Crown Heightsers preparing for Shabbos Chol Hamoed Pesach were startled into thinking Shabbos was starting an hour before the zman when the siren announcing the 18 minutes and the start of Shabbos went off an hour early.
The Rebbe responded: “listening to non-Jewish music can badly affect a sensitive soul, resulting in physical illness.” In order to clarify what he meant, Malka asked; “Does the Rebbe mean that I should only listen exclusively to Jewish or chassidic or Chabad music?”
Spanning the vast country, from Moscow, Siberia, and to the Far East – over 500 Pubic Seders were attended by thousands upon thousands of Russian Jews. On Erev Pesach, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his Passover greetings to Russian Jewry.
A young woman was fatally wounded in a stabbing attack earlier today (Friday) on the light railway in the center of Jerusalem.
Baltimore Shliach Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum was featured on the front page of the Baltimore Sun, in a segment about his Pesach outreach activities to servicemen stationed at the Air National Guard Headquarters.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rivkah Begun, OBM, beloved Shlucha to São Paulo, Brazil for 57 years. She was 81 years old. Five of her children are Shluchim in São Paulo, and one a Shliach in Georgia. Her brother is Rabbi Moshe Herson, head Shliach of New Jersey.
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