CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday a CrownHeights.info photographer went out to capture Crown Heights residents enjoying the warm spring weather. In the beautiful gallery below, we have pictures of residents of all ages enjoying the beautiful weather we had this afternoon.
Huge Beautiful Gallery with over a 150 Pictures in the Extended Article!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Pennsylvania resident received a rude “Brooklyn welcome” when a group of hooligans stole his moped while visiting the borough. The incident began when two members of Shomrim, who were patrolling on Motzai Shabbos, spotted a group of about 20 to 30 Black teens walking down Union Street from New York Avenue to Brooklyn Avenue.
More in the Extended Article!
Every year, the Chabad youth organization in Israel invites kindergartens and schools to the Pesach (Passover) Experience Fair. The children get a hands-on matzah-baking experience and learn the ideas behind the precepts of Pesach. Its not easy conveying 3,000-year-old messages to todays children, explained one of the Chabad activists, but were doing it here through an interactive experience.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — As in the past the Beis Shmuel Shul in Crown Heights arranges their own mitzvah tank on the Yud Aleph Nissan Parade, then today the fathers and children gathered up and took their tank to the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn for a day of Mivtzoim. The children together with their fathers asked people if they would to put on Tefillin and gave out Matzah along with pamphlets about Pesach.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Where were you the last time the Jewish people assembled to bless the sun?
Maybe you didn’t even know about it then. The year was 1981. PC’s were still a thing of the future, cell phones unheard of, and the internet age had yet to dawn. Instant mass communication seemed still a fantastic idea, and educating people across geographic, linguistic and cultural distances was slow and painstaking.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY [CHI] — Rabbi Hanoch Hecht and members of the Jewish community of Rhinebeck, New York will ascend in hot air balloons to Rabbi Takes Congregation in Hot Air Ballons.
Birkas HaChama (the blessing of the sun) is a ceremony in which Jews recite a blessing on the Sun as it returns to the place it was appointed during Creation. It occurs every 28 years and always on a Wednesday.
When you explore these stories, you will identify with characters who grapple with the feelings and dilemmas that are at the heart of the human experience. You will see how their stories are also the stories of YOUR life, reflecting your joy and your pain, your struggles and your victories. And you will learn how the Torahs eternal values provide insight that helps you respond more thoughtfully as you face critical moments of your own.
Rabbi Shmuli, his wife Sara (nee Dinerman) Stiefel and their infant son of Crown Heights, will IYH be going on Shlichus to St Ives, Australia. They will be joining the staff at Chabad House of the North Shore.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Shliach Rabbi Nochum Shapiro.
CrownHeights.info wishes the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
With sadness we inform our reader of the passing of Tzvi Lewis OBM of Jerusalem, Israel.
Passing Moitzei Shabbos in Jerusalem.
He survived by his wife Etlle, his sons Yonason (Crown Heights), Shmuel (Kfar Chabad, Israel), and his daughter, Chaya Rapporport (Jerusalem, Israel)
The levaya was in Jerusalem Sunday evening.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
As Pesach draws nearer and the streets are abuzz with an entire community preparing for the holiday, 570 Bochurim are leaving the comfort of their homes and families for the Seder nights to fly all over the world and conduct Sedorim for Jews who otherwise wouldn’t be celebrating Pesach at all.
This group left earlier in the afternoon and are all heading to Ukraine to conduct the Sedorim across the country.
Finnish up your Pesach cleaning by dropping off your Sheimos on President and Kingston! Support the Shchunah!
Full flyer in the Extended Article.
They were amongst hundreds of students traveling across the globe—some to places like Connecticut, California and England, but others to more remote locations like Chile and Russia. The Chabad-Lubavitch students, who recently completed three years of post-high school learning, were tasked with assisting local schools and nurturing the Jewish community in their given locations for a year, and sometimes two.
The six students who were assigned to S. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994 originally came from Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, France and New York, and were all students at the Lubavitch School in Morristown, NJ.
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — In effort to win Black votes in the coming city elections for mayor, Mike Bloomberg said that he was a fan of controversial activist and politician Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is known in the Crown Heights Jewish community circles, as the force who riled up residents in Crown Heights during the 1991 riot. The following is a piece by Eizabeth Benjamin for the NY Daily News Blog.
Appearing at the National Action Network’s annual meeting at the Sheraton New York in midtown this afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg was full of praise for the organization’s founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Video Shiur by Rabbi Michoel Seligson, on a Maamar that was given over by the Rebbe on the 11th of Nissan 5743. This Maamar is about Pesach and it continues with several clips in the Extended Article!
You can make a beracha shehakol bajillions of times a day. You have a chance to say “Baruch… Mechadesh Chadashim” only once a month. We say “Al Biur Chametz” just once a year. But Birchas Hachama comes only once every twenty-eight years. Nobody—not even your old grandfather—has done this mitzvah more than three times. When Birchas Hachama comes around again, you might be as old as your parents are now!
With sadness we inform you of the the passing of Moshe Freundlich, a member of Anash in London, England. He passed away on Shabbos. Reb Freundlich is survived by his wife, his sons: Shloime (CH), Binyomin Mordechai (Shliach in Moscow), Yakov Daniel (CH), Eliezer Chaim (CH) and his daughter, Rus Brocho Rivkin (London).
The family will be sitting Shiva at 26 Elm Park Ave, Stamford Hill, London. They can be reached via telphone at 011-44-208-442-8674, or via email at bundyfreundlich@gmail.com.
Shloime will be sitting shiva in Crown Heights on Tuesday evening from 5:30pm and then on Wednesday till chatzos at 645 Lefferts Ave, Apt 2D [corner Albany Ave].
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
This week the G-20 leaders met in London and pronounced a stirring indictment of humanity. Our bankers can’t be trusted. Unwatched and unregulated, people plus property equals corruption. The solution: massive and stringent new government oversight and regulation.
The sad story of our shrunken investments is the corrosion of our values. Past economic downturns were blamed on cycles. What goes up must come down.
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