Everyone deserves to be appreciated, especially those who work tirelessly for our own children. That’s why generous sponsors from the Crown Heights community decided to give some of the Shluchim of Crown Heights a small token of appreciation for their dedication and hard work. The token was given to the male teachers of the local Yeshivas.
Dovid Caytak (Ottawa, Canada) and Mushky Sirota (Denver, CO)
A third humorous Chabad.org video clip asks if you are truly ready for Pesach.
A 22-year-old kallah in Israel is seeking compensatory damages after being “dumped” by her chosson via a text message to her mobile phone.
Jordanian Arabs scuffled with anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian Authority Neturei Karta members in the Global March on Jerusalem rally Friday. No one was injured.
This past Thursday we posted a video of a brazen thief who conned Benz’s gourmet shop into “returning” cash for an item he had just grabbed off the shelf. As it turns out, they weren’t the only victims of the crook that day.
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present these two vintage photos from a wedding in Crown Heights. Can you identify those dancing in the pictures? At whose wedding were these pictures taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article
I am a student in 10th grade. It is irrelevant if I had Facebook or not. I just want to clarify a bit about what my school is all about.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
In the final segment of this six part series on the basics of Chinuch, Rabbi Nochem Kaplan discusses several subtle educational messages of the Seder which relate to the role of parents and educators. He also relates a fascinating directive he received from the Rebbe 40 years ago.
Moshe and Chanie (nee Feldman) Gourarie (Toms River, NJ)
Yanky, Tzvi, Menny, Yossi, Shlomie and Avraham raise money for Sholom Rubashkin by selling sweets on the block.
Thanks to a generous grant from Dovid and Malkie Smetana in honor of Yud-Alef Nissan, the Rebbe’s 110th birthday, JEM’s ‘My Encounter with the Rebbe’ team has built a studio to conduct interviews about the Rebbe’s interactions with individuals.
Mendel and Nechama Dina Munitz (Buffalo, NY)
The event had the trappings of a happening gig: huge speakers, a well-stocked bar, a loud crowd getting louder.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shemtov, fondly referred to by Anash as Reb Mendel, was born in Poltova on the 28th of Sivan in 1933 to Horav Hachossid Reb Benzion and his wife Golda. For most of Mendel’s childhood, his father was exiled to Siberia for the self-sacrifice of opening chadorim and spreading Yiddishkeit to children in Russia.
22
