Friendship Circle Teaches Passover Lessons

Stamford Advocate

Daniel Radin works on his dough asDoron Feller, 13, helps out as the Friendship Circle of Fairfield County hosts a Passover Pesach for special needs children to learn how to bake matzah in Stamford, Conn., April 10, 2011.

STAMFORD — After Rabbi Chezy Deren mixed some matzo dough, Daniel Radin, 16, and his friends rolled it and used the edges of the pins to make signature perforations in the unleavened bread.

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Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Ches)

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 Rapper Utilizes Hasidic Faith to Produce Rhymes

NY Daily News

Crown Heights rapper DeScribe represents a crossover of Hasidic Jew and hip hop cultures.

Most interviews with up-and-coming rappers don’t take place in Brooklyn religious learning centers. But DeScribe isn’t your typical rapper.

PSA: More Produce Being Distributed – NOW!

Beginning now, 7:00pm, a truck is unloading many skids with fresh Grapefruits, Onions, Apples and Potatos which is being distributed for free for all those who want. The produce is being distributed on East New York Avenue between Kingston and Brooklyn. There is no need to be on any lists, just come and take.