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Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Gimmel)

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]

Boston Teens See Jewish Communal Life Up Close

Members of Chabad of the North Shore’s Jew Crew travelled from their native Boston to spend a weekend in the Jewish community in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Crown Heights.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Ask some typical suburban teenagers how they spent their weekend, and you’ll likely get a range of answers along the lines of shopping at the mall, hanging out at the beach, or maybe catching a movie.

Chabad Youth Zone Ends Winter with Snow-Tubing and Teddy Bears

GOSHEN, NY — Chabad’s Kids In Action Youth Zone recently had a fabulous afternoon snow tubing and sipping hot cocoa at Tuxedo Ridge. Afterward the twenty-five youngsters decorated teddy bears for children in local hospitals.

Toronto Wins in Sydney

SYDNEY, Australia [CHI] — A week ago, a Project called ‘Shluchie Adoneinu’ was launched in Cheder Chabad Sydney by Mendy Bryski. The entire school was split into small groups; each group of students had to research a different country’s Shluchim.

Obituary: Rabbi Lipa Schapiro, Trained Under Communism Dedicated Himself to Community

By Dovid Zaklikowski
Rabbi Lipa Schapiro and his young family spent six years as resettled refugees in Paris, although they originally planned to stay in the French capital for only six weeks.

Rabbi Lipa Schapiro, a senior member of the central Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical committee who mastered the study of Jewish law at the height of Soviet religious persecutions, passed away March 14 at the age of 97.

Suspect Sought in Graffiti Incidents

CALGARY [CTV] — A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for an 18-year-old man wanted in connection to anti Semitic graffiti incidents in Calgary.

The identity of the man cannot be revealed because he was 17-years-old at the time the crimes were committed.