IYH this Thursday, the 15th of Iyyar, 5767 – May 3, 2007 – there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
busses leave 770 at 5:00
Every child will receive a bow and arrow set
Full flyer in the Extended Article!
Jacksonville, FL — April 29, 2007 — On an unordinary Sunday evening at Rabbi Shmuli Novack’s Chabad house in Southside Jacksonville, University of North Florida students and members of the Jacksonville Jewish community gathered to hear a compelling account—that of an American soldier fighting in the Iraq War, but also the story of a woman persevering as a Jew in the United States Navy. Laurie Zimmet began her lecture with a disclaimer: she in no way intended to speak as a Naval Lieutenant tonight. Rather, she spoke to the Jews gathered at Rabbi Novack’s house as a fellow. Though Zimmet acknowledged her trying and sometimes tragic experience while on her second tour in Iraq, she mainly spoke with a gleam in her eyes and a smile on her face while she led the audience through a year on the Jewish calendar in the Navy.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Rabbi Yossi and Manya Lazaroff will IYH be moving on Shlichus to College Station, Texas where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the students and faculty at Texas A&M University.
The Lazaroffs, were appointed under the auspices of Chabad of Texas Regional Headquarters.
Special thanks to the Rohr Family Foundation and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.
If you know any Jewish students or staff at Texas A&M and would like to affiliate them with Chabad, contact the new Shluchim at chabadtamu@gmail.com.
On Thursday, Alef Iyar/April 20th a meeting of all local Mosdos together with the Vaad organizing the Lag B’omer parade took place at the NCFJE headquarters. At the meeting the principals were updated with the latest information regarding the parade, in order that the schools will be able to participate in an organized and coordinated fashion.
More in the Extended Article!
A.L.I.Y.A. (Alternative Learning Institute for Young Adults) will be re-launching its GED program after Pesach. The course will run from the first of May for 5 months and offer all students the opportunity to achieve a GED. It will run Monday through Thursday 7-9pm @ the Aliya Institute 525-527 E New York Ave. The program will also include an optional Shiur from 6:30 till 7pm and membership to the “Aliya Gym” also located at 525-527 E New York Ave.
GED (The General Educational Development Test) is a test that certifies the taker has attained American level academic skills. To pass the GED students will have to be educated in Math, English, Science and social studies. These skills will be taught in this class and tests will be arranged for students upon achievement of skills. To be eligible for this program you must be 18 and older be on at least a 9th grade level of Math and English and be motivated!
Students at Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown St. practicing their drumming routine which they will be doing while marching in this years parade.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
At the headquarters of the International Tanya Campaign for Children in Israel and the United States preparations for the academic school year 2007-2008 are accelerating.
At this time of year the schools are focusing on preparing the curriculum for the new semester and it has been reported that there is a major interest for students to participate in the Tanya program.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Moshe ben Leah
and
Chaim ben Masha (Kapital ayin ches)
Preparing the facade of 770 for the Lag Baomer Parade!
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We congratulate the winners of the Rebbitzen Chaya Mushka Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights gala auction:
Split the Pot: Chana Popack
The American Girl Doll: Cherna Light
Pearl Necklace: Mendy Rosenblum
Magnificent Necklace: Perry Wolsow
Freeda Custom Sheitel: Henyr Holtzberg
Computer: Perri Schick
Silver Menorah: Esther Rand
Laptop: Esther Karp
The list continues in the Extended Article!
Crown Heights, Brooklyn -– Earlier today at around 12:00pm a minor collision took place on Brooklyn Ave between Union and President involving a Police car and an SUV, the police car was not responding to an emergency.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Two months ago Hatzalahs new ambulance, CH1, was involved in an accident where a car struck the ambulance dealing a significant amount of damage to it. Erev Shabbos the ambulance has been retuned to service bringing our number of ambulances in service to three.
San Mateo, CA — San Mateo’s Chabad smelled like the unusual combination of Elmer’s glue and butter on a rainy Monday afternoon. Safety scissors scraped against paper. Children giggled as they kneaded sugar cookie dough in preparation for an upcoming holiday.
Their workspace looked different than the typical Hebrew school class. A teacher you’d expect to stand front and center explaining the aleph-bet? Absent.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — This past Thursday, April 26th, a Bochur walking home on Carroll St between Troy and Schenectady was mugged by a Black male wielding a knife. The incident took place at around 2:00am, the Bochur was approached by a Black male, average height and described to be around 20 years of age, and he pulled a knife on the Bochur and demanded his wallet and cell phone, then told the Bochur to start walking towards Troy Ave.
The moment the Bochur turned around, he heard the mugger start running in the other direction. He began chasing him while calling police on another phone that he had on him. The short pursuit ended when the mugger ran into 1625 President St. a building located on the corner of President and Schenectady.
More in the Extended Article.
New York, NY — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking in forceful and personal terms, went yesterday to a neighborhood plagued by high asthma rates to argue for his sweeping plan to reduce the city’s air pollution, which includes a surcharge for vehicles entering congested sections of Manhattan.
Ra’anana, Israel — As the Librescu family completed its final days of sitting shiva for their slain husband and father, a representative of the Chabad on Campus National Foundation presented them with a book of more than 1,450 condolences. The well-wishes – some from as far away as India and written in a smattering of languages, including Professor Liviu Librescu’s native Romanian – were submitted to a page on the Chabad on Campus Web site, www.Chabad.edu, that went online less than a day after last week’s April 16 shooting rampage on the Blacksburg, Va., campus of Virginia Tech that left 32 students and faculty dead.
Atlanta, GA — On Friday night at sundown, Jewish women around the world pause amid the hubbub of Shabbat preparations to light candles to welcome the Sabbath bride. The image of a woman kindling Shabbat candles is an age-old symbol of Judaism.
While men may light Shabbat candles, it is typically the woman’s responsibility for several reasons. Among them: The Jewish women, not the men, first agreed to accept the Torah at Mount Sinai, so women transmit the essence of our Jewish heritage into the home. One way to do that is by lighting Shabbat candles, bringing light into the home just as Israel was chosen by God to be a light among the nations.
