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TZFAS, Israel [CHI] — From the beginning of the farbrengen one could already feel the electricity in the air that would carry on until daybreak. After Ma’ariv the bochurim enjoyed a lavish Seudas Yom Tov where the Niggun of Podoh B’Shalom was sung followed by the Ma’amer Niggun. The Ma’amer of Podoh B’Shalom was split up between six bochurim where each bochur said over a part of the Ma’amer. What nachas it was to watch these bochurim say over the Ma’amer with full confidence, bochurim who never thought they could do it. A big yasher koach goes to Habochur Hatomim Yossi Weiss, Habochur Hatomim Shloime Litvin, Habochur Hatomim Eli Marks, Habochur Hatomim Shmuly Bonnardel, Habochur Hatomim Yossi Rubin and Habochur Hatomim Yedidya Rittri.
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In addition to the tens of thousands of people who have pledged to spread goodness and kindness throughout the world, and to take on a specific deed in the merit of those who perished last month in the Mumbai terror attacks, many organizations and communities have launched Torah study campaigns as a way to honor the deceased.
WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI — As the piano player jammed away, three generations of the Shemtov family danced and sang with joy inside a Jewish center in West Bloomfield last Sunday night.
It was the bar mitzvah of Levi Shemtov, the 13-year-old grandson of a Russian immigrant who moved to Detroit 50 years ago to start the Michigan branch of an Orthodox Jewish group, Chabad Lubavitch. Last month, the group garnered worldwide attention with the terrorist murders of two of its members at a Chabad house in Mumbai, India.
ZHITOMIR, Ukraine [FJC] — This week, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School of Zhitomir hosted a group of high-profile guests, all of whom are Jewish leaders active in the sphere of formal and informal Jewish education in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Among the members of the visiting delegation were Rabbi Dovid Mondshine, the Director of the Ohr Avner Foundation in Moscow, ‘Avi Chai’ Foundation Director in Russia David Rosenson, and yet one other representative of the Ohr Avner Foundation, Chaim Friedman.
The distinguished guests dropped by the day on Kislev 19, which is very symbolic since this is the New Year of Chassidism – a very joyous occasion. On this day, the visitors wished all the students a good year of studying Chassidic teachings, and the teachers good success in teaching them. In return, the pupils wished them all the best in this year and thanked them for their contribution to Jewish education in Ukraine.
BROOKLYN, NY — Jewish communities throughout the world gathered this week to celebrate the 210th anniversary of the release of the first Chabad Rebbe from a Russian prison. Tens of thousands of people took part in the celebrations, which stretched for two days and looked at the life and teachings of the first Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
