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As in the past, this year, a new nigun was composed in honor of the Rebbe's birthday that falls on the 11th of Nissan by temimim of Detroit. The nigun integrates the words of the Rebbe's oncoming 'kapitel' of Tehillim chapter 106, beginning with 'Mi Yemalel Gevuros Hashem Yashmia Kol Tehiloso...'

Click here to listen to the song (composed by Shmuel Chaim Scharf)

The full Kapitel can be viewed in the Extended Article.

New Nigun for 11th of Nissan

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As in the past, this year, a new nigun was composed in honor of the Rebbe’s birthday that falls on the 11th of Nissan by temimim of Detroit. The nigun integrates the words of the Rebbe’s oncoming ‘kapitel’ of Tehillim chapter 106, beginning with ‘Mi Yemalel Gevuros Hashem Yashmia Kol Tehiloso…’

Click here to listen to the song (composed by Shmuel Chaim Scharf)

The full Kapitel can be viewed in the Extended Article.

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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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Jennifer Anne Perez - Chabad.edu
Los Angeles, CA — If there’s one thing Chabad campus groups across the country will pull out all the stops for this year, it’s Purim. The themes and careful preparation for by far one of the most beloved of celebrations among students could be summed up in three simple words: Do something different.

At the University of Southern California, over the years students have watched their small Purim party evolve into a massive event welcoming more than a thousand people. This year, with on the hour readings of the Megillah, a giant Wild West extravaganza with hourly duels, and a pre-Purim carnival complete with rides and a “Pin the Yarmulke on the Rabbi” game, the university’s Chabad House will no doubt top all previous celebrations.

Bands, Bars and Buffets Its Purim 2007!

Jennifer Anne Perez – Chabad.edu

Los Angeles, CA — If there’s one thing Chabad campus groups across the country will pull out all the stops for this year, it’s Purim. The themes and careful preparation for by far one of the most beloved of celebrations among students could be summed up in three simple words: Do something different.

At the University of Southern California, over the years students have watched their small Purim party evolve into a massive event welcoming more than a thousand people. This year, with on the hour readings of the Megillah, a giant Wild West extravaganza with hourly duels, and a pre-Purim carnival complete with rides and a “Pin the Yarmulke on the Rabbi” game, the university’s Chabad House will no doubt top all previous celebrations.

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Pass the Cookies for Purim

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Rabbi Abba Rubin rolls out dough for
hamantashen cookies at his home in
Saratoga Springs on Monday.

Saratoga Springs, NY — You’ve got to like a holiday that’s symbolized by a cookie.

Rabbi Abba Rubin of Saratoga Chabad uses his car as a mobile billboard for Jewish culture, attaching cutout symbols of the holidays to the roof. While most people with a passing knowledge of Judaism recognize that the menorah symbolizes Hanukkah, the triangle currently sticking up from his burgundy sedan like a shark fin might be a little less recognizable.

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120 Chabad Houses on Campus and Counting…

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Merkos Linyonai Chinuch is pleased to announce the addtion of one more Chabad House on campus, bringing the total number of Chabad at university campuses to 120. This marks the 65th Chabad House to be established over the past five years on campus, which had literally doubled Chabad’s presence on universities around the world.

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At approximately 7:30 this morning, Tuesday, and Fire Engine driving on Brooklyn Ave hit car driving on Union St and lost control, went on a rampage and caused a lot of damage.

The FDNY Ladder truck, which had its light and sirens on, responding to a situation on Kingston ave, was taking the red light on the corner of Brooklyn ave and Union St, when the car tried to sneak through. The truck then struck the car and lost control, crashed into a bunch of parked cars. The truck damaged approximately nine vehicles in total.

More in Extended Article, video to be up later.

3 Car Pile-Up LITERALLY!

At approximately 7:30 this morning, Tuesday, and Fire Engine driving on Brooklyn Ave hit car driving on Union St and lost control, went on a rampage and caused a lot of damage.

The FDNY Ladder truck, which had its light and sirens on, responding to a situation on Kingston ave, was taking the red light on the corner of Brooklyn ave and Union St, when the car tried to sneak through. The truck then struck the car and lost control, crashed into a bunch of parked cars. The truck damaged approximately nine vehicles in total.

More in Extended Article, video to be up later.

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Woman Apprehended for Stealing at a L’Chaim

Brooklyn, NY –- Monday night amidst a L’chaim taking place in the Jewish Childrens Museum a few of the participants noticed they were missing some of their personal belongings, and after a quick search they found it to be in the possession of a Jewish woman who was attending the event herself but was not related to any of the families.

Police were called and the woman quickly admitted to what she had done and offered to return the items, which she did. Police asked the victims if they wanted to press charges against the woman to which they all refused but requested she be escorted from the building. Other participants who witnessed the incident said that this woman was known for such incidents in the past and that she has a compulsive stealing problem (also known as Kleptomania).

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Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities packs Shalach Manos

Twin Cities, MN — The Purim season has begun, and the bochurim at My Yeshiva jumped right in! The bochurim have been going to the Lubavitch House in West S. Paul to help with one of the biggest and oldest Shalach Manos operations in the country. Lubavitch of Minnesota, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Feller, sends out more than 10,000 shalach manos packages to Jewish people all across the state of Minnesota.

Rabbi Mayer Rubinfeld, the program director for Lubavitch in Minnesota, ran the project and directed the bochurim. The boys packed brochures, cookies, candies, and tzedaka into the packages, and then sealed them, addressed them and mailed them.

More pictures and a Video clip in the Extended Article!

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Birthday of Rosh Yeshiva at Tiferes Bochurim

Morristown, NJ — In the middle of afternoon seder on the 8th of Adar, Rabbi Dubinsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Tiferes Bochurim, threw a surprise farbrengan in honor of his birthday and the upcoming Tes Adar which celebrates the arriving of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe to America. When the Freideker Rebbe (the previous Rebbe and father-in-law to our Rebbe) came to the United States, the outreach of Chabad Chassidim vastly enhanced. Their mission stemmed back to the Alter Rebbe who claimed that spreading Chassidus in America is a necessary goal in bringing Moshiach. The kelipot that was inhibiting the Yiddishkeit of American Jews caused them to feel that America was a country where religious Judaism had no place (certainly in the public eye). Unfortunately this misconception plagued religious and non-religious Jews alike.

More in the Extended Article!

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This Wednesday Yud Adar is the 7th yartzeit of Habochor Hatomim Shlomo Sholom Brashevitzky a“h. Please join us on Tuesday night for a farbrengen in honor of Sholom's Yartzeit at 9:00pm at his brother's house 432 Brooklyn Ave, [between Montogomery St and Empire Blvd].

We, his siblings would like to put together a booklet of storys and memorys of Sholom's a”h years. We would greatly apprectiate if his classmates, friends, students that were with him in Tzfas that year, or anyone that knew him to please send in your storys and memorys to sholombresh@yahoo.com.

We should only hear good news and the ultimate news with the coming of moshiach tzidkeinu and once again we should see Sholom here in a guf gashmi bekorov mamash. Thank you very much his siblings.

7th Yartzeit of Hatomim Sholom Brashevitzky A”H

This Wednesday Yud Adar is the 7th yartzeit of Habochor Hatomim Shlomo Sholom Brashevitzky a“h. Please join us on Tuesday night for a farbrengen in honor of Sholom’s Yartzeit at 9:00pm at his brother’s house 432 Brooklyn Ave, [between Montogomery St and Empire Blvd].

We, his siblings would like to put together a booklet of storys and memorys of Sholom’s a”h years. We would greatly apprectiate if his classmates, friends, students that were with him in Tzfas that year, or anyone that knew him to please send in your storys and memorys to sholombresh@yahoo.com.

We should only hear good news and the ultimate news with the coming of moshiach tzidkeinu and once again we should see Sholom here in a guf gashmi bekorov mamash. Thank you very much his siblings.

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Mayanot and Birthright Expecting a Busy Summer

Jon Gold – Chabad.edu

For years, Taglit-birthright israel trips have provided students and young professionals the chance to go to Israel for free during the summer and winter. Starting in 1999, the programs have gradually expanded into serving thousands annually. All told so far, more than 120,000 have taken part in the guided tours.

But this year, even those closest to the program are surprised by the response to the summer trip registration, which opened on Feb. 15.

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