Mazal Tov Gurkow! – It’s A Girl!
Velvel and Rochel (nee Cozocaru) Gurkow (Montreal, Canada)
Budapest: Chabad House Pelted with Stones During Seder
Sitting around Rabbi Shmuel Raskin’s table for the second seder in Budapest and singing Passover songs, holiday celebrators were shocked when stones suddenly crashed against the windows. Ynet learned of the threatening incident, which members of the local Jewish community are attributing to the rise of the radical Right in Hungary.
Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspended for Pesach
Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday March 30th alternate side parking regulations are suspended throughout Pesach, less Saturday for people parking on Eastern Parkway.
The days suspended are March 30th through April 2nd, and April 5th and 6th.
All other regulations including, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Under the guide of Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky, Rabbi Shimon Hecht Rabbi Sholom Ber Hecht represented by his son Eli and Rabbi Yaacov Schwei gathered in the offices of National Committee to do the traditional sale of the Chometz [leavened breads] to a gentile.
Photos: Rabbis Selling the Chometz
Under the guide of Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky, Rabbi Shimon Hecht Rabbi Sholom Ber Hecht represented by his son Eli and Rabbi Yaacov Schwei gathered in the offices of National Committee to do the traditional sale of the Chometz [leavened breads] to a gentile.
BERLIN, Germany [Reuters] — Germany's Jewish community on Monday warned of an “alarming” rise in anti-Semitic violence by Arab and Turkish immigrants after Berlin police reported two unrelated attacks against Jews at the weekend.
Berlin Jews Alarmed By Spate Of Anti – Semitic Attacks
BERLIN, Germany [Reuters] — Germany’s Jewish community on Monday warned of an “alarming” rise in anti-Semitic violence by Arab and Turkish immigrants after Berlin police reported two unrelated attacks against Jews at the weekend.
Crime is up 13% at the Brooklyn precinct where a whistleblower cop accused his supervisors of ignoring felonies to artificially lower the area's crime stats.
Crime up 13% in B’klyn’s 81st Pct.
Crime is up 13% at the Brooklyn precinct where a whistleblower cop accused his supervisors of ignoring felonies to artificially lower the area’s crime stats.
The hardened men drifted through a misty rain into a small room, where they exchanged a common pleasantry.
Jewish Faith Keeps them ‘Solid’ while Incarcerated
The hardened men drifted through a misty rain into a small room, where they exchanged a common pleasantry.
Largest Seder in South America to Host 1000
BARILOCHE, Argentina [CHI] — Close to a thousand Israeli backpackers are expected to attend the largest Seder at the Chabad Israeli Center in Bariloche, headed by Rabbi Boaz Klein along with his wife Fradi.
Jewish centers around the world took a hands-on approach to prepping people for Passover, offering children and adults alike the chance to get down and dirty with flour and water and learn how to make the special unleavened bread known as matzah.
Kids Learn That Matzah is More Than Flour and Water
Jewish centers around the world took a hands-on approach to prepping people for Passover, offering children and adults alike the chance to get down and dirty with flour and water and learn how to make the special unleavened bread known as matzah.
Utica and St. Johns may not be the absolute safest place for a religious Jew, man or woman, to wander. Yet the community council maintains a number of affordable housing buildings there with over 50 Jewish families living there. And what some would say was only a matter of time before it happens, happened.
Jewish Woman Mugged Erev Shabbos on St. Johns Place
Utica and St. Johns may not be the absolute safest place for a religious Jew, man or woman, to wander. Yet the community council maintains a number of affordable housing buildings there with over 50 Jewish families living there. And what some would say was only a matter of time before it happens, happened.
Free the gefilte fish! Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton drew chuckles from a congressional panel when she said that getting nine containers of Asian Carp filets from an Illinois fishery to a processing plant in Israel in time for the Pesach “sounds to me like one of those issues that should rise to the highest levels of our government.” Israel slapped a 120% import duty on the fish. “I will take that mission on,” Hillary said.
Video – Can Hillary Save the Gefilte FIsh?
Free the gefilte fish! Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton drew chuckles from a congressional panel when she said that getting nine containers of Asian Carp filets from an Illinois fishery to a processing plant in Israel in time for the Pesach “sounds to me like one of those issues that should rise to the highest levels of our government.” Israel slapped a 120% import duty on the fish. “I will take that mission on,” Hillary said.
Crown Heights Jewish Community Council &Lubavitcher Yeshivah present the Small Wonder Puppet Theater
Admission $2
Date: Sunday March 28, 2010 Time: 1:00
Place: Lubavitcher Yeshivah 570 Crown Street
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
Tuna, Peanut butter or Salami Sandwich $1 each Drinks $1
PSA: ULY Hosts the Small Wonders Puppet Theater Today!
Erev Pesach, the kitchens upside-down, parents are just trying to get all the Pesach cleaning done, so sometimes the best Pesach help is to have the kids entertained someplace outside the house. So here is one idea!
Crown Heights Jewish Community Council &Lubavitcher Yeshivah present the Small Wonder Puppet Theater
Admission $2
Date: Sunday March 28, 2010 Time: 1:00
Place: Lubavitcher Yeshivah 570 Crown Street
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
Tuna, Peanut butter or Salami Sandwich $1 each Drinks $1
Nearly 300 members of Congress have signed on to a declaration reaffirming their commitment to “the unbreakable bond that exists between [U.S.] and the State of Israel”, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Nearly 300 Congress Members Declare Commitment to Israel
Nearly 300 members of Congress have signed on to a declaration reaffirming their commitment to “the unbreakable bond that exists between [U.S.] and the State of Israel”, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
