CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Back to back the Heifers and Skullcaps stepped on to the field at Lefferts park in attempt to battle their way to game three of the best of three playoff matchup, both failing each with the final score of 9 to 5.
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During the past three years Chabad Jewish Center of Naperville has grown in many ways including our Hebrew School that has now over 30 students.
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My youngest, Ben, now dons the garb of a Chasidic Jew when he celebrates Sabbath, holy days and sacred occasions — black frockcoat, broad-brimmed hat, ritual fringes, woven prayer-sash, and the rest. He has come to identify with an Orthodox sect, Chabad, with which I, too, was once closely associated.
Chabad recently gained a modicum of controversy, having posthumously declared their Rebbe (“Grand Rabbi”) the Messiah. The disagreements between us have never been rancorous. Ben knows my watchword: “Son, as long as you are first and foremost, in every dimension of your life, a ‘mensch’ (a decent, God-loving, honorable human being), everything else is just parsley around the plate.” So far, he is faithful to my watchword.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – After patrolling the streets of Crown Heights on Motzai Shabbos Shomrim members prepared to call it a night at around 5:30am when 2 members in one car heard the sound of two car colliding. A quick investigation revealed an accident in the intersection of Empire and Troy.
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MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — An informative and exciting presentation on the art of kosher wine tasting was recently led by Rabbi Shmuel Lewis, the Chabad director of Sparta NJ at Cong Beth Sholom Chabad of Mineola NY.
“We enjoyed how to taste a wine but more importantly what makes wine kosher and the many fascinating deeper meanings on the lessons in Jewish life to be learnt from grapes,” noted Barry Wohl.
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