Daily Archives: April 11, 2006

Cyprus Celebrates Pesach As Never Before!

This Pesach, Chabad of Cyprus will be organizing four sedorim with hundreds of people in attendance. The main seder will be held at the Chabad House in Larnaka, where a over 250 people have made reservations and even more are expected to attend. The local Jews of Larnaka will be joined by many traveling business people from around the world, as well as Israeli and American tourist. Rabbi Zeevi Raskin will lead the Hebrew seder, while Motti Seligson and Yudi Steiner will run the seder in English.

Another two sedorim will take place on the Turkish-North side of Cyprus, where bochurim have koshered an Israeli owned hotel and are expecting many Israelis who often spend their vacations in Cyprus, to take part in the seder. A number of bochurim have flown into Cyprus from Israel to assist in the Pesach preparations, including Shaykee Farkash, Motti Herzog, Yosi Prag, Menachem Shikevitch and Aharon Ullman.

NY State Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Suozzi Visits the Ohel!

Earlier today Tom Suozzi, Democratic Candidate for Governor of New York State, visited the Ohel accompanied by R. Mendy Heber Shliach to Glen Cove, the hometown of Mr. Suozzi.

More Pictures in the Extended Article!

Chabad to organize first seder dinner for students

Matazh, red wine and a variety of traditional Jewish dishes will be some of the items decorating the table at the Chabad House on the night of April 12, when the Jewish holiday of Passover begins. This eight-day holiday will start off the celebration with the first Passover seder for FIU students.

“It’s not your average seder. It’s going to be interactive and entertaining,” said Rabbi Levi Friedman of FIU’s Chabad House, the organization for Jewish students at FIU that will be hosting the Seder.

Chabad’s seder is for students of all Jewish backgrounds, even those who have never experienced a seder before. For Jews outside of Israel, the Passover seder takes place the first two nights of the eight-day holiday. So on the night of April 13, students will have another chance to experience the second seder.

Host In Chief

Hawaii governor makes kosher seder in her mansion an annual event.

In early 2002 Linda Lingle, the former mayor of Maui and then head of the Hawaii Republican Party, stopped by the seder we were running at the Chabad House in Honolulu. We had already finished the fourth cup of wine, so my husband, Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky, duly introduced her to the guests as the “future governor of Hawaii.”

It was six months before the gubernatorial election, and she had not yet officially declared her candidacy for that office.

Lingle, who is Jewish and had known us for six months, stood by quietly and smiled.