Over 50 students were amazed on hearing Yishmael Khaldi speak at Chabad of Liverpool Universities, on what they can do for Judaism and Israel. Yishmael is from a Bedouin village outside Haifa where he had to walk four miles to get to school, but that didn’t deter him from eventually achieving a Bachelor and Masters degree in political science.
Gutman Skoblo (Crown Heights) and Mirel Hackner (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Over 200 people turned out last week for Chabad Jewish Center of South Brunswick’s ten year anniversary gala dinner celebration. Originally scheduled to take place in November, but was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy.
The Hanoka family, along with friends, gathered to celebrate the completion of a Sefer Torah in memory of their parents Dr. Yaakov and Bina Hanoka OBM today, Sunday.
Two shoplifters were apprehended and arrested after an eagle-eyed grocery manager spotted the pair filling a knapsack full of soap bars.
Moshe Rosenblum (Crown Heights) and Hadassah Dubinsky (Morristown, NJ)
Mendy Posner (Boston, MA) and Mussy (bas Shloime) Futerfas (Crown Heights)
Every child knows that we eat Matzah on Pesach, but how is it made? Children got to make their own Matzah from scratch, beginning with grinding wheat into flour, then making the dough followed by rolling it and baking it into matzah. All this took place at the Model Matzah Bakery of Chabad of Syracuse.
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.
Traveling across the globe to run a Seder in a isolated community for the Jewish families that would otherwise not have it is not a easy task. It means living your family for the holiday of Pesach and doing everything from a-to-z alone. from carrying matza and wine to Kashering a local kitchen as well as preparing to host a interactive Seder for some who this will be their only Jewish experience of the year.
Reb Zalman Shimon Dworkin, the Rav and Mora D’asra of the Crown Heights community for twenty years, was born in 1901 in Rogotchov to Reb Yerucham and Rivka. Reb Zalman Shimon’s father was a G-d fearing person and a teacher of unique caliber who taught children unable to afford tuition. Despite his resultant poverty, Reb Yerucham moved his son from the cheder where he was learning to that of Reb Elozor Garelik. Reb Elozor was an expert and searched after teacher whose students generally were from more affluent families.
“Mom, I had fun! Rolling the matzah dough was my favorite!” Four year old Jayden Roll beamed up at her mother in the lobby of the YM-YWHA (Young Men’s – Young Women’s Hebrew Association) in Montreal. In many ways she is just like the 5,000 other toddlers and children who ground wheat, rolled dough, and baked matzah at the Living Legacy Model Matzah Bakery. But she is also very different.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Zalman Abraham will lead a discussion on the topic of what is allowed and not on Chol Hamoed.
On Sunday, the family of Dr. Yaakov and Bina Hanoka OBM will be completing the writing a new Sefer Torah in their memory, following which a parade will go through the streets of Crown Heights.
A group of Montreal Anash teamed up with Bochurim and together they put together the first Mitzvah Tank Parade in honor of the Rebbes 111th birthday.
The Lubavitch publishing house, Kehot Publication Society, has just released two new works in the popular Chasidic Heritage Series. Faith and Knowledge is a translation of a discourse, delivered more than 200 years ago, by the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
