This month, in addition to the regular monthly Shkida awards for those students who excelled in their efforts in yeshiva, 2 more awards were presented to 4 students in each class, 2 for Ahavas Rayim and Peh Noki respectively.
A number of Chassidim and Yidin gathered in the Rebbe RaSHaB’s residence in Rostov, Russia to Farbreng in honor of Beis Nissan.
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The Mivtza of learning the Rebbe’s Maamorim in honor of the Rebbe’s birthday has reached a phenomenal milestone. With just 11 days to Yud Alef Nissan, Bochurim worldwide have collectively studied 65,000 Oisiyos of Maamorim.
As soon as JEM’s latest video – Farbrengen with the Rebbe, Yud-Alef Nisan, 1982 – arrived in the mailbox last Thursday, thanks to the distribution by Vaad Talmidei HaTemimim HaOlami, the bochurim of Tzeirei HaShluchim – Tzfat joined to watch it and farbreng along.
Recovery is still a rarely-talked about concept in Japan, but with Passover quickly approaching, members of the devastated nation’s small Jewish community are making plans to celebrate the holiday’s signature Seder meals in Tokyo.
In a conference room buzzing with the excitement, passion and curiosity of young minds and seasoned scholars, university students and preeminent academics from across the globe came together for a day of lively discussion, exploration, and debate on a myriad of topics under the theme, “Ancient Ethics in a Post-Modern World.”
Miriam Sherr, the mother of Yossi Sherr, who 20 years after his passing, writes a letter thanking his school and teachers for keeping his memory alive at the annual Yud Aleph Nissan Mitzvah Tank parade.
We are pleased to present our Forty Fourth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Eight months after the Russian Federation was ordered to turn over tens of thousands of pages of texts seized from Jewish religious leaders during the early 20th century, the books, manuscripts and other sacred documents are nowhere to be found.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
A new Sefer Torah was dedicated to the Chabad House of Caulfield “770” this past Sunday in memory of Mrs. Tova Herszberg OBM. The Torah was donated by her son and daughter-in law, Dovid and Devorah Rochel Herszberg and family of Melbourne, Australia.
A Brooklyn City Councilman is going after the hated neon shame stickers slapped on cars parked on the wrong side of the street.
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