This past Sunday in a Flatbush arena, considered by most the two best soccer teams in Brooklyn, met to decide a winner. Team Rostov with captain Oze Hasis opened up with Yehuda Lipkind scoring the first goal. Rostov, determined to hold on to their lead was up set when Yaccov Adi from the team of Yerushalayim, came right back with a goal of his own tying the game.
Many Montreal residents attended a Siyum Harambam this past Sunday in Montreal. Rabbi Zev Katz of Crown Heights was the guest speaker, who spoke about the importance of daily study of Rambam. Many other Rabbis spoke and attended this event.
This Sunday Avraham Fried will perform at a concert and fair in honor of Lag BaOmer, a day of Jewish unity and pride. The event is scheduled to begin with the fair at 2:30pm and program at 4:00pm at the Yeshivat Rambam. Free admission.
Chava “Evelyn” Shusterman, a respected leader of the Chicago Jewish community who founded the city’s chapter of the Lubavitch Women’s Organization, passed away April 18 at the age of 89. For decades, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary seamlessly combined her communal activities with her responsibilities raising a family, earning a reputation for showering her motherly love and wisdom on the countless individuals she encountered.
As a federal judge in Iowa prepares to sentence the orthodox Jewish owner of what once was the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant, ABC News has learned the details of a quiet campaign to paint his fraud prosecution as “mean-spirited” and the recommended life sentence as “vindictive and excessive.”
Five former U.S. Attorneys General have written letters to the judge in defense of the plant owner, Sholom Rubashkin. Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr has penned an op-ed in the Des Moines Register deriding the proposed life sentence for a fraud that paled in scope to Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion, decades-long Ponzi scheme. And the Anti-Defamation League, among others, wrote to the Justice Department with alarm about “troubling” signs that prosecutors deemed Rubashkin a flight risk merely by virtue of the fact that he is Jewish, and thus could escape to Israel.
Things to do Sefira time – Make a Sefira niggun/music video with your clone.
There will be a Ahavas Chesed Blood Drive today, Tuesday, April 27 at 3pm until 9pm. Refreshments will be served. ID is required to make the donation. The center is located at 271 Kingston Ave, between Lincoln Place and St Johns Place.
This past Sunday, over one hundred 7th grade girls were treated to a tile painting activity in honor of the 1st Annual Bikur Cholim Month (the painting session for boys will take place on May 16th). Each of the students were given a tile to design and paint with a Bikur Cholim related design of their choice. When completed, the tiles will be mounted as a Bikur Cholim Community Mural on Kingston Ave, permanently installed on a visible outside wall.
Dovid and Binie (nee Harlig) Holtzberg (Shluchim to Monterey CA)
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A brazen burglar walked into a Crown Heights home this afternoon and made off with about 10 winter coats. The incident took place at around 12:15pm while there were people in the house.
Beis Rivkah Elementary Schools 8th grade went on their graduation trip to Washington, DC on Tuesday, April 20th. The trip included a visit to the holocaust museum, Smithsonian institution, FDR Memorial, a glance at the white house, the senate, Washington monument, and the Lincoln memorial.
Lipa Schmeltzer and Avraham Fried speak about a song Fried composed for Lipa’s new CD. The song is named “It’s Going to be a Splash.” The Jewish singing duo met in Avremel’s Crown Heights home, where they recorded this video. The album is scheduled to be released May 16, 2010.
BROOKLYN [CHI] — Students at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway received CPR training this afternoon. They learned the updated procedures for CPR from the FDNYs Mobile CPR Unit.
The annual Israeli Independence Day festival took place Sunday in Los Angeles, with thousands of Israelis participating. LA’s Valley Shluchim Rabbi Yossi Malka and Rabbi Yochanaon Baitelman run a booth every year offering to put Tefillin on participants.
JERUSALEM, Israel [AP] — The Israeli government has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in Jerusalem’s disputed eastern sector, municipal officials said Monday. The decision was made despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public insistence that building would not be stopped in the face of U.S. pressure.
11 Nissan, 5745 · April 2, 1985
Maimonides concludes his code of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah:
“In the Era of Moshiach… there will be no occupation in the whole world except to know G-d alone. Therefore, the Jews will be great sages, knowing the hidden matters and grasping their Creator to the full extent possible for man – as it is written, ‘For the knowledge of G-d will fill the earth as water covers the sea.’”
Recently our 7 year old daughter, Tova, was very ill with a life threatening disease. It came suddenly on a Shabbos afternoon. It was very serious and very scary. B’H now she is doing much better and the worst is Please G-d behind us. The reason for this letter is To show our thanks to you, our community our family and our friends whom we are indebted too. Without everyone’s prayers thoughts and help we could not have pulled through this hard time.
The response to our daughters illness was overwhelming. The amount of Tehillim being said by people who had never even met her or us was amazing. The number of schools in different states and countries thinking of her even those with no association with her, was touching. We are sure that because of that Tehillim her disease turned out to be less devastating then the Doctors originally thought.
Even now there are still meals coming for us daily from friends and friends of friends. People who just heard that a child was in pain and wanted to help in some way. It helped us and her to know how many people were thinking and caring about her. We cannot express how much gratitude we feel towards everyone who helped out.
More specifically we would like to thank a few more people. Our Doctor, Dr. Teitelbaum, is wonderful. Not only did he tell us the right Doctors and hospitals to go too, but he made himself available to us every second of the day, which was really amazing. He even made time to come visit her in the hospital. We also know that his entire staff were available for us if we needed anything. At one point during her illness we needed information from her chart at 9PM that was very important to what treatment she could get, and his secretary, Malky Tennenbaum, went into the office to get it for us. We really feel so lucky to be taken care of by such amazing people.
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