Purim Night in Bais Shmuel Chabad!
Megila reading, food, Music and Dancing and a fun show for the kids all in photos in the Extended Gallery!
Photos By: Israel Tiechman
Megila reading, food, Music and Dancing and a fun show for the kids all in photos in the Extended Gallery!
Photos By: Israel Tiechman
Photos by: Laiby Lewis, Yonason Lewis, Webby, Zelig Shaul and more!
More in the Extended Article!
The Shaffer’s are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father at 711 Montgomery St.
There are three Minyonim needed and readers are urged to fill in for them!
Sunday: Shacharis: 8:00, 8:30, 9:30 Mincha: 6:30 Maariv: Bizmana
Monday & Tuesday: Shacharis: 7:00, 7:30, 9:30 Mincha: 6:30 Maariv: Bizmana
You can email the family at: allshaffers@gmail.com
Last week Wednesday at around 5:00pm a white Cadillac driven by a 16 year old who only had a ‘Learners Permit’ rather then a Drivers License, attempted to make a right turn from Albany onto Crown and smashed into a parked Subaru and pushed it up onto the sidewalk and into three other parked cars. Witnesses stated that he had tried to take the turn at a high rate of speed.
More in the Extended Article.
Last week Wednesday at around 10:00am a fire broke out on the first floor of 455 Schenectady Ave, on the corner of Lefferts Ave. The fire was confined to one room of the apartment and was quickly put out by FDNY.
More in the Extended Article
Reno, NV — 1) Tell us about Chabad.
Chabad-Lubavitch is a philosophy, movement, and organization with more than 3,300 centers worldwide. Northern Nevada has had a Chabad for 10 years. Chabad’s foundation of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, coupled with a basic love for all, is what fuels this growing group.
2) Why is it important to bring religion into one’s life?
Young people, especially, are searching for answers. I’ve seen that when spirituality is presented in a user-friendly, welcoming, joyful fashion — how Judaism is meant to be enjoyed — people are very receptive and curious.
The Hakamas Hamatzeiva for Shimshon Stock will be tomorrow, Sunday at 1:00 PM
Thank you so much for all your support during this most challenging time of great loss. Your e-mails, phone calls, letters and being Menachem Ovel provide a source of tremendous strength for our whole family. Your generous donations in memory of our father to Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov, our father’s passion, were greatly appreciated and will enable us to continue his good work for the community.
— The Stock, Shemtov, Perlmutter and Moskovitz family,
Please daven for our mother, Mattel bas Chana Fruma, for a speedy and complete Refua Shelama. Click here to say to Tehilim.
Brooklyn, NY — Last Saturday night, at the start of the Jewish holiday of Purim, Rabbi Shmuel Lein read from a ceremonial scroll at the Chabad of North Brooklyn, a center of Hasidic Jewish culture on Bedford Avenue and North Fifth Street in Williamsburg.
On Sunday March 11th, 2007, 10:00 AM at the Jewish Children’s Museum, Ahavas Chesed the international medical and emergency lifeline will join the Jewish Community in requesting the Honor of your presence at our 3rd annual breakfast thanking the New York Methodist Hospital.
More info in the Extended Article.
Long Beach, CA — On Friday, Jewlicious 3.0 at the Beach kicked off at Alpert Jewish Community Center, with a record crowd of 400 to 500 young adults expected to attend.
The Jewlicious festival arrives just a week after an event called the Purimpalooza was staged in Los Angeles and a week before the Feast of Jewish Learning will be held in Northern California.
All of the events are part of a growing wave in the Jewish community to attract younger Jews to the culture and spirituality of Judaism through nontraditional means.
“What this is, is an attempt to create a venue where we’re focusing on values, ideas and commonalties,” said Rabbi Yonah Bookstein of Beach Hillel, which is helping put on the third annual Jewlicious event.
Tonight at 2:00 AM we change our clock’s 1 hour ahead and becomes 3:00 AM, we lose an hour of sleep.
So make sure to change your clocks before you get to bed as to avoid any confusion (and being an hour late to everything).
A Gutten Voch.
Note: To learn more about “Standard Time” and “Daylight Savings time” Click on them.
Budapest, Hungary — A call by the leader of the Hungarian Jewish community for Jews to leave the country “for fear of anti-Semitic attacks on the occasion of the national holiday, “was a joke in a Jewish newspaper,” Rabbi Shlomo Köves said.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Aharon ben Tamar Shliach to Rego Park, NY.
In this JEM interview from three months ago, Shimshon Stock OB”M Speaks on his Encounters with the Rebbe.
The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) to tell the Jewish people that they should atone for sinning horribly with the golden calf (see Chapter 32, Verses 1 through 6 which deals with the sin). Hashem tells the Jewish people that they can atone by giving a Ma’cha’tzis Hashekel (a half of a coin called a “shekel”) to the Mishkan (the Tabernacle).
The sage Rebbi Meir tells us that when Hashem told Moshe Rabbeinu that the Jews can atone by giving a half of a shekel Moshe Rabbeinu did not understand. To help Moshe Rabbeinu understand, Hashem took out a coin of fire from under His throne of honor (His Kisay Hakovod) and showed it to Moshe Rabbeinu. (See Jerusalemite Talmud, Tractate Shekalim, Chapter 1, Halachah 4).
Weekend Reminder: Spring Forward! Daylight Saving Time is here, so don’t forget to turn your clocks forward an hour.
This Sunday, March 11, some three weeks earlier than usual, Daylight Saving Time kicks in at 2 a.m. and will last until the first Sunday in November. Based on the passage of the 2005 Energy Policy Act that takes affect this year, DST has been extended by four weeks. Typically, DST begins the first Sunday in April and runs through the last Sunday in October.
The theory behind DST is that people make better use of the extended daylight hours. With longer “synthetic sunshine” consumers have less need for lights, and other appliances. Studies show that energy demand is directly connected to bedtime. During DST, the sun is already up by the time most people wake. Less energy is needed to light the home, so less energy is consumed overall.
More in the Extended Article.
Tragedy struck on the roads of Israel. Mrs. Rochel Tzedek-Scheurson (Tzikashvili) OBM of Nachalat Har Chabad and her daughter Mrs. Yochevet Chein OBM of Queens were killed in a horrific car crash.
They were on their way to ‘Har Hazitim’ to go visit the grave of R. Shmuel Tzedek-Scheurson (Tzikashvili) OBM the late husband of Mrs. Rochel on the day of his Yohrtziet. The car they were in was being driven by R. Aharon Chein husband of Mrs. Yochevet and are Shluchim to the Persian community in Queens when it was struck in the rear by a large truck, the driver R. Aharon was listed in critical condition in the ‘Kaplan’ Hospital in Rechovot.
Mrs. Rochel is survived by her sons and daughters; R. Shabtai Avishai (Nachlat Har Chabad), Mrs. Esther Michali (Lod), Mrs. Chanie Batashvili and Mrs. Rivka Michalashvili (Nachlat Har Chabad)
Mrs. Yocheved is survived by her six children Menachem Mendel, Yosef Yitzchok, Nechama Dina, Devorah Leah, Shmuel and Sholom Dovber.
The Levaya of Mrs. Rochel Tzedek-Scheurson (Tzikashvili) OBM took place today in Nachlat Har Chabad and the Levaya of Mrs. Yochevet Chein OBM will take place on Sunday afternoon.
Baruch Dayan Hoemes.