The Tomorrow Show Debuts at the Jewish Children’s Museum

NY1 reporters Stephanie Simon and Shazia Kahn co-host a one-of-a-kind evening, joined by Jewish stars including Gershon Veroba, and the famous Judah the Maccabee, and featuring an exclusive interview with Avraham Fried to pay tribute to the Friendship Circle volunteers.

BROOKLYN, NY -– In appreciation for the teenage girls and boys who volunteer several hours every week to spend time with their special needs “friends,” the Friendship Circle at the Jewish Children’s Museum is hosting a volunteer appreciation dinner at the Jewish Children’s Museum. But this won’t be just any, ordinary dinner. This is going to be a night of fun and laughter that takes place in…a makeshift TV studio! In keeping with their mission to provide a better tomorrow for children with special needs, the Friendship Circle dinner will feature the “Tomorrow Show.” The “Tomorrow Show,” modeled after the Today Show, will be complete with a TV-set, hosts, guest speakers, commercials and more!

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Nechama’s Closet Auction by Mail Winners!!!

Jackpot 1 – Chana Goldstein
Jackpot 2 – Chana Goldstein
Split the Pot – Debbie Einbinder
Grand Prize $10,000 – Mendel and Gittel Schneur

1. Israel – Goldman Family
2. Computer – Chana M Keller
3. Freeda wig – Esther Blau

The list continues in the Extended Article!

Chief Rabbi Lazar: Russia not facing neo-Nazis

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar said Sunday that not enough was being done to deal with neo-Nazi groups in the country, Israel Radio reported.

The rabbi’s comments came a day after the murder of a Jewish teacher in St. Petersburg. The stab wounds on Dmitriy Nikulinskiy’s body, noted Lazar, prove that his killing was an anti-Semitic attack.

St. Petersburg has a long history of terror-related murders, but this is the first time in the last few years that a Jew was murdered for this reason, added the rabbi.

Watch the Parade LIVE!

Thanks to Chabad OnLine our readers can enjoy a live broadcast of this years parade, with multiple angles of coverage!

The broadcast concluded. A recording of the broadcast will be made available within the next days IYH.

One Year to the 10 Alarm Greenpoint Arson

Still-unsolved May 2006 arson that razed 6 blocks a sore point for nabe

A year after the city’s largest inferno in a decade engulfed 15 buildings along the Brooklyn waterfront, the historic site of the Greenpoint Terminal Market remains a charred wasteland and a sore spot for locals.

Nobody has been convicted in the arson fire that broke out on May 2, 2006, and eventually took 6 million gallons of water to extinguish. And nothing has been developed on the scorched earth where the warehouses once stood.

Click Here for CrownHeights.info’s story and pictures from the blaze
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Survivor Lived to Tell Tale

Monroe, NY — For 33 years, Dan Alon didn’t speak about the day back in 1972 when 11 of his fellow Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich Olympics. Alon, Israel’s champion fencer, said he didn’t want to open the wounds.

Meeting of the Mosdos and Organizer of the Parade

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.

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The Winners of this years Bikur Cholim Chinese Auction

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!

A World Reaches Out to Comfort Professor’s Family

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.

Avi Piamenta Playing Music, Without Instruments!

In an interesting reproduction of his famous song “Siman Tov U’Mazal Tov” Avi Piamenta created a unique and interesting A cappella song, in which all sounds recorded are done by mouth, with no instrument accompanying, thereby making this music allowed in the Sefirah.

Click Here in order to listen to the song!