CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Yesterday, Wednesday the matza bakery began baking for Pesach. The bakery sells matzas to thousands of residents, and to insure there will be enough matza to go around, they start baking months in advance.
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QUEENS, NY [CHI] — This Motzei Shabbos there will be a rally at the ohel. Busses will be leaving from 770 at 6:30 PM and will return at 9:00 PM.
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The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem (G-d) tells Yakov Avinu (Jacob our Forefather) that his name would no longer be called “Yakov” (Jacob), it would now be called “Yisroel” (Israel) .
2. As the preface to a question, the Rebbe now quotes the Talmud which discusses this verse:
The Talmud tells us that whoever calls our Forefather Avraham “Avram” (which was his original name), transgresses the verse, “And your name shall no longer be called ‘Avram’; it shall henceforth be called ‘Avraham’”.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Here comes another hit from the International Moshiach Campaign! ‘The Great Chanukah Challenge’ is a beautiful live action game where your community can feel like they are super stars right at your Chanukah event!
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Wedding” (Volume 42, Episode 167).
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FT COLLINS, CO — When Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik first asked the city to include a menorah in its Old Town holiday display two years ago, he never imagined it would become such a to-do.
Gorelik’s request sparked a debate in Fort Collins over appropriate holiday displays on and inside city buildings – a discussion that gained national attention in recent weeks and which the City Council voted on Tuesday night.
PORTLAND, OR — The recent death of Leah Raichik of Los Angeles has prompted two Portland, Ore., women, the rebbetzin’s daughter and granddaughter, to reflect on the commonalities and differences three generations of women have experienced as Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in a rapidly changing world.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Crown Heights Community Newspaper, Vaad HaKohol’s new publication highlighting local organizations and events, is coming out this week with its third publication after being well-received in the last two weeks. Printed in 2,800 copies, the paper has been carrying articles about community mosdos and outstanding Chassidim and individuals.
“Our mission is to bring out the beauty of the Rebbe’s neighborhood and the people that live here,” said Moshe Rubashkin, Chairman of Vaad HaKohol and the paper’s publisher. “By being Mosif Ohr, the darkness will automatically fall away. We will focus on Achdus and respecting our Rabonim and elders.”
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LITCHFIELD, CT — There’s a long tradition in town of development plans being subjected to scrutiny from all sides and, in the process, engendering great debate. It happened when the first chain store, a Talbots, arrived on West Street, when it was time to renovate the Marcel Breuer-designed high school, when the town’s first car wash was proposed and in countless other instances.
But after an initial burst of remarks about Chabad Lubavitch of Litchfield County’s plans to renovate the old Wilderness Shop building on West Street (Route 202), a structure in the heart of the historic district, there has been more silence than commentary.
S. PETERSBURG, Russia -– This week in Russia’s northern capital, hundreds of teenage students marked the International Day of Tolerance by visiting the Great Choral Synagogue. There, they had the opportunity to enjoy a tour, a lecture on Jewish culture and tradition, and a performance by a Cantor during which their jolly voices fell clearly silent.
To the visitors’ surprise, not only were they given a warm welcome by the Jewish community of S. Petersburg – a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia – and its leadership, but so too did they have the opportunity to meet many of its members and speak to them face-to-face. Their visit also inspired tens of questions, to which they received answers and guidance by their hosts.
NASHVILLE, TN — That two of the largest Jewish organizations in the world overlapped their annual conferences earlier this month was not by design. But increasingly, and to the benefit of Jewish communities wherever the two cooperate, United Jewish Communities (Federations of North America) and Chabad-Lubavitch are crossing paths and discovering the strength that comes in working together.
QUEENS, NY [CHI] — In honor of Yud Kislev, the day the Mitteler Rebbe was released from prison, the boys of Cheder Tzeirei HaShluchim at the ohel, amazingly captured the story of the Mitteler Rebbe’s arrest in a play.
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