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At the headquarters of the International Tanya Campaign for Children in Israel and the United States preparations for the academic school year 2007-2008 are accelerating.

At this time of year the schools are focusing on preparing the curriculum for the new semester and it has been reported that there is a major interest for students to participate in the Tanya program.

Chabad Schools Worldwide: Now Is The Time To Join!

At the headquarters of the International Tanya Campaign for Children in Israel and the United States preparations for the academic school year 2007-2008 are accelerating.

At this time of year the schools are focusing on preparing the curriculum for the new semester and it has been reported that there is a major interest for students to participate in the Tanya program.

Notices
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New Engagement!

Menachem Junik (Crown Heights) to Faigy Lieberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Motzei Shabbos, 9:15pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
Baby Boy!

Zalman and Brocho Friedman from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 860 Eastern Parkway, 2nd Floor
Baby Boy!

Eli and Chava Hecht from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Serebryanski (Melbourne, Australia) to Mussie Shemtov (West Bloomfield, MI)
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Zeldie Laufer from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Tomer Ward (Victorville, CA) to Gimel Bentes (Brazil) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at The Lounge 556 Crown Street, Enter Building Left Turn
New Engagement!

Moishy Goldberg (Georgetown, NY) to Batsheva Gansburg (Coconut Creek, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at the JCM Upper Level
Baby Girl!

Moshe Yisroel Dovid and Estie Wolf from Chicago, IL had a baby girl!
New Enagagement!

Shmouel Nadjar (Charenton le pont S.Maurice, France) to Shirel Chaya Partouche (Creteil, France)
New Engagement!

Avremel Turen (Chicago, IL) to Brochie Reinetz (New Haven, CT) L’Chaim: Thursday, Oct. 15th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Moshe and Chanie Silman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Enagagement!

Mendel Matuf (Crown Heights) to Mushka Fajnland (Herndon, VA)
Baby Girl!

Eli and Ruty (nee Brand) Steinhauser from Fairlawn, NJ had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Shmuly and Geula (nee Katzman) Gniwisch from Houston, TX had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Memke Goldshmid (Valley Stream, NY) to Mushky Gancz (West Palm Beach, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM Upper Level
New Engagement!

Mendel Minkowics (Crown Heights) to Sara Fajnland (Herndon, VA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at The JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Sender Gurewitz (Lyon, France) to Malki Lipskier (S. Petersburg, Russia)

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We congratulate the winners of the Rebbitzen Chaya Mushka Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights gala auction:

Split the Pot: Chana Popack
The American Girl Doll: Cherna Light
Pearl Necklace: Mendy Rosenblum
Magnificent Necklace: Perry Wolsow
Freeda Custom Sheitel: Henyr Holtzberg
Computer: Perri Schick
Silver Menorah: Esther Rand
Laptop: Esther Karp

The list continues in the Extended Article!

The Winners of this years Bikur Cholim Chinese Auction

We congratulate the winners of the Rebbitzen Chaya Mushka Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights gala auction:

Split the Pot: Chana Popack
The American Girl Doll: Cherna Light
Pearl Necklace: Mendy Rosenblum
Magnificent Necklace: Perry Wolsow
Freeda Custom Sheitel: Henyr Holtzberg
Computer: Perri Schick
Silver Menorah: Esther Rand
Laptop: Esther Karp

The list continues in the Extended Article!

General
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Two months ago Hatzalahs new ambulance, CH1, was involved in an accident where a car struck the ambulance dealing a significant amount of damage to it. Erev Shabbos the ambulance has been retuned to service bringing our number of ambulances in service to three.

Hatzalahs CH1 is back in Service!

Two months ago Hatzalahs new ambulance, CH1, was involved in an accident where a car struck the ambulance dealing a significant amount of damage to it. Erev Shabbos the ambulance has been retuned to service bringing our number of ambulances in service to three.

Communal Matters
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Mazal Tov! – Its a Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Dani (nee Pincus) Litzman (Sydney, Australia) on the birth of their baby boy.

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

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Stacey Palevsky Jewish SF
San Mateo, CA — San Mateo’s Chabad smelled like the unusual combination of Elmer’s glue and butter on a rainy Monday afternoon. Safety scissors scraped against paper. Children giggled as they kneaded sugar cookie dough in preparation for an upcoming holiday.

Their workspace looked different than the typical Hebrew school class. A teacher you’d expect to stand front and center explaining the aleph-bet? Absent.

Defying Disabilities

Stacey Palevsky Jewish SF

San Mateo, CA — San Mateo’s Chabad smelled like the unusual combination of Elmer’s glue and butter on a rainy Monday afternoon. Safety scissors scraped against paper. Children giggled as they kneaded sugar cookie dough in preparation for an upcoming holiday.

Their workspace looked different than the typical Hebrew school class. A teacher you’d expect to stand front and center explaining the aleph-bet? Absent.

Shlichus
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — This past Thursday, April 26th, a Bochur walking home on Carroll St between Troy and Schenectady was mugged by a Black male wielding a knife. The incident took place at around 2:00am, the Bochur was approached by a Black male, average height and described to be around 20 years of age, and he pulled a knife on the Bochur and demanded his wallet and cell phone, then told the Bochur to start walking towards Troy Ave.

The moment the Bochur turned around, he heard the mugger start running in the other direction. He began chasing him while calling police on another phone that he had on him. The short pursuit ended when the mugger ran into 1625 President St. a building located on the corner of President and Schenectady.

More in the Extended Article.

Knife Mugging on Carroll Street

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — This past Thursday, April 26th, a Bochur walking home on Carroll St between Troy and Schenectady was mugged by a Black male wielding a knife. The incident took place at around 2:00am, the Bochur was approached by a Black male, average height and described to be around 20 years of age, and he pulled a knife on the Bochur and demanded his wallet and cell phone, then told the Bochur to start walking towards Troy Ave.

The moment the Bochur turned around, he heard the mugger start running in the other direction. He began chasing him while calling police on another phone that he had on him. The short pursuit ended when the mugger ran into 1625 President St. a building located on the corner of President and Schenectady.

More in the Extended Article.

Crime
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The New York Times

New York, NY — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking in forceful and personal terms, went yesterday to a neighborhood plagued by high asthma rates to argue for his sweeping plan to reduce the city’s air pollution, which includes a surcharge for vehicles entering congested sections of Manhattan.

Mayor Bloomberg wants to do a ‘Tikkun Olam’ – Promotes Clean-Air plan

The New York Times

New York, NY — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking in forceful and personal terms, went yesterday to a neighborhood plagued by high asthma rates to argue for his sweeping plan to reduce the city’s air pollution, which includes a surcharge for vehicles entering congested sections of Manhattan.

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Ra’anana, Israel — As the Librescu family completed its final days of sitting shiva for their slain husband and father, a representative of the Chabad on Campus National Foundation presented them with a book of more than 1,450 condolences. The well-wishes – some from as far away as India and written in a smattering of languages, including Professor Liviu Librescu’s native Romanian – were submitted to a page on the Chabad on Campus Web site, www.Chabad.edu, that went online less than a day after last week’s April 16 shooting rampage on the Blacksburg, Va., campus of Virginia Tech that left 32 students and faculty dead.

A World Reaches Out to Comfort Professor’s Family

Chabad.edu

Ra’anana, Israel — As the Librescu family completed its final days of sitting shiva for their slain husband and father, a representative of the Chabad on Campus National Foundation presented them with a book of more than 1,450 condolences. The well-wishes – some from as far away as India and written in a smattering of languages, including Professor Liviu Librescu’s native Romanian – were submitted to a page on the Chabad on Campus Web site, www.Chabad.edu, that went online less than a day after last week’s April 16 shooting rampage on the Blacksburg, Va., campus of Virginia Tech that left 32 students and faculty dead.

General
Fran Memberg - JT Online
Three-year-old Mira Schusterman gets ready
for Shabbat with a prayer book, a tzedakah
box and her own candlestick, etched with her
Hebrew name, Mirel, given in memory of her
great-grandmother.
Atlanta, GA — On Friday night at sundown, Jewish women around the world pause amid the hubbub of Shabbat preparations to light candles to welcome the Sabbath bride. The image of a woman kindling Shabbat candles is an age-old symbol of Judaism.

While men may light Shabbat candles, it is typically the woman's responsibility for several reasons. Among them: The Jewish women, not the men, first agreed to accept the Torah at Mount Sinai, so women transmit the essence of our Jewish heritage into the home. One way to do that is by lighting Shabbat candles, bringing light into the home just as Israel was chosen by God to be a light among the nations.

Show Me the Light

Fran Memberg – JT Online
Three-year-old Mira Schusterman gets ready
for Shabbat with a prayer book, a tzedakah
box and her own candlestick, etched with her
Hebrew name, Mirel, given in memory of her
great-grandmother.

Atlanta, GA — On Friday night at sundown, Jewish women around the world pause amid the hubbub of Shabbat preparations to light candles to welcome the Sabbath bride. The image of a woman kindling Shabbat candles is an age-old symbol of Judaism.

While men may light Shabbat candles, it is typically the woman’s responsibility for several reasons. Among them: The Jewish women, not the men, first agreed to accept the Torah at Mount Sinai, so women transmit the essence of our Jewish heritage into the home. One way to do that is by lighting Shabbat candles, bringing light into the home just as Israel was chosen by God to be a light among the nations.

Shlichus
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Mazal Tov! – Its a Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Joel and Dovora Leah (nee Newman) Goldhirsch (Melbourne, Australia) on the birth of their firstborn daughter, Batya.

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

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