Daily Archives: January 30, 2006

24 Hours of Bossi LeGanni in Ottawa

For the first time in the History of “Yeshivas Ateres Menachem” of Ottawa, established in 1997, in honor of Yud Shvat, the Shluchim of the Yeshiva decided to organize something that was never done, its goal was to have “24 Hours of Bossi LeGanni”, its idea was to Learn any Bossi leGanni Mammor, with Shiurim and One-on One classes offered by their Shluchim of the Yeshiva. The Bochurim spent every free moment learning Bossi Legani and getting tested by their Shluchim, and if you were to walk in at 4am, you saw the “Zal” rocking with “Bossi LeGanni” as if it was in mittle of the day. “What a great Idea, Kol HaKavod to the Bochurim” said Rabbi Berger, the Rosh Yeshiva, during his address following Mincha to the Bochurim. Hundreds of Oissios were going through out the entire Twenty-four Hour Period, a real success was seen in everyone eyes.

For each Oiss of the Maamor learned Baal Peh, the Bochur together with another four Bochurim will receive a chance in a gorel and spend Yud Shvat in NY and go to the Ohel. The Hanhala were overwhelmed with the success of the program and would like to thank the Shluchim for their dedication to the program and learning and testing the Bochurim.

Chabad dinners draw diverse crowds

From its beginning a few years ago as a weekly gathering of two rabbinical students and two sophomores for Friday night dinners at unit 3M in the Taft apartment building, the Shabbat dinner hosted by the group “Chabad at Yale” has grown into a full-blown dinner party that hosts upwards of 100 students each week.

The Jewish organization, which was founded at Yale about three years ago, has multiplied fivefold from the approximately 20 students it started with this year. Now, co-founder Rabbi Shua Rosenstein and his wife, Sara, plan to expand the popular center beyond the homey dinners it has always offered to include additional educational programs, such as kosher cooking and Kabbalah classes, “poker, cigars and Torah study” sessions and programs for graduate students. The group already offers interactive Saturday morning services and Hebrew lessons.

Jewish Children of Rome Get A New Preschool Facility

With a continuous presence of Jews from classical times to today, Rome’s Jewish community may well be the oldest one in the world. At approximately 13,000, its numbers constitute less than 0.4 percent of Rome’s total population of three million. Nevertheless, the Jews of Italy’s capital city make up a distinguished and highly visible segment of the population.

Chabad @ Super Bowl XL

First-ever stadium-adjacent Jewish fan outpost to serve Ford Field crowds during the Motown Winter Blast and Super Bowl XL

WEST BLOOMFIELD — They are everywhere. One of the oldest contemporary Jewish quips is that two things can be found worldwide, Coke and Chabad. Even at this years Super Bowl? You bet!

The Shul of West Bloomfield, a popular Detroit Chabad synagogue noted for its diversity and unique programming, has secured a prime storefront location a stone’s throw from Ford Field. Located at 1515 Woodward Ave. at the center of the Winter Blast between Clifford and Park, Chabad at Super Bowl XL, sponsored by Lubavitch Foundation of Michigan, will serve visitors with food for body and soul.

“We’ll be asking men to put on Tefillin, and giving out Shabbat candles to woman along with brochures, in addition to selling kosher food and snacks, and a Judaic gift shop” smiles Rabbi Yudi Mann, a rabbi of The Shul.

Mourners flood Jerusalem for funeral of Jewish mystical rabbi

Almost a quarter of a million mourners from Israel and around the world have taken part in the funeral in Jerusalem of Kabbalist rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri who died at the age of 106, police said.

The crowd, ferried in by hundreds of buses, gathered near the rabbi’s home in the ultra-Orthodox Bukhara area before being escorted by 1,000 police to his final resting place in the Grand Cemetery at the western entrance to the Holy City.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Rabbis go ‘RARA’: Jewish re-connect heritage

Two young rabbis, Yosef Muchnik from New York and Eli Gescheit from Sydney, will be in Goulburn this week to make contact with Jewish men women and children living in the district.

The two rabbis volunteered for the five-week tour of inland and coastal NSW to make contact and share their faith during a break in their studies.

The outreach program has come from a tour more than 30 years ago when three young rabbis drove around Australia in a ‘Mitzvah Tank’- caravan, finding Jewish people and reconnecting them with their heritage.

This trip laid the foundation and in July 2000, Chabad of RARA – (Rural and Regional Australia), was established as a non-profit organisation to care for the spiritual and general needs of Jewish men, women, and children outside the main cities.

Bnos Chabad of Agora Hills Adopt Terror Stricken Families

Chabad girls associated with the Chabad House of Agora Hills, California, headed by Rabbi Moshe Bryski, just completed a moving, charitable project for the benefit of terror stricken families in Israel.

The girls ‘adopted’ terror stricken families in Israel. Every girl got a portfolio with details of an assigned family including pictures of the family members. The girls studied Mishnayos and Tanya by heart for ‘Aliyas Hanishomo’ of the killed and for the recovery of the injured.

On Thursdays the girls went on ‘Mivtsa Neshek’ offering women that light Shabbos candles to pray for the names shown on the card attached to the Shabbos candles kit. The girls happily surprised the families in Israel with well wishing cards in honor of Chanukah, where they mentioned that they have them in mind and study Torah for their benefit.