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| A First!
New Kindergarten Opened in Irkutsk |  | | Photograph: FJC | "It is highly symbolic that today’s ribbon at the kindergarten’s entrance was cut by the oldest member of the Irkutsk Jewish community, Boris Gornykh, who just celebrated his 100th birthday last week. A three-year-old girl handed him the scissors for the ceremony ■ more
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| Chabad of Nassau County
VIP Meeting with Shluchim |  | | Photograph: CHI | County Executive Edward P. Mangano welcomed a group of Chabad Shluchim to Nassau County. Mr Mangano expressed his best wishes to community for the New Year and showed particular great interest in the ongoing programs and ever expanding Chabad Centers around the County ■ more 
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| Chabad of Merrick
CTeen Opens New Chapter |  | | Photograph: Merrick Patch | The intention is to give every Jewish teen the opportunity to learn more, grow spiritually, and have a good time while becoming more involved in their Jewish community. CTeens is open to all Jewish teens in the community regardless of affiliation ■ more
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| Updated- Introducing: LOL
Empowering the Bochur Shliach |  | After months of preparation, the newly formed organization, UNZERE KINDER (LOL) LIGHT OUR LAMPS has finally been launched. Its mission statement and purpose is to promote educational and inspirational events and training sessions to help our very own Anash children in the school system ■ more
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| Boruch Dayan HoEmes
R' Ben Tzion Garelik, OB"M |  | With sadness we report the passing of R' Bentzion ben R' Chaim Meir, ob"m, Garelik, ob"m, at the age of 85 ■ The levaye will take place at 6:00 PM, at the Merkozi Shul in Kfar Chabad ■ more
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| Rubashkin Update
Lewin Files New Motion |  | the Lewins filed today a motion to stay the appeal till the rule 33 motion is ruled on. It is a very strong motion (attached). He also attached to it a very impressive affidavit from a professor from Arizona who is an expert on ethics ■ more
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| Urgent Appeal to Anash
Help a Young Shliach in Need |  | | Photograph: Illustration | As we enter the Yomim Nora’im we hope you will use this opportunity to reach out to a young member of our community who is in need of your help. There is a young Shliach who was recently diagnosed with a severe life threatening illness, r"l. He and his family are doing everything in their power to help him, b'ezras Hashem, come to a complete recovery ■ more
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| NCFJE
Released Time Training Seminar for Tmimim |  | | Photograph: CHI | Tmimim learning in 770 gathered for a training seminar for the upcoming year’s Released Time program organized by the NCFJE ■ Rabbi Mentz then stressed the importance of getting to know and maintaining a connection with the parents ■ more
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| Boruch Dayan HoEmes
Rabbi Sholom Dovber Chanzin, OB"M |  | | With sadness we report the untimely passing of HoRav HaTomim Sholom Dovber Chanzin, ob"m, of Petach Tikvah. The nifter is the son of Rabbi Dovid Chanzizn, ob"m, member of the Lubavitcher Bais Din ■ more | | | |
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| Updated: Katmandu, Nepal
Chabad Coordinating Recovery Efforts |  | | Photograph: Illustration | Volunteers from the ZAKA rescue and recovery organization have arrived in Nepal to assist in the recovery and identification of Irina Shekhets, the American Jewish tourist who was killed in a plane crash a week ago ■ They are working in full cooperation with the Chabad House in Katmandu, which is coordinating the recovery efforts ■ more
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| Chabad of Pierce County
From a Dream to Reality |  | | Photograph: The News Tribune/ Peter Haley | On Sunday, more than 100 people gathered on the future lot of the temple at 2146 N. Mildred St. for a groundbreaking ceremony and Torah dedication for Chabad of Pierce County ■ “The dream of the Jewish community is about to become a reality,” Rabbi Zalman Heber told the joyous crowd ■ more | | | |
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| Even Hapinah in Nashville
Chabad Center for Jewish Life |  | | Chabad House Nashville | At the groundbreaking two cornerstones were placed at the foundation of the building. One is from Germany, part of a synagogue destroyed in the holocaust. The other is from Israel ■ more
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| $6,480,597
Annual Telethon Concluded |  | | Photograph: The Cool Jew | The Chabad West Coast Telethon came to a successful end, with a grand total of i$6,480,597 in donations ■ more 
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| At Last
Volume 15: Igros of the Frierdiker Rebbe |  | | Photograph: Shturem | After years of waiting, Volume 15 of the Frierdiker Rebbe's Igrois Koidesh has been printed and is available to the public. The volume contains never before published Igrois to the the Rebbe and Rebbetzin ■ more
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| Ramenskoye, Russia
Chanukas HaBayis of 770 |  | The Jewish community of Ramenskoye (about 30 miles south-east of Moscow), in the Moscow Region, celebrated the inauguration of its new shul. The shul is a replica of “770” Eastern Parkway, Lubavitcher World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York ■ more
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| Gearing Up
Photo of the Day |  | | Photograph: Boruch Ezagui | The Chabad of West Coast Annual Telethon will be aired live tonight, and Boruch Ezagui was out snapping photos of the feverish last minute preparations ■ more
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| Port Washington
Chabad Torah Academy Closes |  | | Photograph: Illustration/ Chabad of Port Washington | Rabbi Shalom Paltiel, the dean of the school and the rabbi of the Chabad of Port Washington, attributed the closure to financial reasons and the establishment of a similar day school by the Chabad of Great Neck ■ more
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| Hatzala at the Scene
Tomim Injured in Accident |  | | Photograph: CHI | An American Tomim was struck by a car as he was crossing the Eastern Parkway service lane at the end of last week ■ A large crowd of spectators gathered at the scene, and a number joined the driver, a black woman, and together they began accusing ‘the Jews’ of ‘setting up the accident ■ more
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| Shocking Development
Vandals Desecrate Sichos Kodesh |  | | Photograph: B'chadrei Charedim | In a shocking and disturbing attack on the Rebbe's Sichos Kodesh, and other Lubavitcher publications, so called 'sikrikim' from Meah Shearim in Yerushalyim shredded the printed material and spread the papers in the neighborhood ■ more
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| Reston, Virginia
Mid- Atlantic Kinus HaShluchim |  | | Photograph: Bentzi Sasson | Last Wednesday, close to 50 shluchim from the Mid-Atlantic area - comprising of New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington and Delaware – gathered for a Regional Kinus at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia ■ more | | | |
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| Merkos Shlichus:
Reaching the Uninvolved |  | Tmimim Ephraim Oster and Yisroel Sternbach just completed an intense 2 week visit to Town of Mont Royal, Montreal. Under the guidance of Chabad TMR director Rabbi Moshe Krasnanski they divided their day between appointments with local Jewish businessman and family visitations ■ more
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