Cheder Menachem’s Annual Mishnayos Awards Ceremony

As every year, from Yud Shevat thru Yud Alef Nissan, talmidim of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles worked in preparing a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan with their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program; together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 118,000 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and Yediyos Kloliyos. This number includes: 9,770 Mishnayos – including 151 complete Masechtos and 1,222 Perakim, 7 Sedarim, as well as 80 Perakim of Tanya Baal Peh.

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Vandals Desecrate Historic Jewish Graves in Louisiana

Shrevport Times

Vandals overturned at least nine Jewish graves in Shreveport’s historic Oakland Cemetery this weekend (on May 15, 2010, police say). The culprits could face hate crime charges.

Culprits could face hate-crime penalties in what Shreveport police say was the weekend desecration of several historic Jewish graves.

Investigators went to Oakland Cemetery, on the edge of the downtown and Ledbetter Heights neighborhoods, about 2 p.m. Saturday after a groundskeeper reported that nine headstones had been overturned or broken.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Esther Klein OBM

We are saddened to inform you that Esther Klein, mother of Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, passed away Friday evening, May 14th, at 8:00pm.

Funeral services will take place on Monday afternoon, May 17th, at 1:00pm sharp in the McCormick Auditorium of the Norris University Center of Northwestern University, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208. Following services, internment will take place at West Lawn Cemetery, 7801 West Montrose Avenue, Norridge, IL 60706.

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Kehot Discovers and Publishes 85-Year Old Maamar

Kehot Publication Society has just released a chasidic discourse (“maamar”) by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of sainted memory. The discourse, entitled “Chaviv Adam,” was delivered by the Rebbe on the second day of Shavuot 1925, in S. Petersburg, Russia, and has never before been published.

10th Anniversary Celebration of the Mei Menachem

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Chabad of Brooklyn Heights celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Mei Menachem Community Mikvah Dinner in style at the Prospect Park Picnic House with an evening dedicated to fostering harmony in the home.

Video: Reb Mendel Tells Stories!

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas (1906-1995), known informally as Reb Mendel, was a famous Chabad Mashpia. He was a top student of the famed Mashpia, Reb Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki. He was known for telling stories, particularly from his incarceration, and deriving lessons from everything he heard and saw there.