The Weekly Sedra – Tzav

This week’s section continues the laws of the animal sacrifices adding, among other things, the details of the Korbon Toda – the Thanksgiving Offering.

This special offering was not brought anytime but rather only on the four occasions enumerated in Psalm 107: after getting out of prison, crossing a sea, crossing a desert or recovering from a serious disease.

This is very appropriate to the holiday of Passover (which we celebrate this coming week) when we give thanks to HaShem for exactly these four miracles. He took us out of Egyptian imprisonment, across the ‘Red’ sea, through the desert and to the revelation at Mount Sinai where all diseases were cured.

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Picture of the Day – 770 In Snow!

770 in snow, this morning.

Forecasts predicted that we would get some snow fall today, in the spring a week away from Pesach. Well it came down covering cars and grass patches, for a few hours. By the time the afternoon came around it all began melting.

The snowfall this morning brought the total to 40 inches of snow for this winter and it is the 4th consecutive winter that we got over 40 inches, compared to the average of 28.8 for the average winter.

When You Push Too Much You’re Bound To Meet Resistance

A Sergeant and A Detective letting out some aggression on one bystander

In what can only be described as the worst resistance to the police abuse we have been suffering of these ticket blitzes. 75 year old Arthur Schick who is reported to be deaf in one ear was ‘pulled over’ by police officers at around 6:30pm in front of the Schick’s Bakery on 16th Ave. between 47th St. and 48th St. for speaking on his cell phone. Many eye witnesses said that he was double parked while on the phone and was not driving. However as most of us know, when these ‘cops’ are out there just to give tickets, they will give them to anyone, regardless whether they deserve it or not.

When Mr. Schick attempted to exit his vehicle, one of the cops shoved him back into his car, this is when the whole altercation started. After this he tried to exit again at which point the cops pulled him out, cuffed him, and shoved him into their van. A crowd gathered in protest to the way Mr. Schick was treated and the fact that he got a ticket the way he did.

Garbage was dumped onto the street and set ablaze, a level one mobilization was then called by police for a crowd starting fires and rioting. This was the beginning of a standoff lasting more then 5 hours, in which cops persecuted and instigated the large crowds of Bochurim and men. Cries of “Don’t Back Down, Don’t Be Pushed Around” followed by “6 Million Jews Died For Not Standing Up” were heard throughout the crowd, including slurs directed at the cops calling them ‘Nazis’ and the likes. All this in front of the eyes of the entire local media, Print, Radio and TV.

More pictures of in the Extended Article.

Hasidic Jews Mob Streets, Set Fires In Brooklyn Protest

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Hundreds of angry Hasidic Jews poured into the streets in Borough Park Tuesday night, snarling traffic and setting fires to protest the arrest of a senior member of their community.

The elderly man was arrested after being stopped for talking on his cell phone while driving, according to police. The man refused to hand over his license and registration, and the officers arrested him after a struggle, police said.

Police added that when they tried to take the man into custody, other people in the area interceded.

Chabad House of Midtown Manhattan Prepares for Pesach

A series of interesting classes have opened last night in the Colel of the Manhattan Chabad House, with the first class presented by Rabbi Bogomilsky who elaborated on Pesach laws that are of special concern to Shluchim.

This year, the Chabad House of Midtown Manhattan will be holding a public Seder for Israelis in addition to the two traditional public Seders it holds annually.

The JP Pick’s up story from CrownHeights.info

CrownHeights.info had been growing at an amazing rate. From a small 900 visitors a month we amounted to a strong 20,000 visits a day, and major news organizations are starting to take notice of this.

In this past week the we ran an article that was republished by the Jewish Press and was circulated world wide in their globally read newspaper.

An ‘exodus’ at B’klyn museum

Newsday

Even as frogs began falling from the ceiling, a group of fifth-graders visiting the new Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn didn’t miss a beat.

They knew what to expect as dozens of the toy amphibians, suspended on strings, stopped short of their heads.

They were experiencing – vicariously – one of the biblical 10 plagues depicted in “The Exodus,” an unusual interactive show at the $35 million, one-of-a-kind museum in the borough’s Crown Heights section.

Timed to coincide with Passover, which begins April 13, the story of the Jews’ enslavement in ancient Egypt and their miraculous escape is brought to life in an educational and entertaining voyage through history that is being presented through April 17.