Daily Archives: March 30, 2006

Oholei Torah Breaks Ground For New Mikvah

As Oholei Torah celebrates its achievements of the past fifty years, they are looking forward and planning to the future.

Backed by the generosity of Oholei Torahs dear friends, R’ Shaya and Sarah Boymelgreen, Oholei Torah will break ground for a brand new community mikvah for men on Isru Chag Shavuos as they celebrate their annual dinner.

The mikvah, to be annexed to the eastern side of the Eastern Parkway campus, will feature more than 7,500 sq. feet of stunning amenities, and the utmost in comfort and dignity as such a project deserves. Building details include 26 showers, four boros each with separate entrances and exits, and a grand marble entrance.

The Boymelgreen’s are dedicating this project to the memory of Shaya’s grandfathers R’ Yeshaya Shlomo HaKohen Altman HY“D and R’ Levi Yitzchok Boymelgreen HY”D

THE DISPUTATION: One Love, One Chabad Heart

Any group or movement with a strongly held viewpoint inevitably has to decide how to relate to outsiders who disagree or simply don’t care. It can judge and dismiss them, or it can condescend and seek to instruct them about the dangerous error of their ways. The really radical approach, however, is to serve and to love them.

This last approach has come to be associated with Chabad, the Hasidic sect that is currently scoring a public relations triumph in the person of Matisyahu, the born-again reggae star with legions of fans among non-Jewish Americans. The majority of mainstream America never heard of Chabad until the former Matthew Miller began crooning to them about faith in Hashem and paraphrasing the Zohar about how to fight the evil one’s impulse. He’s currently No. 7 on the Billboard 200 music chart, a flabbergasting achievement.