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DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities reportedly identified the four attackers of a Dnepropetrovsk rabbi. (As reported here).

A special unit of the Secret Service and Ministry of Interior Affairs named the assailants who severely beat Rabbi Dov-Ber Baitman, a teacher at the Jewish educational center Shiurey Torah and the anchor of the local Jewish television show “Video-HiTaS,” on Jan. 24.

During the attack after evening classes at the educational center, the suspects also shouted anti-Semitic slurs at Baitman, a Lubavitch-Chabad emissary.

Rabbi’s Attackers Identified

JTA.org

DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities reportedly identified the four attackers of a Dnepropetrovsk rabbi. (As reported here).

A special unit of the Secret Service and Ministry of Interior Affairs named the assailants who severely beat Rabbi Dov-Ber Baitman, a teacher at the Jewish educational center Shiurey Torah and the anchor of the local Jewish television show “Video-HiTaS,” on Jan. 24.

During the attack after evening classes at the educational center, the suspects also shouted anti-Semitic slurs at Baitman, a Lubavitch-Chabad emissary.

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New Engagement!

Mendel Lustig (New Haven, CT) to Basie Zalmanov (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Aryeh Wuensch (Crown Heights) to Rochele Liberow (Barranquilla, Colombia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at La Sala 1345 President St
Baby Girl!

Sholom Ber and Simi Stiefel from Arcadia, CA had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Lippy Baumgarten (Rockaway, NJ) to Chana Rivkin (New Orleans, LA)
New Engagement!

Meir Levy (Crown Heights) to Rashi Rubashkin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, April 15th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Hecht (Stores, CT) to Aidela Zirkind (Toronto, Canada)
Baby Girl!

Tuvya and Shaina (nee Goldstein) Gewirtz from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

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Baby Boy!

R’ Dovber and Lulu (nee Kievman) Koncepolski from Irvine, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Dov Werner (Five Towns, NY) to Mushka Miriam Weingarten (Kingston, PA)
New Engagement!

Shmuli Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) to Chayle Groner (Calgary, Canada)
New Engagement!

Chaya Saacks (Crown Heights) to Shmuli Brecher (Boro Park)
New Engagement!

Mendel Goodman (Manchester UK) to Maayan Ochman (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
New Engagement!

Shaya Lipsh (Brooklyn, NY) to Devori Golomb (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana
New Engagement!

Motty Segall (Miami, FL) to Bryna Etel Kosofsky (Longmeadow, MA)
New Engagement!

Simcha Vogel (London, UK) to Mussa Junik (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Brook (Brooklyn, NY) to Nechama Leah Greenberg (Solon, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shneur Zalman and Yehudis Futerfas from Dnipro, Ukraine had a baby boy!
Joshua Runyan - Chabad.org

At the urging of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Bluming, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pledged to do good deeds in memory of slain student Eve Carson. They tacked their resolutions on a wall. (Photo: NC Hillel)

CHAPEL HILL, NC — Grief-stricken students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill united last week in pledging good deeds to honor the life of slain student body president Eve Carson.

UNC Student Remembered as Force for Campus Unity

Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

At the urging of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Bluming, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pledged to do good deeds in memory of slain student Eve Carson. They tacked their resolutions on a wall. (Photo: NC Hillel)

CHAPEL HILL, NC — Grief-stricken students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill united last week in pledging good deeds to honor the life of slain student body president Eve Carson.

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PORT WASHINGTON, NY [CHI] — Purim Celebrations will take on a new dimension this year as a unique Purim event will be held at the Nassau Coliseum on Tuesday, March 18. As a sequel to the exciting pre-Chanukah Celebration with the NY Islanders, the team has once again invited Chabad to bring the joy of the holiday to their fans.

Passing the Puck for Purim

PORT WASHINGTON, NY [CHI] — Purim Celebrations will take on a new dimension this year as a unique Purim event will be held at the Nassau Coliseum on Tuesday, March 18. As a sequel to the exciting pre-Chanukah Celebration with the NY Islanders, the team has once again invited Chabad to bring the joy of the holiday to their fans.

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Lubavitch.com

TOKYO, Japan — Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan announced a happy end to its long search for a new building. “After years of looking, we found a beautiful 400 square meter building that will serve as the Chabad Jewish Center Japan,” said Rabbi Mendi Sudakevitch, Chabad representative with his wife, Chana.

A New Building for Chabad in Tokyo

Lubavitch.com

TOKYO, Japan — Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan announced a happy end to its long search for a new building. “After years of looking, we found a beautiful 400 square meter building that will serve as the Chabad Jewish Center Japan,” said Rabbi Mendi Sudakevitch, Chabad representative with his wife, Chana.

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Early Morning Accident on Empire and Troy

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An early morning collision between a Car Service and a delivery vehicle sent both drivers to the hospital. The incident took place a few feet from the intersection of Empire Boulevard and Troy Avenue at around 4:30am.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Sima (nee Stein) Susskind (Brooklyn, NY) on the birth of their baby girl.

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

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Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Israel has to be very concerned about its security, CBS2’s Lou Young said his Hebrew is as good as his Arabic and the JCM's Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson needs 5 million dollars!

Full coverage of the dinner will follow shortly!

Interviews at the JCM’s Dinner

Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Israel has to be very concerned about its security, CBS2’s Lou Young said his Hebrew is as good as his Arabic and the JCM’s Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson needs 5 million dollars!

Full coverage of the dinner will follow shortly!

Videos
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NY Times Feature: The City Visible – In the Land of Black Coats

Gianni Cipriano – The New York Times

If you had walked into Congregation Khal Chasidim on 49th Street and 15th Avenue on a recent Sunday evening, you would have seen a Jewish bride receiving her women attendants before her wedding. An hour later, thousands of people milled outside the synagogue, near the platform on which the wedding was taking place. Photo: Gianni Cipriano

BROOKLYN, NY — Take the D train to 55th Street in central Brooklyn, and you feel as if you have set foot in a different world.

The station sits at the junction of New Utrecht Avenue, 13th Avenue and 55th Street in the heart of Borough Park, home to a quarter-million Orthodox Jews, one of the largest concentrations of Jews outside Israel. To travel to Borough Park is to journey through both space and time.

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Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Rabbi Yehuda Butman, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ramat Hasharon, Israel, prepares to deliver food to the city's Holocaust survivors.

PAMAT HASHARON, Israel — Gali Yacoby didn't have the typical birthday party this year. Instead of presents, her second-grade classmates brought cans of tuna, sardines, oatmeal, tea, coffee, soup mixes and jelly. And the items weren't even for the birthday girl.

Israeli Second Grader Celebrates Birthday With Food Drive

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Yehuda Butman, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ramat Hasharon, Israel, prepares to deliver food to the city’s Holocaust survivors.

PAMAT HASHARON, Israel — Gali Yacoby didn’t have the typical birthday party this year. Instead of presents, her second-grade classmates brought cans of tuna, sardines, oatmeal, tea, coffee, soup mixes and jelly. And the items weren’t even for the birthday girl.

Chabad News

Mazal Tov! – 3 Monday Night L’Chaims!

Shmuly Rosenfeld (Crown Heights) and Chani Fellig (Argentina) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave].

Zalman Friedman (Brooklyn, NY) and Chaya Sima Goldstein (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave].

Yerachmiel Roma Binder (Tel Aviv) and Liza Leah Kirilov (Toronto, Canada) .
IYH at Hadar Hatorah, 824 Eastern Pkwy, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info!

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Around 100 students from the Yeshiva University spent this past Shabbos in Crown Heights as part of a special Shabbaton arranged by Bochurim. The students stayed at families in the neighborhood.

Motzai Shabbos the students had a Seudas Melava Malka in Oholei Torah where Yossi Piamenta and his band performed for them, and together with the Yeshiva Bochurim they danced into the night.

Video of the Day! YU Dances in OT!

Around 100 students from the Yeshiva University spent this past Shabbos in Crown Heights as part of a special Shabbaton arranged by Bochurim. The students stayed at families in the neighborhood.

Motzai Shabbos the students had a Seudas Melava Malka in Oholei Torah where Yossi Piamenta and his band performed for them, and together with the Yeshiva Bochurim they danced into the night.

Videos
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by Rabbi Shea Hecht
I was sitting at the smorgasbord of a wedding the other day.

I can’t say I knew either side very well, but I helped raise money for the wedding so I thought it was only right for me to show up and wish the family Mazal Tov.

I turned to the person next to me and asked him who he was related to at this wedding. To which he answered, “Neither side, I just helped out here with money so they can afford the wedding and I felt I wanted to come and say Mazal Tov.”

It then dawned on me that many people that have Parnassah still need additional help to make a wedding.

Op-Ed: What We Can Learn from Satmar

by Rabbi Shea Hecht

I was sitting at the smorgasbord of a wedding the other day.

I can’t say I knew either side very well, but I helped raise money for the wedding so I thought it was only right for me to show up and wish the family Mazal Tov.

I turned to the person next to me and asked him who he was related to at this wedding. To which he answered, “Neither side, I just helped out here with money so they can afford the wedding and I felt I wanted to come and say Mazal Tov.”

It then dawned on me that many people that have Parnassah still need additional help to make a wedding.

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An Excerpt from the 2002 film by Jewish Educational Media, “Pioneers.”

The story of Chabad Chassidic settlement in the Holy Land from the 1700’s, and the broad frontiers of today’s Chabad.

Available at http://JemStore.com

The Torah Response to an act of Terrorism

An Excerpt from the 2002 film by Jewish Educational Media, “Pioneers.”

The story of Chabad Chassidic settlement in the Holy Land from the 1700’s, and the broad frontiers of today’s Chabad.

Available at http://JemStore.com

Videos
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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman (ben R Yehuda) Friedman (Brooklyn, NY) and Chaya Sima (bas R Levi) Goldstein (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

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

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