Damaged Menorah Draws Support from Muslims

Toledo Blade

Two of the menorah’s lower arms were broken off and two spotlight bulbs were stolen last week. The menorah is on the property of Chabad House-Lubavitch of Toledo. Evidence from the scene is being tested for DNA.

A Toledo, Ohio Muslim organization has voiced its support and concern to local Jews after a menorah was damaged outside the Chabad House-Lubavitch in Sylvania Township.

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Rabbi Sets Aside Sorrow for Daughter’s Wedding

Calgary Herald

Rabbi Menachem Matusof, right, celebrates his daughter Mussie’s wedding to Mendel Rosenblum on Tuesday at Calgary’s Beth Tzedec Synagogue.

On the day of his daughter’s wedding, a Calgary rabbi was in mourning.

Rabbi Menachem Matusof is the younger brother of Rabbi Yosef Matusof, the senior rabbi, founder and principal of the elementary school in Toulouse, France, where three children — ages four, five and eight — and a trainee rabbi were murdered in a terror spree last week that claimed the lives of seven people.

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Hey)

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]

Chabad Team Completes Cape Town Bike Race

What are your ideal virtues; helping those in need? Learning Torah wisdom? Raising charity for a good cause? Laying Tefilin for Prayer? Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle and good exercise? The Cape Argus Chabad Team might just be what you’re looking for if you answered “all of the above.”

Shabbat 1500 Event Breaks National Record

Pipe Dream

More than 1,500 students attended Chabad at Binghamton’s annual Shabbat 1500 on Friday night. The event focused on uniting Jewish students with a night of celebration.

For the first time in history, more than 1,500 people attended the Shabbat 1500 event on Friday night at Binghampton University.