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In Russia, Jewish Inmate Marks Brit Mila

FJC.ru

ORENBURG, Russia — For the first time in the history of the Russian Federation’s penitentiary system, a Brit Mila ceremony took place in the Orenburg Regional Prison. This age-old Jewish tradition involved a Jewish inmate who is currently serving out a ten-year term. While this ancient tradition is becoming more commonplace among Jews across the Former Soviet Union, it is quite unique that this ritual is undergone by those serving out prison sentences.

Boruch Dayan Haemes – Mrs. Leah Chaimson OBM

With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Leah Chaimson of Emanuel, Israel, mother of Gershon Chaimson, Shevi Greenwald, and Dovi Chaimson of Crown Heights.

The levaya will be Thursday, in Israel, at Bet Almin Hayarkon at Shaar Hageulah at 6:45 pm.

They will be sitting Shiva in Yerushalayim at Rechov Elkana 15, Mishpachat Yaffa, near Shikun Chabad.

To reach Gershon call 011-972-54-656-2691.

To reach Dovi call 011-972-54-4-836-984.

Email gchaimson@gmail.com

Boruch Dayan Haemes

Mazal Tov! – 3 Thursday Night L’Chaims!

Mendy Greenfeld (Crown Heights) and Beila Weiss (Manchester, UK) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Yisroel Meir Abramson (Monsey, NY) and Shira Green (S. Diego, CA).
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Meir Simcha Rubashkin (Postville, IA) and Fraidy Schmukler (Montreal, Canada) .
IYH at 1349 President St, [bet Brooklyn and Kingston Ave].

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

Parents, Students, and Teachers gather at the Shluchim Online School’s annual Celebration

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Hand in hand with the concurrent Kinus Tzeirei Hashluchos, dozens of young Shluchos who attend The Shluchim Office’s Online School converged on Chovevei Torah’s social hall on Thursday January 24th, 2008 for a grand luncheon and class reunion, with many meeting their virtual classmates and teachers for the first time in real life.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Rabbi Sees Miracle in Dimona’s Low Casualty Figure

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

An ambulance passes by the Dimona, Israel, street corner housing the city’s Chabad House and a shopping center that was struck by a suicide bomber.

DIMONA, Israel — Rabbi Yisroel Gellis had just finished hanging a big sign over the new branch of Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona when 60 meters away, a Palestinian suicide bomber’s explosion rocked the Israeli city’s downtown shopping center and the relative calm that had descended of late on the country’s interior.

Chabad in Beijing Prepapres for ’08 Olympics With a Second Kosher Eatery

Lubavitch.com

Dini’s Kosher Restaurant in Beijing, China.

BEIJING, China — Dini’s Kosher Restaurant, the only one in China’s capital city, will open a second location in the Olympic Village in Northern Beijing in time for the 08 Olympics, Chabad representative to Beijing, Mrs. Dini Freundlich, told Lubavitch.com.

Strong-armed Carjacking of a DHL Van

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 2:15 Tuesday afternoon, a DHL delivery van was carjacked in Crown Heights. The driver was assaulted, dragged from the van, and the perpetrators fled with the van. The incident took place on Crown Street between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues behind the Medger Evers College.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Devorah Leah (nee Levitin) Brownstein (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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