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Thursday evening at 8:00pm a special Shiur took place in the Kolel in honor of Chai Nissan the birthday of the Rebbes father, Reb levi Yitzchok.
The Shiur was given by the ‘Chozer’ Reb Yoel Kahn in Yiddish to Anash and Temimim, the topic was Pesach and was given from ‘Lekutei Levi Yitzchok’ from page 113 to page 128. The Shiur was organized by the Vaad Talmidai Hatmim.
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Passover, perhaps like no other holiday, captures the diverse spectrum of religious and spiritual experience, from one extreme to the next.
For the most observant, the Passover Seder is a solemn time, heavily filled with rules and regulations, rich with layers of customs and meanings, to be followed to the tee with all the stringency of Passover laws.
For many the Seder is not quite as intense. Rather it is a nice, nostalgic experience. A time to get together with family and friends. A time to remember history and celebrate our heritage.
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New York, NY — When mail and newspapers build up at an elderly person’s home, it can be a sign that something is wrong.
Now, the city’s seniors can sign up to have letter carriers keep an extra eye on their mailboxes, and if the bills and magazines are accumulating, emergency contacts are notified so that someone can check on them.
The Carrier Alert program was created decades ago in New York and many other cities nationwide but fizzled out over the years. In some areas, it has experienced a recent resurgence, and now New York is rejoining the initiative, linking it with the city’s 311 telephone information hot line so that carriers have one central place to call.
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Shanghai, China — CNN recently ran a feature on religion in the communist China in which they interviewed the Shliach to Shanghai, China Rabbi Shalom Greenberg.
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Kfar Chabad, Israel — During the weeklong holiday of Passover, when crisp flatbread represents freedom and horseradish roots the bitterness of slavery, Chabad’s activities can be viewed as so many bridges across Israel’s many divides: secular and religious, terror victim and bystander, immigrant and sabra native, rich and poor. For 50 years, Tel Adashim, southwest of the Kineret, has cultivated its stance as a thoroughly secular town.
Brooklyn, NY — Monday, Erev Yom Tov, Police responded to a call of a burglary in the rear of the houses on Carroll between Albany and Troy. On scene, residents came out to see the suspect attempting to flee on the rooftops of the garages in the alleyway, only to be met by a dead end alleyway, which was when he turned around and began hoping the roofs back into the other direction where he ran right into the hands of a responding police officer.
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The Bochurim that were sent to Russia as part of Merkos Shlichus, by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos Linyonai Chinuch, and Rabbi Berel Lazar from the Russian federation, to make Sedorim in over 30 cities, are posing with the project coordinator Rabbi Yosef Plotkin.
Brooklyn, NY — Officers from the Brooklyn South Task Force [BSTF] began perusing a silver Nissan Altima that was reported stolen on Empire Blvd at around 9:00pm this evening, the pursuit ended when the Nissan rear ended a red Toyota at a very high rate of speed at the intersection of Empire and Albany. The driver of the Nissan then exited the vehicle and began fleeing on foot, only to be apprehended less then a block away by other police officers.
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Yeshivah Bochurim in Crown Heights for Pesach, have a rare opportunity to get a taste of the Rebbe’s father Harav Levi Yitzchok’s Torah. This is in conjunction with the birthday of Reb Levi Yitzchok on Friday, 18 Nissan.
Rabbi Yoel Kahn will give a Shiur in Likutei Levi Yitzchok, bringing out its deep Kabbalistic approach in a clear and understandable way.
The Shiur will take place Today, Thursday at the Kolel at 8:00 P.M.
South Fallsburg, NY — The Town of Fallsburg remains the epicenter in Sullivan County for interest in developing and expanding bungalow colonies. Of the 14 items before the Planning Board Thursday night, 11 were related to the town’s seasonal Orthodox Jewish community. If approved, they would add more than 600 new units with more than 3,000 new residents.
The largest single project on the agenda was Walden Pond, a single and multifamily 350 town house development with 45,000 square feet of commercial space proposed for Woodbourne at Leins Road and Route 52. The Planning Board will send a letter to the Town Board that the developer has been “positively cooperating” with the planning process. The town has conditionally approved the rezoning to a half-acre.
San Antonio, TX — Parents and grandparents sat behind youngsters in small classroom chairs as the children lifted their arms in the air and sang.
They washed their hands and recited psalms led by their teachers. Then they feasted on matzo bread.
Clark County, WA — Jewish homes prepare for celebration with Burning of the Chametz
As a smell reminiscent of a burning hot dog bun filled his backyard, Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg described the tradition of Burning of the Chametz.
In preparation for Passover, which began at sundown Monday, Jewish homes are cleared of all leavened products. Just tossing the leftover toast in the trash is not enough, explained Greenberg, rabbi of Chabad Lubavitch of Clark County, one of two Jewish congregations in Vancouver.
“It still belongs to us,” he said.
Chabad, ASUA pay for biggest Passover event in UA history
Tucson, AZ — Students who were unable to go home for Passover gathered as a family to celebrate the traditional meal marking the beginning of the Jewish festival last night.
The Rebbe and the Belzer Rebbe; the Kedushat Aharon
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Telluride, CO — Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students came to Telluride from Colorado Springs this week to educate locals on the Jewish holiday Passover, which began last night (Monday) at sundown.
With just a few contacts, Laibel Kesselman and Berel Zaklikofsky came into Telluride Tuesday.
Kesselman said the town has been very receptive to the visit, and also curious.
Jewish Children’s Museum matzo workshop teaches schoolkids a tasty Passover tradition
Brooklyn, NY — It’s flat and interactive.
No, it’s not the new iPhone. It’s iMatzo.
The Jewish Children’s Museum has launched an interactive matzo-making workshop for kids in preparation for Passover.
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