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This weeks Living Torah, titled “Head of the Resistance” (Volume 43, Episode 172).

Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org

Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

Video of the Day – the Weekly Living Torah Clip

This weeks Living Torah, titled “Head of the Resistance” (Volume 43, Episode 172).

Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org

Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

Videos
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New Engagement!

Mendy Wolff (Yerucham, EY) to Chaya Wolf (Chicago, IL)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Shayna (nee Perl) Konikov from Kingston, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Zalman Niassof (Crown Heights) Chanie Shapiro (Chicago, IL)
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)

FJC Winter Relief Campaign

At least one million people living throughout the FSU region face famine and starvation. Another 70 million people, or 1/4 th of the population, live below the poverty line.

The frigid winter months are especially difficult for these people. Keeping warm is not easy and good winter boots and clothes are expensive. Many people do not even have heat in their own homes.

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Renee Glick - Chabad.org

Friendship Circle children with special needs warm up before a friendly game of basketball sponsored by Zeta Beta Tau at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Photos: Benjamin Lapid)

LIVINGSTON, NJ — With the help of a suburban New Jersey organization that pairs children with special needs with teenage volunteers, a group of energetic athletes-in-the-making can now dribble, shoot and score. After their first exhibition game last week, they even have one win under their belts.

Teens With Special Needs Take to the Basketball Court

Renee Glick – Chabad.org

Friendship Circle children with special needs warm up before a friendly game of basketball sponsored by Zeta Beta Tau at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Photos: Benjamin Lapid)

LIVINGSTON, NJ — With the help of a suburban New Jersey organization that pairs children with special needs with teenage volunteers, a group of energetic athletes-in-the-making can now dribble, shoot and score. After their first exhibition game last week, they even have one win under their belts.

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R.C. Berman - Lubavitch.com

Rabbi Nochem, Director of the Merkos Education Office, and Dr. Ephraim Buhks, Director of Ort and members of Chabad's Merkos Division and Faculty of ORT.

BROOKLYN, NY — Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, announced the establishment of a new Jewish vocational training school in partnership with International Bramson ORT.

Chabad-Lubavitch Announces Partnership With Bramson ORT

R.C. Berman – Lubavitch.com

Rabbi Nochem, Director of the Merkos Education Office, and Dr. Ephraim Buhks, Director of Ort and members of Chabad’s Merkos Division and Faculty of ORT.

BROOKLYN, NY — Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, announced the establishment of a new Jewish vocational training school in partnership with International Bramson ORT.

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BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Infinity Productions, has announced that Mayer Rivkin has once again stepped up to the mike at the recording studio to start production of his 3rd CD recording. The new CD, titled “To Love A Fellow Jew” will feature 13 Chabad - Lubavitch and other popular Niggunim with lyrics in English, also known as “camp songs”. Many of the melodies and lyrics have over the years been composed, written and created at one of the numerous Chabad run overnight camps throughout the United States, known as Camp Gan Israel.

Production Underway for 3rd CD by Chassic Vocalist Mayer Rivkin

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Infinity Productions, has announced that Mayer Rivkin has once again stepped up to the mike at the recording studio to start production of his 3rd CD recording. The new CD, titled “To Love A Fellow Jew” will feature 13 Chabad – Lubavitch and other popular Niggunim with lyrics in English, also known as “camp songs”. Many of the melodies and lyrics have over the years been composed, written and created at one of the numerous Chabad run overnight camps throughout the United States, known as Camp Gan Israel.

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Levy Family Makes the Desert Bloom


ORACLE, AZ [CHI] — Oracle’s first-ever Tanya published in tribute to philanthropic family’s support of Shluchim youth camp in Grand Canyon State

A desert is just about the last place you’d find a wellspring. But conversely, when you do, such an oasis is all the more valuable because of its dry, hostile surroundings.

Chabad News
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Al Baker - The New York Times

NEW YORK, NY — Every new police officer in New York City will be sent onto the streets of some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods as part of a broad anticrime operation that the authorities say has helped produce historic drops in crime, the city announced on Wednesday.

Click here to download the 71st Precinct Crime Stat Sheet (PDF)

City Is Doubling Police Program to Reduce Crime

Al Baker – The New York Times

NEW YORK, NY — Every new police officer in New York City will be sent onto the streets of some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods as part of a broad anticrime operation that the authorities say has helped produce historic drops in crime, the city announced on Wednesday.

Click here to download the 71st Precinct Crime Stat Sheet (PDF)

NYC News
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Seth Mandel - The Jewish State

At the Menorah lighting ceremony outside Chabad Jewish Center Dec. 9, from left: Councilwoman Leslie Koppel-Egierd, Mayor Richard Pucci, Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky, Rabbi Moshe Herson, and Monroe Township Council President Gerald W. Tamburro.

MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ — While the hundreds of public menorah lightings in New Jersey alone this year showed the state's Jews' commitment to fulfilling their obligation to publicize the miracle of Hanukkah, the Jewish community of Monroe Township celebrated the fact that those public lightings were miracles all their own.

Video in the Extended Article!

Religious freedom is theme of Monroe Hanukkah event

Seth Mandel – The Jewish State

At the Menorah lighting ceremony outside Chabad Jewish Center Dec. 9, from left: Councilwoman Leslie Koppel-Egierd, Mayor Richard Pucci, Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky, Rabbi Moshe Herson, and Monroe Township Council President Gerald W. Tamburro.

MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ — While the hundreds of public menorah lightings in New Jersey alone this year showed the state’s Jews’ commitment to fulfilling their obligation to publicize the miracle of Hanukkah, the Jewish community of Monroe Township celebrated the fact that those public lightings were miracles all their own.

Video in the Extended Article!

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Chabad.org

Israel’s Arava wilderness bordering the Dead Sea draws millions of tourist visits annually. A new mikvah in the community of Neot Hakikar will spare women visitors – and locals – the hardship of not having the ability to ritually purify themselves.

ARAD, Israel — A new women's mikvah was unveiled about 1,378 feet below sea level at the village of Neot Hakikar just south of the Dead Sea. Built with public funding and under the direction of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yaakov Mendelzohn, the mikvah – deemed to be the lowest on earth – will also serve the neighboring community of Ein Tamar and the scattered desert hamlets in Israel's Arava region, including Ein Hazava and Ein Ofarim.

Lowest Mikvah on Earth To Serve Local Desert Communities, Vacationers

Chabad.org

Israel’s Arava wilderness bordering the Dead Sea draws millions of tourist visits annually. A new mikvah in the community of Neot Hakikar will spare women visitors – and locals – the hardship of not having the ability to ritually purify themselves.

ARAD, Israel — A new women’s mikvah was unveiled about 1,378 feet below sea level at the village of Neot Hakikar just south of the Dead Sea. Built with public funding and under the direction of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yaakov Mendelzohn, the mikvah – deemed to be the lowest on earth – will also serve the neighboring community of Ein Tamar and the scattered desert hamlets in Israel’s Arava region, including Ein Hazava and Ein Ofarim.

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Lubavitch.com

BAL HARBOUR, FL — Is Judaism’s belief in free will compatible with concepts of genetic predestination? Are there links between contemporary neuroscience and Kabbalistic concepts of consciousness? How does biblical Creation relate to evolutionary theory?

On Stem Cell and Other Matters: A Conference Explores the Torah-Science Nexus

Lubavitch.com

BAL HARBOUR, FL — Is Judaism’s belief in free will compatible with concepts of genetic predestination? Are there links between contemporary neuroscience and Kabbalistic concepts of consciousness? How does biblical Creation relate to evolutionary theory?

Shlichus

Today, Wednesday Yud Zayin Teves at 10:00 PM EST - 10:35 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 online.

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

Parsha Shiur by Rabbi Jacobson Tonight

Today, Wednesday Yud Zayin Teves at 10:00 PM EST – 10:35 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 online.

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

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Avi Webb - Chabad.org

Robin Schneiderman, right, and Chana Raizel Zaklikowski pose with their Gan Gani preschool class seven years ago.

S ANTONIO, TX — Members of south Texas' Jewish community remembered Robin Schneiderman - who died last Wednesday at the age of 62 - as a dear friend, a true inspiration and a mentor. Schneiderman, who was fondly referred to as Morah Robin - morah means teacher in Hebrew - taught the pre-K class in S. Antonio's Gan Gani Day School until two months before her passing.

Texas Community Hails Late Preschool Teacher as Mentor

Avi Webb – Chabad.org

Robin Schneiderman, right, and Chana Raizel Zaklikowski pose with their Gan Gani preschool class seven years ago.

S ANTONIO, TX — Members of south Texas’ Jewish community remembered Robin Schneiderman – who died last Wednesday at the age of 62 – as a dear friend, a true inspiration and a mentor. Schneiderman, who was fondly referred to as Morah Robin – morah means teacher in Hebrew – taught the pre-K class in S. Antonio’s Gan Gani Day School until two months before her passing.

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Mazal Tov! – 2 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!

Pinny Pink (Manchester, England) and Rochie Weinbaum (London, England) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Menachem Mendel Blecher (Melbourne, Australia) and Leah Charytan (Winnipeg, Canada) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Mazel Tov's