This last Monday on the 25th of Adar – the Birthday of the Rebbetzin, over Six Hundred people from across the spectrum of the S. Paulo Jewish community joined for a grand event at the elegant Buffet Franca Ballroom, celebrating 110 years since the Rebbe’s birth, 111 Years of the Rebbetzin’s Birth and the completion of the 30th Cycle of Daily Study of Rambam.
Chanani Saks (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chami Hoch (Pittsburgh, PA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Moshe Gorin (Stony Brook, NY) and Chana Goranson (Jacksonville, FL)
A French teacher faced disciplinary proceedings Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute’s silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot by police.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
Crown Heights [CHI] — Police have released a photo of a bandit wanted for twice targeting the Apple Bank in Crown Heights last year. Is it just our imagination, or does that grainy image show an African-American bank robber dressed as a Hassidic Jew?
A North Texas rabbi whose right arm was nearly amputated in a 2010 accident at a Fort Worth slaughterhouse during the processing of kosher beef has won an undisclosed settlement, his attorney said Friday.
Sunday morning at 10 a.m., six pre-teens in the Hebrew school class at Chabad of the East Bay in Berkeley, CA are taking their seats around a long table. As Rabbi Levi Welton asks for a volunteer to go fetch tallits for the morning prayers, an observer is struck by one thing: For an Orthodox Hebrew school, this is a remarkably multicultural bunch.
Rabbi Nochum Kaplan continues his discussion of effective praise. The litmus test of a compliment and successful praise is whether or not it encourages and stimulates the recipient in a positive way. It should spurn continued effort and dedication and lead to continued growth and development, he maintains. The best form of praise gets children to think about their behavior and determine what’s right and understand how to do it.
Usually when you visit a school you walk down a quiet hallway and peer in the little windows in the classroom doors. You see one teacher talking to a bunch of students. Every 50 minutes or so a chime goes off and the students fill the hallway and march off to their next class, which is probably unrelated to the one they just left.
Beth Menachem Chabad of Newton, Mass. celebrated the completion of a new Sefer Torah, which was donated by one of the founding members of the Shul, Mr. Melvin Weiner and family.
The Special Military Edition of Kol Menachem’s new Lifestyle Torah has arrived today in New York; the Chumash will be distributed to US soldiers across the world by the Aleph Institute, directed by Rabbi Aaron Lipskar.
Yoni and Rivky (nee Friedman) Katz (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Chaim Miller, author of the Award-winning Kol Menachem Haggadah, shares some unique insights into the Haggadah in a fascinating class.
The Chasidic discourses from the year 5672 to 5676 (1912–1915) are renowned to Chasidim as ‘Hemshech Ayin Beis — The 5672 Series.’ The Rebbe Rashab invested extraordinary effort into this series, and it contains amazing concepts even compared to those of his legendary ‘Hemshech Samech Vov — The 5666 Series.’
Yosef Bergovoy (Chicago, IL) and Rivkah Winderman (Los Angeles, CA)
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