Mazal Tov's View More

Young Rabbi Returns Home to Open Chabad

St. Petersburg Times

Rabbi Yankel Adler, 25, left, with 6-month-old daughter Rochel Adler and wife Chanie Adler, 22, moved from Brooklyn to open a Chabad Center serving Clearwater and the surrounding areas. 

CLEARWATER, FL — Rabbi Yankel Adler grew up watching his parents reach out to the Jewish community in north Pinellas County. Now an ordained rabbi with a family of his own, it seemed natural that he should come back here and help the community grow.

Info to be Menachem Avel Sarah R Backman

Mrs Sarah R Backman is sitting Shiva after the passing of her mother, Mrs Alma Evnitz on Monday.

She is sitting Shivah in her house, 386 Crown St [between Brooklyn and New York Ave] until Monday morning.

Maybe visit before 8:30pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Canadians: Help Turn a Dream Into…

OTTAWA — Imagine a realistic indoor village – complete with a bank, candy store, hair salon, pharmacy and working traffic lights – where special needs children can have fun learning life skills in a sheltered, safe environment. Imagine the tremendous boost to their social, physical and cognitive skills, not to mention their self-confidence and dignity.

The Living Dead vs Eternal Life

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL.

Our Outlook On Death Makes All The Difference

It was a busy morning, about 8:30 an elderly gentleman in his 80’s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.

I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.

While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.

Jewish Bulgarians Get First Taste of Holidays in Varna

by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Locals join newly-arrived Rabbi Yossi Halprin, third from right, for a prayer service outside of the Chabad Jewish Center of Varna, Bulgaria.

VARNA, Bulgaria — It’s one thing to talk about the Jewish holidays. But to actually experience them the way they were meant to be celebrated is like nothing else in the world.

10 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Shloime and Shoshi (nee Lerman) Eichler
702 Eastern Parkway [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]

Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar
1485 President St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Dovid and Chaya (nee Gopin) Margolin
444 Crown St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Levi and Sarah Leah Seewald
661 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

Akiva and Chaya (nee Chazan) Isenberg
734 Empire Blvd [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Sholom and Kayla (nee Chanowitz) Kramer
620 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Yonason and Hila (nee Carroll) Gordon
1199 S Johns Pl, Top Floor [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Itzik and Rochel Dahan
72 Clove Rd [between Montgomery and Malbone St]

Yossi and Miri (nee Rudski) Evers
5840 Avenue Trans Island, Montréal, QC, Canada

Shmuly and Elana (nee Dauer) Kornfeld (Burbank, CA)

CA Boy Raises $42k, Sends Wheelchairs Overseas

by Jessica Naiman – Chabad.org

Tyler Hochman was followed by Israeli media as he delivered wheelchairs to organizations and needy individuals this summer.

Tyler Hochman describes his effort to send 280 wheelchairs to Israel with a metaphor.

NY Day School Students Ask if Statues are Kosher

by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Seward Johnson’s “Between Appointments” sits on Academy Park at City Hall in Albany, N.Y., as part of the traveling “Sculpture in the Streets” exhibit.

ALBANY, NY — Students at the Maimonides Day School in Albany got up-close lessons in modern day idolatry when a traveling sculpture exhibit set up shop for several months in the New York capital.