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Daily Archives: April 7, 2010


Only moments after I had finished digesting my delicious post-Pesach pizza, my Blackberry buzzed, indicating that I had received an email. I wiped my palms, greasy from the cheesy delight I had just enjoyed, and read the email. My jaw dropped as I read the article my friend had forwarded to me. A “Yid from England” had written to a site frequented by members of the Chabad community, expressing wonder about why observant Jews find it so necessary to make a mad dash for the pizza stores and bakeries the very moment that they are once again permitted to eat Chametz at the conclusion Pesach.

Op-Ed: The Post-Pesach Pizza Rush – A Response

Only moments after I had finished digesting my delicious post-Pesach pizza, my Blackberry buzzed, indicating that I had received an email. I wiped my palms, greasy from the cheesy delight I had just enjoyed, and read the email. My jaw dropped as I read the article my friend had forwarded to me. A “Yid from England” had written to a site frequented by members of the Chabad community, expressing wonder about why observant Jews find it so necessary to make a mad dash for the pizza stores and bakeries the very moment that they are once again permitted to eat Chametz at the conclusion Pesach.

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Baby Boy!

Levi and Leah (nee Werner) Sputz from Washington Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Zalman and Brochie Friedman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Schneur and Yehudis Hickson from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Mushka Slava Sternbach from Crown Heights had a baby boy!

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New Engagement!

Mendy Zajac (S. Paulo, Brazil) to Chani Cohen (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Isaac Raices (Kharkiv, Ukraine) to Sorole Golomb (Sheffield, UK)

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New Engagement!

Dovi Brackman (New Haven, CT) to Rivkah Steinberg (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Menahem Mendel Shaer (Nahliel, Israel) to Nehama Loeb (Yerres, France)
New Engagement!

Chmouel Assoiline (Paris, France) to Sterna Sarah Belhassen (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Mendel Turk (Chicago, IL) to Rivka Weingarten (Flint, MI)
New Engagement!

Zev Edelstein (Milwaukee, WI) to Mushky Niasoff (Manchester, UK)
New Engagement!

Mendel Kaplan (Crown Heights) to Mussie Gorkin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendel Volovik (Pittsfield, MA) to Tzivia Treitel (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Shalom Gurevitch (Frankfurt, Germany) to Mussie Holzman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, July 31st, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Yekusiel Zushe Vigler (Brooklyn, NY) to Sarah Feiga Ehrenreich (Nyack, NY) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 30th, 7:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Yossi and Zissel (nee Klein) Chayo from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 332 New York Ave (between President and Union)
New Engagement!

Chai Yisroel Nemni (London, UK) to Estee Stoneman (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)

Op-Ed: Lag Baomer – Achdus?!

by Arron Zalmenson.

Lag B’omer we will be organizing a parade that will be a great Kidush Hashem and surely bring the Rebbe nachas. The parade’s central theme will be a tremendous display of achdus.

Unfortunately the display of achdus isn’t carried through internally. An exuberant amount of money and energy will be spent and will result in a kidush hashem of epic proportions. However if a very important point isn’t internalized, we Lubavitcher Chasidim – the gate keepers of Toras haBa’al ShemTov, purveyors of achdus Yisroel – will leave the parade unchanged and as internally fragmented as the day before lag be’omer.

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Houston Chronicle
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein leads residents of Richmond and
Brenham state schools in singing Dayenu during the Friendship
Circle Model Seder at Chabad Outreach Center in Houston.
The adults sitting around the festively decorated Passover Seder table listened with rapt attention as the rabbi told the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. Not an ordinary service, this mock Seder was held for the benefit of 10 severely disabled adults, complete with a kosher meal consisting of traditional Passover foods.

Rabbi Dovid Goldstein of Chabad Outreach led the service for the participants from State Supported Living Centers.

Passover begins with the first Seder on Monday, but for this event, facility vehicles took five Jewish adults from the Brenham location and five more from the Richmond location, along with their caretakers, to the Chabad Outreach Center in southwest Houston.

A Seder for all

Houston Chronicle
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein leads residents of Richmond and
Brenham state schools in singing Dayenu during the Friendship
Circle Model Seder at Chabad Outreach Center in Houston.

The adults sitting around the festively decorated Passover Seder table listened with rapt attention as the rabbi told the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. Not an ordinary service, this mock Seder was held for the benefit of 10 severely disabled adults, complete with a kosher meal consisting of traditional Passover foods.

Rabbi Dovid Goldstein of Chabad Outreach led the service for the participants from State Supported Living Centers.

Passover begins with the first Seder on Monday, but for this event, facility vehicles took five Jewish adults from the Brenham location and five more from the Richmond location, along with their caretakers, to the Chabad Outreach Center in southwest Houston.

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The Abington Jounal

Rabbi Benny Rapoport, Director of the Jewish
Discovery Center of Clarks Summit, holds a
hand-baked “shmurah” matzah from Israel, an
unleavened wafer, one of the staples of the
upcoming Passover feast.
Rabbi Benny Rapoport, Director of the Chabad’s Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, said Passover Seder was an exciting part of his childhood.

“As a kid, I remember Passover Seder in my home was one of the most exciting nights of the year. It was late, the entire family got together, 10 siblings, and everyone was a part of the festivities. Everyone had a role to play at the table: each of the kids had notes and tidbits about the holiday that they learned in school which was shared around the table,” said Rabbi Rapoport. He has lived in the Scranton and Abington areas with his wife and family since the fall of 2000.

He added, “Of the two Seders, one was only our family and the other was guests, tons, usually about 50 total. I really felt the richness of the Exodus. Tonight we’ve become a free people as the destiny of the Jewish people was born. And the excitement and drama of the evening was really palpable.”

Passover is celebrated in the early spring from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan, commemorating the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. It is celebrated March 29 through April 6.

“The Most Exciting Nights of the Year”

The Abington Jounal

Rabbi Benny Rapoport, Director of the Jewish
Discovery Center of Clarks Summit, holds a
hand-baked “shmurah” matzah from Israel, an
unleavened wafer, one of the staples of the
upcoming Passover feast.

Rabbi Benny Rapoport, Director of the Chabad’s Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, said Passover Seder was an exciting part of his childhood.

“As a kid, I remember Passover Seder in my home was one of the most exciting nights of the year. It was late, the entire family got together, 10 siblings, and everyone was a part of the festivities. Everyone had a role to play at the table: each of the kids had notes and tidbits about the holiday that they learned in school which was shared around the table,” said Rabbi Rapoport. He has lived in the Scranton and Abington areas with his wife and family since the fall of 2000.

He added, “Of the two Seders, one was only our family and the other was guests, tons, usually about 50 total. I really felt the richness of the Exodus. Tonight we’ve become a free people as the destiny of the Jewish people was born. And the excitement and drama of the evening was really palpable.”

Passover is celebrated in the early spring from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan, commemorating the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. It is celebrated March 29 through April 6.

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myfoxny
Unseasonably warm temperatures have spread across the eastern seaboard and extended into areas all the way to the Mississippi River.

The temperatures are typical of early July rather than early April.

New York City broke an 81-year-old temperature when it hit 90-degrees in Central Park on Wednesday afternoon.

Records were also broken Tuesday in the New York City region.

Record Temperatures, Fire Dangers

myfoxny

Unseasonably warm temperatures have spread across the eastern seaboard and extended into areas all the way to the Mississippi River.

The temperatures are typical of early July rather than early April.

New York City broke an 81-year-old temperature when it hit 90-degrees in Central Park on Wednesday afternoon.

Records were also broken Tuesday in the New York City region.

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Merkos Shlichus – a Kiwi Success!

Canterbury, New Zealand [CHI] — Fourteen Rabbinical Students returned to the Chabad headquarters in Canterbury, after spending their Pesach in various cities throughout the island, organizing sedorim, distributing Matzah, Kosher wine, and other Pesach essentials. “It was a success far beyond all our expectations!” says Rabbi Shmuel Kopel; director of Chabad of Otago, who helped coordinate the island wide Shlichus.

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Just as hundreds of Crown Heights homes finished ‘turning over’ their kitchens back to normal, the lines in the neighborhoods two pizza shops, Kingston Pizza and The Kertchme, kept getting longer and longer.

Photos: The First Pizzas after Pesach

Just as hundreds of Crown Heights homes finished ‘turning over’ their kitchens back to normal, the lines in the neighborhoods two pizza shops, Kingston Pizza and The Kertchme, kept getting longer and longer.

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The date, 3rd of Cheshvan 5768, 66 years to the foundation of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Montreal, after Maariv Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, from the elder of the Gaboim, askes everyone to say Lechaim and be b’simcha.

Video: Rabbi Gerlitzky asks to say Lechaim

The date, 3rd of Cheshvan 5768, 66 years to the foundation of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Montreal, after Maariv Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, from the elder of the Gaboim, askes everyone to say Lechaim and be b’simcha.

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There was a major accident on the New York State Thruway involving three Frum families. The accident took place at about 5am early Wednesday morning. The families were on their way home, after spending time away for Pesach.

VIDEO: Frum Families Involved In Serious Thruway Crash

There was a major accident on the New York State Thruway involving three Frum families. The accident took place at about 5am early Wednesday morning. The families were on their way home, after spending time away for Pesach.

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By Scott Shane for the New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Approves Targeted Killing of American Cleric

By Scott Shane for the New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.

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By Cara Buckley for the New York Times

NEW YORK — Because of a $45 million budget gap, the New York City Housing Authority may have to revoke rental-assistance vouchers from more than 10,000 low-income tenants, a drastic move that could cause families to lose their apartments.

Thousands May Lose Rental Vouchers

By Cara Buckley for the New York Times

NEW YORK — Because of a $45 million budget gap, the New York City Housing Authority may have to revoke rental-assistance vouchers from more than 10,000 low-income tenants, a drastic move that could cause families to lose their apartments.

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