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Shomrim at the scene of an incident. Illustration Photo.

I was mugged at the Kingston Avenue subway station, just steps away from 770 and the Jewish Children's Museum. While paying for a MetroCard two black teenagers approached me, tried to divert my attention and ran off with my wallet and the money in my hand.

I ran after them screaming “Chaptzem! Chatzem!” and people in the area began to chase them, including my brother who happened to be there just then. Immediately, I called Shomrim (it's the first number listed on my cell phone - thanks to a tip from CrownHeights.info) and members responded within seconds. The Shomrim members were immediately recognizable with their caps and ID tags. They took the information from me and stayed with me the entire time to help me out. They came with me in the police car so I could try to ID the perpetrator at the scene and followed me and the cops to the station to fill out a report.

Continued in the Extended Article.

Thank You, Shomrim!

From the Inbox

Shomrim at the scene of an incident. Illustration Photo.

I was mugged at the Kingston Avenue subway station, just steps away from 770 and the Jewish Children’s Museum. While paying for a MetroCard two black teenagers approached me, tried to divert my attention and ran off with my wallet and the money in my hand.

I ran after them screaming “Chaptzem! Chatzem!” and people in the area began to chase them, including my brother who happened to be there just then. Immediately, I called Shomrim (it’s the first number listed on my cell phone – thanks to a tip from CrownHeights.info) and members responded within seconds. The Shomrim members were immediately recognizable with their caps and ID tags. They took the information from me and stayed with me the entire time to help me out. They came with me in the police car so I could try to ID the perpetrator at the scene and followed me and the cops to the station to fill out a report.

Continued in the Extended Article.

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Nathaniel Cohen (Neuilly, France) to Raquel Illouz (Paris, France)
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Leiby and Mushka Brikman from Montreal, Canada had a baby boy!
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Mendy and Chaya (nee Laber) Shepard from Albany, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Mendel Mergui (Paris, France) to Chani Galperin (Winsor, Ontario) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Rubashkins 1349 President street
New Engagement!

Arik Deren (Greenwich, CT) to Elkie Havlin (Dresden, Germany) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Sternberg (New London, CT) to Devora Lea Amar (Seine Et Marne, France) L’Chaim: Thursday, Nov. 5th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
Baby Girl!

Uriel and Mushky (nee Dubov) Hillel from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya (nee Gordon) Drizin from Los Angeles, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shmuel Helman (Brazil) to Stella Washingston (Alpharetta, GA)
New Engagement!

Doniel Preston (Edgware, UK) to Chayale Russel (Edgware, UK)
New Engagement!

Dovi Borochov (Crown Heights) to Mirel Vogel (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Binyomin Beilin (Boston, MA) Rivkah Bracha Ross (Waterbury, CT)
Baby Girl!

Menachem and Sari (Nee Gottlib) Forer from Crown Heights/Hillside had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Dovi Zaetz (Crown Heights) to Hanni Ladayov (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Levi Smith (N. Miami Beach, FL) to Chana Singer (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
Baby Girl!

Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)
Record Online

Rabbi Pesach Burston scoops out matzo ball soup Tuesday in his Monroe home during his weekly “Kabbalah and Chicken Soup” classes.
For the Times Herald-Record/MIKE RICE
MONROE, NY — Rabbi Pesach Burston was driving on Route 17M a few weeks ago with his 5-year-old son when they passed a cement truck. “Why is it turning?” his son asked about the rotating drum.

Burston told him that the cement has to keep mixing so it can remain moist.

In the Spirit: A deeper Insight into Common Life

Record Online

Rabbi Pesach Burston scoops out matzo ball soup Tuesday in his Monroe home during his weekly “Kabbalah and Chicken Soup” classes.
For the Times Herald-Record/MIKE RICE

MONROE, NY — Rabbi Pesach Burston was driving on Route 17M a few weeks ago with his 5-year-old son when they passed a cement truck. “Why is it turning?” his son asked about the rotating drum.

Burston told him that the cement has to keep mixing so it can remain moist.

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Dan Goldberg - JTA.org

Rabbi Levi Wolff gives David Wakil, a pilot who will spend the next six months flying scientists around the South Pole, a $1 bill given to him by the late Lubavitcher rebbe.

SYDNEY, Australia — When David Wakil departs for Antarctica this weekend, he will be leaving behind his girlfriend, his family and his home — but not his Judaism.

The 39-year-old Australian pilot will live in subzero temperatures for the next six months flying scientists around bases in the South Pole as they research the effects of global warming.

Pilot takes Jewish insurance to Antarctica

Dan Goldberg – JTA.org

Rabbi Levi Wolff gives David Wakil, a pilot who will spend the next six months flying scientists around the South Pole, a $1 bill given to him by the late Lubavitcher rebbe.

SYDNEY, Australia — When David Wakil departs for Antarctica this weekend, he will be leaving behind his girlfriend, his family and his home — but not his Judaism.

The 39-year-old Australian pilot will live in subzero temperatures for the next six months flying scientists around bases in the South Pole as they research the effects of global warming.

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FJC.ru
VOLGOGRAD, Russia –- This week, the Jewish community of Volgograd has been busy taking part in the Fourth National Cultural Festival 'Volgograd's Mutual Friendship'. The highlight of this event was a gala concert that took place at the city's Musical Theater. Along with presentations by a number of Jewish performing arts groups, the show also featured lively and touching routines from the other ethnic groups and diasporas represented in Volgograd, as well as ethnic songs and dances performed by local ensembles having a much broader repertoire.

Volgograd Jewish Community Shines at Multi-ethnic Festival

FJC.ru

VOLGOGRAD, Russia –- This week, the Jewish community of Volgograd has been busy taking part in the Fourth National Cultural Festival ‘Volgograd’s Mutual Friendship’. The highlight of this event was a gala concert that took place at the city’s Musical Theater. Along with presentations by a number of Jewish performing arts groups, the show also featured lively and touching routines from the other ethnic groups and diasporas represented in Volgograd, as well as ethnic songs and dances performed by local ensembles having a much broader repertoire.

Shlichus

IY“H tomorrow, Friday October 26, Yud Daled Cheshvan, there will be a rally at the Ohel for children ages 5 to 12.

The busses leave from 770 at 1:00pm and return at 3:30pm

Children should bring $3 with them.

The rally is in memory of Shlomo Aharon A”H ben Yisroel HaKohen Deren

Full Flyer in the Extended Article!

Friday – Rally at the Ohel!

IY“H tomorrow, Friday October 26, Yud Daled Cheshvan, there will be a rally at the Ohel for children ages 5 to 12.

The busses leave from 770 at 1:00pm and return at 3:30pm

Children should bring $3 with them.

The rally is in memory of Shlomo Aharon A”H ben Yisroel HaKohen Deren

Full Flyer in the Extended Article!

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by Joshua Runyan - Chabad.org

Rabbi Mendel Cohen, left, distributes chicken soup at S. Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium Tuesday night.

The number of displaced Southern Californians climbed to more than 1 million Wednesday as several wildfires continued their warlike march across the state's arid brush and forests.

Tuesday night saw some 12,000 S. Diego residents bed-in at the downtown Qualcomm Stadium, waiting for word on the fate of their homes and belongings. There to feed about 3,000 of them were Chabad-Lubavitch representatives and a team of volunteers who had driven in a mobile kitchen to supplement the relief efforts of the city's own Chabad Houses.

Los Angeles Chabad’s Food Truck Feeds Evacuees in S. Diego

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Mendel Cohen, left, distributes chicken soup at S. Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium Tuesday night.

The number of displaced Southern Californians climbed to more than 1 million Wednesday as several wildfires continued their warlike march across the state’s arid brush and forests.

Tuesday night saw some 12,000 S. Diego residents bed-in at the downtown Qualcomm Stadium, waiting for word on the fate of their homes and belongings. There to feed about 3,000 of them were Chabad-Lubavitch representatives and a team of volunteers who had driven in a mobile kitchen to supplement the relief efforts of the city’s own Chabad Houses.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – It was with great pain and sadness that we reported of the passing’s of R. Moshe Kazarnovsky OBM followed by that of his sister Mrs. Risya Posner OBM a few hours apart from each other.

This afternoon hundreds of Rabbonim, Members of Anash and Bochurim gathered along with hundreds of Beis Rivka Girls in front of 770 for both their Levaya’s.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

A Levaya for a Brother and Sister

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – It was with great pain and sadness that we reported of the passing’s of R. Moshe Kazarnovsky OBM followed by that of his sister Mrs. Risya Posner OBM a few hours apart from each other.

This afternoon hundreds of Rabbonim, Members of Anash and Bochurim gathered along with hundreds of Beis Rivka Girls in front of 770 for both their Levaya’s.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Police talking to the victim and witness.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur sitting on a bench on Eastern Parkway was assaulted early Tuesday evening. The incident took place at around 8:30pm, between Kingston and Albany Avenues, where the Bochur was sitting with another Bochur, talking when they were approached by a group of three black youths.

One of the group, described to be around 18 years old, ask one of the Bochurim for the time, the Bochur immediately sensed something wrong and stood up, that’s when the youth punched the Bochur in the face then together with his gang began fleeing down the parkway towards Albany Avenue.

Bochur Assaulted on Eastern Parkway

Police talking to the victim and witness.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur sitting on a bench on Eastern Parkway was assaulted early Tuesday evening. The incident took place at around 8:30pm, between Kingston and Albany Avenues, where the Bochur was sitting with another Bochur, talking when they were approached by a group of three black youths.

One of the group, described to be around 18 years old, ask one of the Bochurim for the time, the Bochur immediately sensed something wrong and stood up, that’s when the youth punched the Bochur in the face then together with his gang began fleeing down the parkway towards Albany Avenue.

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This weeks Living Torah, 10 Shevat 5740 - January 28, 1954 (Volume 41, Episode 163).

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, 10 Shevat 5740 – January 28, 1954 (Volume 41, Episode 163).

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

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

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Sue Fishkoff - Chabad.org

Mrs. Risya Posner OBM
Mrs. Risya Posner, who with her husband Rabbi Zalman Posner established the first Chabad-Lubavitch presence in Nashville, Tenn., died Tuesday at the age 80. An inimitable force behind Lubavitch outreach operations and techniques across the world, she was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Lubavitch parents who had immigrated from Russia. She and her husband pioneered the field of campus-based outreach, almost immediately inviting Vanderbilt University students to their home after their arrival in Nashville.

From when she was a baby until her last day in the hospital, she elicited love from those who were mere acquaintances as easily as from those who had known her for decades.

Pioneering Chabad Emissary, Mother and Grandmother Passes Away in Nashville

Sue Fishkoff – Chabad.org

Mrs. Risya Posner OBM

Mrs. Risya Posner, who with her husband Rabbi Zalman Posner established the first Chabad-Lubavitch presence in Nashville, Tenn., died Tuesday at the age 80. An inimitable force behind Lubavitch outreach operations and techniques across the world, she was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Lubavitch parents who had immigrated from Russia. She and her husband pioneered the field of campus-based outreach, almost immediately inviting Vanderbilt University students to their home after their arrival in Nashville.

From when she was a baby until her last day in the hospital, she elicited love from those who were mere acquaintances as easily as from those who had known her for decades.

Chabad News
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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shaya Zirkind (Montreal, Canada) and Esther Channa Evers (Amersfoort, Holland) on their engagement.

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

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Marissa Brostoff - Forward

David Berger
NEW YORK, NY — Rabbi David Berger, a historian who is a sharp critic of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has been appointed head of Jewish studies at Yeshiva University’s undergraduate college in a move that has ruffled some feathers on the campus.

Writing in the college’s student paper, the Commentator, Josh Shteir, a senior at the school and a co-president of the Chabad Club on campus, argued that Berger’s “intolerance” of Chabad is unacceptable at Y.U. The university is affiliated with the Modern Orthodox movement but welcomes Orthodox Jews who practice differently.

Yeshiva U Brings On Critic of Chabad

Marissa Brostoff – Forward

David Berger

NEW YORK, NY — Rabbi David Berger, a historian who is a sharp critic of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has been appointed head of Jewish studies at Yeshiva University’s undergraduate college in a move that has ruffled some feathers on the campus.

Writing in the college’s student paper, the Commentator, Josh Shteir, a senior at the school and a co-president of the Chabad Club on campus, argued that Berger’s “intolerance” of Chabad is unacceptable at Y.U. The university is affiliated with the Modern Orthodox movement but welcomes Orthodox Jews who practice differently.

Chabad News
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R. C. Berman- Lubavitch.com
Chabad representatives to Vanderbilt University, Rabbi Shlomo and Nechama Rothstein, with their son, Menachem Mendel.

NASHVILLE, TN — Of the top 20 American universities still without a Chabad-Lubavitch Campu center, only two remained. One was the private Catholic university Notre Dame.

Chabad Opens Student Center At Vanderbilt University

R. C. Berman- Lubavitch.com
Chabad representatives to Vanderbilt University, Rabbi Shlomo and Nechama Rothstein, with their son, Menachem Mendel.

NASHVILLE, TN — Of the top 20 American universities still without a Chabad-Lubavitch Campu center, only two remained. One was the private Catholic university Notre Dame.

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Ski Camp Arrives at Running Springs

Michael R. Meredith – Chabad.com

RUNNING SPRINGS, CA — As the temperature drops and snow falls on Chabad’s beautiful mountaintop campus, Camp Gan Israel Running Springs is preparing to welcome children from all over the West Coast to CGI Ski Camp. The mini winter-camp session is the perfect time for children to explore their Jewish identity, while also enjoying a wide range of winter sports and alpine activities.

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