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A Once Derided Jewish Ritual Now In High Vogue

B. Olidort with Dvora Lakein

BROOKLYN, NY — Back in the 1970s, women’s mikvah was something you might have heard about in hushed whispers, and then only among observant women. A private matter cloaked in discretion, if your mother didn’t teach you about it, chances are, you didn’t know anything about it. At best, you might have had some vague notions about some obsolete tradition that harked back to menstrual taboos and had more to do with personal hygiene than with anything spiritual.

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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!
New Engagement!

Zevi Rotter (Crown Heights) to Miriam Elkins (Chicago, IL) L’Chaim: Sunday, March 22nd, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Mendel Minkowitz (Montreal, Canada) to Mushka Lewis (Brighton, England)
Baby Girl!

Zalman and Bella (nee Lifshitz) Brook from Brooklyn Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya Sandhaus from Philadelphia, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Brody (Chicago, IL) to Chaya Horowitz (Canton, MA)
New Engagement!

Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg (Crown Heights) to Yocheved Wilhelm (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, 8:30pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Levi Shuchat (Kingston, PA) to Chana Raizel Rachel Banin (Venice, Italy)
New Engagement!

Sroly Goldstein (Crown Heights) to Brocha Klein (Miami, Florida) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor
New Engagement!

Shmuli Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) to Chayale Groner (Calgary, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at the JCM
It’s Twins!

Yossi and Leah Feller from Freedom, PA had twins, a boy and a girl!
Dovid Zaklikowski & Joshua Runyan - Chabad.org

A helmeted Rabbi Yossi Deren, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greenwich, Conn., helps New York Giants fan David Katz put on tefillin at a tailgating party in Roslyn, N.Y.

GREENWICH, CT — By most accounts, the New York Giants are the underdog going into Sunday's Super Bowl LXII against the undefeated New England Patriots. Their post-season history in the last two decades, and their 10-6 regular season performance this year, begs the question: “How could they possibly find themselves here?”

Fan Says He Knows the Secret of the Giants’ Success

Dovid Zaklikowski & Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

A helmeted Rabbi Yossi Deren, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greenwich, Conn., helps New York Giants fan David Katz put on tefillin at a tailgating party in Roslyn, N.Y.

GREENWICH, CT — By most accounts, the New York Giants are the underdog going into Sunday’s Super Bowl LXII against the undefeated New England Patriots. Their post-season history in the last two decades, and their 10-6 regular season performance this year, begs the question: “How could they possibly find themselves here?”

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Sharon Udasin - The Jewish Week
BOZEMAN, MT — Stocked full of kosher meat products from Iowa, an 18-wheeler lumbers across South Dakota en route to Seattle, lurching to a brief stop along Interstate 90 in central Montana. Under snow-capped mountains in Bozeman, a lone, sheitel-wearing redhead drives to a rest area on the highway, waiting for the semi to appear. When it does, she unloads what in Big Sky country is precious cargo — the kosher-certified meat and chicken that helps sustain the handful of observant Jews in this picturesque college town.

Chavie Bruk, 23, moved with her husband to Montana 10 months ago to become the first Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim (emissaries) in the state. The chasidic movement sends young men and women all over the world to make Jewish learning and traditions more accessible — even in the middle of sparsely populated Montana.

From Brooklyn To Big Sky

Sharon Udasin – The Jewish Week

BOZEMAN, MT — Stocked full of kosher meat products from Iowa, an 18-wheeler lumbers across South Dakota en route to Seattle, lurching to a brief stop along Interstate 90 in central Montana. Under snow-capped mountains in Bozeman, a lone, sheitel-wearing redhead drives to a rest area on the highway, waiting for the semi to appear. When it does, she unloads what in Big Sky country is precious cargo — the kosher-certified meat and chicken that helps sustain the handful of observant Jews in this picturesque college town.

Chavie Bruk, 23, moved with her husband to Montana 10 months ago to become the first Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim (emissaries) in the state. The chasidic movement sends young men and women all over the world to make Jewish learning and traditions more accessible — even in the middle of sparsely populated Montana.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid and Miriam (nee Silberberg) Labkowski (Shluchim to Briarcliff, NY) on the birth of a daughter.

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

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Ezzy and Michal (nee Landau) Morgenstern (Chaifa, Israel) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.

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

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Picture Description: The Rebbe at a Farbrengen Yud Shvat 1970. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.

Picture of the Day! – The Rebbe 5730

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Picture Description: The Rebbe at a Farbrengen Yud Shvat 1970. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.

Picture of the Day

So little is known about the personality of this great lady who shared the Rebbe's ... all » life. Now through first-person interviews with those who encountered the Rebbetzin, learn about the unparalleled humility and unique personality of The Rebbetzin.

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Video of the Day – “the Rebbetzin” Trailer

So little is known about the personality of this great lady who shared the Rebbe’s … all » life. Now through first-person interviews with those who encountered the Rebbetzin, learn about the unparalleled humility and unique personality of The Rebbetzin.

Order the Rebbetzin video at: JemStore.com.

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar is taking part in the World Economic Forum, January 23-27 in Davos, Switzerland.

The 38th annual World Economic Forum officially opened Wednesday evening. Among the world's leading business leaders and diplomats, guests include U.N. Secretary-General UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of Sate Condoleezza Rice, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Chief Rabbi of Russia at the World Economic Forum

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar is taking part in the World Economic Forum, January 23-27 in Davos, Switzerland.

The 38th annual World Economic Forum officially opened Wednesday evening. Among the world’s leading business leaders and diplomats, guests include U.N. Secretary-General UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of Sate Condoleezza Rice, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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