A Lakewood, New Jersey photographer from a local Jewish newspaper was pleasantly surprised to find Monroe, NJ Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky with a group of his Balei Batim visiting a local Kosher restaurant, where a Shiur was being given, and then a tour of the Shmurah Matza bakery.
Avi Gudelsky (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Nechi Levitan (New Haven, CT)
Peretz (ben Eliezer) Laine (Crown Heights) and Chani (bas YY) Chitrik (Tzfas, Israel) .
Rubi came across the YouTube videos unintentionally. They wereTanya lessons — from the central text written by the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi — given by Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski, co-director of Chabad of the Upper East Side. And they helped start her on the road to recovery from addiction.
Bochurim who are studying in the Malapan Semicha program got to exercise the knowledge they aquired at a Passover information booth at Shoprite.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
When Julio Acevedo was arraigned last month on a drunken driving bust, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Gary refused to set bail and declined to suspend the ex-con’s license, even though he told it was mandatory. ‘I don’t believe that I must do it,’ he said, saying a judge presiding Accevedo’s next court date on April 10 could ‘correct’ him if he was wrong. He should have never been behind the wheel.
Shlomo and Nechama (nee Welton) Rothstein (Nashville, TN)
New York City’s Department of Education proposed the closure of public schools around the city that had been reported as ‘low-performers’. A panel voted yesterday to close 22 of them, among them one Crown Heights location.
Dozens of lawyers crowded the offices of the OU in Lower Manhattan on a chilly night last week. Suits cleanly pressed, ties in place and business cards in hand, the room soon filled with the buzz of networking and business talk. The event, was a joint project of the OU Job Board’s and CHYE.
Dovid Blecher (Melbourne, Australia) and Musie Lepkivker (Crown Heights)
As Passover draws near, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries the world over distribute millions of handmade shmurah matzahs. And with such a tall order comes the distribution of stories as well.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
The new Chabad Center in the Southeast Valley already is creating a buzz weeks before its scheduled opening. Formally known as the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, this synagogue of Mediterranean-influenced architecture is expected to be completed at the end of this month.
Yossi and Goldie Grossbaum (Folsom, CA)
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