Rick Santorum Drops Out of Presidential Race
Rick Santorum is in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to announce the suspension of his Presidential bid.
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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
Baby Girl!
Moshe and Devorah Leah (nee Wineberg) Stern (Montreal, Canada)
In a departure from his routine on-screen performances, renowned filmmaker, actor and comedian Mendy Pellin took to the stage in person at the Millenium Theater in Brighton Beach to dish up some Pesach laughs to the eager crowd. It was history in the making: the first ever orthodox Jewish stand-up comedy show.
Mendy Pellin Gives Brooklyn’s Jews the Giggles
In a departure from his routine on-screen performances, renowned filmmaker, actor and comedian Mendy Pellin took to the stage in person at the Millenium Theater in Brighton Beach to dish up some Pesach laughs to the eager crowd. It was history in the making: the first ever orthodox Jewish stand-up comedy show.
Police Vehicle Knocks Down Traffic Pole, 1 Injured
Photos by Itzik Roitman
Crown Heights [CHI] — At around 12:30 today a major collision occurred at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Albany Ave. An NYPD ESU (canine unit) vehicle was reportedly following another vehicle, when the driver lost control and slammed right into a traffic signal pole. The force of the collision ripped the pole up from its foundation and knocked it over.
Montreal Anash Gather for Torah Learning
Each day of Chol Hamo’ed Pesach a Kinus Torah is arranged in the Shul of Anash in Montreal, as directed by the Rebbe. The kinus is attended by many members of Anash, bochurim and local Jews.
Cool Jew
Video: Alternative Mivtzoim?
Cool Jew
White House Says No to Pollard Clemency Appeal
AP
Protesters demand the release of Jonathan Pollard.
Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard has been hospitalized at a prison medical center in Butner, N.C., since April 4, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Monday. A lawyer for Pollard, 57, said that for over a year his client has suffered from increasingly debilitating and incapacitating medical problems that have resulted in emergency surgeries and other emergency medical procedures.
New Engagement!
Moshe Levi Yitzchok Laufer (Ashdod, Israel) and Rivka Deutsch (Jerusalem, Israel)
At The Seder: Telling It Like It Was, And Still Is
“Israel is waste, bare of seed,” reads an inscription attributed by archeologists to the Ancient Egyptian King Merneptah on a granite stele erected by King Amenhotep III.
Photos: Burning the Chometz in Montreal
Biur Chametz in Montreal was coordinated by Rabbi Dovid Cohen with the Police and Fire Departments, who took the necessary safety measures to allow Lubavitchers to burn their chometz on Erev Pesach.
Rocky Mountain Collegian
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik speaks with students.
While children played in the aisles, students shared familial customs with each other and kitchen staff prepared the Kosher meal, female attendees lit candles as Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelick began Chabad’s seventh annual Passover Seder.
Celebrating Freedom at Colorado State University
Rocky Mountain Collegian
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik speaks with students.
While children played in the aisles, students shared familial customs with each other and kitchen staff prepared the Kosher meal, female attendees lit candles as Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelick began Chabad’s seventh annual Passover Seder.
Inspector Simonetti Removed from 71st Precinct
Crown Heights [CHI] — In what can only be described as a Passover gift to the Crown Heights Jewish community, the NYPD’s top brass have decided to reassign the much maligned commanding officer of the 71st precinct, Peter Simonetti, to a non-command position in the Brooklyn North police district.
1,700 Temimim Dedicate One Full Day to the Rebbe
In Kfar Chabad on the eleventh day of Nissan, the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 110th birthday, 1,700 Chabad temimim gathered together for a special day that was entirely dedicated to the Rebbe.
NBC New York
Hundreds of pay phone booths across the city will soon be transformed into “smart screen ” stations as part of a pilot program, according to the New York Post.
NYC Payphones to Turn into Free Smart Screens
NBC New York
Hundreds of pay phone booths across the city will soon be transformed into “smart screen ” stations as part of a pilot program, according to the New York Post.
Passover Ritual Is a Mystery to Many
Palm Beach Post
“How are you going to explain this to people who have never seen it?” asked a bemused woman in the parking lot of Chabad-Lubavich of Greater Boynton.
Bill Would Give Russian Art Immunity from Seizure
LA Times
Russia banned art loans to the United States after a federal court ruled that a historic collection of books and writings belongs not to Russia but to the U.S.-based Hasidic group, Chabad, and must be returned.
For more than a year, Russia has prohibited its government-run museums from sending artworks to exhibitions in the United States. The ban has frustrated and puzzled American museum officials, because it was spurred by a legal decision unrelated to anything the museums themselves have done. Diplomacy has failed to lift it.
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