This Passover, put down your horseradish root and prepare to scratch the surface of something else: crafting.
Thousands of children from all over the world unite to watch a live rally, celebrating the Rebbe’s 111th Birthday. At 6am the road service lane in front of 770 will be closed and chairs will fill the street. Children from all the local schools will gather as one for their fathers birthday.
Yosef Yitchok Roston (Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Meita Gonchar (Kirayat Malachi, Israel)
All over the world Lubavitch communities are preparing ‘Tank’ parades for Yud Alef Nissan, the Rebbes Birthday. In Paris, France it is no different where Tanks will parade through the streets distributing Matzos, Pesach guides and giving people the opportunity to put on Tefillin.
Lubavitch Yeshiva of Monsey announced this week the appointment of Rabbi Aryeh Hoffman as the new Magid Shiur for Shiur Aleph Mesivta. Rabbi Hoffman will be taking on this new position for the upcoming year.
As he has been doing for 22 years now, Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky traveled to upstate New York to arrange the sale of Lubavitcher owned Duso Food Distributors’ chometz. Also shown in the Photo: Mr. Lefferts, Sandra Richmond and Rabbi Moshe Frank (Rabbi of local shul).
This year 63 Mitzvah ‘Tanks’ will roll through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, in honor of the Rebbe’s 63 years of leadership and his 111th birthday. Fervent preparations are underway to have the Tanks ready for tomorrow morning.
A group of Bochurim, including American, English, Belgian and Israeli, all studying in Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid in Toronto, which caters to deaf Yeshiva students and enables them to thrive, visited Paris to take part in the wedding of Isser Lubecki, their Yeshiva-mate and friend.
A summer to remember! A detailed glimpse through the days and activities experienced by the campers and staff of Gan Yisroel Montreal 5772.
Levi (ben Yossi) Katzman (Crown Heights) and Freidy Bell (Montreal, Canada)
For his first time, the former British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks made a trip to Brazil where he visited the Sephardi Community Center Beit Jaacob Safra. He was accompanied by Shliach and Cheif Rabbi Dovid Weitman.
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.
Prospect Park officials are urging Jews to stop throwing bread into the green space’s massive lake as a Passover rite, but religious Brooklynites insist that’s not even part of their holiday tradition.
The joys of Pesach! Cleaning, school vacation, shopping. Innovative Crown Heights photographer Chaim Perl seized the opportunity to entertain his four children with a Pesach car wash and compile it all into a cute 3 minute time-lapse video, t.t.t.o the 8th Day.
Thousands participated in the mega raffle for $100,000 benefiting Nechama’s Closet and Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah, two Crown Heights organizations that help Kallahs and Chassanim for their weddings. The winner of the raffle is Mr. and Mrs. Nasser. Mazal Tov!
Gavriel and Shaina Levin (Postville, IA)
Yehuda Leib and Dassie (nee Butman) Heber (Yorktown, NY)
