Like the Original, 770 of Cincinnati is Expanding to the House Next Door!

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“We look at this opportunity as a special bracha and thank you from the Rebbe”, says Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Director of Yeshivas Lubavitch – Cincinnati “When we were renovating the Yeshiva to look like ‘770’ some donors complained that the focus should be a dorm, not external renovations. I said that you will see that we will end up with both! Sure enough, soon after we completed the renovations, the house right near 770 became available to purchase. Just as “770” owns – and expanded to – the house next door (library), we will iyh do the same!” • Donate

Breaking: Quebec Goes Into Lockdown Over Omicron Surge

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Canada’s Quebec province announced that as of 5PM today it is closing schools, bars, gyms and movie theatres in an effort to slow the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. It reported a record 4,571 new cases in the last 24 hours • Full Story

Rostov: Bochurim Help Conduct Jewish Burial Near Rebbe Rashab

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When a group from Moscow, Russia’s Bolshaya Bronya community ended up being delayed as their plane attempted to land in the city of Rostov, little did they know that divine providence would lead them to help complete a Jewish burial in the town’s cemetery, yards away from the ohel of the Rebbe Rashab • Full Story, Photos, Video

Jews Remain Most Targeted Group for NYC Hate Crimes

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Hate crimes committed against Jews and Asians surged in New York City in 2021, with the highest concentration occurring in Manhattan, according to data provided by the NYPD. Across New York hate crimes have doubled this year, in large part due to the spike in incidents against Jews and Asians • Full Story

Man Fatally Shot After Confrontation With Police In Crown Heights

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Police in Brooklyn opened fire and fatally shot a man armed with a knife early Monday morning. The incident occurred on Eastern Parkway, near the corner of Utica Avenue, in the Crown Heights neighborhood, an NYPD spokesperson said • Full Story

What is Rabbi Avtzon Pointing to?

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Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati is synonymous with dedicated Chassidishe Chinuch and high academic achievement. The Talmidim are encouraged and inspired to strengthen their Hiskashrus to the Rebbe and to be passionate about our shlichus of preparing ourselves, and the world, for the coming of Moshiach. “We are so proud of our alumni, ” says Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, the Rosh Yeshiva. One of our challenges is the inability to accept, and inspire, more Talmidim as there was no space in the dorm • Full Story, Photos, Video

Heart Inflammation Cases Emerge Among 5- To 11-Year-Old Kids After COVID-19 Shot

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it received reports of eight cases of a heart inflammation called myocarditis in children ages 5 to 11 who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 with Pfizer-BioNTech • Full Story

Incoming NYC Comptroller Says He Will Push Yeshivas to Teach Secular Subjects

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New York City’s incoming comptroller, Brad Lander, said that he would use all of his power and resources to force yeshivas into teaching secular curriculum. “The state law is very clear that all schools, including private and parochial schools, have an obligation to deliver substantially comparable and competent secular education, especially where the city is contracting with those schools for transportation and books,” said Lander, who is a Jew • Full Story

Israel to Discuss U.S., Canada Travel Ban as Omicron Spreads

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The Israeli Health Ministry has recommended that starting Tuesday at midnight the US, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Morocco, Germany, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland and Turkey will be designated as ‘red’ countries, which means that Israelis are banned from traveling to these countries • Full Story

Wiretaps Reveal How Mumbai Chabad was Chosen as Target

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Terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai attacks were heard on telephone wiretaps planning to attack the Chabad House, where six Jews were murdered. The recordings reveal that the centre, rather than being an opportunistic target, was sought out as a Jewish location • Full Story

Minister Promises Radicaly Different Lag Baomer in Meron

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Israeli rescue forces and police at the scene after a mass fatality scene during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer on Mt. Meron, in northern Israel on April 30, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ל"ג בעומר לג בעומר אסון קריסה במה מתים אנשים חסידים חרדים חג הר מרון הר מירון

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Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana says he has been tasked with overseeing Lag B’Omer celebrations at Mount Meron next year, following last year’s deadly crush that claimed the lives of 45 people, in Israel’s worst-ever peacetime disaster • Full Story

Chevron: Israeli Stabbed Next To Me’aras Hamachpeila

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An Israeli man was stabbed and lightly injured by a female terrorist near Me’aras Hamachepeila in Chevron on Shabbos morning at about 10:45 a.m. The victim, a 35-year-old resident of Kiryat Arba, fought off the terrorist, 65, for several minutes until Border Police officers arrived and detained her • Full Story

Shabbos Times for Parshas Vayechi

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ChabadInfo.com wishes you a good Shabbos! Above are Shabbos times for five major Lubavitch communities. Consider joining one of the “ChabadInfo Updates” Whatsapp group in order to get vital information directly to your message inbox • Join

HISTORIC: First Torah Started in Abu Dhabi with Help of Israeli PM

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On his recent historic first trip to the UAE, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett partook in another historic moment. With the help of UAE Shliach Rabbi Levi Duchman, the PM wrote the first letters of a new Sefer Torah, the first to be started in the UAE’s capital city Abu Dhabi • Full Story, Photos

Mysterious Virus Infecting Thousands Of Yeshivah Bochurim

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Thousands of yeshivah bochurim throughout Israel have fallen ill in recent weeks with a mysterious virus with symptoms of high fever, stomach pain, cold symptoms and especially severe weakness. The virus, which began before Chanukah in some yeshivos and others more recently, has hit yeshivos in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and Elad as well as in Kfar Chabad and other yishuvim. There are now reports that the virus has spread to American bochurim as well • Full Story

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Koby Berkowitz – Sydney Australia to Chana Weiss Sherman Oaks, CA.

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in The Garden House 1386 S. Johns PL

Moshe Gordon – Crown Heights to Chayale Movsikov – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) 571 Albany Ave.

Shmuly Golomb – Crown Heights to Mushky Steinmetz – Briarwood, NY

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in F.R.E.E. 1383 President St.