As wildfires raged around their neighborhoods this week—causing evacuations, widespread damage and more than a few scares for many—Chabad rabbis in the northern San Diego area sprang into action to do what they could to assist those fighting the flames, as well as those in the path of the fires.
Yisroel and Rivka (nee Gorelik) Sufrin (Melbourne, Australia)
Shimy and Devorah Leah (nee Rodal) Heidingsfeld (Moorpark, CA)
As Lag BaOmer draws closer, volunteers who have been working tirelessly organizing this year’s Lag BaOmer Parade have increased their pace. With less than two days left, final details are being hammered out and excited children and their parents were seen picking up their t-shirts.
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.
