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First Haircut marks start of Boy’s Jewish Education

Palm Beach Post

Greenacres, FL — His voice amplified by a plastic karaoke microphone, the pint-size preacher stood on a chair and intoned the 12 pesukin (verses) he had memorized for the occasion. Surrounding him was a delighted crowd consisting of his parents, grandparents, aunts from Turkey and Ukraine, uncles, great-grandmother from Toronto, cousins, neighbors, family friends and a swirling knee-high lake of children.

The reason for all this excitement Tuesday was that Eliyahu Akiva Rosenfeld, 3, was about to be shorn of his long caramel-colored curls for the first time in his life. The ritual, called upshernish (Yiddish for shearing), is practiced mostly by Orthodox Jews.

Click here for a beautiful ‘Audio Slide Show’!!

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New Engagement!

Dovid Lifchitz (Boise, Idaho) to Mussie Moscowitz (Bucktown, IL)
New Engagement!

Yossi Kalman (Riverdale, NY) to Roizy Krausz (Lakewood, NJ) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Oct. 20th, 7:30pm at Rubashkin’s 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Shlomo Zeilig Kupfer (Boro Park, Brooklyn) to Moussia Cooper (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Alon Nussbaum (Johannesburg, South Africa) to Devorah Leah Edelkopf (Podgorico, Montenegro) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 7:30pm at The Shul 481 Albany Ave
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!
Times Union
Rabbi Yaakov Weiss hopes to have a large menorah displayed in the Colonie Center Mall

Colonie, NY — It wouldn't be the holiday season without a dust-up over religious expression in a public space.

This year, once again, that space is Colonie Center.

And, once again, rumors circulating about the mall muzzling religious expression appear to be unfounded.

Mall to Make Room for Sacred Amid Shopping

Times Union
Rabbi Yaakov Weiss hopes to have a large menorah displayed in the Colonie Center Mall

Colonie, NY — It wouldn’t be the holiday season without a dust-up over religious expression in a public space.

This year, once again, that space is Colonie Center.

And, once again, rumors circulating about the mall muzzling religious expression appear to be unfounded.

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Jewish Programs Help Keep Faith Alive

Reno Gaztte Journal

Since the end of World War II, assimilation, intermarriage and the distractions of the secular world have fractured the Jewish community in ways our patriarchs never envisioned. Recognizing this as a threat to our very survival as a faith and as a people, leaders of Jewish communities throughout the world have reached out to young and old, affiliated and unaffiliated, observant and not as observant in an attempt to reacquaint them with their faith, their traditions and their history.

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The Shiva will be at 1396 Caroll st. between Kingston and Albany (first house on the block)

Davening Times:
Shachris: 9:30, 9:45. Mincha: 1:30, 2:30 (Friday - 12:30) Maariv: 6:30, 6:45

Shachris on Wednesday will be at 7:00am

Shiva for Mrs. Tzivia Goldberg A”H

The Shiva will be at 1396 Caroll st. between Kingston and Albany (first house on the block)

Davening Times:
Shachris: 9:30, 9:45. Mincha: 1:30, 2:30 (Friday – 12:30) Maariv: 6:30, 6:45

Shachris on Wednesday will be at 7:00am

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JTA
Palo Alto, CA — In the old days, a young Chabad couple “going out” on shlichus — becoming outreach emissaries — usually would be sent to a new city or college campus to set up a Chabad center.

As Chabad outposts proliferated in the late 1980s and into the ’90s, however, the playing field became quite crowded.

Some young couples still can find virgin territory for their rebbe’s message, but more often these young Lubavitch rabbis and their wives are signing on now as second or third couples at established Chabad centers. They fill positions such as preschool teacher, for her, or adult education director, for him.

For emissaries in a crowded field, Friendship Circles become popular

JTA

Palo Alto, CA — In the old days, a young Chabad couple “going out” on shlichus — becoming outreach emissaries — usually would be sent to a new city or college campus to set up a Chabad center.

As Chabad outposts proliferated in the late 1980s and into the ’90s, however, the playing field became quite crowded.

Some young couples still can find virgin territory for their rebbe’s message, but more often these young Lubavitch rabbis and their wives are signing on now as second or third couples at established Chabad centers. They fill positions such as preschool teacher, for her, or adult education director, for him.

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JTA
Palo Alto, CA — Micah Abraham is standing on a stool in his parents’ kitchen, stirring a bowl of brownie mix.

“Frosting?” the 7-year-old asks Daphna Davidowitz, 16, his Friendship Circle volunteer.

“Not yet,” she cautions.

“When brownies done, we put on frosting?” Micah persists.

Special-needs children have a friend in Friendship Circle

JTA

Palo Alto, CA — Micah Abraham is standing on a stool in his parents’ kitchen, stirring a bowl of brownie mix.

“Frosting?” the 7-year-old asks Daphna Davidowitz, 16, his Friendship Circle volunteer.

“Not yet,” she cautions.

“When brownies done, we put on frosting?” Micah persists.

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Schneur Zalman Rabin (Oak Park, MI) and Faige Bronstein (Monsey) on their engagement!

The L’chiam will IY”H be Sunday at Lubavicher Yeshiva Crown St. (corner Albany)

And Mazal Tov to Yehuda Vaknin (Eilat, Israel) and Rachel Braun (Sunnyvale, CA) on their engagement!

Mazel Tov's
WNYC
New York, NY — The city comptroller released a report accusing the auto insurance industry of price-gouging.

Comptroller Bill Thompson says the car insurance industry has raised premiums between 2000 and 2005 by nearly 29-percent, raking in 10 and a half billion dollars from premiums in 2005 alone. He also found companies were decreasing payouts for claims by more than 20 percent.

Thompson's report says drivers in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens are especially hard hit. He says it's not just a matter of customers shopping around for lower rates.

Comptroller Accuses Car Insurance Industry of Price-Gouging

WNYC

New York, NY — The city comptroller released a report accusing the auto insurance industry of price-gouging.

Comptroller Bill Thompson says the car insurance industry has raised premiums between 2000 and 2005 by nearly 29-percent, raking in 10 and a half billion dollars from premiums in 2005 alone. He also found companies were decreasing payouts for claims by more than 20 percent.

Thompson’s report says drivers in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens are especially hard hit. He says it’s not just a matter of customers shopping around for lower rates.

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Elizabeth Weber - The Daily Illini
Kosher meals are pre-packaged, microwavable

Samantha Staley remembers the struggles of eating in the dormitories.

Having been raised on kosher food, her options at the dining halls were limited and she joked that she lived off cereal as an underclassman.

“My friends would be eating chicken fingers and I couldn't join them because I was kosher,” said Staley, now a junior in LAS.

UI dining hall menu modified to accommodate religious needs

Elizabeth Weber – The Daily Illini

Kosher meals are pre-packaged, microwavable

Samantha Staley remembers the struggles of eating in the dormitories.

Having been raised on kosher food, her options at the dining halls were limited and she joked that she lived off cereal as an underclassman.

“My friends would be eating chicken fingers and I couldn’t join them because I was kosher,” said Staley, now a junior in LAS.

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shmais.com
Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel Slavaticki have recently moved to Chicago, IL to assume the position of Director of the Chabad Israeli Programs.

Additionally Rabbi & Mrs. Slavaticki have joined the staff of Lubavitch Girls High School. This Shlichus is funded in part by the Shlichus Birthright Grant of Agudas Chassidei Chabad.

The Slavaticki's were appointed by Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz and Rabbi Baruch Hertz.

HATZLOCHA RABBA!

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at mendelslava@hotmail.com

New Shluchim to Illinois

shmais.com

Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel Slavaticki have recently moved to Chicago, IL to assume the position of Director of the Chabad Israeli Programs.

Additionally Rabbi & Mrs. Slavaticki have joined the staff of Lubavitch Girls High School. This Shlichus is funded in part by the Shlichus Birthright Grant of Agudas Chassidei Chabad.

The Slavaticki’s were appointed by Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz and Rabbi Baruch Hertz.

HATZLOCHA RABBA!

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at mendelslava@hotmail.com

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MyFoxNY.com

New York City has another mess on its hands and this time someone's hands may be to blame. Sloppy parking ticket writers and possibly fake counterfeit license plates could be behind a mysterious parking ticket blitz. Fox 5's John Deutzman got on the case and got some answers.

Click Here to watch the disturbing findings

Mysterious Tickets

MyFoxNY.com

New York City has another mess on its hands and this time someone’s hands may be to blame. Sloppy parking ticket writers and possibly fake counterfeit license plates could be behind a mysterious parking ticket blitz. Fox 5’s John Deutzman got on the case and got some answers.

Click Here to watch the disturbing findings

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