OK rabbis recently reviewed the washing and checking procedures for various produce, including strawberries, scallions, mint and basil. Based on what they found the launched an App and published a guide to make the process simple and easy.
Shmulie Naparstek (Myrtle Beach, SC) and Musi Lustig (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Thrusday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Photographer Itzik Roytman came across an interesting scene in 770 yesterday, Pesach Sheini, when the custom is to eat a peice of Matzah.
For the past few years, “Extreme Teens Out West” – spearheaded by – Schneur Zalman Notik – geared towards Jewish boys primarily from the Midwest, has embarked on an exhilarating adventure across six states in the southwestern United States. With its growing popularity, the camp has been welcomed under the umbrella of the CTeen network, opening its doors to teens from Chabad houses across the US and Canada.
Terms like “capital” and “value” often crop up in economic parlance. But at this year’s Sinai Scholars symposium in New York City, these words were endowed with new meaning.
IYH today, Thursday, 15 Iyar (April 25th), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
Motorists who wish to park on President Street will find it much more difficult. Beginning this morning two new ‘No Parking Anytime’ signs have been posted in front of FREE, effectively eliminating four parking spots.
Once a week, Howard Weiss sits down in a cavernous study hall, buzzing with hundreds of teenagers studying ancient Jewish texts, and learns Tanya with Shneur Itzinger, a yeshivah student some 30 years his junior. Weiss is one of many laypeople who study a variety of Torah topics each week at the Lubavitch Mesivta, a yeshivah high school in Chicago.
In effort to further increase the excitement and enthusiasm of the Talmidim of the Mechina Division of Oholei Torah, an ongoing a game show styled competition called V’Shinantam”, has been initiated and is now wrapping up its second season.
“It’s never too late. There’s always a second chance.” This, according to Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, 1880-1950), is the message of Pesach Sheini, the biblically ordained “second Passover” for those who fail to bring the Passover offering on its designated time.
Sunday April 28, 2013 the Community will be celebrating the holiday of Lag BaOmer with a parade and carnival. Organizers and the NYPD have released information pertaining to parking regulations, parade security and carnival information all in the Extended Article.
Elazar Gabay, a self described unorthodox Chabad Hassid and Internet Entrepreneur, took to the Times of Israel to take issue with Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s Op-Ed, entitled “Chabad’s Dangerous Message of Love Without Commitment”. Gabay calls Yoffie out on the issue of paid memberships versus Chabad’s free services, and Reform’s dwindling membership.
Binyamin Gordon (Melbourne, Australia) and Chana Schtroks (Surrey, BC, Canada)
Tzfat’s Otzar HaStam is putting the final touches on it’s life-size sculpture celebration of the Alef-Beit: Gan HaOtiot. The center’s newest attraction features hand-crafted, massive sculptures of each Hebrew letter with artistic and depictive artwork, and arranged in a walk through garden that greets visitors.
With a population of more than 8 million people there are clearly going to be inequalities in New York City’s living standards.
For the past 10 years, Chabad of the East Valley has operated from a Chandler storefront. To accommodate its growing programs, it holds religious school at the East Valley JCC, summer camp at Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley and holiday programming at various facilities around town.
Sitting down for an interview with Haaretz Newspaper, Dimitry Salita shares details on his inspiration and why he may quit boxing. “I also feel that I am blackballed… I had some real challenges landing a significant fight” he says.
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