EAST FLATBUSH [CHI] — A Sunday morning two alarm fire destroyed Oholei Torah’s East Flatbush head start division building.
Marking the end of the month of Adar, Reb Issac Bitton got together with a group of Bochurim and Yungerlite for a Motzai Shabbos Melava Malka and jam session at Aliyah.
Chabad-Lubavitch of Athens and the University of Georgia will host what is believed to be the largest gathering of Jews in the school’s 225 year history.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials from across the tri-state area are concluding a week-long exercise aimed at detecting and preventing radioactive material from coming into the city.
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]
More than four months have passed since the arrest of R’ Eli Hecht in Spain, after being duped into carrying a drug-laden suitcase for a ruthless individual. The committee members worked tirelessly with lawyers to get him released to house arrest before Pesach.
Education comes in many forms: First and foremost is to provide a living example. The best way to influence someone is by practicing what you preach. But in order to prevail upon a student to adopt a basic level of good behavior, the educator must show an example many times above the standard, because the student automatically assumes that he can’t be as great as his teacher, who is much older and wiser than he.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the U.S. Department of State has noted that the number of acts of anti-Semitism in 2010 in Ukraine has decreased.The U.S. Department of State said this in the “2010 Human Rights Reports: Ukraine” published on its Web site on April 8.
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators.
Dr. Alexander Mashkevich, president of the United Israel Appeal’s annual conference of Jewish leaders in Washington, has announced his plan to form a pro-Israel international news network, similar to al-Jazeera and the BBC.
Despite protests from Jewish groups and an appeal to Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Holland is set to ban shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals following the Socialist party’s decision to support a proposal from the pro-animal party, the world’s first such party to be elected to parliament in 2006.
S. MONICA, CA — Local and federal law enforcement officers were searching for a man on Saturday thought to be responsible for an explosion outside a synagogue [Chabad of Simcha Monica].
It was December 1957, and Naftali Dulitzky, a wealthy Tel Aviv businessman, was asked by the Rebbe to donate a very large sum for the fledgling neighborhood in Kfar Chabad. Dulitzky obeyed, and in the end learned that both spiritual and material rewards were far greater. The Avner Institute presents this amazing encounter, where the Chassid who fretted over giving away a bit too much ultimately learned to trust the Rebbe’s promise of repayment.
In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no relevant experience whom he knew socially.
Moishe and Sarale (nee Naparstek) Orimland (Crown Heights)
Mendy (ben Naftoli) Cohen (London, England) and Simi Gutnick (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
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