Over 60,000 people gathered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem this morning for an awe inspiring Birchas Kohanim, chanted by thousands of Kohanim with their hands raised under the cover of Talesim.
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Chabad in Israel teamed up with the Friends of the IDF organization to distribute over 200,000 handmade Shmura Matzos to Israeli soldiers around the country.
Despite the political instability sweeping through the city and the rest of Eastern Ukraine, the Jewish community of Kharkov joined together to celebrate the completion of a new Sefer Torah on the Eve of 11 Nissan.
Over 1,000 Jewish travelers breathed a sigh of relief when, after having been stuck for weeks in an Indian port due to a strike by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, a container of supplies needed by Chabad of Nepal to conduct the world’s largest Seder arrived just hours before the onset of Yomtov.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a Jewish family traveling to attend a Seder in the West Bank Monday afternoon, killing the father and wounding the mother and one of the several children in the car.
A fire last week in the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa building in Canada has damaged the home that serves as the communal gathering spot for Jewish students and as the residence for the area’s emissaries, Yocheved and Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky and their five daughters, ages 2 to 10.
Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Shlomo Segal met this morning to perform the traditional sale of the Chometz [leavened breads] to a gentile in the Kolel Tiferes Z’keinim room in 770. Rabbis Moshe Bogomilsky and Shimon Hecht did the same at the offices of the NCFJE.
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.
Cousins unknown to each other for decades following the Holocaust have been reunited this week with a stunning discovery that shook them to their very core.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday through Friday, April 15-18 for Passover. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Mr. Greens and Mr. Clean, both Albany Avenue merchants, helped ease some members of the community’s Pesach financial burden by distributing donated and unclaimed clothes and shoes, as well as cases of quality produce to needy families in Crown Heights.
Once again this year, the teachers of Oholei Torah were given helping hand in relieving the financial burden of the cost of produce and poultry ahead of the upcoming Yom Tov of Pesach.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Philip (Shraga Feivel) Schneider, OBM, father of Reb Yerachmiel Schneider of Crown Heights. He was 83 years old.
Just 24 hours before the onset of Pesach, kosher consumers everywhere are scrambling to find whitefish alternative after an exceptionally cold winter has created a massive whitefish shortage.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for two women who urgently need our prayers – Sima bas Liba Mania and Sara Riva bas Esther Beila.
There are four sons at the Seder. Traditional wisdom has it that the wicked one is the worst off of them all. But traditional wisdom seems not to be the Rebbe’s approach.
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