This past Sunday, over one hundred 7th grade girls were treated to a tile painting activity in honor of the 1st Annual Bikur Cholim Month (the painting session for boys will take place on May 16th). Each of the students were given a tile to design and paint with a Bikur Cholim related design of their choice. When completed, the tiles will be mounted as a Bikur Cholim Community Mural on Kingston Ave, permanently installed on a visible outside wall.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A brazen burglar walked into a Crown Heights home this afternoon and made off with about 10 winter coats. The incident took place at around 12:15pm while there were people in the house.
Beis Rivkah Elementary Schools 8th grade went on their graduation trip to Washington, DC on Tuesday, April 20th. The trip included a visit to the holocaust museum, Smithsonian institution, FDR Memorial, a glance at the white house, the senate, Washington monument, and the Lincoln memorial.
Lipa Schmeltzer and Avraham Fried speak about a song Fried composed for Lipa’s new CD. The song is named “It’s Going to be a Splash.” The Jewish singing duo met in Avremel’s Crown Heights home, where they recorded this video. The album is scheduled to be released May 16, 2010.
BROOKLYN [CHI] — Students at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway received CPR training this afternoon. They learned the updated procedures for CPR from the FDNYs Mobile CPR Unit.
The annual Israeli Independence Day festival took place Sunday in Los Angeles, with thousands of Israelis participating. LA’s Valley Shluchim Rabbi Yossi Malka and Rabbi Yochanaon Baitelman run a booth every year offering to put Tefillin on participants.
JERUSALEM, Israel [AP] — The Israeli government has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in Jerusalem’s disputed eastern sector, municipal officials said Monday. The decision was made despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public insistence that building would not be stopped in the face of U.S. pressure.
11 Nissan, 5745 · April 2, 1985
Maimonides concludes his code of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah:
“In the Era of Moshiach… there will be no occupation in the whole world except to know G-d alone. Therefore, the Jews will be great sages, knowing the hidden matters and grasping their Creator to the full extent possible for man – as it is written, ‘For the knowledge of G-d will fill the earth as water covers the sea.’”
Recently our 7 year old daughter, Tova, was very ill with a life threatening disease. It came suddenly on a Shabbos afternoon. It was very serious and very scary. B’H now she is doing much better and the worst is Please G-d behind us. The reason for this letter is To show our thanks to you, our community our family and our friends whom we are indebted too. Without everyone’s prayers thoughts and help we could not have pulled through this hard time.
The response to our daughters illness was overwhelming. The amount of Tehillim being said by people who had never even met her or us was amazing. The number of schools in different states and countries thinking of her even those with no association with her, was touching. We are sure that because of that Tehillim her disease turned out to be less devastating then the Doctors originally thought.
Even now there are still meals coming for us daily from friends and friends of friends. People who just heard that a child was in pain and wanted to help in some way. It helped us and her to know how many people were thinking and caring about her. We cannot express how much gratitude we feel towards everyone who helped out.
More specifically we would like to thank a few more people. Our Doctor, Dr. Teitelbaum, is wonderful. Not only did he tell us the right Doctors and hospitals to go too, but he made himself available to us every second of the day, which was really amazing. He even made time to come visit her in the hospital. We also know that his entire staff were available for us if we needed anything. At one point during her illness we needed information from her chart at 9PM that was very important to what treatment she could get, and his secretary, Malky Tennenbaum, went into the office to get it for us. We really feel so lucky to be taken care of by such amazing people.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Hundreds of Bochurim and Anash attended the 28th annual Siyum HaRambam HaOlami in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights last night.
A group of more than 30 Beis Menachem of Monsey yungerleit took to the Atlantic Ocean and enjoyed a day of fishing and farbrenging. A delicious fresh dinner of Striped Bass was had by all.
On Monday, 12 Iyar, a grand Siyum Harambam celebration will Iy”h take place at the Berger Auditorium in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Morristown, NJ, with the participation of the faculty of the Yeshivos Tomchei Temimim and Tiferes Bachurim, as well as Shluchim from around the state. A very special Farbrengen will be held afterwards, with Rabbi Berel Shemtov, head Shliach of Michigan.
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