Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended on Wednesday, March 21 to facilitate snow removal. Parking meters and other parking regulations remain in effect.
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A few months ago I was walking in Times Square in New York City and there were two Chabadniks handing out literature proclaiming that the Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, was the Messiah (Moshiach). They were in competition with a guy up the street with a sign proclaiming the end of the world and that Jesus will save us if we believe in him.
Being a curious person, or maybe just a contentious one, I approached the Chabad-Lubavitchers and asked how the Rebbe could be the Messiah since he died in 1994 and was buried in Queens? They responded that he really wasn’t dead and that the person buried in the grave in Queens was his father-in-law. I walked away amused and a little irritated that these jokers were there in the name of Judaism. Last month my wife, Lynne, and I were in the subterranean 42nd Street subway station and another Chabad Chasid was distributing literature. Not to offend him, heaven forbid, I took what he was offering. It is this handout that I want to discuss. Hold on to your seats, because this stuff is amazing (that’s a polite adjective for ludicrous).
Gainesville, FL — The roar of plane engines rose and fell outside the airplane hangar, sometimes drowning out the tearful words of one of the many family members or friends who approached the podium to speak about Eilon Krugman-Kadi.
Yet, the chorus of engine noise seemed an appropriate backdrop for the memorial service for the Gainesville attorney and pilot who died Friday in a tragic plane crash at a Titusville air show.
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]
To see the text of the Nasi in full size click the Extended Article!
With spirit and Joy the Bochurim of Yeshivas Kayitz South Africa sing the Niggun [chassidic melody] of Hupp Kossak. But it doesn’t stop there, they were entertained by the professional ‘Engen’ [a popular gas station chain in South Africa] dancers.
Binghamton, NY — Shabbat dinner for 1,000 students? That’s so last year.
At Binghamton University, at least, the idea is even 12 years old. And for the 13th anniversary of Shabbat 1000 on the very campus that gave the program its birth, organizers are aiming for 50 percent more.
Rabbi Boruch Sholom his wife Chanie and their child Menachem Mendel Kantor will IY”H be moving on Shlichus to the Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where they will be serving as Shluchim on campus under the Shliach Rabbi Menachem Schmidt.
This family is joining the force of Shluchim on campus and is being started with the initial help of the Rohr family grant, they are the 120th family to go serve as Shluchim on campus!
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the Kantors Hatzlacha Rabba in their Shlichus!
Community leaders, including FIU President Modesto Maidique and Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, joined in the dedication ceremony of a new Jewish student center March 11.
Generations of families joined in the small living room of the Tabacinic Chabad House on March 11, watching as community leaders stood by scribe Rabbi Moshe Klein while he finished the year-long process of writing the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew bible, by hand.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Washington, DC — Beginning in May, U.S. consumers will be able to buy a “forever” stamp for 41 cents that remains valid regardless of a future increase, and the price of a first-class stamp will rise to 41 cents from 39 cents, the board of the U.S. Postal Service decided on Monday.
The “forever” stamp is designed as a convenience for consumers, said Board of Governors Chairman James Miller, because they will not have to buy additional stamps on the next price increase.
The changes take effect on May 14 [2007].
Monday March 13 2007, It was the happiest occasion for Mrs. Oksana Mochkarovskaia as she witnessed the Britot Milah of all her four sons taking place in one day. The four boys, aged six through ten, received the Jewish names Daniel, Menachem Mendel, Yehoshua and Aryeh Leib. The Britot were performed by Rabbi Yaron Amit, expert Mohel and International Director of Brit Yosef Yitzchak – an organization which has currently provided over 29,000 Britot Milah worldwide for boys and men of all ages. The elated mother told Rabbi Zalman Gansburg, Executive Director of Brit Yosef Yitzchak for the United States, “I want to say how grateful I am for helping my children finally have the gift of a Brit Milah! This is truly the greatest of Mitzvoth.”
Morgantown, W.Va., may soon have a full-time Chabad emissary.
Rabbi Zalman Gurevitz, 26, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, his wife and young daughter are looking into relocating to Morgantown to reach out to the students and faculty of West Virginia University. Theirs would be the first Chabad in West Virginia, although Chabad representatives have visited the state on holidays and during the summer for several years.
“We’re still working on the details,” said Gurevitz in a phone conversation. On Purim, Gurevitz was in Morgantown to read the Megillah and host a Purim party, which was held at the WVU Hillel.
