Yud Shvat Events and Farbrengens!

Motzoai Shabbos – Ches Shvat:

* Camp Gan Yisroel, Parksville New York – Camp Reunion – Bais Rivkah Lefferts – 8:00pm to 10:30pm
* Empire Shtibel – Melava Malka in honor of Yud Shvat – 489 Empire Blvd. – 9:00pm

Sunday – Tes Shvat:

* Beis Shmuel Farbrengen – Chovevei Torah 885 Eastern Parkway Ground Floor
* Yeshivas Ohr Menachem of South Africa – awards dinner and Farbrengen – Beis Rivkah, Crown St. 8:15pm
* Beis Levi Yitzchak Farbrengen – 9:30pm – 556 Crown St. entrance from ramp on Albany Ave.
* Nshei Ubnos Chabad Yud Shvat Farbrengen – 8:30pm – Oholei Torah

Monday – Yud Shvat:

* International Convention and Farbrengen for Tmimim – Rosa Hall Campus Chomesh – 470 Lefferts Ave. – 7:00pm
* Farbrengen – Bais Menachem of North Miami Beach 1005 Northeast 172nd Terrace North Miami Beach, Florida – 8:00pm Men & Woman invited! – Full Meal will be served!
* Farbrengen in 770 – 9:30pm
* Frankel Shul Farbrengen – 1703 President Street between Utica and Rochester – After Maariv
* Kinus for all Bochurim in Mesivtas – Mesivta Oholei Torah 417 Troy Avenue. – 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

To add events to this list please email us at News@CrownHeights.info! Thank You!

Bill Handcuffs Chabad Tefillin Campaign

The familiar sight of Chabadniks inviting youths to put on tefillin may suffer a serious setback if a bill proposed by Labor MK Ophir Paz-Pines in the Knesset on Monday becomes law. The bill would prevent adults from placing pressure on anyone under the age of 18 to increase or decrease their religious involvement.

According to Paz-Pines, too much pressure is placed on youths to alter their religious traditions. Pressing youths to observe or discard religious practices can “cause the break-up of a family and cause damage to minors,” he said.

Chabad UCSB Lulav Shake

Classic Lulav Mivtzoim caught on camera with a Chabad Bochur at the University of California Santa Barbara college campus.

Simchas Torah Shlichus from Crown Heights

The Arba Minim represent Jews with different characteristics all coming together. On Simchas Torah we put down the Arba Minim, signifying that our differences have now become nullified, and we dance together as one. But once inside 770, the people dancing together are people who are similar. How is the unity that transcends the Arba Minim applied to Jews who are not in 770?

TAHALUCHA! Tahalucha is Ahavas Yisroel. Tahalucha is Achdus. Tahalucha is Shlichus on Yom Tov. And most of the guys walking for hours hardly realize it. They go on Tahalucha because the Rebbe said to go. They make no Cheshboynos. And yet they are walking for hours to reach their destination, and then walking back. And they are doing it for Jews they have never met.

A Tahalucha Story!

Melbourne, Australia — I want to share a story with you that just happened.

On Shmini Atzeres after Mincha, I walked down to a small suburb called Elwood together with my good friend Eli G. Elwood was once a large Jewish epicenter. It has a beautiful Shul with over 1400 seats, but people have long moved out to other suburbs, and aside for Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur, its usually pretty empty expect for a few old men and woman. That being said, we were eager to follow the Chabad custom to go on Tahalucha and bring some life and joy to the few remaining people there.

As Shabbos finished and Yom Tov came in, Eli was craving for a cigarette. Not that I condone smoking, but he asked me to help him look for an existing flame to light his cigarette off, and we looked all over, but couldn’t find one. We also looked for the non-Jewish caretaker to help us out, but we couldn’t find him either. By this point Eli was getting a bit desperate so he went out to the street to see if he could find a passer by to light his cigarette.

A new way to spread ancient message

Livonia, MI – It’s a new Dodge pick-up with an ancient message — and those on the road this week in Southfield, the Bloomfields, Livonia and most points between have probably seen it.

But most passing motorists probably don’t understand the message, which reads: “Happy Sukkot.” They probably don’t know what to make of the roofed shelter which sits in the truck bed or the symbols of a lemon-like fruit and willow branch which are painted on its side.

That’s the point, says the truck’s driver who wishes to raise understanding of the Jewish holiday and its meaning.