Yud Alef Nissan video shown at the Yud Alef Nissan Rally for Yaldei Hashluchim!
Hebrew version in the Extended Article.
Commemorating Yud Alef Nissan, the Rebbes 105th birthday, the ‘Mitzva Tank Parade Office’ arranges a parade of ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ that start from 770 and on over the Manhattan Bridge then to 6th Avenue all the way to 59th Street and back down 5th Avenue to 23rd Street from where the tanks disperse all across the city to their designated locations to do Mivtzoim!
A full gallery of pictures will soon follow!
If you would like to share any pictures or videos of the Parade please email us at News@CrownHeights.info!
Irkutsk, Russia – Rabbi Aharon Wagner, chief Rabbi of Irkutsk and Chabad Lubavitch representative to the region, sent the Jewish Community of Mongolia full provisions for Passover including, Matzah, Kosher chickens wine and grape juice.
Rabbi Wagner upholds good relationship with the local Mongolian consulate and with their help the boxes of food were sent on the Mongolian national airline. Irkutsk is the closest city to Ulan baator, a mere hour flight away.
Krakow, Poland — Amonumental 350-year-old synagogue, ransacked by the Nazis, will become Chabad of Krakow’s headquarters during the Passover holiday. Synagogue of Isaac, a baroque-style building situated in the Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter, is an imposing grand space with ample room for Chabad’s growing menu of community and tourist services.
This weeks Living Torah clip is from volume 34, episode 134. The Rebbe burning Chometz in 1988.
Also available with French, Hebrew and Russian subtitles, in the Extended Article.
The Rebbe says:
1. Our Sages tell us that the Shabbos before Pesach is called “Shabbos Hagadol – The Great Shabbos”.
Almost every year we read the Torah portion of Tzav on the Shabbos before Pesach, on “Shabbos Hagadol”.
The Shelah Hakodesh (lit. The Holy Shelah, Rabbi Yishaya Halevi Howrowitz) says that that every Torah portion which we read on Shabbos has a connection to the time of year in which we read it. In our case this would mean that the portion of Tzav has a connection to Shabbos Hagadol – The Great Shabbos”.
Naperville, IL — It’s a simple recipe that has been passed down through generations of Jews for thousands of years.
Still, matzah isn’t something people usually bake themselves.
For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your homes … you shall guard the unleavened bread, because on this very day I will take you out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day for your generations as an eternal decree.
-- Exodus 12:15-17
Richmond, VA — Passover begins at sunset Monday. Jewish households are preparing by cleaning, cooking and clearing homes of any vestiges of leavened products.
The holiday, one of the most sacred on the Jewish calendar, commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
Chico, CA — Passover is a celebration of the birth of the Children of Israel. It marks the liberation of the Jews from 400 years of slavery under Egyptian rule, as told in the Book of Exodus.
Jacksonville, FL –That is what Rabbi Shmuel Novack asked the 10 shoppers assembled before him March 19 at the Winn-Dixie supermarket at 9866 Baymeadows Road, only a few weeks before the Jewish holy days of Passover begin.
Columbia, MD — Ever since the Jews fled ancient Egypt with their unleavened bread, matzo has traveled with them to all corners of the Jewish Diaspora. And just as Jewish life has found fresh expression on new soil and with new generations, so has matzo.
After allegations were raised by one of the websites that one of the employees at the Matzah bakery was not Jewish, the owners of the bakery went and made sure she was Jewish. This article was originally published on COL.org.il and was translated for the benefit of our readers.
The episode that has captivated Anash and Shluchim worldwide regarding the kashrus of the matzos after it had been suspected that one of the female workers in the Crown Heights Matzah Bakery was identified as a non-Jew, has now come to an end in light of recent sources of clarification from Belarus and Rabbinical response regarding the matter.
Continued in the Extended Article.
In honor of the Rebbes birthday a Mitzvah Tank Parade takes place each year on 11th of Nissan. This year there will be 57 ‘tanks’ commemorating the Rebbes 57 years of Nesius.
Parking is reserved for the tanks until Friday morning at the following locations; President Street between Albany Ave and Brooklyn Ave on the right side of the street and on Kingston Ave between Carroll Street and President Street on both side of the street. Please do not park your cars there. These regulations will be enforced by the NYPD.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
The central Yud Aleph Nissan Farbrengen in New York will be held in Campus Chomesh in Crown Heights this Thursday night at 9:30pm. In honor of the Rebbe’s birthday the gathering will be attended by Rabbis and Mashpiim, Anash and Tmimim, who will Farbreng together in a spirit of unity. As in former years the central Farbrengen is being arranged by the International Agudas Chassidei Chabad.
Full flyer in the Extended Article.
The Benjaminson’s will be sitting Shiva in Montreal till Thursday afternoon
At: 6800 Macdonald Ave. #101 Montreal Quebec H3X 3Z2 Canada
Phone: 514-341-7736
And in New York on Friday, Saturday Night, Sunday, Monday morning (after shachris will be getting up)
At: 660 Lefferts Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203.
Shacharis: 7:30am, 8:00am, 8:30am, 9:00am
Mincha & Maariv: Bizmano
Email: rabbiyb@aol.com
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim. May Hashem comfort them among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has asked two subway car manufacturers to come up with designs for digital security cameras that could be installed inside the cars, officials said yesterday.
Images from the cameras could be used in criminal investigations and could also help investigators in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
Michael Lombardi, senior vice president for subways of New York City Transit, said the authority had asked Kawasaki and Alstom, the two companies that are producing the latest model of subway car, known as the R160, to propose ways to add security cameras to the cars. The request was made within the last two months.
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