Video of the Day! YU Dances in OT!

Around 100 students from the Yeshiva University spent this past Shabbos in Crown Heights as part of a special Shabbaton arranged by Bochurim. The students stayed at families in the neighborhood.

Motzai Shabbos the students had a Seudas Melava Malka in Oholei Torah where Yossi Piamenta and his band performed for them, and together with the Yeshiva Bochurim they danced into the night.

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Op-Ed: What We Can Learn from Satmar

by Rabbi Shea Hecht

I was sitting at the smorgasbord of a wedding the other day.

I can’t say I knew either side very well, but I helped raise money for the wedding so I thought it was only right for me to show up and wish the family Mazal Tov.

I turned to the person next to me and asked him who he was related to at this wedding. To which he answered, “Neither side, I just helped out here with money so they can afford the wedding and I felt I wanted to come and say Mazal Tov.”

It then dawned on me that many people that have Parnassah still need additional help to make a wedding.

The Torah Response to an act of Terrorism

An Excerpt from the 2002 film by Jewish Educational Media, “Pioneers.”

The story of Chabad Chassidic settlement in the Holy Land from the 1700’s, and the broad frontiers of today’s Chabad.

Available at http://JemStore.com

New Shluchim To Oregon

Jewish Review

BEND, OR — Rabbi Yitzchok and Mimi Feldman arrived in Bend in late November to set up the eighth Chabad Center in Oregon.

The Chabad center is based out of the Feldman’s home at 19747 Dartmouth Ave. The center offers a Jewish Women’s Circle that meets once a month, family holiday celebrations, Shabbat dinners and delivery of fresh challah to Jewish people on Friday afternoons.

Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti To Be Honored

HALLANDALE, FL [CHI] — Sunday, March 30th, will mark the beginning of a new era in the storied history of Chabad of South Broward. The day will mark the groundbreaking of an overwhelming expansion project taking place at Chabad of South Broward Headquarters, located at 1295 East Hallandale Beach Boulevard.It will also be a day of celebration, as the 27th Annual Dinner of Chabad of South Broward will immediately follow the groundbreaking.

Children With Special Needs and Their Parents Applaud Chabad’s Friendship Circle

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com

FC volunteer, Ashira, and Lane, lead the guests in reciting a selection of Psalms at the dinner.

PHILADELPHIA, PA — “A model for a Jewish People unified by shared goals and ideals,” is how Dr. Talya Fishman describes Friendship Circle of Chabad of the Delaware Valley.

Teens Accused of Vandalizing Chabad House Agree to Community Service

Paul Leighton – Salem News

SWAMPSCOTT, MA — The three teenagers accused of hate crimes against a local synagogue will perform community service under an agreement reached in juvenile court, according to Rabbi Yossi Lipsker.

The teens, all 14-year-olds, were accused of scrawling graffiti on the walls of the Chabad Lubavitch synagogue on Burrill Street and later setting the synagogue’s van on fire. The incidents occurred in October 2005 just before and after Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. (As reported here).

Teen Volunteers Feted at Recognition Event

Jared Shelly – Jewish Exponent

From left: Jessica Katz, Avriel Finder, Matt Tregerman and Emily Acker at an dinner sponsored by the Friendship Circle, which honored teenage volunteers who spend time with children with special needs.

PHILADELPHIA, PA — After four years of hanging out together on a weekly basis, Sammy — a 16-year-old who is autistic, knows the drill exactly once fellow teenager Avriel Finder walks through his front door.

“We do puzzles, eat popcorn and watch some Disney movie,” said Finder, an 18-year-old senior at Lower Merion High School.

Three Brazilian Men Participate in Ancient Practice Typically Reserved for Infants

Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky – Chabad.org

In a twist on the ancient Jewish custom of redeeming a firstborn male, a S. Paulo, Brazil man redeems himself.

S PAULO, Brazil — A recent ceremony in Brazil’s largest city has proved it’s never too late to pay your dues.

Moishe Urmen, 67, Chaim Bramdes, 20, and Marcelo Stilman, 19, all stood at the front of the synagogue at Beit Chabad Brooklin in S. Paulo last Sunday to perform a ritual typically reserved for 30-day-old first born baby boys, a pidyon haben.