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The York Daily Record

Pittsburgh native Rabbi Elazar Green, 30, is the local emissary of Chabad-Lubavitch, a small branch of Hasidic Judaism. His organization, Chabad Jewish Enrichment Center of Lancaster & York, has purchased a house in Spring Garden Township near York College that will serve as an outreach center of sorts.

LANCASTER, PA — Rabbi Elazar Green believes the most important building in the Jewish faith isn't the synagogue. It's the home.

“It's where people can come and experience and live Judaism,” he said.

Chabad to Open Jewish Outreach Center

The York Daily Record

Pittsburgh native Rabbi Elazar Green, 30, is the local emissary of Chabad-Lubavitch, a small branch of Hasidic Judaism. His organization, Chabad Jewish Enrichment Center of Lancaster & York, has purchased a house in Spring Garden Township near York College that will serve as an outreach center of sorts.

LANCASTER, PA — Rabbi Elazar Green believes the most important building in the Jewish faith isn’t the synagogue. It’s the home.

“It’s where people can come and experience and live Judaism,” he said.

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New Engagement!

Shlomo Helfen (Northampton, MA) to Sarah Cohen (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 18th, 8:00pm at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel
Baby Boy!

Pinchos and Chaiky Sudak from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Wagner (Toronto, Canada) to Mussia Glick (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Betsalel Abend (The Valley, CA) to Batsheva Gansburg (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at the Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Levi Shmotkin (Stamford, CT) to Chaya Mushka Sudak (Stanmore, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Meir Twersky (Chicago, IL) to Miriam Lipskeir (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:15pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Yisroel Tzvi Kesselman (Los Angeles, CA) to Zeldy Eichorn (Crown Heights)

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Baby Girl!

Yossi and Rivky Shain from Brooklyn, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Chaki Vogel (London, UK) to Shayna Brod (Stockton, CA) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 11th, 7:30pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Matty Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Fraidy Silver (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendel Holzman (Crown Heights) to Tammy Goldsobel (London, UK) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 11th, 6:00pm at Ulam Chana
New Engagement!

Yisroel Sheiner (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Itta Chutaretzky (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Yehuda Brown (Dallas, TX) to Kaylee Andrusier (Bal Harbour, FL)
New Engagement!

Yisroel Levin (Palo Alto, CA) to Gittel Stein (Southfield, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Itav Estrin (Vancouver, Canada) to Binah Zhornitsky (Vancouver, Canada)
Baby Girl!

Effy and Shayna Mushka Block from Melbourne, Australia had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Rabbi Tuvia and Devorah Kasimov from East Flatbush had a baby boy!
Ray Kestenbaum - Russian Jewry

Reb Dovid as a student in the Lubavitch
underground Yeshiva 1920's
BROOKLYN, NY — October 16th marked the 28th yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovid Okunov, who was brutally gunned down at the age of 68 on his way to the morning shacharit service on Montgomery Street. On Thursday, October 25, 1979 (Daled Cheshvan) at 7 a.m., Reb Dovid, as he was affectionately known, was shot in the head with one bullet. A much beloved Torah teacher and community worker, Reb Dovid died at the scene. The entire Lubavitch community and Jews in New York were in a state of shock when the murder story appeared in the New York Times and Daily News.

Over 3,000 Lubavitch chassidim attended his funeral later on that day, and he was laid to rest at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens not far from the resting place of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

A 28th Commemoration: The Murder of Rabbi Dovid Okunov Leads to the Establishment of FREE’s Yeshivat Ohel Dovid

Ray Kestenbaum – Russian Jewry

Reb Dovid as a student in the Lubavitch
underground Yeshiva 1920’s

BROOKLYN, NY — October 16th marked the 28th yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovid Okunov, who was brutally gunned down at the age of 68 on his way to the morning shacharit service on Montgomery Street. On Thursday, October 25, 1979 (Daled Cheshvan) at 7 a.m., Reb Dovid, as he was affectionately known, was shot in the head with one bullet. A much beloved Torah teacher and community worker, Reb Dovid died at the scene. The entire Lubavitch community and Jews in New York were in a state of shock when the murder story appeared in the New York Times and Daily News.

Over 3,000 Lubavitch chassidim attended his funeral later on that day, and he was laid to rest at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens not far from the resting place of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Tami Kamin-Meyer - Chabad.edu

MORGATOWN, WV — West Virginia University, a top-20 party school deep in the heart of coal country, may seem like an unlikely place for a thriving Jewish community, but its off-campus environs now boast a new Chabad House.

New Arrivals Working to Strengthen Jewish Life in West Virginia

Tami Kamin-Meyer – Chabad.edu

MORGATOWN, WV — West Virginia University, a top-20 party school deep in the heart of coal country, may seem like an unlikely place for a thriving Jewish community, but its off-campus environs now boast a new Chabad House.

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Joyce Shelby - NY Daily News

BROOKLYN, NY — With hand saws, drills and lots of adult supervision, kids at the Jewish Children's Museum prepared to toot in a new year by making their very own shofars.

“This is fun,” Shloimie Werner, 10, said recently as he sawed and sawed, trying to cut off the tip of a ram's horn to make his shofar.

Usher in a New Year with a Shofar-Making class at the Jewish Children’s Museum

Joyce Shelby – NY Daily News

BROOKLYN, NY — With hand saws, drills and lots of adult supervision, kids at the Jewish Children’s Museum prepared to toot in a new year by making their very own shofars.

“This is fun,” Shloimie Werner, 10, said recently as he sawed and sawed, trying to cut off the tip of a ram’s horn to make his shofar.

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The renowned Chabad writer, Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrowsky published a bitter article in the Yiddish Newspaper, Der Algemeiner Journal, condemning the tragic 'selections' made when enrolling students in Chabad yeshivas in the U.S.

"How can we face the philanthropists Reb Lev Leviev and Mr. George Rohr who have been granting millions to Chabad in order to bring non-observant children closer to religion, while, at the same time affluent Chabadniks do not cover the budgets of our own yeshivas so that all students may be accepted willingly.

The entire article can be read (in Yiddish) in the Extended Article!

The education topic has come up on CrownHeights.info a few times in a few different shapes and forms, ranging from tuition to this very topic. Readers are welcome to voice their opinion once again in the Comment System.

The Tragic ‘Selection’ at Todays Yeshivos

The renowned Chabad writer, Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrowsky published a bitter article in the Yiddish Newspaper, Der Algemeiner Journal, condemning the tragic ‘selections’ made when enrolling students in Chabad yeshivas in the U.S.

“How can we face the philanthropists Reb Lev Leviev and Mr. George Rohr who have been granting millions to Chabad in order to bring non-observant children closer to religion, while, at the same time affluent Chabadniks do not cover the budgets of our own yeshivas so that all students may be accepted willingly.

The entire article can be read (in Yiddish) in the Extended Article!

The education topic has come up on CrownHeights.info a few times in a few different shapes and forms, ranging from tuition to this very topic. Readers are welcome to voice their opinion once again in the Comment System.

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VALLEY STREAM, LONG ISLAND — Bnos Chomesh Academy, a new girls’ high school located just 30 minutes from Crown Heights is now open for registration for the 2007-2008 academic year for 9th and 10th grades. Bnos Chomesh combines a strong academic curriculum with the kind of individual attention that only a school with small classes can provide.

The school’s founder and principal is Mrs. Dena Gorkin, an acclaimed mechaneches who has been working with teenage girls both in and out of the classroom for 15 years. Bnos Chomesh faculty is experienced, caring and tuned in to the educational, social, and spiritual needs of each girl. As a result, this new school has already gained the support and endorsement of some of the most respected mechanchim. The school has also received a whole-hearted approval from the principals of Beth Rivka High School.

The School Your Daughter Wants To Attend

VALLEY STREAM, LONG ISLAND — Bnos Chomesh Academy, a new girls’ high school located just 30 minutes from Crown Heights is now open for registration for the 2007-2008 academic year for 9th and 10th grades. Bnos Chomesh combines a strong academic curriculum with the kind of individual attention that only a school with small classes can provide.

The school’s founder and principal is Mrs. Dena Gorkin, an acclaimed mechaneches who has been working with teenage girls both in and out of the classroom for 15 years. Bnos Chomesh faculty is experienced, caring and tuned in to the educational, social, and spiritual needs of each girl. As a result, this new school has already gained the support and endorsement of some of the most respected mechanchim. The school has also received a whole-hearted approval from the principals of Beth Rivka High School.

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The Jerusalem Post
Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar said Sunday that not enough was being done to deal with neo-Nazi groups in the country, Israel Radio reported.

The rabbi's comments came a day after the murder of a Jewish teacher in St. Petersburg. The stab wounds on Dmitriy Nikulinskiy's body, noted Lazar, prove that his killing was an anti-Semitic attack.

St. Petersburg has a long history of terror-related murders, but this is the first time in the last few years that a Jew was murdered for this reason, added the rabbi.

Chief Rabbi Lazar: Russia not facing neo-Nazis

The Jerusalem Post

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar said Sunday that not enough was being done to deal with neo-Nazi groups in the country, Israel Radio reported.

The rabbi’s comments came a day after the murder of a Jewish teacher in St. Petersburg. The stab wounds on Dmitriy Nikulinskiy’s body, noted Lazar, prove that his killing was an anti-Semitic attack.

St. Petersburg has a long history of terror-related murders, but this is the first time in the last few years that a Jew was murdered for this reason, added the rabbi.

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Erica Lederman - Chabad.edu
Brooklyn, NY — On Sunday, March 25 a group of students from the University of Pennsylvania visited Crown Heights, Brooklyn as part of the Rohr JLI Jewish Essentials course now being offered on several campuses. The field trip consisted of several components, including visits to a matzah bakery, the headquarters of the OK Kosher Laboratories and discussions with prominent Chasidic rabbis.

JLI Students Take Lesson Outside of the Classroom

Erica Lederman – Chabad.edu

Brooklyn, NY — On Sunday, March 25 a group of students from the University of Pennsylvania visited Crown Heights, Brooklyn as part of the Rohr JLI Jewish Essentials course now being offered on several campuses. The field trip consisted of several components, including visits to a matzah bakery, the headquarters of the OK Kosher Laboratories and discussions with prominent Chasidic rabbis.

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On March 1, 1994, Rashid Baz a Lebanese national opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, one of those passengers was Ari. He sustained a mortal injury to his head which resulted in his very untimely death five days later, on Chof Gimmel Adar, at the age of 16.

A chronicle of the events that had taken place can be read in the Extended Article. (Taken from the ‘Ari Halberstam Memorial Website’).

13 Years to the Murder of Ari Halberstam HY”D

On March 1, 1994, Rashid Baz a Lebanese national opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, one of those passengers was Ari. He sustained a mortal injury to his head which resulted in his very untimely death five days later, on Chof Gimmel Adar, at the age of 16.

A chronicle of the events that had taken place can be read in the Extended Article. (Taken from the ‘Ari Halberstam Memorial Website’).

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Newsday

Brooklyn, NY — Dovid Taub has learned a lot since hand-sewing his first puppet four years ago to entertain a bunch of young summer campers.

“It looked very bad. It was five feet tall and cumbersome to use,” Taub, now 25, recalled.

Today, the Brooklyn rabbinical student makes 30-inch puppets that are featured in a video program he produces for www.chabad.org, the Web site of the international Chabad Lubavitch Movement headquartered in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section.

UPDATE: Newspaper clipping in the Extended Article!

Judaism Lessons from Puppets

Newsday

Brooklyn, NY — Dovid Taub has learned a lot since hand-sewing his first puppet four years ago to entertain a bunch of young summer campers.

“It looked very bad. It was five feet tall and cumbersome to use,” Taub, now 25, recalled.

Today, the Brooklyn rabbinical student makes 30-inch puppets that are featured in a video program he produces for www.chabad.org, the Web site of the international Chabad Lubavitch Movement headquartered in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section.

UPDATE: Newspaper clipping in the Extended Article!

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The NY Daily News
An NYPD sergeant charged with pummeling a suspected car thief in Brooklyn while off-duty defended himself yesterday, telling the Daily News the assault charges against him are baseless.

“The truth will come out,” Sgt. Greg Abrahams said after being held for 15 hours in the alleged beating of an ex-con who police say was trying to steal the sergeant's Ford Mustang. “This is so bogus. It's really just being blown out of proportion.”

Abrahams was agitated outside his Nassau County home yesterday as he removed parts of the dashboard, allegedly damaged by Gaspar Alcalde, 48.

Cop Denies Beating Thug After Car Theft Try

The NY Daily News

An NYPD sergeant charged with pummeling a suspected car thief in Brooklyn while off-duty defended himself yesterday, telling the Daily News the assault charges against him are baseless.

“The truth will come out,” Sgt. Greg Abrahams said after being held for 15 hours in the alleged beating of an ex-con who police say was trying to steal the sergeant’s Ford Mustang. “This is so bogus. It’s really just being blown out of proportion.”

Abrahams was agitated outside his Nassau County home yesterday as he removed parts of the dashboard, allegedly damaged by Gaspar Alcalde, 48.

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The fast begins at 5:51am and ends at 5:16pm (Crown Heights specific)
Chabad.org
On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.

Tevet 10 is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance, in remembrance of the siege of Jerusalem (see “Today in Jewish History”). We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add the Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. (More recently, Tevet 10 was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.)

More in the Extended Article.

Tenth of Tevet – the Siege of Jerusalem

The fast begins at 5:51am and ends at 5:16pm (Crown Heights specific)

Chabad.org

On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.

Tevet 10 is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance, in remembrance of the siege of Jerusalem (see “Today in Jewish History”). We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add the Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. (More recently, Tevet 10 was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.)

More in the Extended Article.

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The Rebbe says:

1. Towards the end of this week’s Parshah the Torah tells us about Ya’akov Avinu (our father) traveling down to Egypt to see his son Yoseph.

Before Ya’akov Avinu went down to Egypt he sent his son Yehuda ahead of him. Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) tells us- in the name of the Medrash- that the reason Ya’akov Avinu sent his son Yehuda ahead of him was so that Yehuda could set up a Yeshiva (a study-hall to learn Torah in) there first. Ya’akov Avinu did not want to go to a land that did not have a Yeshiva ready. (See Rashi to Verse 28, Chapter 46).

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Vayigash

The Rebbe says:

1. Towards the end of this week’s Parshah the Torah tells us about Ya’akov Avinu (our father) traveling down to Egypt to see his son Yoseph.

Before Ya’akov Avinu went down to Egypt he sent his son Yehuda ahead of him. Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) tells us- in the name of the Medrash- that the reason Ya’akov Avinu sent his son Yehuda ahead of him was so that Yehuda could set up a Yeshiva (a study-hall to learn Torah in) there first. Ya’akov Avinu did not want to go to a land that did not have a Yeshiva ready. (See Rashi to Verse 28, Chapter 46).

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At around 12:30 this afternoon the “Pace” hardware store was held up at gunpoint. The incident took place while one of the two store workers was tending to customers in the front of the store when a single Black male pulled a gun from under his coat and pointed it at the man behind the counter and simply told him “open register”.

He described the perp as around 5”10 who was wearing a red and white bandana over his face and a hood over his head and his eyes seemed glazed over. Upon seeing the gun he did not hesitate and opened the cash drawer, after which the perp began poking him with the gun. At this point he simply slammed the drawer shut and pushed the perp, and made a beeline for the door.

Attempted Robbery – At Gunpoint

At around 12:30 this afternoon the “Pace” hardware store was held up at gunpoint. The incident took place while one of the two store workers was tending to customers in the front of the store when a single Black male pulled a gun from under his coat and pointed it at the man behind the counter and simply told him “open register”.

He described the perp as around 5”10 who was wearing a red and white bandana over his face and a hood over his head and his eyes seemed glazed over. Upon seeing the gun he did not hesitate and opened the cash drawer, after which the perp began poking him with the gun. At this point he simply slammed the drawer shut and pushed the perp, and made a beeline for the door.

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The Rebbe says:

1. The Torah is not a history book. Every story mentioned in the Torah is written for us to learn from. As we know that from one letter in the Torah our Sages learn out many Halachas (laws)!

This is why the Torah has the name “Torah” and not for example “Chochmah – Wisdom”. Seemingly, since Torah is the wisdom of Hashem it should be called “Chochmah – Wisdom”!? Instead Hashem named it “Torah” from the word Hora’ah meaning lesson. Hashem named the Torah “Torah – Lesson” because every detail in the Torah applies to every Jew in every generation to take a lesson from.

Therefore every Parshah in the Torah has its’ special lessons for each and every one of us.

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Vayeitzei

The Rebbe says:

1. The Torah is not a history book. Every story mentioned in the Torah is written for us to learn from. As we know that from one letter in the Torah our Sages learn out many Halachas (laws)!

This is why the Torah has the name “Torah” and not for example “Chochmah – Wisdom”. Seemingly, since Torah is the wisdom of Hashem it should be called “Chochmah – Wisdom”!? Instead Hashem named it “Torah” from the word Hora’ah meaning lesson. Hashem named the Torah “Torah – Lesson” because every detail in the Torah applies to every Jew in every generation to take a lesson from.

Therefore every Parshah in the Torah has its’ special lessons for each and every one of us.

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After over three weeks since the release of its new CD “EXPRESSIONS of the SOUL” - the Rebbe's 14 Niggunim, Infinity Productions is reporting that sales, namely in Crown Heights, “continue to be just remarkable”. The Kehos bookstore, Tzivos Hashem, Merkas Stam, Judaica World and Hamafitz, on Kingston Avenue, have all received additional shipments (some for the third time) after having sold out of their initial orders just a few days after the CD's release.

New CD of the Rebbe’s 14 Niggunim – “Expressions of the Soul” A Resounding Success

After over three weeks since the release of its new CD “EXPRESSIONS of the SOUL” – the Rebbe’s 14 Niggunim, Infinity Productions is reporting that sales, namely in Crown Heights, “continue to be just remarkable”. The Kehos bookstore, Tzivos Hashem, Merkas Stam, Judaica World and Hamafitz, on Kingston Avenue, have all received additional shipments (some for the third time) after having sold out of their initial orders just a few days after the CD’s release.

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