In the week since a massive flood devastated the Wellesley-Weston Chabad House, community members have rallied together to help clean up and rebuild. Dozens of community members donated their time to completely gut what was once the Chabad House’s finished basement, including several guest rooms, storage rooms, and the Rabbi and Rebbetzin’s offices.
This Thursday, March 25, Sixty Mitzvah ‘Tanks’ will parade through the steets of downtown Manhattan in honor of the 108th anniversary of the Rebbe’s Birth. The annual Mitzvah Tank Parade, a project of the Mitzvah Tank Org, will begin at 11:00 am at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn.
From the flames of the Menorah, to the flames of the Matzah oven. The 120 Stones used to build a grand menorah on the square of “29 of March,” in Curitiba, Parana – for this year Chanukah, has now been reused.
ISRAEL [INN] — The Israel Agriculture Association has announced that dairy cows will begin receiving kosher for Passover bedding this week, and beginning next week, will get kosher for Passover food as well.
Zalman Menache (Michael) Linder (Pompano Beach, FL) and Elanit Kayne (Crown Heights)
Dovid Leib and Baily (nee Geisinsky) Silberstein (Montreal Canada)
The widow of a Brooklyn-born rabbi, murdered two years ago by terrorists in Mumbai, is facing an immigration nightmare that threatens to keep her from seeing her eight children in New York.
Chabad of Simcha Monica and the “Mitzvos on the spot for people on the go” cart were spotted at the finish line of the LA marathon, in which over 25,000 runners participated. They put on Teffilin with the runners as well as friends and family who came to congratulate them.
OTTAWA — The Sinai Scholars Society study program was honoured to have Rabbi Reuven Bulka address the graduates and award them each with a certificate and gift. The graduation ceremony was held at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Tuesday, March 16.
Chabad on Campus UK is proud to announce the opening of a new Chabad Lubavitch House serving Jewish students at Liverpool universities.
In the next academic term, Rabbi Shmuli Brown and family, will open their home as a ‘home away from home’ for Jewish students from all backgrounds, as well as offering a full program of exciting events, including weekly Friday night Shabbat dinners, educational classes and social programs
Joined by regional chief rabbis from throughout central Ukraine, Jewish residents of Krivoy Rog celebrated two milestones this month when they laid the foundation stone for a future kindergarten and sports complex, and commenced writing a new Torah scroll to be used at a nearby synagogue.
BROOKLYN — Today, Monday, Brooklyn finally gets a chance to park it on the stoop.
The city announced on Thursday that the first phase of Brooklyn Bridge Park — featuring a vast green lawn and a granite front-stoop sitting area located on Pier 1 — will open to the public.
MYFOXNY.COM — After a series of public hearing on proposed service cuts, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued Friday a list of revised proposals for service cuts to help close a nearly $800 billion budget gap.
JERUSALEM – It’s a bright, cool afternoon at Jerusalem’s Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys, known locally simply as “Hartman” after the institute and Jewish think tank that houses it. A group of 10th grade boys are horsing around on the basketball court, careful to avoid the stacks of food parcels that they’ve stayed after school to help distribute to needy residents ahead of the Passover holiday.
2
