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Photo Gallery: Season Opening of the Softball League

by Jonah T.

A perfect day for softball. Game conditions at Lefferts Park today were cool, sunny, and dry for the first game of the Crown Heights Softball League season. Players arrived early to stretch for their first outing of the year and took their places in the field and in the dugouts as their wives, children, and fans filled bleachers.

Photos: Seudas Moshiach in 770!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The last day of Passover (“Acharon Shel Pesach”) is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking of a “Seudas Moshiach” (Moshiachs Meal) on the afternoon of the last day of Passover; in addition to the Matzah eaten at “ Seudas Moshiach”, the Rebbes of Chabad added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover’s first days.

Denver Seder Starts with Tefillin Mivtzoim

Shluchim to Denver Colorado, Rabbi Benjy and Leah Brackman, hosted their 7th annual Pesach Seder at the Westin Westminster Hotel Ball Room. The Seder began an hour before sunset, allowing the Bochurim, Shmuel Shapira and Levi Ceitlin don Tefillin with the male participants; while sitting at the Seder table before the onset of the holiday.

Photos: Rabbis Selling the Chometz

Under the guide of Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky, Rabbi Shimon Hecht Rabbi Sholom Ber Hecht represented by his son Eli and Rabbi Yaacov Schwei gathered in the offices of National Committee to do the traditional sale of the Chometz [leavened breads] to a gentile.

Photos: Tank Parade in Toronto!

TORONTO [CHI] — A Mitzvah Tank parade took to the streets on Thursday in Toronto, Ontario. The 5 mobile homes were dedicated to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson whose 108th birthday was on the 11th of Nissan. Arranged by Toronto Bochurim.