This past February, a small group of individuals met in Teaneck, NJ, to talk about launching a new program that would engage local teenagers with community events based around Jewish holidays and themes.
With great sadness we inform you of the sudden passing of Mr. Efrayim Shaltiel (Freddy) Hager of London, UK.
Jewish communities around the world are gearing up for the approaching Passover holiday, amassing thousands of pounds of the unleavened bread known as matzah and countless cases of wine for the holiday’s traditional Seder meals.
A song by Nissen Brenenson introduces a mega project in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan: Boys and girls will raise money for Maos Chitim for each line of Tanya they learn.
Yossi Feiglin (Melbourne, Australia) and Natalie Lewy (Melbourne, Australia)
Meni and Chaya (nee Klein) Bruk (Narberth, PA)
Rabbi Chaim and Kaila Danzinger, Shuchim to Rostov-on-don, Russia welcomed guests from all over their city and around the world to a historic Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah on the Rebbe RaSHaB’s Yartzeit.
Pictures from the Lechaim of Michoel Gutleizer (Crown Heights) and Libby Spalter (N. Miami Beach, FL) took place in Crown Heights.
Today, Wednesday marks the tenth anniversary of the murder of Shalhevet Pass by Arab terrorists in Hevron, and in an interview with Hevron activist David Wilder, Shalhevet’s father, Yitzchak Pass, says that although continuing to live just meters from where his baby was killed, he chose to deal with the pain of the tragedy “by living where it happened, to show that it won’t break us; to the contrary; it heightens our determination and increases our strength.”
Recently the Jewish community commemorated the 25th yahrtzeit of Rav Moshe Feinstein, one of—if not the— most prominent poskim of halacha in the 20th century. He died on the day before Purim in 1986 and was buried on Har Hamenuchot in Jerusalem. His funeral was attended by an estimated 300,000 mourners, the largest in Israel in more than a millennium. Many of his students went on to become well-known rabbis in their own right. The following was shared by his grandson, Rabbi Mordechaim Tendler of Spring Valley:
The Vishedsky brothers of Kfar Chabad Farbreng in Rostov in honor of Beis Nissan.
Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet a”h, the Rosh Yeshivah of the central Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch for over thirty years, left thousands of written pages of chidushei Torah. The notebooks cover from Gemarah to Nach, from Pirkei Avos to Shluchan Aruch. In addition he wrote many explanations on the Haggadah.
Devorah Benjamin zips up her fatigues — a black hooded sweatshirt with “The Wedding Planner” embroidered in fluorescent pink across the back — and is ready for another day’s battle. Her army stands at the ready: musicians, photographers, florists, hair and makeup artists, and a team of middle-aged mothers who volunteer their nights to cook and donate food.
During its bi-annual face-lift, Western Wall employees remove millions of handwritten notes, faxes from between ancient stones.
Hilarius: Players in the Crown Heights Softball League getting ready for the upcoming season, which opens next week.
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]
Noted philanthropist and Brazilian energy magnate, Yehuda Dovid ‘Guma’ Aguiar, spent the eve of Beis Nissan – the day of the Yohrtzeit of the Rebbe Rashab – at the Ohel.
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