Shluchim to Denver Colorado, Rabbi Benjy and Leah Brackman, hosted their 7th annual Pesach Seder at the Westin Westminster Hotel Ball Room. The Seder began an hour before sunset, allowing the Bochurim, Shmuel Shapira and Levi Ceitlin don Tefillin with the male participants; while sitting at the Seder table before the onset of the holiday.
Sholem and Mirul (nee Baumgarten) Edelman (Shluchim to Pontault, France)
Menachem and Rachel Esty (nee Shloush) Gold
1455 Union St [between Kingston and Brooklyn]
Dovid Leib and Sheina Sarah (nee Abramowitz) Shur
392 Crown St [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Choni and Gitty Lesches
672 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady]
Mendy and Grunie Uminer
Shmully and Adina (nee Duchman) Altein
901 Shaftesbury Blvd, Winnipeg, Canada
Sholem and Mirul (nee Baumgarten) Edelman
61 Boulevard Beaumarchais, 75003 Paris, France
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present an inspiring essay written by Susan Handelman, Professor of English, Bar Ilan University, in which she recounts her visits to the Rebbe, whom she describes as “the light in that darkness.” She writes vividly of his foresight in outreach, his involvement in her work, and her gratitude to the leader who shaped many from her generation. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
While the image of people dressed in silly costumes following a hearse may have seemed paradoxical to onlookers, the funeral procession on Purim morning of this year was, in actuality, a celebration of a unique man’s life.
To those who knew him, Isaac Zellermaier was a kind, selfless man. The simple, cheerful shopkeeper devoted many hours of his day to helping others before himself, primarily by responding to Hatzalah calls and by assisting fellow Jews with the legal system. Crown Heights residents knew they could depend on Isaac, and frequented his shop whenever they needed assistance. Although he was regarded for years as a kind-hearted gentleman, the extent of his noble nature only became apparent in the days surrounding his death.
The unique and consistent Brochos that the Rebbe gave for the future of South Africa set the tone for a two day Kinus Hashluchim for the over 50 Shluchim serving the South African Jewish Community.
The Rebbe says:
1. The Passover Seder has fourteen steps . Maggid (telling over the story of the exodus) is the fifth step. During this stage we raise our Matzah (unleavened bread) and say:
“The Matzah that we eat, what is the reason? Because the dough of our fathers could not become leavened before the King of kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He, revealed Himself to them and redeemed them, as it is said, ‘They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into Matzah cakes, because it had not fermented, for they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves’ ” .
2. The Rebbe now asks a question which the previous Chabad leaders have also asked:
A just-released video that is being screened by Jewish communities around the world chronicles a 1972 Chasidic gathering made famous by a request from the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, to open 71 new Chabad-Lubavitch institutions in the ensuing year.
CORAL GABLES, FL — A bomb threat to the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables early Monday morning was traced to the office of the resort’s own chef.
Coral Gables police said just before 5 a.m. a 911 call was made to the department’s police and fire communications center in which a man said there was a bomb in the hotel and ‘death to all Jews’ before hanging up.
On the day after David Greenfield’s stunning 18-point special election victory over Joe Lazar, leaders in the Hasidic community of Boro Park were already making calls about the elections this November.
But they were not looking for a candidate to run against Greenfield—though he will have to run again for the Council seat he just won.
Instead, these leaders were gauging the interest in running a Hasidic candidate against Assembly Member Dov Hikind, the longtime Orthodox Jewish powerbroker who strongly backed Lazar, according to an individual who has been approached by multiple people about running against Hikind.
“The question everyone is asking today is: Who is running against Dov?” the person said.
A reader sent in an email claiming to be a “Kosher for Pesach Kashrus Scam” victim, but thank g-d she caught on to it and speared her family of possibly eating kitniyos on Pesach.
A New York Rabbi will visit the Sunshine Coast this Easter to help Jewish residents commemorate the Hebrew escape from enslavement in ancient Egypt.
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