CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Residents in the vicinity of Clove Road and Malbone Street were startled and scared when a series of explosions began going off at around 3:00pm today. Some thought it was gun shots, while others were so scared when the walls of their homes began shaking, they called 911.
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Ed. note: The crash occurred when a family from Crown Heights were traveling to Buffalo for Pesach. Boruch Hashem there were miraculously no serious injuries.
SPRING BROOK TWP, PA — At least one person was hospitalized when an SUV overturned along Interstate 380 on Wednesday.
Have you given any thought to where the poor and unfortunate will get their Passover needs for the upcoming Holiday? The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE) has.
The past few weeks have been very busy ones for the staff of the Poor and Sick Fund at NCFJE. More than 1,000 pounds of Matzah, hundreds of cases of wine and grape juice, more than 120 cases of chicken and meat have been delivered to and picked up by the needy of the Jewish community.
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KENOSHA, WI — The pain of the face Rabbi Tzali Wilshanski is clear.
Someone broke into the Bani Zedek Chabad Synagogue and stole two sacred torah scrolls and a laptop computer.
The news spread around the world like a cold shiver, leaving everyone in a state of shock. We cried, and said tehillim, it was something unreal, impossible to have occurred.
A month after her parents, Zev and Rochel Simons A”H, were tragically taken from this world on 11 Tevet 5768, Mushkie returned to seminary, and we began thinking of something we can do to honor her dear parents. After hours of daydreaming and brainstorming, the ‘All You Have To Do -Moshiach Campaign’ was created.
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The bochurim of the Yeshiva Semicha Program of Golden Beach, FL, were tested on hilchos taaruvos by Rabbi D. Shochet and Rabbi Gavriel Tzinner this past weekend. These farhers followed the farhers which took place in NY on the prior Motzei Shabbos, with Rabbi Yochanan Gurary and Rabbi Yisroel Friedman. All the Rabonim reported that they were highly impressed with the bochurims’ results.
Hardly a cook will say that cooking for a Passover Seder, with its multitude of strictures, is easy, let alone when doing it for the first time.
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the globe will host communal Passover Seders this Saturday night and Sunday night for anyone who wants to come. All told, hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of Jewish life are expected at the feasts, which commemorate the Jewish people’s Exodus from Egypt 3,321 years ago. A handful of Chabad Houses reported on the special preparations involved this year due to the fact that Shabbat immediately precedes Passover.
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