Ambassador to Vietnam Gets Acquainted with Shliach

(L-R) Israel’s ambassador to Vietnam Effi Ben Matityahu sitting with R. Menachem and his wife Rachel Hartman.

Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam — Israel’s ambassador to Vietnam Effi Ben Matityahu paid a visit to the home of the new shaliach in Vietnam, Rabbi Menachem Hartman.

The Israeli embassy and consulate in Vietnam is located in its capital, Hanoi and the new Chabad Hosue is in Ho Chi Min Saigon but in recent months the ties between the Chabad House and the embassy have been strengthened. In the past two months, the staff at the embassy have heard from Israelis who visit the country of the wide-reaching activities of the Chabad House.

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Tuesday – Rally at the Ohel

This Tuesday, Yud Daled Kislev, December 5th there will be a rally at the Ohel for children ages 5 to 12.

Busses leave 770 at 5:00 and return at 7:30, ($3).

Sandwiches! Fun! Amazing Program!

Make your own dreidel craft!

For more information call (718) 773 1688.

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First Haircut marks start of Boy’s Jewish Education

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Greenacres, FL — His voice amplified by a plastic karaoke microphone, the pint-size preacher stood on a chair and intoned the 12 pesukin (verses) he had memorized for the occasion. Surrounding him was a delighted crowd consisting of his parents, grandparents, aunts from Turkey and Ukraine, uncles, great-grandmother from Toronto, cousins, neighbors, family friends and a swirling knee-high lake of children.

The reason for all this excitement Tuesday was that Eliyahu Akiva Rosenfeld, 3, was about to be shorn of his long caramel-colored curls for the first time in his life. The ritual, called upshernish (Yiddish for shearing), is practiced mostly by Orthodox Jews.

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