CHICAGO — Sporting T-shirts with “This Passover, Experience Your Freedom,” 75 rabbinical students and schoolchildren packed into 13 fifteen-passenger vans last Tuesday on a parade that wove its way through downtown Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.
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As the US and most of the world remains mired in an economic slump, one of the hardest hit have been the various charities and non profits. Chabad of Gloucester County has not been spared, and unfortunately, donations to Chabad of Gloucester are down almost 60% compared to when the economy was booming.
Reuven Kiel (Jerusalem, Israel) and Tsivia Matusof (Cannes, France)
If you haven’t yet heard about it, let me tell you:
Today, Tes Nissan, the seniors of Bnos Menachem High School hosted a pre-Pesach carnival for all the children of Crown Heights. Swarms of children attended the carnival, competed at the booths, and were blown away by the jugglers.
For the tenth consecutive year Mr. Greens is cutting holiday produce costs for Crown Heights educators.
This coming Friday, a total of eighty-seven Crown Heights families of rebbeim and teachers will collect Pesach orders of fresh fruits and vegetables, meat and wine, at a highly reduced cost. This is made possible by Mr. Greens market and by donations from local benefactors and organizations.
Building on its two year tradition, Shomrim has once again organized a free distribution of essential Pesach foods, from vegetables to fruits, dairy products and many items in between.
Throughout the evening yesterday, Wednesday, hundreds of families benefited, and Shomrim has managed to secure another two truckloads of items today. The distribution will resume today, Thursday, at 6:00pm in the parking lot of Beis Rivkah Lefferts [entrance from East New York and Brooklyn].
There is no need to be on any lists or have any vouchers, everyone is welcome to come and take whatever they feel they need. There is B”H no shortage of all the items.
Call him the Jewish Scott Brown.
David Greenfield swept a special election for the 44th District seat on the New York City Council in a landslide victory Tuesday. He soundly defeated fellow Democrat Joe Lazar, taking the seat by a margin of 58 to 40 percent. Kenneth Rice, a Republican, took just three percent of the vote.
With the Shloshim of Rebbetzin Sara Rochel Schochet approaching, Rabbi Ezra Schochet, her husband and the Rosh Yeshivas of Ohr Elchonon Chabad is writing a new Sefer Torah in her memory.
GERMANY — On the 2nd of Nissan 5770, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger visited the Jewish community of Krefeld. He was accompanied by HaRav Arie Goldberg, Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, and HaRav Mintzberg, the RCS’s mikvah expert.
Laibel and Chaya Sara (nee Borenstein) Perlow (Morristown, NJ)
NEW YORK [CBS] — If you park in Manhattan, be sure to have a few more quarters handy.
New York City is raising the rates on parking meters, and some drivers say the hike may drive them out of town.
ALBANY — Senate Democrats are counting on a pot of gold!
They want to legalize medical marijuana as a way to generate nearly $15 million in licensing fees to help plug the state’s $9 billion budget gap.
Halichos Olam is a program for seventh grade boys of Oholei Torah and United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Crown Street to encourage and guide them in the study of Hilichos Tefillin. Seventh grade is the year when most boys begin wearing Tefillin two months before their Bar Mitzvah. It was established by the Igud Menahalei Yeshivos of Crown Heights in the goal to expand the knowledge of Halacha and Yiras Shamayim of the talmidim of our community. The boys study Hilchos Tefillin from the sefer “Shvach Yokor” authored by Rabbi Shmuel Hurwitz.
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