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Cheder at the Ohel Starts Lag B’Omer Early

Cheder at the Ohel held a pre Lag’ B’omer parade today in Valley Stream, NY. With a police escort and a car playing A cappella chassidish music, the children marched from their school, down the block, holding posters describing the different mitzvots that Jews can do and posters of different Jewish seferim.

The Great Parade’s Great Sign!

Measuring an imposing 75 feet by 30 feet, the new and updated sign replaces the signs that graced the parade from past years. Yitzy Vail together with a group of volunteers put up the sign this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming parade this Sunday.

New ‘Parade Office’ Dedicated in Memory of Nosson Deitsch

Friends and family of Nosson Deitsch OBM gathered this evening to officially dedicate a new parade office, dubbed the Central Operations Suite, which will provide a place for all the volunteers to sit and work on the Lag Baomer Parade.

Chabad Honors Israel’s Soldiers

by Baila Olidort – Lubavitch.com

Photos by Bentzi Sasson

“Nakba is not a protest against settlements. It is not about 67 borders. It is about 1948. It is the expression of agony for the very existence of Israel,” Israeli Consul General Ido Aharonisaid at a breakfast Tuesday morning honoring a group of Israel’s wounded soldiers on a tour of New York City.

Darchai Prepares a Parade Float in Their Own Image!

It’s 7pm on a Monday night, and Darchai Menachem is buzzing. Hours after the students are usually long gone, there are scores of boys covering two floors and three rooms, sawing wood, drilling planks together and painting boards. It’s five short days before Lag Ba’omer and staff and students are hard at work on the Darchai Menachem float.

‘Belev Echad’ Soldiers Arrive in NY

Photos by: Bentzi Sasson

Ten severely wounded IDF soldiers arrived today in New York for a 10 day vacation around the US, accompanied by Chabad Terror Victims Project, and hosted by Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side under the auspices of Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler.