Only Simchas in The Jewish Star 6-26-09

Issue of June 26, 2009 / 4 Tammuz 5769

Engagements

• Engagement of Yaakov Walden (Monsey, NY) & Rochel Segal (Brooklyn, NY) — June 16, 2009
• Engagement of Ary Nudell (Baltimore, MD) & Ahuva Rayman (Monsey, NY) — June 15, 2009

Bar Mitzvahs

• Bar Mitzvah of Avromy Streicher (Brooklyn, NY) — June 20, 2009
• Bar Mitzvah of Yossi Scheff (Brooklyn, NY) — June 15, 2009
• Bar Mitzvah of Eitan Goldblatt (Monsey, NY) — June 15, 2009

Graduation

• Graduation of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Semicha Class of 2009 (New York) — June 21, 2009

New little Kohen A new little Kohen, Yosef Eliyahu ben Baruch HaCohen Caplan, was born on Monday morning, June 15, 2009 to Baruch and Aliza Weiner Caplan of Far Rockaway. His bris was on June 22 at Sh’or Yoshuv where the sandek was Rabbi Naftali Jaeger, the Rosh HaYeshiva. Yosef Eliyahu was named in memory of both ancestors and Gedolim — Yosef for the Ben Ish Chai, Hakham Yosef Chaim MeBagdad, and for his paternal third great-grandfather, Joseph A. Balinky; and Eliyahu for the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, as well as for his maternal great-grandfather, Elias Weiner, and his paternal sixth great-grandfather, Eliash Bochur. He has been warmly welcomed by big sisters Esther Malka, Chana Rivka, and Sarah; cousins Gwen, Owen, and Shawn; Uncle Hillel, Aunt Joann, Aunt Elana; and grandparents, Neil and Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan of Long Beach, and Judith Marks and Mordechai Weiner of Cedarhurst.