Last Tuesday a few LA bochrim sat down, having just returned from their yeshivas abroad for Pesach break. Together they decided to make a mitzvah tank parade in their hometown. It would to be the first mitzvah tank parade in over 16 years to hit the streets of Los Angeles.
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The 71st precinct managed to reach a new low yesterday: just as the Mitzva Take Parade was getting ready to set off, one police officer – who was assigned to watch the tanks – found the time to offer his own birthday gift to Rebbe: an expensive parking ticket.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva and the Small Wonder Puppet Theater are hosting their annual pre-Pesach puppet show for children at 1:00pm on Thursday in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street. All are welcome.
A Crownheights.info reader, who participated in yesterday’s Yud Aleph Nissan Mitzvah Tank parade, sent us this photo he captured of Reb Pinye Korf doing Mivtzoim on the streets of Manhattan.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Thurday, April 5th, and Friday, April 6th. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Rabbi Berel Zaklikofsky, director of Chabad of Goodyear, was featured on the cover of this month’s Hamlet Magazine celebrating Passover with his wife Chana Rivkah and members of the Chabad House.
Eight years of selfless service to the Crown Heights Beis Din, as well as a Psak Din upholding it, is not enough to keep Rabbi Sholom Segal’s name in the phone directory when calling the offices of the Beis Din. Neither is the fact that he is selling chometz allowed to be posted on the Beis Din’s front door.
Why does the Pesach seder conclude with “L’shana haba b’Yerushalayim”? Is it simply the end of 15 seemingly unconnected stages describing Yetzias Mitzrayim? Or is it the start of a transformation that takes us from the First Redemption to the Final Redemption?
When it came time to observe my mother’s first yahrzeit last week, I was in Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev. A fitting place since my mother, Sondra, was an avid traveler and particularly enjoyed her many visits to Israel.
Mendy and Devorah Leah Angyalfi (Crown Heights)
Menachem Mendel (ben Yechezkel) Neparstek (Paris, France) and Mushky (bas Ytzchak) Wilhem (Crown Heights)
While parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area remain under a tornado watch until 8 PM CDT, the Jewish community of Dallas seems to have fared well despite two confirmed tornadoes which caused massive damage with winds in excess of sixty five miles per hour and sightings of hailstones the size of baseballs.
Many Shluchim traveling to New York stopped by for a visit at the Ohel; several sat down for a farbrengen in honor of the Rebbe’s 110th birthday.
Inspired by some words said at a Farbrengan this past Shabbos in Melbourne, Australia, it was decided that a Grand Mitzvah Tank Parade be organized to celebrate the Rebbe’s 110th birthday. spontaneous
Zevi Wachtel (Toronto, Canada) and Sara Ohana (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Mrs. Laureen Harper, wife of Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, visited Chabad’s Westboro Jewish Montessori Preschool to participate in a Matzah Bakery Factory, organized by Co-directors Dr. Yosef and Devora Caytak.
Rabbi Shimon and Michal Pelman, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic, have held community Passover Seders for years. Jewish residents, business travelers and tourists alike have participated in the festive meals and their surrounding traditions, but this year, they’re trying something new. In addition to the community celebrations, the couple is helping people take it into their own homes.
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