendel and Esther (nee Fajnland) Scharf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Aharon and Rivka (nee Felberman) Simon from Dallas, TX had a baby boy!
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Chaim and Chaya Pape from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Levi and Miri Tenenbaum from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Yisroel and Chanie Mogilevsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Moshe and Sarah Spalter from Lake Forest, IL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Itshak Cohen (Versailles, France) to Hanni Sitruk (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Meir Yabra (Crown Heights) to Chaya Spritzer (Monroe Township, NJ) L’Chaim: Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 8:30pm at The Shull 481 Albany Ave
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David and Elka (nee Boymelgreen) New from Miami, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Mechy and Dini (nee Riechman) Weiss from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Srulik Perlman (Canadensis, PA) to Shoshi Wertheimer (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at the JCM Upper Level
New Engagement!

Mendel Kopf (Nice, France) to Haya Touitou (Yerres,France)
New Engagament!

Levi Sudak (Edgware, UK) to Muka Sandhaus (Thornhill, Ontario) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana
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Dovid Dworcan (Montreal, Canada) to Mushka Lieberman (West Hempstead, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at The JCM Upper Level
New Engagement!

Yisroel Meir Kasowitz (Lauderhill/Hollywood, FL) to Sima Steifel (Longmeadow, MA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 6:00pm at Rubashkin’s Upstairs
Baby Girl!

Yisroel Noach and Slava Blank from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Shmully and Dina Hecht from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Record
“In three hours, everybody’s gone.”
Members of a Hasidic family pack their
minivan to leave Sullivan County.
WOODBOURNE, NY — Bakery workers scraped mounds of poppy seeds into trash bins.

Fathers strapped luggage and toys to the roofs of minivans. Mothers were too busy hosing off chairs and folding the last of the laundry to talk about the exodus.

This scene has repeated for decades now. The day before Labor Day, Sullivan County's Hasidic Jewish communities pack up and vanish. Shops close, bungalows empty, summer ends. Many return to the bustle of Brooklyn.

“It's unbelievable,” bakery owner Levi Gombo said. “In three hours, everybody's gone.”

Hasidim Make Annual Exodus from Sullivan County

Record
“In three hours, everybody’s gone.”
Members of a Hasidic family pack their
minivan to leave Sullivan County.

WOODBOURNE, NY — Bakery workers scraped mounds of poppy seeds into trash bins.

Fathers strapped luggage and toys to the roofs of minivans. Mothers were too busy hosing off chairs and folding the last of the laundry to talk about the exodus.

This scene has repeated for decades now. The day before Labor Day, Sullivan County’s Hasidic Jewish communities pack up and vanish. Shops close, bungalows empty, summer ends. Many return to the bustle of Brooklyn.

“It’s unbelievable,” bakery owner Levi Gombo said. “In three hours, everybody’s gone.”

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NEWS8
Take a walk on the drag and it's fairly obvious that with the throng of students that school is back in session at the University of Texas.

Tables lined the sidewalks Wednesday, featuring different clubs and organizations all encouraging the students to get involved.

It all might be a little intimidating for incoming freshman but that's not the intention.

Rabbi Zev Johnson with the Chabad Jewish student organization said the plethora of organizations offer students the opportunity for self-expression.

Student Organizations Galore on First Day of Classes

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Take a walk on the drag and it’s fairly obvious that with the throng of students that school is back in session at the University of Texas.

Tables lined the sidewalks Wednesday, featuring different clubs and organizations all encouraging the students to get involved.

It all might be a little intimidating for incoming freshman but that’s not the intention.

Rabbi Zev Johnson with the Chabad Jewish student organization said the plethora of organizations offer students the opportunity for self-expression.

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Presenting a series on Eilu Metzios and Hamafkid specially designed to help fathers know the material that their sons will be learning in yeshivah. Your involvement will help your child excel in school.

Full flyer in the Extended Article.

Can you Help your Child?

Presenting a series on Eilu Metzios and Hamafkid specially designed to help fathers know the material that their sons will be learning in yeshivah. Your involvement will help your child excel in school.

Full flyer in the Extended Article.

PSA
NY Post
Detectives fear a serial predator is stalking Borough Park, and are frustrated by the lack of cooperation they're getting from one victim's family, The Post has learned.

The Hasidic family of a 14-year-old girl assaulted on Aug. 3 is not helping detectives hunting her attacker, according to a police source familiar with the investigation.

“The detectives have hit a stone wall right now,” the source said. “Beyond a basic interview, they are not getting any cooperation.”

Shiduch Fears Hinder Search for Sicko Predator

NY Post

Detectives fear a serial predator is stalking Borough Park, and are frustrated by the lack of cooperation they’re getting from one victim’s family, The Post has learned.

The Hasidic family of a 14-year-old girl assaulted on Aug. 3 is not helping detectives hunting her attacker, according to a police source familiar with the investigation.

“The detectives have hit a stone wall right now,” the source said. “Beyond a basic interview, they are not getting any cooperation.”

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Parking Regulations for Sunday and Monday

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Due to Labor Day and the West Indian Day Parade there are a slew of driving and parking regulation changes in Crown Heights.

On Sunday starting at 4:00pm there will be no parking on Eastern Parkway and on all avenues from President Street to S. Johns Place, places where you cant park are marked in red in the <%popup(2/20070901-no-parking-800.jpg|800|405|MAP ABOVE)%>. Tow trucks will be going around starting at 4:00pm towing and relocating vehicles. You will be allowed to park there once again on Tuesday at 6:00am.

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

The best time to leave Crown Heights on Monday morning would be before 9:00am and the best return time would be after 9:00pm.

More info in the Extended Article.

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3 Bochurim Assaulted, the Perps Arrested

MONTICELLO, NY [CHI] — Three perpetrators were arrested following the beating of Lubavitcher Bochurim. Charged were William Harrison, 18, of Livingston Manor, Sean Gadsen, 16, of Youngsville, and Matthew Alcivar, 17, of Queens, and all three were charged with second-degree assault as a hate crime, gang assault in the second degree, aggravated harassment and disorderly conduct, they were arraigned and remanded to the Sullivan County Jail without bail.

The incident took place on last week on Thursday night, beginning inside the Monticello Wal-Mart where the two groups first came into contact where racial slurs and taunts were shouted at the Bochurim, then in the parking lot into a assault where one of the Bochurim sustained fractures to his face.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Chabad-Lubavitch of the Florida Keys plans to unveil this structure as a new synagogue in time for Rosh Hashanah.

As residents of Key West, Fla., Rabbi Yaakov and Chanie Zucker have seen their share of hurricanes and bear a healthy respect for them. But while they – like the thousands of others on the Florida Keys – kept their eyes to the skies last week as Tropical Storm Fay dumped inches of rain on the archipelago, they noted that it was a hurricane three years ago that ushered in a process of Divine Providence that left their Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of the Florida Keys with a brand new building.

Florida Building Left Stranded by Hurricane to Become a Synagogue

Chabad-Lubavitch of the Florida Keys plans to unveil this structure as a new synagogue in time for Rosh Hashanah.

As residents of Key West, Fla., Rabbi Yaakov and Chanie Zucker have seen their share of hurricanes and bear a healthy respect for them. But while they – like the thousands of others on the Florida Keys – kept their eyes to the skies last week as Tropical Storm Fay dumped inches of rain on the archipelago, they noted that it was a hurricane three years ago that ushered in a process of Divine Providence that left their Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of the Florida Keys with a brand new building.

Shlichus
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The London home of the Lubavitch Senior Girls School (Photo: Osher Litzman)

The results of the United Kingdom’s national examinations popularly known as the A-levels are in, and a Chabad-Lubavitch high school in London is reporting that its students once again scored record marks.

London School Earns More High Marks in National Exams

The London home of the Lubavitch Senior Girls School (Photo: Osher Litzman)

The results of the United Kingdom’s national examinations popularly known as the A-levels are in, and a Chabad-Lubavitch high school in London is reporting that its students once again scored record marks.

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Mazal Tov! – 7 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Chaim and Chani Miller.
IYH at 1511 Union St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Casey and Devorah (nee Klein) Mahr (Postville, IA) .
IYH at 326 Lull St Postville, IA 52162

Sholom and Sarah Rubashkin
IYH at 326 Lull St Postville, IA 52162

Avrohom Yitzchok and Fruma (nee Friedman) Perlstein (Shluchim to Salem, OR) .

Naftali and Henya Hertzel
IYH at 19849 Villa Medici Pl. Boca Raton, FL 33434

Nosson and Bassie Gurary.
IYH at 4464 Alamo St, Simi Valley, CA 93063.

Chaim Hilel and Chaya (nee Klein) Matusof (Shluchim to Toulouse, France) .

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.

Mazel Tov's
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
When Robert A. Rockaway, a recognized authority on Jewish-American history, decided to chronicle the story of the Jewish mob, he sought out Jewish old-timers, their family and friends, in order to gather information on this less than reputable element.

Rockaway even interviewed his own mother, who, a native of Detroit, Michigan, knew some friends and family members of the nefarious subjects of his research.

Once, while talking to his mother about the reprehensible conduct of a particular mobster, his mother stopped him short in his tracks: “All that you say may be fine and good, no one said the guy was a saint. Between you and me, he was known to have made a few people disappear… But you shouldn’t rush to judgment. Don’t forget that he was always kind to his mother! Does that count for nothing? Trust me; the man was a real Mentch!”

The Weekly Sedra – Re’eh – A Vote Against “Change”

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

When Robert A. Rockaway, a recognized authority on Jewish-American history, decided to chronicle the story of the Jewish mob, he sought out Jewish old-timers, their family and friends, in order to gather information on this less than reputable element.

Rockaway even interviewed his own mother, who, a native of Detroit, Michigan, knew some friends and family members of the nefarious subjects of his research.

Once, while talking to his mother about the reprehensible conduct of a particular mobster, his mother stopped him short in his tracks: “All that you say may be fine and good, no one said the guy was a saint. Between you and me, he was known to have made a few people disappear… But you shouldn’t rush to judgment. Don’t forget that he was always kind to his mother! Does that count for nothing? Trust me; the man was a real Mentch!”

Something Jewish
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The following article appeared yesterday in the Village Voice, a widespread NYC newspaper. The article takes focus on 'Lubavitch's Mainstream Missanics' with Mrs. Sara Kanevsky and her wacky antics as the center stage for this article, detailing her and her groups fast day celebration meals, belly dance classes and nightly dancing to 'traditional Yiddish hymns set to techno music'. Our pride and glory or embarrassment and shame? You be the judge.

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers
Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions


Sara Kanevsky, a woman in ecstasy

Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the night.

But you should see his ride. When he's not ensconced in 770 Eastern Parkway, the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch universe, the 26-year-old Israeli and his crew drive around in a blinged-out Cadillac, a regular kandy-kolored streamline baby. Oy vey.

Massive Chilul Hashem, or Kidush Hashem?

The following article appeared yesterday in the Village Voice, a widespread NYC newspaper. The article takes focus on ‘Lubavitch’s Mainstream Missanics’ with Mrs. Sara Kanevsky and her wacky antics as the center stage for this article, detailing her and her groups fast day celebration meals, belly dance classes and nightly dancing to ‘traditional Yiddish hymns set to techno music‘. Our pride and glory or embarrassment and shame? You be the judge.

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers
Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions

Sara Kanevsky, a woman in ecstasy

Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the night.

But you should see his ride. When he’s not ensconced in 770 Eastern Parkway, the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch universe, the 26-year-old Israeli and his crew drive around in a blinged-out Cadillac, a regular kandy-kolored streamline baby. Oy vey.

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Anti-Semitic Graffiti found on road in S. Fallsburg

Record Online

SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY — Fallsburg police removed anti-Semitic graffiti on Wednesday on a road in South Fallsburg.

Police found swastikas and nooses drawn on Westwood Drive near summer bungalows where orthodox Jews vacation.

“It was just somebody venting,” Chief Simmie Williams said. But Rabbi Yakov Barros said the matter should be investigated fully.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Upstate News
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