Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano marked the upcoming beginning of Passover by hosting the first model Seder at the County’s Headquarters. The Seder was led by Mineola Shliach Rabbi Anchelle Perl.
On Sunday, April 1, Chabad of Orange County, New York hosted a Gala Torah Celebration – completing, dedicating and welcoming their first and very own Torah Scroll. The historic event was held at the Chabad Center in Chester.
The Holocaust shattered both their spirit and any sense of spirituality. Even though their bodies made it alive out of the German murderous ashes of death, any visible connection to Judaism or the Creator did not survive the war. Instead, their hearts turned cold and they were left with an anti-religious sentiment of ice.
U.S. President Barack H. Obama issued a proclamation declaring today, April 3rd / 11 Nissan, the Birthday of the Lubavicther Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to be hitherto known as ‘National Education and Sharing Day, USA.’
In honor of Yud Aleph Nissan, Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute Present this unique photo collection of Political figures from New York visiting the Rebbe for Yechidus over the years.
Josh and Avigail Wonder (Melbourne, Australia)
Mendy Gniwisch (Montreal, Canada) and Devorah Leah Brafman (Miami Beach, FL)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
The central Yud Alef Nissan Farbrengen, marking the Rebbes 110th birthday, was held last night in the ballroom of Beis Rivkah on Lefferts Avenue with the attendance of Anash and Bochrim.
Financially, Pesach is difficult on many people in our community – but one entrepreneurial individual has found a way to make a difference. Their answer is a pop up wine shop, offering wine by case at prices at 20% – 50% off retail.
A Jewish woman was mugged and assaulted today while picking her son up from school. The brash attack happened in broad daylight and in the presence of many people.
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Lighten the long hours of cleaning and cooking with a selection from the treasury of Pesach videos at the new Torah Cafe Pesach site at www.torahcafe.com/Passover.
Tonight in the Yad Eliyahu arena in Tel Aviv, well over 10,000 men, women, children, bochurim, roshei yeshiva and rabbis gathered to participate in the grand Siyum for the 30th cycle of the Rambam, as well as to celebrate the Rebbe’s birthday.
Zalmi Spritzer (Crown Heights) and Brochie Tiefenbrun (Crown Heights)
In their annual ranking of America’s most powerful Rabbis, Newsweek ‘demoted’ Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch network of rabbis, to second place. In first place – the spot Rabbi Krinsky usually occupies – is Rabbi David Wolpe, of Los Angeles’ Conservative Sinai Temple.
Amy Tarshis was wandering through the streets of Old S. Juan in January when she saw a man with a skullcap and a beard. With just three hours until her plane, she decided to add a new dimension to her Puerto Rico birthday trip, and approached him for a blessing. She wound up around the corner at the soon-to-be-open Jewish welcome center, talking about both her travels and the new center, where visitors could study a bit of Torah, pray, charge their cell phones, check their email, have some water and relax.
Recently on the I-95 – one of the major highways in America – there was a traffic accident in Palm Beach County that resulted in the death of an Israeli Motorcyclist on Erev Shabbos.
A face which doesn’t normally appear in Oorah’s productions shows up briefly in this “Feivish Dance” video. Can you spot it?
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