Shavuos celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. Appropriately, author Mordechai Lightstone compiled an exposition on eight special Torah scrolls chosen from across the Jewish world as a tribute to the document that binds us to each other and to G‑d. These scrolls, chosen for their unique history or appearance, are as diverse as the Jewish people they represent.
Former longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes is accused of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars seized from criminal suspects to pay for a political consultant, according to a report by the city’s Department of Investigation.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday and Thursday, June 4-5, for Shavuos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The cows were milked more than a month ago, the special batch of kosher cheese has finished fermenting, the mouth-watering cheesecakes have been ordered from Israel, and the handouts for the Torah study are already copied and collated. Like thousands of Chabad emissaries around the world, Rabbi Chaim Hillel and Devora Leah Azimov of Northern Cyprus are preparing to celebrate Shavuot with their community of several hundred souls.
In honor of the Baal Shem Tov’s Yahrtzeit, which occurs on the first day of Shavuos, we present a fascinating story of the legendary founder of the Chasidic movement, written by renowned author Rabbi Sholom Dovber Avtzon.
The Besht, now located at 563 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.], will be hosting three renowned lecturers who will inspire the congregants with words of Torah through the first night of Shavuos. The lecturers are: Rabbi Yosef Paltiel, Rabbi Chaim Miller and Rabbi Zalman Abraham.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe holding his Sefer Torah during Shachris in 770.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yochanon Halevi ben Menucha Kraindel, a Florida Shliach who has yet to come too following a procedure.
