Photos: Cool Lag BaOmer Bon Fire Fixture
An interesting looking, tall candelabra type fixture was assembled for a Lag BaOmer bon fire in Jerusalem.
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By Simon Rocker for the Jewish Chronicle Online
Stacks and shares: Zvi Rabin in the new premises with some of the library’s 15,000 volumes. Photo: Moishe Lew.
ENGLAND — The place is overrun with books, scatterered in wobbly towers across tables and too numerous for the stacks that are meant to contain them. For years, a cramped room in Lubavitch HQ in Stamford Hill has been home to the country's largest Jewish lending library.
London Lubavitch Library to be Transformed
By Simon Rocker for the Jewish Chronicle Online
Stacks and shares: Zvi Rabin in the new premises with some of the library’s 15,000 volumes. Photo: Moishe Lew.
ENGLAND — The place is overrun with books, scatterered in wobbly towers across tables and too numerous for the stacks that are meant to contain them. For years, a cramped room in Lubavitch HQ in Stamford Hill has been home to the country’s largest Jewish lending library.
This Lag BaOmer, MyShliach is inviting all young shluchim to join a group of Yaldei HaShluchim who will be marching at The Great Parade.
Yaldei HaShluchim: March in the Parade with MyShliach
This Lag BaOmer, MyShliach is inviting all young shluchim to join a group of Yaldei HaShluchim who will be marching at The Great Parade.
Mazal Tov Plotkin! – It’s A Girl!
Baby Girl!
Yosef and Hindy (nee Zaklos) Plotkin (Shluchim to Greensboro, NC)
Photos: Bochurim Packing Bags for Lag BaOmer
Bochurim seen in these pictures are packing thousands of bags to hand out to children at the Great Parade.
Kids from United Lubavitcher Yeshiva 7th & 8th Grade practice outside after school for the Great Lag Baomer parade.
Video: ULY Marching Band Practice for Lag Baomer Parade
Kids from United Lubavitcher Yeshiva 7th & 8th Grade practice outside after school for the Great Lag Baomer parade.
Mazal Tov Moscowitz! – It’s A Girl!
Baby Girl!
Yosef and Sara (nee Goldberg) Moscowitz (Shluchim to Chicago, IL)
Tonight, Thursday, there will be a special Rally at the Ohel for children. Buses leave from 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm.
Tonight: Rally at the Ohel
Tonight, Thursday, there will be a special Rally at the Ohel for children. Buses leave from 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm.
NY Post
FRAZIER Scam bust.
But Department of Finance clerk Karen Frazier wasn't only scamming the city — she was scamming her customers, too, prosecutors charged yesterday as the unhappy-looking alleged ticket-tamperer was hauled into court in cuffs.
Frazier would promise her customers she'd “take care of” their problem, but typically left them saddled with nonpayment penalties on top of their original, still-unpaid tickets — in worse shape than before they had met her, prosecutors said.
Stupid tix-fix Tricks
NY Post
FRAZIER Scam bust.
For more than a year, a city data-entry clerk allegedly gave some two dozen drivers what seemed like a great deal on their overdue parking tickets — promising that for half the value of what they owed, she’d make it all go away.
But Department of Finance clerk Karen Frazier wasn’t only scamming the city — she was scamming her customers, too, prosecutors charged yesterday as the unhappy-looking alleged ticket-tamperer was hauled into court in cuffs.
Frazier would promise her customers she’d “take care of” their problem, but typically left them saddled with nonpayment penalties on top of their original, still-unpaid tickets — in worse shape than before they had met her, prosecutors said.
Siyum Harambam in Morristown
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — On Monday, the 12th of Iyar, a grand Siyum Harambam took place in the Berger Auditorium in the RCA, Tomchei Temimim of Morristown New Jersey. The event was organized by the students of Tomchei, with the assistance of the members of Hanhala.
Around 200 supporters came together at the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to show support for Sholom M. Rubashkin, whose hearing on sentencing is taking place over the next two days. After a day of testimony the group stopped and Davend Mincha in the Courthouse parking lot.
Picture of the Day – Mincha in the Courthouse Parking Lot
Around 200 supporters came together at the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to show support for Sholom M. Rubashkin, whose hearing on sentencing is taking place over the next two days. After a day of testimony the group stopped and Davend Mincha in the Courthouse parking lot.
Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Rabbi Dr. Lord Jonathan Sacks, has issued a glowing review of the Pirkei Avot with Commentary, recently release by Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.
Chief Rabbi Endorses Kehot Pikei Avot
Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Rabbi Dr. Lord Jonathan Sacks, has issued a glowing review of the Pirkei Avot with Commentary, recently release by Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.
[The Avner Institute] — Lag B’Omer is a special day, marking the passing of famed Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Jews all over the world celebrate with music and bonfires, and thousands flock to his gravesite in Meron. In years Lag B’Omer fell on Sunday, a special parade would be held in front of Chabad headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway, where thousands of children would gather and hear a special talk delivered to them by the Rebbe.
Video – Vintage Lag B’Omer Footage of the Rebbe
[The Avner Institute] — Lag B’Omer is a special day, marking the passing of famed Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Jews all over the world celebrate with music and bonfires, and thousands flock to his gravesite in Meron. In years Lag B’Omer fell on Sunday, a special parade would be held in front of Chabad headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway, where thousands of children would gather and hear a special talk delivered to them by the Rebbe.
Kate Nocera and Wil Cruz for the Daily News
Five torahs and other religious items worth as much as $250,000 were swiped from a Brooklyn synagogue, community leaders said Wednesday.
The brazen theft was discovered this morning at Congregation Yirah Haschem in Borough Park.
Five Sefer Torahs, Worth $250K Stolen from Boro Park Shul
Kate Nocera and Wil Cruz for the Daily News
Five torahs and other religious items worth as much as $250,000 were swiped from a Brooklyn synagogue, community leaders said Wednesday.
The brazen theft was discovered this morning at Congregation Yirah Haschem in Borough Park.
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