After the Quake: Pesach in Tokyo

Jerusalem Post

A Chabad volunteer distributes food to a victim of last month’s earthquake in Japan.

Recovery is still a rarely-talked about concept in Japan, but with Pessah approaching, members of the devastated nation’s small Jewish community are making plans to celebrate the holiday’s signature Seder meals in Tokyo.

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Picture of the Day: Mivtzoim with Larry King

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Bochurim on Mivtziom at Hawthorne Elementary School in Beverly Hills, CA met TV talk show personality Larry King, who was picking up his grandkids. He gladly put on Teffilin and accepted the Matzah the Bochurim offered him.

“They’re Hungry for This”

Northwest Florida Daily News

Student Rabbi Hirshi Sputz shows Noah Boskila, left, and Jacob Tawil how to prepare matzah during a baking class.

DESTIN — It only took a few phone calls for Rabbis Levi Mentz and Hirshi Sputz to fill Thursday’s baking class with children. The student rabbis from Brooklyn came to the “remote area” of Destin to hold a traditional Passover for the local Jewish community.

Neo-Nazis March in NJ

NJ.com

Members of the National Socialist Movement rally with a Nazi salute in front of the State House in Trenton on Saturday. Photo: Mary Iuvone

TRENTON — A sea of blue kept a lid on the combustible atmosphere at a neo-Nazi rally and counterprotest in Trenton today, where the police presence dwarfed the number of people who attended on either side.

Video: Something for You to say at Your Pesach Seder

Rabbi Chaim Miller, author of the Award-winning Kol Menachem Haggadah, shares some unique insights into the Haggadah in a fascinating new class. This is the second part of a two part series, Click Here to watch the first class.

9 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Eliyohu and Chaina Davis
ULY, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Avremi and Deena Andrusier (Crown Heights)
ULY, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Avrohom and Chaya Rivka Niyazov
274 Troy Ave [corner Troy and Lincoln Place]

Peretz and Devorah Leah (nee Levy) Chein (Crown Heights)

Matisyahu and Tahli (nee Silverman) Miller (Crown Heights)

Levi and Dassy (nee Light) Tennenhaus (Hallandale Beach, FL)

Itche and Chanale (nee Caplan) Itkin (Kansas City, KS)

Sholom Ber and Elie (nee Hoffman) Estrin (Raleigh, NC)

Yossi and Tzivi Kivman (Mansfield, MA)

Kids Bring Matzah and Pesach Spirit to the ‘Young At Heart’

Kicking off Chabad of Great Neck’s ‘smile on seniors’ youth initiative, this past Friday a group of kids and young adults came to distribute matzah and Passover spirit with the young at heart citizens at the Atria home for seniors. The group sang Passover songs, accompanied by an ensemble of piano, violin and harmonica. Later the kids distributed matzah to their hosts.

Home Prices Rising Fastest in Crown Heights

New York Post

Home prices are popping in Brooklyn, with average prices up 7 percent over the last year, new market data show. The average home price in the borough jumped to $569,799 in the first three months of 2011, up from $532,061 during the same period of 2010.