In a beach store crowded with shoppers in flip-flops, shorts and bathing suits, Levi Mentz and Hershy Lasry stand out.
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
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.
An attempt by a Lubavitcher bochur to keep children in the learning loop during the vacation days of Pesach has been gathering a following.
A group of about a dozen Shluchim and Anash from the Conejo Valley, California, organized a Mitzvah Tank in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan. The tank travelled to every shopping center in the region, as well as throughout the streets of Agoura Hills and Oak Park.
On Wednesday, Jewish public school students who attend the Released Time program were given a taste of Pesach. They learned hands-on the ins and outs of the upcoming holiday.
Sausage is a sin no more – even for Passover. Two Crown Heights foodies who started a kosher meat and deli business 18 months ago are adding specially-made sausage for the holiday which starts Friday at sundown.
Yesterday, Yud Aleph Nissan, 5772, a state-of-the-art men’s mikvah was dedicated in Ramat Shlomo, Yerushalayim. The mikvah, named Ohr Meir, is situated in the 770 of Jerusalem, which has become a landmark in the city and part of the Yerushalayim landscape.
Forget the Lottery. The biggest windfall in the country this Passover season might well be coming to an otherwise anonymous man named Glade who works at a Jewish funeral monument company in St. Louis.
Sholom Ber Morris (Crown Heights) and Chaya Kessler (Morristown, NJ)
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