Despite the forecasts, the rain kept its distance during Cheder at the Ohel’s pre Lag B’Omer Parade. In the spirit of Ahavas Yisrael, Cheder at the Ohel students marched from their building through Valley Stream State Park and into the neighborhood.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Mendy Wolf will lead a discussion on the topic – the lesson from Rabbi Akiva’s students: How to be truthful and not come across as naive.
This week we present a playlist of videos, compiled and edited by JEM, of various Lag Ba’omer parades over the years.
On Wednesday, Pesach Sheini, one of the Satmer Chedorim in London invited Tzivos Hashem to come and run a model Matzah bakery as a special treat for their Talmidim.
The students of Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France were hard at work over the past few days, building a miniature model of their Yeshiva, as well as other France landmarks, for their float that will grace the Lag Ba’omer Parade in Paris Sunday.
Basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder Kevin Durant received a ‘triple blessing’ from three Los Angeles Chabad Rabbis yesterday, hours before game 6 against the L.A. Clippers in the NBA playoffs. The blessings must have worked, because the Thunder won that game 104 to 98.
Today, Rabbi Yanki and Esty Jacobs, Chabad on Campus Shluchim to the Netherlands and directors of Chabad in Amsterdam’s Financial District, were surprised and honored when an assistant to the Mayor of Amsterdam, Mr. Eberhard van Der Laan, came by their house to deliver flowers and best wishes from the Mayor.
Achiya Klein, an officer in the Israel Defense Force, was working with his unit on a recently-discovered terrorist tunnel between Gaza and Israel, 20 meters underground, when an explosion rocked the tunnel and knocked him unconscious.
As the day of Lag Ba’omer approaches, the students of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street are hard at work measuring, drilling, sawing, gluing and painting as they prepare their float for the Great Parade.
The holocaust was such an inconceivable occurrence, that even a half century later one cannot begin to put it into perspective. I often wonder how we were ever able to pick up and move on.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe listening to a child recite one of the 12 Pesukim at the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1987. More pictures from that historic event in the extended article.
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘Physical Reward‘.
Leibel and Mushka (nee Cohen) Lipskier (Crown Heights)
Maychee and Shaindee (nee Cadaner) Sherr (Crown Heights)
Yossi Rabinovitz, CEO of Israeli e-commerce start-up SelfPoint, is selling to customers around the world, and his pop-up grocery platform development company is a member of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, showing that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) high-tech revolution is growing rapidly and making him its “poster boy.” SelfPoint lets customers easily set up and use an online store for their merchandise.
As a follow up to last week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter written by famed Orthodox Jewish author Herman Wouk to the Lubavitcher Rebbe (in response to the letter we published last week), as well as the Rebbe’s subsequent response to him. The Rebbe’s letter was written through his trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and both letters were made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
44 boys from Oholei Torah elementary school will be part of a marching band at the Lag BaOmer parade this coming Sunday. Seizing the decent weather the band marched on the streets of Crown Heights and practiced their beats.
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