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Info to be Menachem Avel The Shemtov family

The Shemtov family will be sitting Shiva until 1:30 today [Erev Pesach] after the passing of their father R. Mendel Shemtov OB”M at his home, 595 Lefferts Ave. between Kingston and Albany.

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Flatbush Hatzalah Ambulance In Accident in Boro Park

Flatbush Hatzalah Ambulance F-905 was responding to an emergency Monday night, when crossing the intersection of New Utrecht Ave. and 54th St. an SUV collided with the ambulance.

Reports say that there were minor injuries to the passengers of the SUV and they were transported to a local hospital, none of the injuries was life threatening.

8-day, 2-Seder observation forms a pillar of Jewish faith

Arizona Daily Star
A portrait of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who started the Chabad movement, peers over the shoulder of Sholom Goldstein, who examines a piece of matzo that he brought from New York to observe Passover with his family at the UA.

The story of the Exodus of Hebrews from Egyptian bondage forms a foundation of the Jewish religion, and many Tucson Jews will hear it not only tonight, when Passover begins, but again Thursday night.

Though Passover dinners, called Seders, can last for four hours and require complicated cooking, it’s common for Jews to attend two straight Seders.

University of Arizona sophomore Sarah Langert will attend one with her parents tonight and a second one at her grandparents’ house Thursday night.

Boro Park’s Night Of Shame And Disgrace

Dov Hikind – The Jewish Press

I was sitting in a local hotel room in Albany, after a late New York State Assembly legislative session, when I received the first call that alerted me to a volatile scene in Boro Park. I was secure in the knowledge that the community’s relationship with the NYPD and my personal relationship with the 66th Precinct and One Police Plaza would foster a climate of understanding and conciliation.

Confident that Boro Park residents would conduct themselves in the manner of bnei Torah, of shomrei Torah u’mitzvos, I expected the next caller to tell me it was all over, that calm heads had triumphed and that people continued to go about their extensive pre-Pesach preparations. Instead, for nearly four hours lawlessness, chaos, and disorder reigned in Boro Park and cast the community in a light from which I hope we can recover untainted. But I am not sure we will.

Torah Online – Pesach

This week millions of Jews throughout the world will be sitting with family and guests around brightly lit, festive tables eating Matzo and bitter herbs, drinking four cups of wine and reminding each other about the miracles G-d did for the Jews.

They will be celebrating the holiday of Passover for the 3,314th time in history.

That’s right; millions of Jews every year since the exodus have never missed a year of Pesach Seder.

And probably the most basic commandment of the Seder is the talking about leaving Egypt. Besides carrying the spirit of the night it is the foundation of all Judaism (first of the Ten Commandments) and is mandatory not only on Pesach but on every day of the year. The Rabbis even wrote a book called the Haggada containing all the necessary praises and ideas of the night to facilitate this vital commandment.