Photos: Hershkops Bake Chometz on Motzei Pesach
After a 7 day hiatus, Avi, Moshe, Malki and Dina Hershkop from Crown Heights help bake chometz on Motzei Pesach at the Baitch Bakery in Kfar Chabad.
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Blog: The Revolutions of Chabad and AJWS
by Shmuly Yanklowitz – LA Jewish Journal
An AJWS volunteer in Ghana, Africa.
This is the story of two Jewish organizations. Neither receives the proper credit they deserve for the global diaspora revolutions they are inspiring.
A Crownheights.info reader snapped this photo of an unexpected visitor to 770 this morning. Can you spot him too?
Picture of the Day: 770 Gets an Unexpected Visitor
A Crownheights.info reader snapped this photo of an unexpected visitor to 770 this morning. Can you spot him too?
Photos: First ‘After-Pesach’ Pizzas!
Chezki Herz was the first to walk out with a fresh pie of pizza curtsey of a $118 donation to KSCVK at their auction earlier this year. Pomodori‘s pizza was uncompromising and pumping out pizzas as fast as customers were able to line up and grab them.
West Hartford Chabad to Dedicate New Home
Jewish Ledger
The new Rohr Chabad House.
Thirty-five years after the Chabad-Lubavitch movement established a presence in greater Hartford, local Chabad leaders are about to see a dream realized.
Jewish Businessman Murdered in Dnepropetrovsk
Arutz 7
One of the most influential Jews in the Ukraine was murdered on Shabbat, one week after a Kiev yeshiva student was brutally attacked.
Baby Boy!
Choni and Gitty (nee Friedman) Lesches (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Yossi and Fraida (nee Myer) Solomon (Monsey, NY)
Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus investigated 200 fake eviction notices reportedly posted on students’ doors by Students for Justice in Palestine.
When Zachary Pastor, 18, returned to his dorm room after class on March 30, there was a flyer on his door. Looking down the hall, he saw it on other entrances, too, an official-looking notice with the word “EVICTION” stamped across it in big, bold letters. The Florida Atlantic University freshman, who attends its Boca Raton campus, received one of the reportedly 200 fake notices distributed by Students for Justice in Palestine, which reportedly has more than 75 chapters nationwide.
Jewish University Students Receive ‘Eviction Notices’
Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus investigated 200 fake eviction notices reportedly posted on students’ doors by Students for Justice in Palestine.
When Zachary Pastor, 18, returned to his dorm room after class on March 30, there was a flyer on his door. Looking down the hall, he saw it on other entrances, too, an official-looking notice with the word “EVICTION” stamped across it in big, bold letters. The Florida Atlantic University freshman, who attends its Boca Raton campus, received one of the reportedly 200 fake notices distributed by Students for Justice in Palestine, which reportedly has more than 75 chapters nationwide.
1,100 Pounds of Matzah in the Himalaya Mountains
by Amy Yee – the Atlantic
It was three hours to sundown before the first night of Passover and the kitchen in this Kathmandu hotel was a steamy mess. Bath tub-sized pots bubbled with matzo ball soup, 900 chicken hunks in lava-like tomato sauce, and the googly eyes of a thousand boiled eggs.
Photo Gallery: Moshiach Seudah in 770
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The last day of Passover (“Acharon Shel Pesach”) is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking of a “Seudas Moshiach” (Moshiachs Meal) on the afternoon of the last day of Passover; in addition to the Matzah eaten at “ Seudas Moshiach”, the Rebbes of Chabad added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover’s first days.
Our Heroes: Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Eizik Hodakov
by Rabbi Michoel Seligson
Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Eizik Hodakov was born in 1902 and passed away in 1993 * Was the Rebbe’s chief secretary for more than 40 years * Became principal of a Jewish school in Latvia at the age of 18 * Was appointed the head of Jewish education for the Latvian Ministry of Education in 1934 * Accompanied the Previous Rebbe on his boat trip to America in 1940 * Appointed director of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch in 1942 * Appointed head secretary of the Rebbe upon his assumption of leadership in 1951 * Remained the Rebbe’s most trustworthy confidant until his passing in 1993.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Malka (nee Fishman) Lesches (Los Angeles, CA)
Shturem
With sadness we report the passing of beloved Chossid Rabbi Shimon HaKohen Friedman, OBM, at the age of 78. Rabbi Friedman was affectionately called “Shimon HaTzaddik” - a title widely believed to be given to him by the Rebbe.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: R’ Shimon Friedman, OBM
Shturem
With sadness we report the passing of beloved Chossid Rabbi Shimon HaKohen Friedman, OBM, at the age of 78. Rabbi Friedman was affectionately called “Shimon HaTzaddik” – a title widely believed to be given to him by the Rebbe.
In order to clarify existing regulations requiring all staff members in New York state non-public schools to report suspected incidents of child abuse to the authorities, the New York State Education Department has updated its web page to eliminate any possible ambiguities.
City Hall Clarifies: Yeshivas Must Report Abuse
In order to clarify existing regulations requiring all staff members in New York state non-public schools to report suspected incidents of child abuse to the authorities, the New York State Education Department has updated its web page to eliminate any possible ambiguities.
Mark Jaffe, a Lubavitcher consultant who lives in Minnesota, appeared on Fox Twin Cities yesterday to weigh in on the economic ramification of people quitting their jobs. He appears at the 0:39 and 2:00 marks, with a picture of the Rebbe in prominent display.
Video: Lubavitcher Gives His Two Cents on Economy
Mark Jaffe, a Lubavitcher consultant who lives in Minnesota, appeared on Fox Twin Cities yesterday to weigh in on the economic ramification of people quitting their jobs. He appears at the 0:39 and 2:00 marks, with a picture of the Rebbe in prominent display.
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