Last month a letter was sent to all Lubavitcher Yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel, printed on the Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva stationary and signed by Mashgiach Rabbi Gedalia Bluming in the name of the hanhala. Rabbi Bluming requested that all yeshivas urgently send a representative to a special meeting in the Yeshiva offices in 770.
There are times when I wonder aloud what has happened to our moral compass and way of thinking.
After hearing the news that former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach, Bernie Fine, was hired Thursday as a consultant to management with the Maccabi “Bazan” Haifa basketball team, it’s, again, one of those times.
Eli Gerstner and the Yeshiva Boys Choir perform this song without music for your Sefirah days listening enjoyment!
It’s 3:30, the bell rings. All the children in the hall are running to get out. It’s the end of the school year and summer holidays are about to begin. Waiting outside, all the children are eager to get home. One boy is waiting quietly for his father to pick him up. Slowly, all his friends leave. A strange man approaches the young boy, “Hey Shmulli! Your father is stuck at work, so he asked me to pick you up.”
Ari Abramowitz (Monsey, NY) and Rochel Shira (bas R’ Yaakov) Horowitz (Crown Heights)
At first glance one sees no connection between Judaism and hockey. However, if you’ve been following the NHL’s Florida Panthers incredible run to the playoffs this season, you’ve come to realize that the two can get along just fine.
US President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. An official with the US Agency for International Development said Saturday that the money had been restored.
Levi Yitzchok Katz (Crown Heights) and Chaya Cohen (Montreal, Canada)
Zev and Leah (nee Lipskier) Sandman (New Haven, CT)
Keeping kosher at Arizona State University has been a struggle for graduate student Sivan Markowitz. Until the recent improvements to kosher offerings on campus, which were instituted about a month ago, she had limited options.
PBS aired this 7 minute video on their Religion and Ethics program profiling the world famous Talmudic scholar and Lubavitcher Chossid Rabbi Adin (Even Yisroel) Steinsaltz.
Melly and Eidel Pinson (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Devorah Leah Stein (Southfield, MI)
Yesterday, at an event in South Los Angeles rallying for the family of Trayvon Martin, Rev. Al Sharpton, host on MSNBC, was interviewed in the parking lot by Breitbart News reporter Christian Hartsock. Here’s the transcript:
Meir and Bella Pliskin
580 Crown St. Apt 508 [between Troy and Albany Ave.]
Meyer and Chaya (nee Karp) Rodal
364 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Yitzchok and Esty Tsap
412 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Zalman and Hadassah Shneur
1428 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
“Second Passover teaches us that ‘It’s never too late.’ The holiday was given for those who were unable to offer the original Passover sacrifice in its proper time. They thought that it was too late, and yet they were told that there is a solution. So too, in any area of life, if there are things you should have done in the past, but did not, it’s never too late to make them up now.”
This Shabbos at the Besht, Yosef Shaffer will lead a discussion on the topic: The Deeper Meaning of the Haftorah.
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