Tzfat Chief Rabbi Tests Tzeirei HaShluchim Students
Yeshivat Tzeirei HaShluchim – Tzfat bochurim continued to impress with their baal peh Gemara knowledge, this time following a visit and test with Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
Daily Archives: January 31, 2011
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Alum Donates $1 Million to New Chabad at Yale Building
by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.edu
At 8,500 square feet, Yale University’s new Chabad House will be eight times the size of the organization’s current digs.
When private investor Brad Berger first stepped into Yale University’s Chabad House for a Friday night dinner during a trip back east two years ago, he was taken aback. He had heard about the throngs of Jewish students who sought out a “home away from home” at the center run by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shua and Sara Rosenstein, but this was the first time he had actually experienced such a thing at his alma mater.
Banquet Inspires 2,800 Shluchos
Chabad House Compass Express
On any given Shabbos at Chabad of Markham, Ontario, seven year-old Zalmy Plotkin is walking around giving out high fives. This is his way of helping his parents accomplish their Shlichus. You see, Zalmy has Down syndrome, yet he is an integral partner in his parents’ work.
A short clip introducing Kol Menachems fascinating new Megillat Esther. To order your copy visit: www.kolmenachem.com
The New Megillat Esther – Purim 2011
A short clip introducing Kol Menachems fascinating new Megillat Esther. To order your copy visit: www.kolmenachem.com
Chabad of Mequon Hosts Shabbaton
Chabad of Mequon’s Center for Jewish Life hosted its annual winter Shabbaton, featuring scholar in residence, Rabbi Manis Friedman, and special guest Chazan and performer, Sholom Jacobs.
Chabad House Opening in Brazilian Capital
by Levi Stein – Chabad.org
Jewish infrastructure in Brazil continues to expand, as Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Leib and Sara Rojtenberg, and their daughter Chana, settle in to their new home in the capital city of Brasilia.
On Sunday January 30, 2011, at Chovevei Torah on Eastern Parkway, well over 150 Crown Heights residents attended the Know-Your-Rights seminar. The seminar was organized by Brooklyn college student Yosef Bergovoy and law graduate Eliyahu Federman. The presenters included Federman, Attorney Norman Siegel and Earl Ward, District Attorney counsel Lance P. Ogiste along with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams. Community members found the presentation informative, empowering and inspiring.
Healthy Attendance at Know Your Rights Seminar
On Sunday January 30, 2011, at Chovevei Torah on Eastern Parkway, well over 150 Crown Heights residents attended the Know-Your-Rights seminar. The seminar was organized by Brooklyn college student Yosef Bergovoy and law graduate Eliyahu Federman. The presenters included Federman, Attorney Norman Siegel and Earl Ward, District Attorney counsel Lance P. Ogiste along with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams. Community members found the presentation informative, empowering and inspiring.
CHAMPION, NY — The giant snowman just off of Route 126 in the Town of Champion is back, and this year, he's bigger than ever. Vern Scoville's 35-foot snowman is slowing traffic once again this year. This time around Frosty got a bit of a makeover. Instead of paper, the snowman is sporting a hat made from an old pool.
Video: Not Your Average Snowman…
CHAMPION, NY — The giant snowman just off of Route 126 in the Town of Champion is back, and this year, he’s bigger than ever. Vern Scoville’s 35-foot snowman is slowing traffic once again this year. This time around Frosty got a bit of a makeover. Instead of paper, the snowman is sporting a hat made from an old pool.
Selfish Parking Makes Driving in CH Impossible
Absolutely no reason at all! A sedan which has another two feet to back-up and a 4×4 SUV both hang out into Albany Avenue traffic.
A typical trip from the parking lot of Beis Rivkah on Crown Street to Carroll and Troy should take no longer then 5 minutes, but thanks to inconsiderate motorists along with construction projects around our neighborhood that trip took over 20 minutes.
NYT Op-Ed: When Speed Compromises Credibility
By Arthur S. Brisbane – New York Times
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the victim of a shooting on January 8, 2011, was declared dead prematurely by a number of media outlets.
NPR was reporting definitively that Representative Gabrielle Giffords had been shot dead, but The Associated Press was holding off. The lines into the A.P. offices, recalled A.P.’s executive editor, Kathleen Carroll, were buzzing with complaints: where was The A.P. on this story? How could it let NPR beat it?
Meanwhile, the lines into the New York Times offices were hot as well, said Greg Brock, senior editor/standards: where was The Times on this story?
Ovadia Yosef: Jews may not say ‘Oh My G-d’
Jerusalem Post
ISRAEL — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef expanded on the Biblical commandment “Thou shalt not take God’s name in vain” on Monday, declaring that Jews may not do so in other languages as well.
Volume of Letters Reveals Details of Rebbe’s Pre-World War II Years
by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org
A new volume of correspondence belonging to the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, sheds new light on the Berlin and Paris lives of his daughter and the son-in-law who would succeed him, particularly the increasing push by the Jewish leader for his son-in-law to assume ever more vital and public roles.
Picture of the Day – A Holocaust Survivors Revenge
Chabad Shliach to Chernigov, Ukraine, Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein put Tefillin on with esteemed Ukrainian Professor Aleksey Brick, a Holocaust survivor, on International Remembrance Day.
Gallery 4: Roll Call and Spontaneous Dancing
Photos By: Rivka Kashanian
Every event has its pinnacle – high point – and for the Shluchos that is when they all get recognized in the annual roll call where each continent, country, state, and city gets an honorary mention. Capping that moment is when the Shluchos join hands and break out in a lively dance.
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