Holland Welcomes a New Sefer Torah
Over 180 people participated Sunday in welcoming a new Torah in Haarlem, Holland.
Daily Archives: April 1, 2011
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Pittsburgh Day Schools: You Can’t Put a Price on Jewish Education
by Malina Saval
The Chabad-Lubavitch run Yeshiva Schools is one of three Pittsburgh, Pa., institutions offering free tuition to students not currently enrolled in a Jewish day school.
Pittsburgh Jewish Day Schools – a consortium representing the Pennsylvania city’s Community Day School, Hillel Academy and the Chabad-Lubavitch run Yeshiva Schools – announced an unprecedented initiative to attract new students: Tuition for the first year’s on them.
Sunday night, 21 Adar Sheni, Chabad of Weston hosted a Gala Dinner celebrating its 15th anniversary. 250 guests enjoyed a very elegant, festive evening with Guest speaker Rabbi Yossi Jacobson and Yisroel Amar who entertained the crowd with his gifted voice. Tears were brought to many eyes as he sang such beautiful heartfelt songs that moved the heart and stirred emotions.
Chabad of Weston Celebrates 15 Years at a Gala Dinner
Sunday night, 21 Adar Sheni, Chabad of Weston hosted a Gala Dinner celebrating its 15th anniversary. 250 guests enjoyed a very elegant, festive evening with Guest speaker Rabbi Yossi Jacobson and Yisroel Amar who entertained the crowd with his gifted voice. Tears were brought to many eyes as he sang such beautiful heartfelt songs that moved the heart and stirred emotions.
Russia’s Oldest Prison Dedicates Capital’s Only Jail-Based Synagogue
Chabad.org
In time for the fast-approaching holiday of Passover, Moscow’s largest prison opened the capital’s first-ever jail-based synagogue.
At AHA, Students Do a Mitzvah for a Friend
by Mendy Rimler – Lubavitch.com
Zachary Shporer, 18, from Charlotte, NC, was diagnosed with leukemia on March 1. Two weeks later, all one hundred and fifty students and faculty of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, where Zachary is a student, did a mitzvah in his honor.
by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)
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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:
Merciful Discipline – Accessing The Kohen Within
by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:
Where Every Bouquet Tells a Story
NY Times
Chani Frankel, co-owner of Mimulo Flowers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
On Friday afternoons, the headquarters of the Chabad sect of Orthodox Judaism comes alive as men in black jackets and hats stream like worker bees in and out of the subterranean entrance on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Those exiting scatter across Crown Heights to prepare for the coming Sabbath — Shabbos in Yiddish — many drawn a block east by the overpowering smell of lilies and the ebullient welcome of Chani Frankel to Mimulo, a flower shop on Albany Avenue.
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