Life is a Box of (Bittersweet) Chocolate

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.

The Silver Lining Behind Challenge And Adversity

Life is so full of sadness and sorrow, some say it’s better not to have been born at all!… But how many people do you meet in a lifetime who are that lucky?

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When things go wrong as they sometimes will
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill

When funds are low and debts are high
As you try to smile but somehow sigh.

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NYC Wants Immediate 7.5 Percent Water Rate Hike

Wall Street Journal

The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate Thursday, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved.

5 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Shaya and Shainie (nee Bronstein) Lieberman
724 Eastern Pkwy [between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues]

Elchanan and Sheina (neeTraiber) Prus
1441 St. Johns Pl Apt. #3I [between Utica and Rochester Avenues]

Moshe and Golda Levy
IYH at 1165 Lincoln Pl, [bet Albany and Troy Ave]

Meni and Chaya (nee Klein) Bruk
At Chabad Of The Main Line, Merion Station, PA

Ezzie and Miriam (nee Boyarsky) Shaffran (Montreal, Canada)

Mishmor Banquet in Crown Heights!

After six months of learning every Thursday night, Bochur and child studying a Sicha one on one, followed by a game. The sixth, seventh and eighth graders of Lubavitcher Yeshiva along with their Bochur Chavrusos from Chovevei Torah and Oholei Torah Zals celebrated their completion of a year of learning.

Ascent in Safed Doubles Size

by Rivka Chaya Berman – Lubavitch.com

Ascent, a center for Jewish edu-tourism in Safed, offering mystical Jewish experiences since the early 1980s, signed a mortgage on the nearby Tel Aviv Hotel in time for the Passover tourism rush. Spring break and Passover visitors to this picturesque northern city looking for a spiritual experience, who are on a budget but not willing to bunk up with strangers hostel-style, now have 40 more rooms to book.