Photos: Cheder at the Ohel Parades on Lag Ba’omer
Hashem seemed to have stopped the rain just in time for the Cheder at the Ohel Lag Ba’omer Parade on Thursday morning.
Hashem seemed to have stopped the rain just in time for the Cheder at the Ohel Lag Ba’omer Parade on Thursday morning.
A group of public school children gathered on East New York and Albany Ave. in Crown Heights to protest mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s budget, which includes funding cuts to the after school program. A Crownheights.info reporter was at the scene.
Gender issues and the woman’s role in Jewish culture is a hot topic in Israel’s media, but for one group of women on a dream ten-day trip to NYC hosted by Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side and accompanied by Chabad Terror Victims Project, it’s a non-issue.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic, the Migadef: Who was he? What did he do? What can we learn from the story?
Despite the fact that Lag Ba’omer fell out on a workday, hundreds of Kharkov Jews were able to proudly parade down the busy main streets of Kharkov – Pushkinskaya and Sumskaya St.
Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic – coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.
Cheering, dancing, laughing… as the Golden Flame cruised along the River Thames, the girls of Lubavitch Senior School in London were entertained and amused by a fantastic series of games and challenges, and of course extremely lively dancing!
The Jewish community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania had their own Lag Ba’omer Parade and Bonfire, arranged by Yeshiva Beis Menachem in conjunction with Cheder Menachem, the local day school, and Cong. Ohev Tzedek.
The Conservative government overruled federal bureaucrats and gave $1-million to a social hall project submitted by an Ottawa rabbi with close ties to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
Hidden in this brief clip from a show on the Canadian City TV Channel is something that most Lubavitchers – and perhaps New Yorkers – would consider a familiar sight. Can you spot it?
Lag Ba’omer was celebrated for the very first time in northern Tasmania, an island south of Australia, in a town called Jackey’s Marsh.