ISRAEL – Three months after their rescue in October from the very bowels of the earth, more than two dozen Chilean miners traveled on Sunday to a mountaintop to view one of Judaism’s sources of inspiration: the windswept Judean desert fortress of Masada.
S.PETERSBURG [FJC] — A new synagogue has been opened in the “Bourgeois” Shopping Center in S. Petersburg, enabling many Jews who live nearby to come on Friday night for Shabbat services.
Ever tried making a shopping list for your kids for Purim? It starts with candies, chips and baskets. Somewhere over the course of time grape juice, bags, stickers and ribbon get added to the list. Oh wait! The costumes! There are hats, masks, spray and more. There’s also Graggers and party snappers. The list goes on. Your kids are excited! Purim is coming and they’re going to get a box full of junk completely for themselves. They prepare fancy ones for special friends, regular ones for their classmates and even extra bags just in case a kid they didn’t plan on giving comes to the house.
The argument that publicity will give the community a “bad name” and “why air our dirty laundry in public?” does not supersede the obligation to protect the innocent from being hurt. Of course we all agree that our essential concern should be protecting our children and families, not our perceived reputation.
More than 150 young professionals from across the country converged on the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to celebrate the Sabbath amongst each other and members of the local Jewish community.
The Friendship Circle Volunteer Club will be holding its fifth annual Friendship Circle Volunteer Convention this coming March 4-6, 2011 at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, New York. Close to 100 teen leaders representing their chapters will be participating.
The Lubavitch Maztah Bakery in Crown Heights hosted Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim and Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim of Morristown last week. The Annual partaking in the baking of jand baked Shmurah Matzah is an old Chabad custom, and to be personally involved when possible is considered a great Mitzvah.
Bochurim of the Montreal Zal celebrated the month of Adar with lively dancing accompanied by live music played by fellow students.
Adar video: Lipa Schmeltzer sings Chabad niggun “tzama lecha nafshi” at a pre-launch show in Pomegranate for his new CD.
Canadian Jewish property developer Hershy Friedman has rescued Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (TASE:MZTF) from the Azorim Investment, Development and Construction Ltd. (TASE: AZRM) swamp. Friedman will buy Shaya Boymelgreen’s 63.8% stake in the real estate company for NIS 300 million, which gives Azorim a valuation of NIS 470 million. Azorim’s current market cap is NIS 517 million.
The Rebbe’s call of “Ufaratzta” – reaching out to every Jew wherever they may be, was heard yet again in Crown Heights. This past Motzei Shabbos 30 of the Rebbe’s “Tankistin” gathered together for a special Melavah Malkah.
NEW YORK — It seems that not everyone loves trees. New York City issued more than 100 summonses for tree abuse last year and another 18 so far this year.
