Video – Shliach Gives Pesach D’Var Torah in Supermarket

By Pamela McLoughlin for the New Haven Register

Shliach to Connecticut Rabbi Adam Haston explaining meaning of Pesach

NEW HAVEN — Marilyn Press of Stratford walked up to Rabbi Adam Haston at the Amity Stop & Shop to ask, “No margarine for Passover?”

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FBI Awards Devorah Halberstam

This past friday Devorah and FBI Director Robert Meuller in at FBI HQ in Washington DC

The New York Division has selected Devorah Halberstam to receive the Director’s Community Leadership Award.

On March 1, 1994, Devorah Halberstam’s 16-year-old son, Ari Halberstam, was murdered by Rashid Baz on the Brooklyn Bridge. Grief and fury over her beloved elder son’s murder transformed Ms. Halberstam into an activist against terrorism.

Gan Yisroel Detroit Announces Boys Head Staff

The head staff members for the upcoming summer 5770 were announced today.

Head Counselors: Bentzion Shemtov – Tolido, Ohio, Shmulik Greenberg – El Paso, Texas, Lazer Perlstein – Montreal, Quebec

Menahel Ruchni: Rabbi Yossef Yitzchok Gourarie.

A Boys Dream, Answered

Over the past month, Mendy Levitan and his friends have been collecting money for a library in memory of his father whose first Yarzheit was right before Purim. B”H, the library has been able to purchase 2 bookshelves, thanks to the publicity and support of CrownHeights.info, and we have almost completely filled them up.

Group Photo of Shluchim Wins National Award

By Joshua Runyan for Chabad.org

New York Daily News staff photographer Todd Maisel and his photo of more than 4,000 rabbis waiting for their annual group picture at last year’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries won an honorable mention in the National Press Photographers Association’s 2010 Best of Photojournalism contest.

Israeli Rabbis: Beware Phony Matzot

ISRAEL [INN] — The Chief Rabbinate warned consumers Tuesday to be careful when purchasing hand-made shmura matzot, as it had discovered a large quantity of “phony” matzot in a warehouse in Be’er Tuvia, near Kiryat Malachi.