Daily Archives: December 7, 2005

UPDATED: Tzivos Hashem’s 25th anniversary and Hachnosas Safer Torah

Yesterday [Sunday] a dinner was held in honor of the Tzivos Hashem Organizations 25th anniversary, and the ceremony of the completion of a Sefer Torah written for the Shul in the museum and was donated by Dr. Esther Benenson “The mother of Tzivos Hashem”. The event was attended by board members and employees of the museum and family, as well as local politicians and our brass of the NYPD’s 71st Precinct.

The event opened up with the completion of the writing of the Sefer Torah, and the dancing with the torah out in the freezing cold around a few blocks. Then the crowd moved back into the museum for a beautiful and delicious buffet dinner with a variety of different food to choose from.

And for the last part of the event, there was a round of special presentations of their work here in the United States and abroad, specifically the USSR, from schools to shelters and orphanages. One of the entertainers was Bruce Adler a world famous singer and entertainer who brought back memories of his childhood and the radio station WEVD the only radio station in Yiddish! Another of the presentations was from the Friendship Circle where 2 special children made a brief speech thanking the organizers and counselors for their work and effort they put into the program and how much it means to them.

An extensive gallery is now online with 160 beautiful pictures of the event! Enjoy!

Chabad, a success story

Chabad, the Lubavitch Hasidic movement headquartered in New York, is the most effective movement in the Jewish world today, according to Michael Steinhardt, a major figure on the American philanthropy scene, who is a self-defined secular and non-believing Jew. Steinhardt made the statement at the annual Chabad convention last week in the grand ballroom of New York’s Hilton Hotel before an audience of 3,000, of which more than 2,000 were Chabad emissaries worldwide.

Steinhardt, who contributes millions of dollars to Jewish education in the United States, helps fund the Chabad youth movement, which has branches in over 100 cities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.).

Professor Alan Dershowitz, another well-known American Jewish figure, who is not a Chabad member and who is active in the struggle against anti-Semitism and pro-Israel causes, was the guest of honor at the convention.