Hundreds of children have taken two qualifying tests to gain entry into the grand international Chidon Shabbaton. Coordinators in each school have marked the tests that will determine who is eligible to join. The 252 finalists, who have scored highest in their grades, will compete in the Chidon championships, taking place on May 31.
“The sky fell down”—that’s how Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of Chabad Uptown in Houston describes what happened overnight when an intense rainstorm left much of the Houston metropolitan area submerged. Three people are believed to have died, nearly 1,000 cars have been stranded on freeways and in other areas, and people are continuing to leave the city, if they can.
Noach Evers (Amersfoort, Holland) and Devorah Leah Lubin (Los Angeles/London)
Jewish members of the U.S. Military put on Tefilin and say a prayer with the assistance of several Lubavitch Chassidim, circa early 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Gliding down the Seine under a soft drizzle, the lone flame of the traditional Havdalah candle seemed to illuminate not just the boat, but the entire “City of Light.” Havdalah is the ceremony marking the end of Shabbat, and for the 500 young Jewish participants who traveled together to Paris, Berlin and the grounds of Auschwitz in Poland as part of Chabad-Lubavitch in Russia’s “Eurostars” program, the burning torch’s symbolism was apt.
Zalman and Mushka (nee Wolowik) Korf (Crown Heights)
Hundreds gathered for a rally Friday morning at Pride of Lynn Cemetery, where a Holocaust memorial was discovered desecrated with pieces of raw pork earlier this week. “We stand united against all forms of evil,” said Rabbi Yossi Lipsker of Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore, who organized the ceremony reconsecrating the memorial. “We gather here, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and people of all faiths.”
8,000 bags – each containing a water bottle and muffin – were distributed to weary Jerusalemites who walked to the Kotel to spend the first night of Shavuos studying Torah.
With sadness we inform you of the passing this past Friday of Reb Sholom Dovber Alperowitz, OBM, in Los Angeles, CA. He was 84 years old.
Children’s entertainer Chaim Fogelman and musician Fitche Benshimon put the finishing touches to ‘Mitzvah Boulevard – Songs,’ which will be released this week, G-d willing.
Levi and Tany (nee Rosenberg) Swimmer (Johannesburg, South Africa)
A week before Shavuos, brothers Yair, Nechemia and Rachamim Ladayev, all three active members of the Chabad community in France, arrived in Zhitomir in western Ukraine to facilitate the distribution of Tefilin and Mezuzos.
Two Jewish teenagers were moderately wounded in a stabbing attack on the first night of Shavuos (Motzei Shabbos) on their way to the Kotel. The attack occurred in the area of Sha’ar Shechem in the old city of Jerusalem.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe getting an Aliyah in 1987.
Yitzy and Miriam (nee Eber) Seabag (Passaic, NJ)
Yossi and Chanie (nee Bruchstat) Cousin (Crown Heights)
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