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5 Sholom Zochors This Week

Gershon and Simmie (nee Abramowitz) Selinger
438 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Avenues]

Chaim and Esty (nee Oberlander) Meisels (Crown Heights)

Zalman and Malya (nee Stein) Shmotkin (Stamford, CT)

Mendy and Yaffa (nee Wilmowsky) Lieberman (N. Miami Beach, FL)

Yisroel and Mushki Raskin (Melbourne, Australia)

Baltimore’s Cheder Chabad Gala Celebrates Whirlwind of Growth

Over 300 people who came from far and near to enjoy the Cheder Chabad Gala in Beth Tfiloh Congregation. The Gala celebrated the culmination of a whirlwind of growth for the school, which opened six years ago in the basement of Tuvia and Alisheva Givre, with only 13 three-year-old students. The Cheder was so successful, it moved the following year to a house it purchased on Cross Country Boulevard, adjacent to Rabbi Lisbon’s shul, Bais Lubavitch.

BaltimoreJewishLife.com

A Chabad Rabbi who Led Sephardic Congregations

Rabbi Abraham Hecht, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who served as the spiritual leader of Sephardic congregations in North America for more than 65 years, passed away Saturday night at the age of 90. For many years he the was vice president of the Sephardic Rabbinical Council, president of Rabbinical Council for Syrian Jewry in North America, and president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. Beloved by his congregants, he built Congregation Shaare Zion in Brooklyn, N.Y., into the largest Sephardic congregation in North America.

Official Music Video: Benny Friedman – Maaleh Ani

How much does it say about Hashem’s love for every Yid when He gives us the ability to sanctify Him? Those words, found in the Sfas Emes on Kapital Nun Beis in Sefer Tehillim, are the lyrics of Maaleh Ani, the fourth track on Benny Friedman’s hit album Yesh Tivka, produced by Avi Newmark, composed by Elimelech Blumstein and arranged by Aryeh Kunstler.