Citing religious prohibitions, a Chabad rabbi in eastern Russia vetoed a local Jew’s plan to erect a statue of Moses in Birobidzhan — an area which Soviet governments designated as a Jewish autonomous region.
Sitting in the Kolel in 770, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, the Moro D’asro of Crown Heights met with Mark, the Gentile to whom he sold the Chometz on behalf of the residents of Crown Heights.
Crown Heights residents set out this morning to fulfill the custom of Biur Chometz – the burning of the leavened bread before Passover. As in previous years, an area in front of 770 was designated as the main location for this purpose.
After being boarded up for three years and coming close to being declared derelict, the Chabad House on Peel Street at Montreal’s McGill University has reopened following a $2.2-million renovation and expansion.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, dean and spiritual leader of the Chabad Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia, sold the community’s Chametz today to the Honorable David Clarke, MLC, member of the NSW Parliament.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe in a Yechidus with the two Israeli Chief Rabbis, Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, 1989. Two years earlier, the Rebbe encouraged the chief rabbis to conduct large public seders, “There is a need to make an effort that all four children should sit at the Seder table, including those that the entire year are far from observing anything Jewish.”
