Some 120 Bochurim had left yesterday (Wednesday) to countries around the world to celebrate Pesach and hold public Sedorim with Jewish communities. Before the buses left Crown Heights R. Moshe Kotlarsky spoke a few short words to the departing Bochurim. On the way to the JFK airport, they stopped at the Ohel.
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Today 56 ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ will be joining together in a parade in honor of the Rebbes Birth Day. The tanks will form up in front of 770 and from there down Eastern Parkway past Grand Army Plaza then Flatbush Avenue on to the Manhattan Bridge through Manhattan on Fifth Avenue, from there the tanks will spread out across the city where they will distribute Pesach guides, lay Tefillin, and spread the word of Judaism.
For those of you who will not be able to partake in the parade, stay tuned for full pictorial coverage here on CrownHeights.info!
A day after a protest by hundreds of Hasidic Jews over a 75-year-old man’s arrest, in which, the authorities said, two officers were assaulted, two police cars were damaged and two dozen bonfires were set, the police commissioner said yesterday that his department’s conduct had been appropriate.
Eating Matzah during Passover takes on a whole new meaning when children have a chance to experience making it, starting with wheat stalks fresh from the fields. Camp Silver Gan Israel-Hebrew Academy brings this extraordinary experience to Jewish children and their families in Long Beach and Orange County through The Matzah Bakery, a portable workshop presented at approximately twenty different schools, synagogues, and youth groups during the months of March and April. Over two thousand students and their parents, ranging in age from preschool to college Hillel, have already experienced the joy and beauty of this Passover ritual this year, through their participation in this hands-on program. Eating Matzah during Passover takes on a whole new meaning when children have a chance to experience making it, starting with wheat stalks fresh from the fields. Camp Silver Gan Israel-Hebrew Academy brings this extraordinary experience to Jewish children and their families in Long Beach and Orange County through The Matzah Bakery, a portable workshop presented at approximately twenty different schools, synagogues, and youth groups during the months of March and April. Over two thousand students and their parents, ranging in age from preschool to college Hillel, have already experienced the joy and beauty of this Passover ritual this year, through their participation in this hands-on program.
This program, which is offered by Chabad Centers and Hebrew Academies in approximately twenty cities across the United States, has been a successful community outreach activity in our area for over seven years. Rabbi Sender Engel, director of Camp Silver Gan Israel in Huntington Beach and part-time teacher at the Hebrew Academy, also in Huntington Beach, has directed the Matzah Bakery and other holiday factories for the past two years. He personally conducts all of the presentations. “We provide a unique and exciting opportunity to enhance students’ appreciation of the meaning and traditions of these special holidays,” states Rabbi Sender. His enthusiasm for what they do is evident as he describes the Matzah Bakery.
In Spite Of Myself
The year was 1994, two weeks before Passover. Mariasha, who had just turned two, lay next to her mommy (my wife, Esther) on the couch, sucking her pacifier. Mushkie and Nechama, ages four and three, were lying on the rug, coloring in their Passover Haggadahs.
“I told the cheder that next Friday is my last day teaching nursery,” Esther said. “Do you think it’s proper to write the Rebbe at this time? You’re going to need to make a lot more money.”
A week earlier, on the 27th day of Adar, the Rebbe suffered a second stroke. Uncannily, the first stroke occurred exactly two years earlier, to the day. Ever since that first stroke, despite his terrible paralysis, there was one story that kept reassuring me that the Rebbe was somehow above these physical limitations.
“Mieluinen!”
“Previet!”
“Bruchim Haba’im!”
Chabad representatives Rabbi Benyamin and Fruma Ita Wolff have been flexing their linguistic muscles for three years now, adapting programs to suit the multi-national Jewish community in Helsinki, Finland. Most the Seder with Chabad will be conducted in English, but the sixty or so guests of Finland’s polyglot Jewish community will all feel at home as they hear Finnish, Russian, Hebrew and English around the Seder table.
In what can only be described as the worst resistance to the police abuse we have been suffering of these ticket blitzes. 75 year old Arthur Schick who is reported to be deaf in one ear was ‘pulled over’ by police officers at around 6:30pm in front of the Schick’s Bakery on 16th Ave. between 47th St. and 48th St. for speaking on his cell phone. Many eye witnesses said that he was double parked while on the phone and was not driving. However as most of us know, when these ‘cops’ are out there just to give tickets, they will give them to anyone, regardless whether they deserve it or not.
When Mr. Schick attempted to exit his vehicle, one of the cops shoved him back into his car, this is when the whole altercation started. After this he tried to exit again at which point the cops pulled him out, cuffed him, and shoved him into their van. A crowd gathered in protest to the way Mr. Schick was treated and the fact that he got a ticket the way he did.
Garbage was dumped onto the street and set ablaze, a level one mobilization was then called by police for a crowd starting fires and rioting. This was the beginning of a standoff lasting more then 5 hours, in which cops persecuted and instigated the large crowds of Bochurim and men. Cries of “Don’t Back Down, Don’t Be Pushed Around” followed by “6 Million Jews Died For Not Standing Up” were heard throughout the crowd, including slurs directed at the cops calling them ‘Nazis’ and the likes. All this in front of the eyes of the entire local media, Print, Radio and TV.
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Hundreds of angry Hasidic Jews poured into the streets in Borough Park Tuesday night, snarling traffic and setting fires to protest the arrest of a senior member of their community.
The elderly man was arrested after being stopped for talking on his cell phone while driving, according to police. The man refused to hand over his license and registration, and the officers arrested him after a struggle, police said.
Police added that when they tried to take the man into custody, other people in the area interceded.
A series of interesting classes have opened last night in the Colel of the Manhattan Chabad House, with the first class presented by Rabbi Bogomilsky who elaborated on Pesach laws that are of special concern to Shluchim.
This year, the Chabad House of Midtown Manhattan will be holding a public Seder for Israelis in addition to the two traditional public Seders it holds annually.
CrownHeights.info had been growing at an amazing rate. From a small 900 visitors a month we amounted to a strong 20,000 visits a day, and major news organizations are starting to take notice of this.
In this past week the we ran an article that was republished by the Jewish Press and was circulated world wide in their globally read newspaper.
Even as frogs began falling from the ceiling, a group of fifth-graders visiting the new Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn didn’t miss a beat.
They knew what to expect as dozens of the toy amphibians, suspended on strings, stopped short of their heads.
They were experiencing – vicariously – one of the biblical 10 plagues depicted in “The Exodus,” an unusual interactive show at the $35 million, one-of-a-kind museum in the borough’s Crown Heights section.
Timed to coincide with Passover, which begins April 13, the story of the Jews’ enslavement in ancient Egypt and their miraculous escape is brought to life in an educational and entertaining voyage through history that is being presented through April 17.
At around 2:20 this afternoon the definitive sound of a collision was heard throughout the intersection of Empire Blvd. and Troy Ave. Accidents are nothing new to this intersection as we have reported in the past, but this was the first time in more then 2 years that one of the vehicles involved flipped over.
Apparently one of the cars had taken a red light and collided sending the SUV out of control ultimately flipping over and coming to rest on a parked car. B”H there were no serious injuries to either of the drivers, and neither of them were Jewish.
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Around 100 Bochurim gathered to hear a lesson in Hilchos Pesach and Kashrus, these Bochurim all volunteered to got out and make Pesach Saders around the world including Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Africa, Virgin Islands and the Caribbean.
R. Chaikin gave the Shiur and spoke about problems that are likely to arise while out in these foreign places as well as recommend things to make it easier out there. Following the Shiur folders were distributed to all the Bochurim with vouchers to buy food to take with them along with information on the location they will be going.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Chabad has given me confidence,” Ari Goldman told his colleagues last Thursday evening. Speaking at an intimate reception for the launching of the new Chabad Student Center at Columbia University, the professor of journalism and writer for the New York Times said that Chabad was instrumental in reinforcing his sense of Jewish pride and commitment at Columbia University.
“When I started teaching I thought that family and work don’t mix, but now I’ve learned from the Blums to reach out to students,” beyond the walls of the classroom, said Goldman.
Children got a chance Sunday to learn to make their own matzo for Passover.
Pleasanton’s Amador Recreation Center was turned into a bakery for the afternoon, as the children threshed and winnowed the wheat, milled and ground the flour, and kneaded and shaped the dough to make the unleavened matzo.
Rabbi Raleigh Resnick, the director of Tri-Valley Chabad, which organized the event, said “the whole process is done in 18 minutes” or less to make sure the dough does not have time to rise.
If you’re away from home for Passover but would like to take part in the traditional holiday celebration called a seder, click on “Find a Seder” at http://www.chabad.org/passover.
Chabad-Lubavitch, a Jewish outreach organization, hosts 2,000 public seders around the world, from Beijing, Berlin and St. Petersburg, Russia, to Lima, Peru, and Nairobi, Kenya. Closer to home, you’ll find Chabad seders in Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans and dozens of other U.S. cities, along with 80 college campuses. A trilingual seder — English, Hebrew and Spanish — is being held in Tijuana, Mexico. And what Chabad bills as “the world’s largest seder” takes place under a huge tent in Katmandu, Nepal, typically attracting 1,000 backpackers, many of them young Israelis.
Passover begins the night of April 12.
This Shabbos another set of letters were spread out in Shul’s around Crown Heights, this time they are in response to the two refusal letters by R. Schwei, and are signed by R. Osdoba And R. Raitport.
The full letters can be viewed in the Extended Article.
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