Rabbi Mendy Lipskier from Crown Heights and his family are on their way to Chandler, Arizona. The Lipskiers will be working on establishing a new preschool, a Camp Gan Yisroel and programs for youth and teens at Chabad of the East Valley. The Lipskiers were appointed by Rabbi Mendy Deitsch.
The Rebbe’s home on President street in Crown Heights was open today, 25th of Adar – birthday of the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka of blessed memory. About 25 people participated in Maariv. This brought Crown Heights’ residents to hope that the Rebbe’s home would be open for davenning also on other special dates such as the oncoming 11th of Nissan – the Rebbe’s birthday.
Rebbetzin Chaya (Moussia) Mushka Schneerson was born near the Russian city of Lubavitch, on the 25th of Adar in 1901 she was the second daughter of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (the Mitteler Rebbe) and his wife, Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneersohn. From her earliest years, she absorbed the purity and holiness that surrounded her, in the house of her grandfather and her father.
Her striking regal bearing, her gentle sense of humor, and her compassionate consideration and sensitive manner endeared her to all, as illustrated in the following story. In May 1940, the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin, fled to Nice, France. In the course of their flight, there was a devastating bombardment. As people ran in every direction, she noticed an explosive shell heading towards a man next to her. Quickly pushing him to the ground, the Rebbetzin saved the man’s life. Recounting this story the Rebbetzin said: “True, I saved his life, but for pushing a Jew one must repent.”
The extraordinary respect that the Rebbe accorded to the Rebbetzin gives us a glimpse of her true stature.
Once, the Lubavitch Women’s Organization sent her a bouquet of flowers, together with a list of individuals for whom blessings were requested. Setting aside the flowers for the Rebbetzin, the secretary passed the letter to the Rebbe who, observing that it was addressed to his wife, asked his secretary to give it to her, saying: “She too is capable of giving blessings.”
Earlyer this week Member of the vaad Hakol met with mayor Bloomberg, they disscused future development of our nighborhood Crown Heights.
Lately I noticed both in the online media and print alot about Lev Leviev and Shaya Boymelgreen of Africa-Israel Investments [QUOTE(TASE: AFIL)] and was wondering myself about all this, so I went searching and came up with a handful of articles leading up to date, for your informative reading pleasure.
A short synopsis of all this ahead; they had the property,
Held out till they can get top dollar, got top dollar offer, sold. Smart.
New York Daily News, NY – Mar 3, 2005 – Click Here – Rival elbowing in on Ratner
BrooklynPapers.com, NY – Mar 4, 2005 – Click Here – Community weighs in on Gowanus Village
Globes Online, Israel – Mar 9, 2005 – Click Here – Shaya Boymelgreen to build hotel in Bruce Ratner New York project
New York Daily News, NY – Mar 11, 2005 – Click Here – ‘World class’ develop plan
BrooklynPapers.com, NY – Mar 18, 2005 – Click Here – Shaya defies Ratner, moves ahead with Atlantic Yards hotel
New York Daily News, NY – Mar 20, 2005 – Click Here – Frenzy over pricey DUMBO apts
New York Times – Apr 1, 2005 – Click Here – Holdout Sells to Developer of Brooklyn Arena Project
Globes Online, Israel – Apr 3, 2005 – Click Here – Leviev, Boymelgreen sell 2 Brooklyn properties for $44m
Matiyahus first major TV interview – Click here
The new face of Jewish music wears a black hat and jacket and a long beard. He embeds divrei Torah in his songs, which rely heavily on Jewish and chasidic content. But his songs don`t come from the shtetl. Enter, instead, a bizarre matrimony between reggae, hip-hop, beatbox and Hasidic music. He is 25 years old and his name is Matthew Miller, aka Matisyahu. His new CD “Shake Off the Dust…Arise” derives from Isaiah 52:2, “Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion,” which readers will recognize from the Lecha Dodi of the Friday evening service.
Matisyahu`s unique blend begs the question of what sort of animal a Hasidic reggae performer might be. Can Jewish music maintain its Jewish component while diluting itself with other ethnic, traditionally secular and political music? And more importantly, how does that shed light on Jewish music and the larger world of postmodern music?
Mr. Leon Furth, National Security Adviser to former Vice President, Al Gore, has exerted 15 years of efforts on behalf of the return of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Seforim from Russia. Furth has reached a small success entailing the restoration of several seforim, which he brought to the U.S. via the private plane of President Bill Clinton – Air Force One – in the winter of 5754. In a picture of Clinton and Furth on the plane, Clinton is seen (above) putting his hand on Furth’s shoulder. When Clinton later sent the picture to Furth, he added this caption on the bottom:
“To Leon, lion of the Lubavitch Library. Congratulations on surviving to another Happy birthday. Bill Clinton “. This week, Mr. Furth is slated to testify at the Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, and to emphasize the importance of returning the Schneerson Library to the Chabad Headquarters in New York.
After so much un-creativity that has been displayed by so many Jewish artists, starting from the “Borrowed” music the singers sing to down to the singers singing Davening on a CD, I must say Jewish music became lame.
Now along came this brand new band, actually they have released a CD but it was a plain white label with no particular identification to it, now they seemed to have regrouped and arranged themselves quite nicely, band name, web site, pictures and all.
The fist thing I noticed was a poster of theirs which was so very different it seemed… ORIGINAL, so I took a look at the website and my my its just different so the first thing I did was went to the sample section, and listened to the available samples 3 in total and it was like a blast of fresh air. OK enough, here’s the links to the samples and to the website, it will say a lot more then I can.
Bar Yochai – Rain – Yarmulka
For all those of you that dont know Doar is the little store on the corner of Crown and Kingston.
As far as I rember the first owner was Yerachmiel Zalmanov about 10 years back and he sold it Sholom Ber Levitin who now himself has sold it.
What we can expect now would be longer hours and a more orderly store.
After many similar presentations all over the world the exodus experience is now making it’s first appearance in Arizona. After months of work in preparation for the ‘Exodus Experience’ the Shluchim of the Yeshiva High school of Tucson finally made their first presentation yesterday (Wednesday).
Just yesterday, over 300 children participated and all that came thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were very impressed with the presentation. The Exodus expects hundreds more children over the weekend.
The children walked through a maze of exihibits where they experienced the Slavery of Eygpt, the 10 Plagues, the splitting of the Sea and the Giving of the Torah. This is all made real while actors act out the story.
The children also get to bake their very own Matzos and then participate in a game show. The Exodus experience will be in Tucson over the weekend after which it will be transported to phoenix where even more children will be given the opportunity to learn about Pesach.
Schneerson Collection Focus of Helsinki Commission Hearing
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Sean Woo of the Helsinki Commission, 202-225-1901
News Advisory:
The Chairman of the United States Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), Senator Sam Brownback
(R-KS), announced that the Commission will hold the following hearing
on the efforts of the Chabad community and the U.S. Government to
recover the “Schneerson Collection” of sacred and irreplaceable Jewish
books and manuscripts from the Russian Government:
WHAT: Helsinki Commission hearing: “The Schneerson Collection and
Historical Justice”
WHEN: Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
TODAY, jailbird Lemrick Nelson walks the streets a free man, but the Rosenbaum family remains imprisoned in a mind-boggling system of junk justice.
To the ugly cries of a wolf pack chanting, “Get the Jew, kill the Jew,” Lemrick Nelson stabbed Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian student, four times during a race riot on Aug. 19, 1991.
Yankel died the next day in Kings County Hospital from wounds inflicted by the worm, Nelson.
This morning, Yankel’s mother, Fay, father, Max, and brother, Norman, will walk into Brooklyn Supreme Court at 10 a.m. — the fourth trial of this nightmare.
at approx: 1:35PM a call came through to SHOMRIM Headquaters reporting a mugging on Montgomery between Troy & Schnechtedy within 5 minutes SHOMRIM units were on the scene where a married woman with her 5 year old child were walking home when all of a sudden out of the alley a voice came out shouting “give me your purse, give me your purse” after she gave the purse to the guys they ran off towards albany when she arrived home the police came and took her to canvas the area then took her back to the precinct to file a report.
We urge the community to keep your eyes open and if they see anything to call SHOMRIM straight away on (718) 774-3333. It’s vital for your safety and for the safety of the community.
Did you ever hear a situation being described as A Purim Story? It
means a crazy, mixed up series of events that do not seem to make
sense, but in the end, all work out.
That is Purim in a nut shell– an ancient story of court intrigue,
deception, miscommunication, drunken parties, assassination plots, a
foolish king, a delinquent queen, villains, a strong hero and one
beautiful heroine.
For one little holiday, Purim certainly has it all. It is a one-day,
carnival-like celebration in Adar, which occurs in late February or
early March in the secular calendar.
Purim commemorates events that took place 2,500 years ago just after
King Achashverosh consolidated his rule over the Persian empire.
According to Megilat Esther, which is Hebrew for the Scroll of Esther,
Achashverosh’s empire stretched from Hodu ad Kush, which on today’s
map, would mean from Ethiopia to India.
To celebrate the expansion of his empire, King Achashveyrosh and his
court feasted for six months. It was during one of these feasts, and
after a lot of food and wine, that Achashveyrosh called for his wife,
the proud Queen Vashti, to appear. However, Vashti, who did not
appreciate being summoned on demand, refused.
The Midrash, which is a series of biblical commentaries, says that
Vashti refused out of modesty, because she was summoned in order to
dance naked in front of the King and his friends. Another version is
that Vashti refused to appear out of vanity, because she had a blemish
on her face.
Whatever Vashti’s reason, when she did not appear, the King became
very angry. His advisers, fearing their own wives would take courage
from Vashti and become similarly disobedient, told the king to have
her killed.
A small galary of pictures in tooken of the Megilla Laining in the Rebbe’s Room.
Special Thanks to Col.org.il for the pictures.
