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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.
by Rabbi Michoel Seligson
In honor of his yahrzeit on the tenth of Nissan * Reb Yitzchok Nemes was a great Yireh Shomayim with refined midos. His entire life was an unbroken circle consisting of concern for others, being mzake horabim and involving himself in activities that sanctified Hashem’s name in countries where few Jews lived. This came about as a result of his stamp business, which frequently took him abroad doing business with governments and private collectors.
Our Heroes: Reb Yitzchok Nemes (1924-2006)
by Rabbi Michoel Seligson
In honor of his yahrzeit on the tenth of Nissan * Reb Yitzchok Nemes was a great Yireh Shomayim with refined midos. His entire life was an unbroken circle consisting of concern for others, being mzake horabim and involving himself in activities that sanctified Hashem’s name in countries where few Jews lived. This came about as a result of his stamp business, which frequently took him abroad doing business with governments and private collectors.
File photo: Anti-Semitic graffiti in Kiev.
A 25-year-old bochur in the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiev, Ukraine was savagely beaten on his way back from the Seder on the second night of Pesach; he is reportedly in grave condition.
Please say Tehilim for Aaron Alexander ben Avraham.
25-Year-Old Bochur Beaten Nearly to Death in Kiev
File photo: Anti-Semitic graffiti in Kiev.
A 25-year-old bochur in the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiev, Ukraine was savagely beaten on his way back from the Seder on the second night of Pesach; he is reportedly in grave condition.
Please say Tehilim for Aaron Alexander ben Avraham.
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Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique, newly released photo of the Rebbe giving over a Chassidic discourse on 6 Tishrei, 5731 (1970); with special thanks to the Minkowitz family.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe!
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Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique, newly released photo of the Rebbe giving over a Chassidic discourse on 6 Tishrei, 5731 (1970); with special thanks to the Minkowitz family.
NY1
Just in time for Passover, the Jewish Children's Museum has opened a new exhibit that provides an interactive lesson in the history of the Jewish people.
New Exhibit Teaches Children About Jewish Roots
NY1
Just in time for Passover, the Jewish Children’s Museum has opened a new exhibit that provides an interactive lesson in the history of the Jewish people.
Baby Girl!
Shmuel and Shaina Basha (nee Brook) Lesches (Melbourne, Australia)
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