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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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| 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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| 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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| Bombay, India
Chabad House "Bigger and Better" |  | Nariman House, which was one of the main targets of the 26/11 attack, is finally being restored and renovated. It will be reopened on November 26 this year, exactly two years after the carnage ■ "We are happy they are rebuilding it. It sends a message that you can attack, but you can't break us ■ more
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| All in a Day's Shlichus
Two Continents, Two Accidents, Two Shluchim |  | | Misaskim on the Scene of Accident | Photograph: Illustration | Two fatal accidents, one in the air and one on ground, r"l, left two Jewish women lifeless, and two of the Rebbe's Shluchim assisting on the scenes ■ Shluchim on the scene to insure kovod hames ■ more
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| Yud Gimmel Ellul
The Frierdiker's Rebbe's Anniversary |  | | Photograph: Chabad.org | On Elul 13, 5657, at the age of seventeen, the Frierdiker Rebbe married Rebbitzin Nechoma Dinah, the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Schneersohn, a prominent man of great scholarship and piety, and the grand-daughter of the Tzemach Tzedek ■ more
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| Premier at Chabad Kitchen
A Thermos of Chicken Soup for $20,000 |  | | Rabbi Slavin | Photograph: Shturem | On Ms Keneally’s last visit to the kosher kitchen, she was suffering from a head cold, and the following day she received a package at her office in Governor Macquarie Tower. “It was a thermos of chicken soup, courtesy of staff at Our Big Kitchen,” Ms Keneally said ■ more
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| After 60 Years
Oldest Shul Redeemed in Budapest |  | After 60 years, the oldest synagogue in Hungary's capital Budapest will reopen ■ Rabbi Slomó Köves, who leads the ultra- Orthodox 'United Hungarian Jewish Congregation', said the 190-year old Óbuda Synagogue was forced to close after World War II as most Jewish believers were killed in the Holocaust ■ more
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| Camp GIGA
"Amazing Summer Experience" |  | | Photograph: CHI | After three weeks of a fun-packed experience in New York, campers of GIGA - Gan Israel Germany in America headed back to Germany to tell family and friends of their amazing experience ■ "We will definately not forget this summer, it revealed a entire new world to us ■ more
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| Sydney, NSW
Kvias Mezuzah at Prince of Wales |  | | Professor Graham Newstead, and Rabbi Mendel Kastel | Photograph: J-Wire/ Harry Benjamin | Jewish patients being admitted to Sydney’s Prince of Wales Private Hospital will now have the opportunity of kissing a Mezuzah on arrival ■ Rabbi Kastel is one of the hospital’s chaplains and has been responsible for many of the medical unit’s initiatives including full Kosher menus and Kosher snacks in the vending machines ■ more
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| Chabad Sydney
North Shore Miracle |  | | Photograph: J-Wire/ Harry Benjamin | Within one week of exchanging contracts on a $5.9 million dollar property zoned for educational purposes, Chabad learned that the land had been rezoned for residential usage effectively almost doubling its value ■ more
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| Chabad of Edinburgh
Fringe benefits at Edinburgh Festival |  | | Rabbi Weinman , Tmimim Herschey and Yaakov Hecht | Photograph: JC | Rabbi Pinny Weinman and two New York yeshivah students, Yaakov Hecht, 19, and Herschy Hecht, 17, have set up a stall close to Edinburgh Castle, where performers gather to hand out flyers for the 2,000-plus shows ■ more
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| Melbourne, AU
RCV Conducts Rabbinical Arbitration Course |  | | Photograph: CHI | The Rabbinical Council of Victoria this week conducted a three day Rabbinical Arbitration Course. The course was opened by the Victorian Attorney General, The Hon. Rob Hulls MP, who congratulated the RCV and the participating rabbis for being “champions of Alternative Dispute Resolution ■ more
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| Merkos Shlichus:
Cooking Croation-Style |  | People who enter the synagogue empty-handed, leave with something. Men may leave with marks on their arms and foreheads where they just wore tefillin, women may leave with a nice package of Shabbos candles, and all leave with the words of the Shema on their lips. We basically have this down pat ■ more
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| Toronto, Canada
Chabad Midtown to Receive Security Grant |  | Six Toronto Jewish groups are getting federal cash to combat hate crimes, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday.Toews pledged almost $90,000 for the groups as part of the Communities at Risk: Security Infrastructure pilot program ■ more
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| Yeshivas Kayitz
A First for Chabad Ottawa |  | | Some of the greatest minds from Yeshivos, Shlichus positions and Kollels gathered together to form a Summer Yeshivah in the heart of the Lubavitch community in Ottawa ■ “We look forward to hosting more of these great initiatives,” said Rabbi Dovid Hayes, Head Shliach of Ottawa, “And we are excited at the growth of the community ■ more | | | |
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| Anash Brussels
New Men's Mikveh in European Quarter |  | As part of the advanced development of the Jewish organizations and institutions in the European Quarter of Brussels, considered to be the capital of the European Union, we are delighted to report that the construction of the men’s mikveh is progressing as well ■ more
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| Edgeware, England
Foundation Laid for New Mikveh |  | Some 150 people turned out last Sunday morning at Lubavitch of Edgware to joint celebration to martk the groundbreaking of centre’s new mikvah and Rabbi Leivi Sudak's 50th birthday ■ Supporters, friends and rabbis from all over London participated in the symbolic turning over of the soil, the mixing of cement and the laying the first stones of the new building ■ more
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| Merkos Shlichus:
South Korea: Picture of the Day |  | During Merkos Shlichus summer program, Tmimim Moshe Frank and Berri Spitezki who are in South Korea, met this week with Mr. Thomas Kupfer, the Swiss ambassador to South Korea, who happens to be Jewish ■ more
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| Merkos Shlichus:
Printing Tanyas and a Special Meeting |  | One of our searches for a printing house brought us, inadvertently, to a shop that prints license plates—not books. We had a feeling that the Department of Transportation wouldn't be looking to print Chassidic texts ■ more
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