A grand Lag Ba’omer gathering took place last week in the Abasto Shopping mall in Buenos Aires – one of the largest malls in Argentina. 13 Jewish Schools – both Orthodox and and non-Orthodox – Participated, with a total of 2,000 participants.
After signing a lease on a new place to permanently house their congregation last February, Chevra Ahavas Yisroel was given until May 14 to finalize the purchase – and come up with the $150,000 down payment. But when that day rolled around, the Shul leaders found themselves with only $30,000 in the bank.
Moshe Simcha Baker (Toronto, Canada) and Ahava Esther Boesz (Passaic, NJ)
Moshe Aber (Sydney, Australia) and Mushka Wircberg (Crown Heights)
The German Minister of Family Affairs and youth, Dr. Kristina Schroder, visited the Chabad Kindergarten in Berlin to dedicate a new Nursery.
Crown Heights residents making their way to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this summer will be greeted by a pleasant surprise. On the formerly drab northeast corner of the gardens, on Washington Ave. and Eastern Parkway, a new $28 million state-of-the-art visitor’s center will be welcoming all guests.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Thurday, May 17th. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
A Liberty man faces three to six years in state prison when sentenced in August on his guilty plea to possession of a stolen Torah from the Landfield Avenue Chabad Synagogue in Monticello.
The graceful ship docked at the port, and, as each smiling child got off, it was evident on his face just what this cruise meant to him. It was the end of a wildly successful Lag B’omer event in Chernigov, Ukraine – a trip down the Desna River.
Summer Merkos Shlichus registration will soon be opening after a wildly accomplished Pesach, where some 600 bochurim in roughly 300 locations around the world connected with more than 32,000 Jews. According to Rabbi Shneur Nejar, director of Merkos Shlichus, “We fulfilled the Rebbe’s blessing to the Merkos Shluchim, to go ‘with extraordinary success.’”
A reader sent us this photo of what appears to be a delivery of fresh tomatoes to Oholei Torah gone horribly wrong. Can anyone explain what happened?
The OK has released an advisory that Trader Joe’s chocolate chips are no longer certified Pareve, rendering them Kosher but not Cholov Yisroel if labeled with an OK-D.
Federal Aid cut coming this July. Students encouraged to register for Bramson ORT program now:
Four years ago, a unique partnership was developed between Crown Heights and Bensonhurst. Community leaders from Chabad realized that many students in their yeshiva system were not planning on continuing and obtaining smicha and would rather choose a career. There was a need to develop a framework which would allow them to earn the skills to make a respectable parnassah and raise families. Thus, the JTVS program at Bramson ORT College was created.
After Bostonians saw hours of rain in the morning and afternoon of Lag Ba’omer, the clouds parted and the sun shined its first rays on the 13th annual Shaloh House Lag Ba’omer Extravaganza!
Montreal is one of the few cities which holds a Lag Ba’omer parade regardless of whether it falls out on Sunday or any other day of the week. This year was no exception.
Rabbi Yaacov Klein, Postville, Iowa’s Mohel, Sofer and Bodek fixes the Sefer Torah of the Shul in the Agri-Star (formerly Agriprocessors) meat plant. The beard covering is required in the plant at all times for hygiene.
Even though statistics show that many women reading this right now have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, most of these women have not and likely never will publicly address or even mention in private the fact of their miscarriage. Being that this kind of death is a fact of many women’s lives, and that silence and shame only exaggerate the pain, I am opening up about my own miscarriage, which occurred a little over two months ago.
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