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Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Dean Teremforush, who lost his mother in a terrorist attack five years ago, holds a Torah scroll at the Western Wall after his bar mitzvah, which was organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project.

JERUSALEM, Israel — Flanked by his father and siblings, Dean Teremforush, 13, proudly read from the Torah in front of Jerusalem's Western Wall. Conspicuously absent, however, from the bar mitzvah service ñ one of several arranged in the last few weeks by the Chabad Terror Victims Project ñ was the boy's mother, who perished five years ago in a terrorist attack southeast of Tel Aviv.

Terror Victim’s Son Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at Western Wall

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Dean Teremforush, who lost his mother in a terrorist attack five years ago, holds a Torah scroll at the Western Wall after his bar mitzvah, which was organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project.

JERUSALEM, Israel — Flanked by his father and siblings, Dean Teremforush, 13, proudly read from the Torah in front of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Conspicuously absent, however, from the bar mitzvah service ñ one of several arranged in the last few weeks by the Chabad Terror Victims Project ñ was the boy’s mother, who perished five years ago in a terrorist attack southeast of Tel Aviv.

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Mazal Tov's View More
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!
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!

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel (ben R Yosef) Altein (Crown Heights) and Esty Rudski (Montreal Canada) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Thursday at FREE, 1383 President St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Mazel Tov's
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Night Long Search Ends – Missing B”H Found

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn [CHI] — At 11:00pm last night the Williamsburg’s Shomrim Hotline received a call for a person that had been missing since 10:00am. The missing, 61 year old Berel Lerner, who has a mental history, didn’t show up to the Petach Tikvah Yeshiva.

Williamsburg Shomrim members began canvassing the area and later called the Crown Heights Shomrim Division for more manpower and together they searched into the night.

More in the Extended Article!

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Two Cars Collide on Empire and Brooklyn

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two cars collided earlier today in the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Empire Boulevard. The incident took place at around 12:00pm where a Chevy Malibu was traveling down Brooklyn and collided with a Chevy Avalanche who was driving along Empire.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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The Star-Ledger

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with the damage done to nearly 500 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in New Brunswick, a rabbi from one of the two synagogues that uses the cemetery said today.

Rabbi David Bassous of Congregation Etz Ahaim in Highland Park said he met with officials from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan's office today and was told the juveniles, ages 15 to 17, had been arrested for causing the damage at Poile Zedek cemetery.

Four Teens Arrested in Cemetery Vandalism

The Star-Ledger

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with the damage done to nearly 500 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in New Brunswick, a rabbi from one of the two synagogues that uses the cemetery said today.

Rabbi David Bassous of Congregation Etz Ahaim in Highland Park said he met with officials from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan’s office today and was told the juveniles, ages 15 to 17, had been arrested for causing the damage at Poile Zedek cemetery.

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Crown Heights dad reaches out to Max Rosenbaum’s family over death

NY Daily News

Max Rosenbaum OBM

NEW YORK, NY — They were two fathers caught up in the storm of the 1991 Crown Heights riots – one black, the other white – who bonded over the shared grief of losing their sons.

Carmel Cato and Max Rosenbaum reached out to each other in their darkest hour to heal a borough split along racial lines.

Cato, 56, reached out again to Rosenbaum’s family Tuesday, placing a long distance call to Australia to express condolences over his old friend’s death.

Crown Heights News
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Chabad of Greater Boynton To Expand and Open New Satellite Chabad Centers

Jill Shayna Brody – Lubavitch.com

Rabbi Sholom and Dini Ciment. (photo: Susan L. Friend for Lubavitch.com)

BOYNTON BEACH, FL — A demographic survey commissioned by the Jewish Federation recently established Boynton Beach as the fastest growing Jewish community in the country, and the most densely populated Jewish area outside of Israel. In 1987, there were 9,300 Jews in Boynton Beach. The survey taken in 2005 reported a whopping 58,000, and most recently demographer Dr. Ira Sheskin estimated the Jewish population in the Greater Boynton area at 86,000.

Chabad News
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With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Friedman of Borough Park. He is survived by his wife Yibadlu Lechaim Tovim Leah Friedman.

The family will be sitting Shiva at 698 Empire Blvd, [between Albany and Troy Ave].

Condolences can be emailed to mrosenfeld@maimonidesmed.org or call 718-778-1947

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Boruch Dayan HaEmes – R. M.M. Friedman OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Friedman of Borough Park. He is survived by his wife Yibadlu Lechaim Tovim Leah Friedman.

The family will be sitting Shiva at 698 Empire Blvd, [between Albany and Troy Ave].

Condolences can be emailed to mrosenfeld@maimonidesmed.org or call 718-778-1947

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Notices

Photo edited to remove the obscenity.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This morning a Crown Heights resident was shocked to find two tires on her car slashed in addition to an obscenity scratched into the paint on the driver’s side door, the car was parked on Kingston Avenue between East New York and Lefferts Avenue.

The incident if following a road incident near her home where another driver claimed that she had struck his vehicle and demanded she pay him, police were called to the scene and determined that there is no grounds to his claim, and that there was no collision. The driver began yelling at cops and then drove off.

More in the Extended Article.

Two Cars Vandalized Following Road Disputes

Photo edited to remove the obscenity.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This morning a Crown Heights resident was shocked to find two tires on her car slashed in addition to an obscenity scratched into the paint on the driver’s side door, the car was parked on Kingston Avenue between East New York and Lefferts Avenue.

The incident if following a road incident near her home where another driver claimed that she had struck his vehicle and demanded she pay him, police were called to the scene and determined that there is no grounds to his claim, and that there was no collision. The driver began yelling at cops and then drove off.

More in the Extended Article.

Crime
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Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Rabbi Tzvi Lipinsky helps Georgia native
Mitchell Kaye put on tefillin at the 11th
Pan-American Maccabean Games in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The series of Maccabi games that annually span the globe aim to highlight more than just Jewish athleticism: They're in the business of reinforcing Jewish pride. No where was that mission more apparent than in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, as a team of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students cooperated with the 11th Pan-American Maccabean Games to help contestants, their families, friends and fans embrace their Jewish heritage.

From the moment the more than 5,000 Jewish athletes arrived in the South American capital city, they availed themselves of a host of Jewish-enrichment activities, from putting on tefillin to posing questions to any number of the 20 rabbinical students who fanned out among the venues and mobilized a “mitzvah tank.” They even could munch on strictly kosher food supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch of Argentina.

Argentine Jewish Community Welcomed Thousands for Athletic Games

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Tzvi Lipinsky helps Georgia native
Mitchell Kaye put on tefillin at the 11th
Pan-American Maccabean Games in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The series of Maccabi games that annually span the globe aim to highlight more than just Jewish athleticism: They’re in the business of reinforcing Jewish pride. No where was that mission more apparent than in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, as a team of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students cooperated with the 11th Pan-American Maccabean Games to help contestants, their families, friends and fans embrace their Jewish heritage.

From the moment the more than 5,000 Jewish athletes arrived in the South American capital city, they availed themselves of a host of Jewish-enrichment activities, from putting on tefillin to posing questions to any number of the 20 rabbinical students who fanned out among the venues and mobilized a “mitzvah tank.” They even could munch on strictly kosher food supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch of Argentina.

Shlichus

Today, Wednesday, Beis Shevat at 10:00 PM EST, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha. There will also be a live Q+A following the shiur, email your questions to weeklylearning@gmail.com during the shiur.

Click here to watch this weeks Shiur LIVE at 10 PM.

Or you can call 785-686-2400 Access code: 770770#

Parsha Shiur by Rabbi Jacobson Tonight

Today, Wednesday, Beis Shevat at 10:00 PM EST, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha. There will also be a live Q+A following the shiur, email your questions to weeklylearning@gmail.com during the shiur.

Click here to watch this weeks Shiur LIVE at 10 PM.

Or you can call 785-686-2400 Access code: 770770#

PSA
Text from NY1. Photos by Webby - CrownHeights.info

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — At least 14 people, including a bus driver, were injured this morning when two city buses collided in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn this morning.

Police say a B-44 bus was about to go through the intersection of Empire Boulevard and New York Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when it clipped another B-44 bus from behind. The first bus then veered across the intersection and knocked over a traffic light.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Three City Buses Involved In Accidents

Text from NY1. Photos by Webby – CrownHeights.info

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — At least 14 people, including a bus driver, were injured this morning when two city buses collided in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn this morning.

Police say a B-44 bus was about to go through the intersection of Empire Boulevard and New York Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when it clipped another B-44 bus from behind. The first bus then veered across the intersection and knocked over a traffic light.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Accidents
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