CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just moments ago the Shabbos siren was triggered for no apparent reason prompting an unprecedented amount of calls to our call system, and a crushing amount of traffic to CrownHeights.info.
This Sunday Pre 1-A of Oholei Torah had a Father and Son Model Seder. The boys each had their own Kaara and Haggadah. They each read from their Haggadah and said each of the steps of the Seder in Yiddish. What nachas it was to see 100 five years olds reading Kiddush from the Haggadah. Rabbi Goldstein also played music accompany the Seder.
Just twenty four years ago, a refusenik, jailed by the Soviet communist regime for proudly representing Judaism in a country where Jewish activity was a crime, Natan Sharansky was barred from communicating with his concerned Jewish brothers around the globe. This Sunday (March 21), at 3pm EST, Natan Sharansky, now a powerful figure in Israeli politics and chairman of The Jewish Agency, will address world Jewry in a live pre-Passover webcast entitled “The Courage to be Free.” The event is sponsored by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and will be hosted on TorahCafe.com
New Yorkers finally have the one thing they’ve always wanted – more time.
Five minutes more.
As of 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning, a controversial new law grants that extra 300-second cushion to move your car for alternate-side parking or from an expired Muni meter before getting slapped with a ticket.
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Bochurim in the Morristown Semicha program got tested last week by Rabbi Dovid Schochet from Toronto on Hilchos Taaruvos. Rabbi Schochet was very impressed with the knowlage the Bochurim displayed.
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