Why Were the Bochurim at Enterprise Motzei Yomtov?

Some of the drivers picking up their Sukkah Mobile Vehicles at Enterprise Rent a Car on Motzai Yom Tov!

As an extreme show of customer support, Manager of the Bay Ridge Enterprise, Mike Rabinowitz, opened his doors on Motzai Yom Tov so all who are renting Sukkah Mobiles can get their vehicles with due time to have them ready for the morning Mivtzoim. Not to mention, Mike has arranged for many of these vehicles to be brought in to Brooklyn from other locations all around the New York area.

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Hitting the Streets with My Sukkot Holiday Gear

What makes the Jewish holiday of Sukkot memorable for me is something I have loved to do ever since I first got my own set of the Four Kinds, the lulav and etrog set. We are commanded to shake the Four Kinds every morning of the eight-day holiday (excluding the Sabbath), and the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, taught us to take our lulav and etrog and pass it around to whomever else would be willing to recite the blessing and do a “shake.”

Roving Rabbis: She Knew the Rebbe

Doing what we do best on the streets of old Prague.

As we were finishing up a conversation with some tourists from Spain, I suddenly glanced over at our table with tefillin and Jewish literature, to find a whole family of four looking curiously at our setup and speaking Russian. I walked over, and with the few Russian words I know, greeted them and found out they were visiting from Russia.

Three Rolling Rabbis Rack Up the Cross-Country Miles

Getting a proclamation from the mayor of the biggest city in the country is a good way to start. Getting extensive print and TV coverage in Philadelphia was a treat. And getting airtime across Virginia was yet another coup.

But for the “Rolling Rabbis”—Dani Saul, Zalman Perlman and Shmuel Rothstein—it’s all par for the course.

Despite Heat Wave Released Time Goes On!

Released Time Bochurim braving the blizzard earlier this year. Illustration Photo.

On Wednesday, the first day of Shavuos, 200 Bochurim headed out on foot to more than 50 Public Schools to conduct the weekly, Wednesday, Jewish Released Time Program of Greater New York under the auspices of NCFJE.

Seizing an Opportunity… Mivtzoim While Stuck in Traffic

A major accident on the I-95 Connecticut Turnpike brought traffic to a complete standstill, but for Ari Witkes who was heading to Worcester he found an opportunity to do Mivtzoim. Approaching one man he asked if he was Jewish and upon finding out that he is they immediately put on Teffilin together.

JNet a Hit at Lag B’Omer Parade

Photo by TuvelPhotography.com

Setting up a Mivtzoim booth at a fun fair is commonplace among Lubavitch Bochurim. A Mivtzoim booth in Crown Heights, however, is quite unheard of. Yet amid the crowds of children dragging their parents from ride to ride at Sunday’s Lag B’Omer fun fair, bochurim were seen asking fellow Chassidim to take part in Mivtzah Torah.

The Great Parade – A Great Success

by A. Cohen

On Sunday May 22nd, over 20,000 people lined the streets of Crown Heights in a display of Jewish Unity and to celebrate the joyous festival of Lag B’omer, the Yurtzait of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. The Great Parade is based on the legacy of Mesibos Shabbos and Lag B’Omer parades held on Eastern Parkway since the 1940s, and takes place on this scale whenever Lag B’omer falls on a Sunday.

Paula Abdul: Shabbat Candle-lighting a Source of Inspiration

JLI’s new course, Oasis in Time; The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World, which launched this spring, has received wide support from celebrities nation-wide. Paula Abdul, popular pop singer, dancer, choreographer and television personality, who lights Shabbos candles on Friday evening, said, “I encourage you to explore [the Mitzvah of Shabbat candles] this spring with JLI’s course, I know it will be a source of inspiration and help make your life brighter and the world around you a more peaceful place.”

Hundreds at March of the Living Don Tefillin with Chabad

Thousands of participants in the March of the Living marched Monday from the gate of Auschwitz to Birkenau, where a memorial ceremony was held at a monument to the camp’s victims.

“They’re Hungry for This”

Northwest Florida Daily News

Student Rabbi Hirshi Sputz shows Noah Boskila, left, and Jacob Tawil how to prepare matzah during a baking class.

DESTIN — It only took a few phone calls for Rabbis Levi Mentz and Hirshi Sputz to fill Thursday’s baking class with children. The student rabbis from Brooklyn came to the “remote area” of Destin to hold a traditional Passover for the local Jewish community.

Released Time Distributes 800 Pounds of Matzah

Yesterday, Wednesday, Jewish public school students were given a taste of the upcoming Passover holiday. Learning hands-on the ins and outs of the upcoming holiday, Jewish children from public schools across the New York City area participated in model Matza bakeries arranged by the local Shluchim.