You thought Yehupitz was a mythical place. It isn't. It's in Hastings, Minnesota, a twenty minute drive from the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. As Yehupitz's go, this one doesn't have many if any Jews. And out of this Yehupitz came Deke, a Coffee shop owner whose Jewish name is Chaim Branchaud-Linsk, a Jew from North Minneapolis.

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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH. The final letters were written this afternoon at the Rivkin residence on Crown St, following which the Sefer Torah was escorted by hundreds of Crown Heights residence in dance to 770 where Hakafos were held.

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LIVINGSTON, NJ — Friendship Circle has had its first official game. The team, whose 14 teenage and young adult players have special needs, had practiced for seven weeks in basketball clinics that are part of the group's Teen Scene program. Its opponent was the Jaguars, a group of middle school kids from Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy.

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BONDI, Australia [AJN] — In a desperate bid to broker a deal, Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue’s embattled Rabbi Moshe Gutnick is seeking a court order to block an upcoming vote that will make his position redundant and force the matter before a Jewish court.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Rabbi Gutnick filed an application with the NSW Supreme Court seeking a declaration to have conditions over his employment mediated before a beth din.

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In honor of the second JLI Unity Lecture that was held on Sunday March 29, a new video by Chaim Fogelman was produced, released and shown for the hundreds of locations that were tuned in. The video conveys the message of our unity, hope and belief and is very appropriate for our times.

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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday at around 8:30pm a Lubavitch woman was struck by a car driven by two bochurim. It happened on the corner of Kingston Ave and President St.

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This niggun on the Rebbe's new Kapitel was submitted to CrownHeights.info. Composed by Moishy Goldstein, a bochur at the Oholei Torah Mesivta. The song is based on Kapital Kuf Ches in Tehillim. Enjoy!

MELBOURNE, Australia — Over the past 2 months there have been many hachonos taking place in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melboune Australia in the lead up to Yud Alef Nisan.

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We would like to wish a Mazel Tov to Akiva and Ruti (nee York) Danzinger (Toronto, Canada) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Rabbi Eli Goodman, the Rebbe's Shliach to Long Beach, is famous for being innovative and talented. Here is one of newest innovations- a virtual invitation to his kehilla, and the local Jews of Long Beach, to take part in the rarest Jewish event of them all- Birchas HaChamoh.

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We would like to wish a Mazel Tov to Arieh and Dvorah Leah (nee Zagury) Raichman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

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BROOKLYN, NY — A truck from City Harvest pulled up on a recent weekday to a food pantry in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Midwood, Brooklyn. The driver stepped out and unloaded cabbages, bananas and Tropicana juice containers bearing labels with the letter “K” in a circle, indicating that they were kosher.

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Preparations are in full swing for the Annual Mitzvah Tank Parade. The Parade is slated to take place on Thursday, April 2nd, the 8th of Nissan, in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s upcoming 107th Birthday the following Sunday, 11 Nissan.

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Film offers frightening glimpse unto U.S. terrorism training camps.

They are unusually inspiring people. I’m sitting with Rabbi Zalman and Mrs. Chanie Wolowik just 22 days after their nine-year-old son, Levi Yitzchok, a’h, suddenly and inexplicably passed away. This coming Monday night, the Five Towns and Far Rockaway communities, and indeed Jewish communities far and wide around the world, will be marking the sheloshim, the end of the 30-day period since Levi’s passing.

“The house feels empty without Levi,” says Chanie. “He was my sidekick and went almost everywhere and did everything with Zalman,” she said. Their older son, Mendel, is away attending Yeshiva in Detroit and the next boy is seven years old, she explains, so just when they had started to have another big boy around the house they are now once again, she feels, dealing almost exclusively with little kids.

As Chabad sh’lichim in the Five Towns, the Wolowiks are natural born leaders. Still, however, they are first and foremost parents, who are raising a beautiful family and who raised a remarkable young man who left us for reasons that are far beyond our comprehension but certainly way too soon.

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Nashville's only kosher food show, KOSHERfoodFEST, will be Sunday, March 29, at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, 801 Percy Warner Blvd.

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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Maxim Cohen (South Manchester, UK) and Chana Rose (Manchester, UK) on their engagement.

Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Late Friday afternoon, a young Black man aroused the suspicion of a Police foot-patrol on Lefferts Avenue, prompting a short chase and the arrest of the individual for possession of narcotics with the intent to sell.

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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aaron and Meira Gewirtz (Bay Harbor, FL) on the birth of their daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

GLENDALE, CA [CHI] — Rabbi Simcha Backman, Director of Chabad of Glendale and the Foothill Communities, delivers the invocation for the City Council.

BROOKLYN, NY - He died as he lived — sadly.

Yosef ben Mirayum (Jeffrey) Schneider never married or had children. Always in debt, he was forced to sell his house. Bookies followed him trying to collect. For years he had threatened to commit suicide.

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Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.

Yitzchk ben Rochel

The doctors say that he has only six months left to live.

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid and Chevie (nee Avtzon) Treger (Jerusalem, Israel) on the birth of their son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — Last week the Cheder at the Ohel joined the many Lubavitcher schools worldwide that are part of the all-new Chayolei Tzivos Hashem. The elite brigade, exclusively for Lubavitcher children, marks a revolutionary new phase in the Rebbe’s vision for soldiers in Hashem’s army. The students were very thrilled to be involved in this great program and are eagerly waiting to climb the ranks by fulfilling their missions!

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From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day's passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [WABC] — A neighborhood memorial started with one poster — one painful note to the victims and their family.

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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Goldberg (Yerres, France) and Malkie Mellul (Creteil, France) on their engagement.

The L'Chaim will IYH be tonight, Sunday at 711 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Albany Ave].

Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!

Benny Friedman (S. Paul, MN) and Chanale Gopin (Crown Heights).
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Shmuel Goldberg (Yerres, France) and Malkie Mellul (Creteil, France).
IYH 8:30pm at 711 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Albany Ave].