Rabbi Pinchas Feldman, head of the Chabad-Lubavitch Sydney Yeshiva Centre, sells chometz to David Clarke, the New South Wales Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Liberal Member of the Legislative Council.
A group of fifteen American Lubavitchers in the Israeli Army were hosted for a Farbrengen in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan at the home of Mordechai Botnick. They call themselves ‘the Rebbe’s infantry.’
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A few weeks ago an accident in the intersection of Empire and Albany sent a pickup truck smashing through the storefront of the liquor store on that corner. It nearly happened again, and surveillance video captured the incident.
Meir Shlomo Butman (Lud, Israel) and Chaya Kot (Jerusalem, Israel)
I will never forget the scene. My grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet, a Talmudic scholar, was speaking in Lexington, Mass., where my uncle Rabbi Alter Bukiet is rabbi. The invitation for the event told of an entertainer and the guest speaker, my grandfather, a Polish immigrant who’s English was on the rocky side. However, it was clear that many came just to hear him speak. He was beloved in the community, to many serving as fatherly figure. They loved his honesty, his sincerity and his words of wisdom.
Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ezagui, 34, is the director of Chabad Lubavitch of La Jolla, San Diego County, California. born in Montreal, Canada, he studied at the Rabbinical College of Montreal, Canada; Yeshiva Geloda Lubavitch, London, England; Educational Institute Oholei Torah, Brooklyn, NY; Yeshiva Gedola of New Haven, Conn., Rabbinical College of Detroit, Mich., and Rabbinical Institute of Melbourne, Australia. His Congregation has 120 members.
In a beach store crowded with shoppers in flip-flops, shorts and bathing suits, Levi Mentz and Hershy Lasry stand out.
Following what has become its yearly tradition, Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street and the Small Wonder Puppet Theater put on an afternoon show for children – complete with lunch – giving some parents a much needed break and a chance to finish up with Pesach preparations.
Gombo’s bakery provided complimentary baked goods and coffee to all the Mitzvah Tank parade volunteers, referred to by the Rebbe as “Tankistim.” They also baked Special cupcakes with the number 110 on top, In honor of the Rebbe’s 110th birthday.
We present to our readers two chapters from the about-to-be-published 550 page biography on the life of the Tzemach Tzedek by Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon.
As 11 tanks rolled out of Chabad Lubavitch of Toronto’s parking lot and made their way down Bathurst St., the 680 news room was flooded with calls about a mobile parade making its way down south in the pouring rain.
Mr. Greens and Mr. Clean, both Albany Avenue merchants, helped ease some of the Pesach burden by distributing donated and unclaimed clothes and shoes, as well as cases of quality produce.
Some Jews bought a house and moved in. “So what?” you might ask. If it were anywhere else in the world, little notice would be taken. But in this case, the home is in Hevron, and the last owner was an Arab.
Merkos Suite 302’s Machon L’Shlichus launched a new seminar series last week to bring fundraising training to kollel yungeleit. Attended by about 20 participants, the pilot program, which was held in four parts last Sunday through Wednesday, aimed to give participants early preparations for fundraising tactics and challenges before going out on shlichus.
Dovi Kazilsky (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Devorah Storger (Johannesburg, South Africa)
A new BBC documentary focuses on Rabbi Shmuli Brown, Chabad on campus’ Shliach at Liverpool universities in the UK, after following him and his students since the beginning of the semester in September.
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