Monday: Rally at the Ohel!
IYH this Monday, 15 Iyar (May 7), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
Buses will leave 770 at 5:00 PM and return at 7:45 PM. Transportation will cost $3.
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Early Bird Registration Opens for Summer Kinusim
Registration for the Merkos Chinuch Office summer Conferences has opened.
Six Torah Scrolls Missing from Tzfas Shul
Shturem
Shul goers were shocked this morning when they arrived for Shacharis at the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in the Old City of Tzfas. They found the Aron Kodesh broken and six Sifrei Torah stolen. Some of the Sifrei Torah were antique.
Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Clarifies Statement on Chabad
Rabbi Malkiel Kotler
Following reports that he had disparaged Chabad in a meeting with the Satmar Rebbe regarding participation in the upcoming “antinet” gathering in Citi Field, Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash Gevohah in Lakewood, released the following statement:
Fire Breaks Out in Home of Crown Heights Rov
A fire broke out in the Montgomery Street home of Crown Heights’ senior rov, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, leaving the rov – and another family renting out their bottom floor – in need of a place to stay only a couple of hours before Shabbos.
New York’s La Guardia Worst Airport in the US
NY Post
Travel & Leisure magazine named La Guardia the nation’s worst major air hub for customer comfort.
Friendship Circle Café Helps Special Needs Children
Florida Sun-Sentinel
Volunteer Kate Jacobsen, 18, helps Dina Sheva Waldman, 17, fill a drink order during the Friendship Circle Café event at the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach.
It is dinner hour on a Wednesday evening and the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach is filled. Servers scurry around the Israeli-owned kosher dairy restaurant. But on this night the servers are special needs children and teen volunteers from the Chabad of Parkland’s Friendship Circle of North Broward and South Palm Beach.
Vintage footage of the Lag Ba'omer Parade in front of 770, which took place on May 19, 1957.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Lag Ba’omer Parade, 1957
Vintage footage of the Lag Ba’omer Parade in front of 770, which took place on May 19, 1957.
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Meir and Shiffy Shimshoni
431 Brooklyn Ave. [bet Montgomery St. and Empire Blvd.]
Levi and Tzippy (nee Marosov) Israel
810 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Zalmi and Esty (nee Goldstein) Katz
694 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Meir and Shterna Shur
645 Lefferts Ave. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. 3B
Australian Politicians Bake Biscuits for Charity
New South Wales Governor Marie Bashir bakes Biscuits in Our Big Kitchen.
The Yeshiva Centre’s “Our Big Kitchen” in Bondi was recently the scene of a student demonstration – a demonstration of solidarity between various faiths.
Rebbe’s Chozer Speaks of the Old Days in 770
Rabbi Berel Lipskier, a long time chozer of the Rebbe and current Mashpia in Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah, visited Yehshiva Torah Ohr in North Miami Beach, Florida Thursday night.
Senator Praised for Support of Israel
Worcester Telegram
File photo: Senator Scott Brown meets with Chabad Shluchim at the Massachusetts State House.
The Israeli consul general to New England called U.S. Senator Scott Brown “a true friend of Israel” at an event in the Lubavitch school in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Shabbos at the Besht: Do You Love Your Children?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier will lead a discussion on the topic, Ahavas Yisroel: Do You Love Your Children?
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Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe!
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe during the visit of Israel’s Chief Rabbis, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and Rabbi Avraham Shapira, on May 16, 1989.
Think again, says one Crown Heights bus driver. Although everyone seems to think you can't get a ticket for double parking during alternate side parking hours, many discover the truth to their unpleasant surprise: Although they usually choose to ignore the practice, cops issue tickets for it all the time.
Think Double Parking During Street Cleaning is Legal?
Think again, says one Crown Heights bus driver. Although everyone seems to think you can’t get a ticket for double parking during alternate side parking hours, many discover the truth to their unpleasant surprise: Although they usually choose to ignore the practice, cops issue tickets for it all the time.
Cambria Heights Residents Angry with Ohel, Visitors
Years of littering and swarms of rude visitors has a group of Cambria Heights residents fighting an Orthodox Jewish synagogue’s plan to expand. The Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, adjacent to the graves of two of the sect’s former leaders, is seeking a zoning variance to expand its facility to better accommodate overnight visitors.
Some Hebrew Schools Decide to Go the Free Route
Students in the free daily Hebrew school program run by the Highland Lakes Jewish Center in Miami, Fla., proudly display their homemade instructional Passover Seder plates.
Start them young, they say, underscoring the value of a solid educational foundation. But in the world of Jewish education, such a firm footing may not come cheap.
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