Highland Mills, NY Chabad Hebrew School recently hosted a program in honor of Mother’s Day.
A rabbi’s home has been targeted in a series of suspected anti-Semitic attacks. Rocks have been thrown through the windows of Rabbi Shmuli Pink’s house in Leicester, where he lives with his wife Rivkie and their seven children.
Every Friday as the sun sets across the earth, Jewish women light a candle or two and surround the planet with a ring of light. It’s an auspicious time to request blessings for good health, for ample livelihood, and for children whose good deeds will light up the world. It is an opportunity to connect to the transcendent power of your soul, and to envision an era filled with true peace, joy and tranquility.
CROWN HEIGHTS — Each day that passes brings a rising awareness to the case of Sholom Rubashkin in the Crown Heights community. The response has been more doors opened, and more money raised for his cause. Thursday evening Sholom Across America volunteers raised almost $12,000, bringing the Crown Heights total to more than $30,000 since Lag Baomer, all from small donations.
On Monday, Chai Sivan, the 10th Annual Chabad on Campus International Kinus will open at the Hudson Valley Resort in upstate New York. This year the conference will be held for four days and will host over 250 Shluchim and Shluchos, and 300 children. Organizers say their goal is “to involve the entire family in the shared work of Shlichus.”
Setting up a Mivtzoim booth at a fun fair is commonplace among Lubavitch Bochurim. A Mivtzoim booth in Crown Heights, however, is quite unheard of. Yet amid the crowds of children dragging their parents from ride to ride at Sunday’s Lag B’Omer fun fair, bochurim were seen asking fellow Chassidim to take part in Mivtzah Torah.
The list of reasons to never travel to Manhattan seems to keep growing and growing for Brooklyn residents. Now, even getting a U.S. passport is about to get easier.
Over five hundred men women and children gathered outside the Yeshiva Schools in Pittsburgh, on Sunday Lag B’Omer to say the 12 pesukim, to hear words of encouragement from the local three day schools leadership and pray for the coming of Moshiach.
It has become a phenomenon that many woman and girls egarly await each year, the Keren Simchas Choson Vekalah’s Ice Cream Social and Cake Auction. This years even is taking place this Monday, May 30th, the 26th of Iyar at 6:30pm in the Razag Ballroom.
Itche and Nechomie Zalmanov (Crown Heights)
Elimelech and Chayale (nee Halberstam) Evers
Dovid and Rochel (nee Boyarsky) Eleff (Cleveland, OH)
Shmuel Yakov Shifrin (Lakewood, NJ) and Chaya (bas Berel) Epstein (Crown Heights)
Sholom and Nechama (nee Tiechtel) Lapidus (Crown Heights)
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