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Kabbalah-Infused Shabbat In Westwood

Posted by on Mar 19, 2013 in Chabad | 0 comments

Westwood Jewish Center 1651 Westwood Blvd L.A. 90024 is a short walk from the “W” & the Palomar hotels.

Celebrate Shabbos, make new friends & enjoy festive meals all while learning about Jewish mysticism, kabbalah, reincarnation & more- from world renowned experts!

Ever wished you met Albert Einstein? Well, the Albert Einsteins Of Judaism and kabbalah, Rabbi & Mrs. Freeman are here as our featured speakers for the pre- Pesach Shabatton. Topics include: “Men, women & Kabbalah”, “Life after life” & more. Make sure to bring all your questions about Judaism, Kabblah or even personal questions.

Candle lighting 6:49 followed by kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv.

Shabbaton Schedule:
8:00 PM Kiddush & Dinner – “Is There Life After Life?” Mrs. Nomi Freeman
9:00 am- pre services refreshments & Jewish mysticism class
9:30 am – Morning services
10:15 am -Torah Reading
12:00 pm – Rabbi Kashani sermon
12:45 pm – Kiddush & lunch – “How to find your Bashert & keep it”- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
6:00 pm – Mincha followed by Ma’ariv
7:45 pm -Havdalah & rooftop Kumzitz

Costs:
Students/ group (10 or more) rate- $50 for the entire Shabbaton or $18 per meal/ Havdalah Rooftop Kumzitz (Contact Vered kashani for that rate)
others:
$36 per meal or $99 for all Shabbat meal. Havdalah &Rooftop Kumzitz INCLUDED
Bring a friend and save: $150 per couple
For a special $149 rate for a double- bed room (up to 5 (FIVE!) people) @ the Palomar call Matthew @ (424) 901-7264 and ask for the Westwood Jewish center rate

Limited scholarships available.
TO REGISTER:

http://www.jewishwestwood.com/upcoming-events/

For more info call (310) 312-5617
(310) 441-1018
E-mail Veredkashani@gmail.com

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Purim Party Saturday Night In 90035

Posted by on Feb 19, 2013 in Chabad | 0 comments

Join AMIT and SOLA for:
Purim in Heaven – Bringing Heaven Down to Earth

WHEN: Sat. Feb 23rd. Doors Open at 10pm

WHERE: SOLA – 1627 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035

COST: $10 (if in costume), $15 (without costume)

Megillah reading every hour, 2 x Full Bars, Live DJ’s, Hookah & chill out room, live music performances, kosher food for purchase

THIS IS KNOWN TO BE THE BEST PARTY IN PICO. WE ARE THE OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY AND WILL BE ROCKING UNTIL 2AM.

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The Best Kiddish In Pico-Robertson

Posted by on May 8, 2012 in Chabad |

Once you go to Chabad of Beverlywood on Robertson Blvd and sample their tasty kiddish (snack after prayers), you’ll find it hard to stay away.

Another Chabad shul a few blocks away is equally friendly and hospitable — ChabadSola.com. This Chabad is looking to expand and is launching their building campaign with a big party the evening of May 9. Chabad SOLA plans a big Jewish community center and mikveh and Jewish pre-school.

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Purim on the Red Carpet At Chabad SOLA

Posted by on Feb 20, 2012 in Chabad |

From ChabadSOLA.com:

Chabad of SOLA & Kesher Events present:

PURIM ON THE RED CARPET – The Ultimate SOLA-bration…

WHEN: Wed. March 7th at 9:30pm

WHERE: SOLA – 1627 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90035

WHO: The entire community. Everyone is welcome!

COST: $10 at the door, & free drink ticket for those in costume

Evening Entertainment includes:
- Full cash bar
- Live DJ and dancing
- Food for Purchase
- Megillah reading on the hour
- Chill out room/ hookah lounge
- Lots and lots of l’chaims

Put this one in your calendar: Pre-Pesach Shabbaton on the 23 rd of March. Services at 6.45 and meal at 7.30pm at @ SOLA – 1627 S. La Cienega

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Sunday Chanukah Party

Posted by on Dec 21, 2011 in Chabad |

Sunday Chanuka Chassidic Song Festival!

This Sunday Dec 25. 2:30-5:00 pm. La Cienega Plaza (Corner of La Cienega & 18th)
MOSHAV BAND!
Help build a lego Menora!
Children’s rally!
Grand Menora Lighting!
A Joint project of:
Chabad of Beverlywood 310-836-6770 www.chabadofbeverlywood.com
The Chabad Garden School 310-288-5920 www.mygardenschool.com
Chabad of SOLA 310-739-1890 wwwchabadsola.com
The Jewish Montessori Preschool 424-288-4633 www.chabadsola.com

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Light Up The Night!

Posted by on Dec 21, 2011 in Chabad |

Light Up The Night 7:00 pm
Come to a grand menirah lighting celebration with Chabad & Wells Fargo Bank

there will be Music Rides, face Painting, Food for Purchase, A Juggler & Tight Rope Walker Show, Gift for Every Child
Event Location: 8901 West Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90035

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Chanukkah Fun Carnival

Posted by on Dec 5, 2010 in Chabad |

Grand Chanuka Festival! Starting in a few minutes!!

Grand Chanuka festival at La Cienega Square (corner of 18th), December 5th. 11:00 pm – 2:00 pm.

15 TONS OF SNOW!!

Concession Stands! Game Booths! New Toddler Play Area! Adrenaline Rush Race Course! Amazing Bungy Flight! Chanukah Crafts! Rock Climbing!!

For more info visit www.chanukafun.com.

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Helping Jewish Schools

Posted by on Aug 31, 2010 in Chabad |

Leah Kleim posts: Can you please post this ? I dunno what your take on Chabad is but its for a good deed, and its the month of Elul, we can all use as many of those as we can get, worst case scenerio … my name brings you more traffic.

basically its a genius idea in marketing.
kohls (this time) needs to donate a lot of money to charity for tax reasons or whatever.
So they are donating 10 million to schools. 20 schools can receive $500.000 to be used for a specific project. So they can build a new classroom or playground or buy computers but can’t pay salaries with it.

So kohls got smart and instead of donating all their charity to one school in afghanistan which would get them a 3 line article in some local newspaper they decided to get their money’s worth. So they made this thing online where first you have to click the like button on their page and allow them (limited) access to some info from your account (which of course can be used for targeted advertizing in the future). Then you have 20 votes to give out to any of the schools on the list. There are certain guidelines as to which schools qualify but basically all jewish private school can be in there. You can vote up to 5 times per school. So most people vote for 4 different schools but some others give 1 vote each to 20 differnt schools.
Some schools got really into it and started investing a lot of money to stay in the top 20. This resulted in crazy webtraffic with youtube promos and also got people to stand in malls and pizza shops to promote their cause. This made the news so kohls ended up being discussed by many newspapers and tv stations.
At the moment there are a bunch of jewish schools in the top 20 incl some lubavitch ones. And unless some schools have some surprises for us, the race will be between the top25 or so schools. Lubavitch yeshiva was holding 16th place a few hours ago and is working hard to maintain that spot in the top 20. By now it is important to vote for jewish school on the bottom of the top 20 and not give any votes to the higher ones which will possibly push out a jewish number 20.
So better give it to a jewish #22 or 19 (if thats the case) or dont use the other votes at all.
Everyone has heard about the voting and many ppl have actually wasted their votes already but i believe that there r many ppl like u out there that never bothered looking into it.
In order to get people’s attention again I created an event with a catchy name where it is easy to invite ppl (just click the select guest to invite button and select all your friends). It also explains why it is important to actually vote this time.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156315057712502

so go vote (u can go directly to voteuly.com) and invite all ur friends. It doesn’t matter if they know who and what the school is. Fact is that it is tomchei temimim and that is an institution founded by the Rebbe Rashab and always close to the Rebbe’s heart so i figured it won’t hurt to endorse it.
http://leahkleimblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/help-tomchei-temimim.html

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Gila Manolson Speaks In Los Angeles Tonight

Posted by on Nov 18, 2009 in Chabad |

Gila Manolson
celebrated author of The Magic Touch, Outside/Inside, and Head to Heart

The Media’s Effect on Self-Image and Modesty

Wednesday, November 18 at 8 PM
for men and women
$12 pre-registration
$15 at the door

sponsorships available

Jewish Learning Exchange
512 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-0923
www.jlela.com
info@jlela.com

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Chabad, MOT Want To Grow, Neighbors Opposed

Posted by on Dec 14, 2008 in Chabad, MOT |

From the Los Angeles Times:

On most weekdays, young boys in yarmulkes can be seen hanging out with friends in front of the new kosher Subway sandwich shop, while Orthodox women in modest dress stroll past Judaica stores and synagogues along Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles.

Dubbed the “Kosher District” by some planners, this roughly 12-block stretch near Robertson Boulevard has exploded in recent years with restaurants, shops and religious institutions aimed at serving the neighborhood’s growing Jewish population.

But the project has sparked protests among Westside residents weary of increasing traffic and overcrowding in an already bustling neighborhood. Similar battles have erupted in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills as the area struggles with more growth.

Neighbors are threatening legal action against Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish outreach organization, over its proposal to construct a new girls school, condos, a ritual bathhouse and retail stores on the boulevard between Wetherly and Crest drives.

Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, the head of Chabad of California, said his group has been battling neighborhood opposition in one form or another across the region for the last 40 years. These days that opposition includes some of its Jewish neighbors.

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Chabad’s Plans For Pico/Robertson

Posted by on Oct 2, 2008 in Chabad |

Rebecca Spence writes:

Los Angeles — The ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement is famous for multitasking, with its religious services, schools and museums, but a new development in Los Angeles is taking Chabad in an unexpected direction: the commercial and residential real estate business.

Chabad of California is angling to build a massive, mixed-use development that would include a girl’s high school with its own dormitories, 32 residential condominiums, and seven retail shops, in the heart of the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood. The proposed complex — which is raising hackles amongst some neighborhood activists — would dwarf other existing buildings that line the pedestrian-friendly stretch of Pico Boulevard.

Hasidic sects are not new to the residential real estate business. The Satmars, for example, have long managed housing complexes in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. But Chabad has gotten into the act more recently.

The most glaring difference between the Satmar community — which has spread beyond the confines of Brooklyn and established itself in the Catskill village of Kiryas Joel — and Chabad is that Chabad is staking its claim within the urban confines.

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The Jewish Learning Exchange Cares

Posted by on Sep 22, 2008 in Chabad |

The Jewish Learning Exchange is located at 512 N. La Brea.

I remember taking a beginner’s Hebrew class there. It was taught by the boss — Rabbi Avrohom Czapnik. He was exceedingly patient and good humored despite the many stupid interruptions he endured from some of the dimmer bulbs in the class.

When I missed a session, I found two CDs and a packet of notes in my mail box, providing everything I’d missed.

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Jewish Learning Academy

Posted by on Sep 22, 2008 in Chabad |

The Jewish Learning Academy is located at 9581 W. Pico Blvd, 90035.

I hear: “The rabbi’s really cute, so the women’s section was full.”

“There was little singing during the davening. They just speed through.”

“They had two types of cholent and three types of salad at the kiddush.”

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The Spiritual Peace Corp

Posted by on Aug 3, 2008 in Chabad |

Josh Fleet writes:

For the past week and a half, Rabbis Sholom Laine and Mendel Levin have spent most mornings in their rented car driving to a city, town or highway they’ve never heard of before.

The first week it was Ocala, Beverly Hills, Lecanto, Inverness, Lake City and Live Oak.

This week it’s places closer to Gainesville: Williston, Archer, Alachua, Starke and Waldo.

Laine, 22, and Levin, 23, don’t know anyone in these towns. Some days they have a short list of names. Other days they open the phone book and run their fingers down the columns, looking for familiar-sounding names.

“Sometimes you just look in the phone book for the Goldbergs,” Laine said. “And the Steins,” Levin added.

The rabbis are staying at the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center just north of the University of Florida, as members of the “spiritual peace corps,” as they call it.

They’re looking for Jews in places where Jewish life is hard to find.

They go to these places to visit with Jews who may have no rabbi, no temple, no Jewish community center.

Recently ordained rabbis from Brooklyn, N.Y., Laine and Levin came to Gainesville at the invitation of Lubavitch-Chabad Rabbi Berl Goldman. Laine plans to work with Goldman through UF’s fall semester.

For the spiritually and communally isolated Jews in North Central Florida, meeting with the two men, who identify with one of the most conservative branches of Judaism, can be an experience.

In Lake City on Monday, for instance, Laine and Levin met with a woman in the local public library because she wasn’t comfortable inviting them to her home.

With long and unkempt beards, black skull caps, black pants and white button-up shirts, the two men stand out in a crowd, although the rabbis did catch the eye of a man with an Israeli accent, who approached with questions of his own.

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Chabad Rabbi Found Guilty Of Zoning Violation

Posted by on Jul 29, 2008 in Chabad, Rabbis |

From APP.com:

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Seven members of the township Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously decided Thursday that a local rabbi is, in fact, running a house of worship out of his home.

“If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it probably is a duck,” zoning board member William Nero said before the board voted. “And without question, this is a duck.”

Nero was referring to 351 Stillwells Corner Road, the home of Rabbi Avraham Bernstein.

Bernstein’s neighbors have long complained that Bernstein is running religious services out of his home, which is located across the street from the township Municipal Complex.

The township does permit houses of worship in residential areas, but requires a use variance for their operation. Bernstein — a member of the Jewish organization Chabad Lubavitch — does not have a use variance to run services out of his home.

After years of mounting frustration among his neighbors, one — Paul Sweda, who lives next to Bernstein — asked the zoning board to determine whether Bernstein is operating a house of worship in violation of the township’s zoning ordinances.

The board began hearing the case in January. During the hearing process, the board heard from several witnesses who described watching people visit Bernstein’s home on Fridays and Saturdays, and observing what they believed to be religious celebrations at the house.

Based on that testimony and their own observations, board members said they felt assured that Bernstein’s home met the definition of a house of worship.

To be a house of worship, a property must be used for traditional services, meetings or gatherings of an organized religious body or community, which are presided over by an ordained or “otherwise officially recognized” leader of the body or community.

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‘A Black Day For Israel’

Posted by on Jul 17, 2008 in Chabad |

(lubavitch.com) After two years of speculation about the condition of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah terrorists on the Israel-Lebanese border in the summer 2006, the remains of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were transferred to Israel earlier today.

The two black coffins, delivered to the Israeli military as part of a swap in which Israel released five Lebanese prisoners, among them a notorious terrorist, were first confirmation that both soldiers were dead.

“It is a truly black day,” said Chabad’s Rabbi Dovid Meir Drukman, who is chief rabbi of Kiryat Mozkin where the family of Eldad Regev resides. Drukman has been in close contact with the family throughout their ordeal, and was with them today. Though he acknowledged that the return of the bodies allows for the soldiers to finally receive a Jewish burial, the swap brought bitter closure to the families who’ve endured two years of campaigning for their return.

“This is a tragic ending to a very drawn out saga of great anguish,” said Rabbi Drukman. The families’s pain, he said, “is reflective of the feeling that prevails today in Israel at large.”

Rabbi Moshe Oirechman, Chabad representative to the area, visited the Goldwasser family, and lit memorial candles as is customary. Chabad representatives spent time with both families, and in the course of the day, encouraged many of the locals who turned out to express their sympathy, to do a mitzvah in memory of the soldiers.

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America’s Freedom Festival

Posted by on Jul 10, 2008 in Chabad |

From chabad.org:

Rabbi Benny Zippel, the Salt Lake City-based executive director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Utah, delivered the opening invocation for America’s Freedom Festival in Provo.

In his address at Brigham Young University’s Marriott Center, Zippel referred to the Seven Noahide Laws recorded in the Torah and incumbent upon all human beings.

“In recognizing you, O G-d, as the sovereign creator and ruler of the universe,” he said, “we are fulfilling the first of seven commandments which you, O G-d, gave to Noah and his family … the command to worship you and you alone.”

Zippel also took the opportunity to note that the 14th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, would be observed a few days later.

“The Rebbe was a great patriot, always extolling the virtue of patriotism to his constituents,” said Zippel. “May his memory be for a blessing, and his for a shield for our government and our country.” Occurring just days before Independence Day, the June 29 celebration drew a record attendance of more than 17,000 people. …

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Australia’s Chabad Leader Dies

Posted by on Jul 7, 2008 in Australia, Chabad |

From AJN.com.au:

THE leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Australia, Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, died on Monday morning after a lengthy illness.

It is expected that he will be buried in Israel alongside members of his family, but a memorial service will be organised in Melbourne in his honour.

Rabbi Groner, 83, arrived in Melbourne in 1958 from the United States as the head shaliach (emissary) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

He built up the Chabad community to its current sizeable population.

The Chabad community now includes the 1000-student Yeshivah and Beth Rivkah Colleges, the Yeshivah Gedolah and countless Chabad synagogues and learning institutions around Melbourne.

Rabbi Groner’s children are continuing his work in spreading Yiddishkeit. His sons lead Chabad House of Glen Eira and Ohel Devorah and his daughter and her husband run Chabad House of Malvern.

His son-in-law, Rabbi Zvi Telsner, was appointed assistant rabbi of Yeshivah during Rabbi Groner’s illness.

Rabbi Groner’s work has been acknowledged across the Jewish and general communities.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, then Prime Minister John Howard said “his service to the spiritual needs of countless members of the Jewish community, as rabbi, mentor, counsellor, or friend, has seen him develop the enviable reputation as the people’s rabbi”.

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Chabad Rabbi Seeks Jews Who’ve Fallen Away

Posted by on Jul 5, 2008 in Chabad |

From the Tennessean.com:

For a man who is constantly busy, Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel doesn’t seem in much of a hurry.

Sitting at a table near the ark that houses the Torah scrolls in the Beit Tefilah synagogue on a recent Friday, Tiechtel holds a yad, or Torah pointer, in one hand as he talks. In the other hand, his BlackBerry chimes almost constantly.

In the background, Lee Becker, a volunteer, carries in brownies and helps set up for a dinner and Shabbat service. Once the setup is complete and his morning meetings are done, Tiechtel will leave the Bellevue office complex that’s home to the synagogue and head downtown. An acquaintance has asked him to hang mezuzah, small bits of parchment with Torah verses inscribed on them, on the doorpost of the office.

It’s all in a day’s work for Tiechtel, a foot soldier in the Rebbe’s Army.

He’s one of more than 3,000 sluchim, or emissaries, sent out by Chabad (www.chabad.org), a worldwide Jewish group with headquarts in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. Followers of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn, the fellow sluchim are an unusual kind of missionaries. Unlike Christian missionaries, who seek new converts, Chabad sluchim hope to persuade secular Jews to return to the fold.

There’s been a Chabad presence in Nashville since the 1950s, when Rabbi Zalman Posner and his wife, Risya, arrived from Crown Heights as emissaries. The Posners became pillars of the Jewish community. They started the Akiva Academy Hebrew Day School, and Posner, a scholar and author, led Congregation Sherith Israel until retiring in 2002.

Tiechtel arrived nine years ago to become headmaster of the Akiva School. Not long after arriving, he left Akiva to start the Chabad Center for Jewish Awareness (www.nashvillejewish.org). The center runs classes and a summer camp, puts out an annual calendar and lights menorahs in public spaces during Hanukkah.

The group is also raising funds to build a permanent home in Bellevue, which will include a kosher Internet cafe, a synagogue and a mikvah, or ritual bath.

Being an emissary runs in Tiechtel’s family. The oldest of 10 children has six siblings who serve as sluchim in Berlin, Germany; Illinois; and Arizona.

All were inspired by their grandmother, an immigrant from Russia whose father was arrested and killed by the Soviet government for running a cheder, or Hebrew school, in Leningrad.

“I’m just carrying on the work my great-grandfather started,” he said.

Tiechtel compares his mission to that of a lamplighter. “There’s a light in every person that comes from God,” he said, “but someone has to light the wick for that light to shine.”

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50 Years Of Chabad Outreach To Michigan

Posted by on Jun 30, 2008 in Chabad |

 From the Detroit Free Press:

“Hi, does anyone Jewish work in this office?”

Every Friday, that question is asked by 50 pairs of young men from an Orthodox Jewish group who fan out across metro Detroit to various buildings in a weekly mission to help nonobservant Jews get in touch with their faith. Marking 50 years in Michigan this month, the group — known as Chabad Lubavitch — has grown from just one center in Detroit to 18 institutions across Michigan, several schools and a network of emissaries who have brought alive Judaism in areas without any other Jewish centers such as Novi and Commerce Township.

And they do it in an affable manner that has endeared them to other members of the Jewish community.

Up to 40% of metro Detroit’s roughly 72,000 Jews have taken part in some way in Chabad programs, say local leaders. The group is now in the process of building a new center for the Michigan Jewish Institute — the latest addition to a $15-million plus complex in West Bloomfield that also features centers for disabled children and addicts of all backgrounds.

Chabad’s efforts come at a time of concern among some American Jews that assimilation and intermarriage are decreasing their numbers and vitality. The group hopes to stem that trend with programs that reach out to Jewish people, no matter how out of touch they may be with their heritage.

“Chabad is nonjudgmental,” said Jerry Beale, 65, of West Bloomfield, explaining the group’s popularity. “They don’t look at who’s more religious, who’s less religious; they look at everyone with dignity and respect … there’s a warmth there.”

Chabad — an acronym that contains the Hebrew words for wisdom, knowledge and understanding — was a Hasidic sect started in Russia in the 18th Century that emphasized the importance of using the rational mind to control emotional instincts. Its 20th-Century leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Rebbe, expanded the group into a global movement. Based in Brooklyn, Chabad sends emissaries — usually young married couples — to communities around the world in up to 70 countries. The first couple sent to Detroit arrived in 1958.

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