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Brazil Marks Rebbetzin’s Birthday, Siyum Harambam

This last Monday on the 25th of Adar – the Birthday of the Rebbetzin, over Six Hundred people from across the spectrum of the S. Paulo Jewish community joined for a grand event at the elegant Buffet Franca Ballroom, celebrating 110 years since the Rebbe’s birth, 111 Years of the Rebbetzin’s Birth and the completion of the 30th Cycle of Daily Study of Rambam.

New Engagement!

Chanani Saks (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chami Hoch (Pittsburgh, PA)

L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Beis)

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]

Jews of Color Find Home at Chabad School

J Weekly

Left: Director Miriam Ferris, student LaTanya Hutchinson and teacher Rabbi Levi Welton. Right: Shalom Dovber Ferris offers assistance to Jeremiah Hutchinson and Daniel Nunoo.

Sunday morning at 10 a.m., six pre-teens in the Hebrew school class at Chabad of the East Bay in Berkeley, CA are taking their seats around a long table. As Rabbi Levi Welton asks for a volunteer to go fetch tallits for the morning prayers, an observer is struck by one thing: For an Orthodox Hebrew school, this is a remarkably multicultural bunch.

Lessons in Education: Why Parents Need to Be Honest

Rabbi Nochum Kaplan continues his discussion of effective praise. The litmus test of a compliment and successful praise is whether or not it encourages and stimulates the recipient in a positive way. It should spurn continued effort and dedication and lead to continued growth and development, he maintains. The best form of praise gets children to think about their behavior and determine what’s right and understand how to do it.

The Relationship School

by David Brooks – New York Times

Usually when you visit a school you walk down a quiet hallway and peer in the little windows in the classroom doors. You see one teacher talking to a bunch of students. Every 50 minutes or so a chime goes off and the students fill the hallway and march off to their next class, which is probably unrelated to the one they just left.