On Wednesday evening, April 1, Chabad UF will host what organizers say is the largest single-seated Passover seder in the country, drawing an expected 1,500 Jewish students, faculty, alumni, and community members to the O’Connell Center, the campus’s 12,000-seat arena.
As in previous years, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a special Passover greeting letter to the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Harav Berel Lazar. The letter will be read tonight at the opening of the central public Seder at the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow.
Every year before Passover, the Aleph Institute ensures that Jews behind bars are able to celebrate the holiday. This year, they will send out over 400 Seder Plates, 2,000 Hagaddahs and more than 8,000 lbs of matzah, as well as 2,750 packages of macaroons, gefilte fish, and other holiday foods.
Across 20 communities in the United States and Canada, the Kitchen of Kindness network is gearing up for Pesach to ensure no Jew sits alone on Seder night without a meal, a Haggadah, and the basics to make Yom Tov.
The Incorporated Village of Old Westbury has agreed to pay approximately $19 million in damages and permit the long-delayed construction of a Chabad center, bringing an end to one of the longest-running religious land-use disputes in recent memory.
It was mostly deeply private: Until 1970, his seder would take place in the home of his father-in-law and predecessor the Sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, joined by a small group of elder Chassidim.
Rabbi Asher Zeilingold has led the Adath Israel Congregation of S. Paul, Minnesota, since 1966. He recently published a two-volume book, Clear Vision, about his interactions with the Rebbe. He was interviewed in February 2011.
The large-scale project was carried out with significant investment—not only financially, but in thoughtful planning and dignified execution—ensuring that recipients were treated with respect, comfort, and care, and provided with high-quality, generous provisions for Yom Tov.
Mayor Denise Grant of Lauderhill proudly signed a proclamation declaring the Rebbe’s birthday as Education and Sharing Day. This is the second time the Mayor of Lauderhill did so.
Over 1000 matzos were distributed along with flyers detailing the times to eat matzoh this year and QR codes to sell their chametz. More than 40 people put on tefillin, two for their first time.
The Rav expressed excitement at how the material was not only simplified, but truly brought to life in a way that teachers and talmidim can relate to.
In the days and weeks before Passover, Jews around the country are rushing to clean their homes, prepare holiday meals, and run last minute errands. Yet Teri Karpe of Commack, N.Y., has a different item on her to-do list—overseeing the delivery of hand-made shmurah matzah to more than 1,200 homes in her community.
In a striking display of recognition and inspiration, Ukraine’s capital marked 11 Nissan — the birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe — with a major media initiative that reached millions across the country.
Stories of the Rebbe were peppered with practical lessons and made personal with practical takeaways and relevance for one’s everyday life as a Child.
A grand and uplifting farbrengen was held last night at Beis Lubavitch in Paris, as members of the local Jewish community gathered to celebrate Yud-Alef Nissan, the birthday of the Rebbe.
There is no grape wine, a luxury impossible to import while trade routes are disrupted and major ports are under British occupation. Instead, sweet, non-fermented raisin juice, which American Jews have learned to prepare when kosher wine is unavailable, will be used for the four cups.
As was the Rebbe’s custom, a yearly letter called a Michtav Kloli was sent out to the Chassidim. The Michtav Klali suitable for this year’s Pesach is available here for download in three languages.
