At the NHL’s Florida Panthers hockey game this past Sunday, all 15,685 fans learned something Jewish. At a pre-game pre-Purim bash at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, hosted by South Florida Chabad Centers sponsored free video games, pony rides, face painting, a giant inflatable slide and an obstacle course. Jewish music filled the air, jugglers and clowns entertained, and Purim themes prevailed.
NEW YORK [NBC] — Legislators on Long Island are pushing a new bill that would ban smoking in a car when there is a minor present.
CANADA — A city teen who admitted spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue and another Jewish memorial won’t be sentenced until he can meet with a Holocaust survivor.
Two festive dinner parties with students, alumni and Jewish leaders ushered in celebrations marking a quarter-century of operations at Northwestern University’s Tannenbaum Chabad House.
Bnos Menachem School presents a spellbinding production “A Timeless Bond,” a true story depicting the unbreakable bond between the Rebbe and his Chassidim. The plot unfolds as our heroine Limor comes close to death in the mountains of Syria.
SOS Israel chairman says his call to fire rubber bullets at IDF soldiers was result of ‘a storm of emotions’, accuses PM and defense minister of ‘sending troops to shoot at Jews’.
Mendy and Rivkie Block (Plano, Texas)
Shaya Gorkin (Crown Heights) and Chayale (bas Eli) Blachman (Crown Heights)
Following its hugely successful Chanukah-themed hit, “Candlelight,” the Maccabeats releases its latest single, “The Purim Song,” just in time for the upcoming holiday.
This year Mr. Greens, Crown Heights’s premier fruit and vegetable store, is offering a new and uniqe way to give Shalach Manos – healthy fruit and vegetable baskets. Customers can mix and match, create their own, or choose from a number of standard option.
Moshe Zalman and Chani (nee Geisinsky) Kaminetzky (Crown Heights)
Flemington, NJ [CHI] — Chabad of Hunterdon County held its 2nd Annual Auction Event at the Renaissance Plaza in Flemington, NJ. More than 150 braved the torrential rain to Support Chabad’ Scholarship Fund.
The Oholei Torah Kindergarten Division, both on Eastern Parkway and in East Flatbush, celebrates with great joy the entire two months of Adar.
ASPEN, CO — The Hebrew language has no specific word for “skiing.” The word used — “golshim” — literally means “to slide,” and is also used to describe surfing, even surfing the Internet. Which does not mean skiing is nonexistent in Israel. Located in the country’s extreme north is Mount Hermon — pitched as a “magical winter wonderland,” even if the snow is mostly ice, the lift lines are predictably long, and the roads to get to the slopes are usually clogged.
In just one week, Shluchim grew the number of shared files on ShluchimExchange.com’s Purim database by more than 200% as part of a massive Purim upload campaign.
Michael Caras (Clarksville, MD) and Leah Larson (Sharon, MA)
Boys in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street got the exciting opportunity to ride a horse and buggy today, just like Mordechai did in Shushan after the Jewish people were saved from the evil decree Haman brought over them.
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