ALBANY, NY [CHI] — “Serve with JOY!” Lag Bomer “Sharabi” Concert & “Fiddler on Roof” Parade. The Parade started from the New Maimonides Building. with a colorful “Fiddler on the Roof” Float and Trolley, instruments, banners and student drum corps
Tofutti Brands Inc. is recalling “Vanilla Cuties” due to undeclared milk. The product was distributed in California, the Mid-Atlantic region, the Midwest, New England, and the New York City metro area.
CHANDLER, AZ — Chabad of Chandler’s construction site, where they are putting up a new Chabad House was vandalized with hate-filled graffiti against Jewish people. Shliach to Arizona, Rabbi Mendy Lipskier is interviewed by News 3, Marissa Wingate.
The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem (G-d) commands us to take care of our brethren in need and loan them interest free money. Hashem finishes off this commandment by saying, “I am Hashem, your G-d, Who took you out of the land of Egypt…”.
Our Sages learn from this verse that, “Anyone who accepts the yoke of the commandment regarding not taking or giving interest, accepts the yoke of Heaven; and anyone who throws off the yoke of this commandment, throws off the yoke of Heaven. This is because anyone who complies with the Mitzvah (commandment) of “Ribbis” (not taking or giving interest) also admits to the fundamental principal of our exodus from Egypt; and anyone who denies the Mitzvah of Ribbis also denies our exodus from Egypt”.
In other words, there is something unique about the Mitzvah of Ribbis which has a special connection to accepting the yoke of Heaven and our exodus from Egypt more than any other Mitzvah. We must try to understand this.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The International Moshiach Campaign has recently begun reaching out to Anash in order to have them actively participate in the Rebbe’s horah to “Do all you can to bring Moshiach.”
As a hachlota of the Kinus hashluchim almost 10 years ago, the Moshiach Campaign was created to develop programs and literature for Shluchim world wide on the topic of Moshiach.
With college seniors facing one of the worst job markets in recent memory and downsized professionals scrambling to plan their futures, graduate schools across the United States have seen applications soar. But such institutions of higher learning – whose schools of government and public policy have seen some of the most drastic growth in applications, according to The New York Times – are not alone in expanding their rosters; joining them are Jewish yeshivas and seminaries, whose spiritual atmospheres are appealing to a generation finding its place in a world in crisis.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Road repairs on the streets of Crown Heights are still underway, but one intersection has been the site where a number of cars ‘bottomed out’ as result of the uneven street and got severely damaged.
In three separate incidents minivans that passed the intersection of Carroll Street and Schenectady Avenue stuck an elevated sewer opening and scraped the bottom of their car against it, in all incidents the vehicles popped their airbags and spilled engine and transmission oils.
MONROE, NY [CHI] — In celebration of Lag B’omer, a BBQ, Bonfire & Kumzits was hosted by Chabad of Orange County in the home of Rabbi Pesach & Chana Burston in Monroe, NY.
The special evening, for adults and teens, began with a delicious BBQ, (compliments to Gil Goetz of Monroe and Lester Pleeter of Chester who manned the grill!), L’chaim and socializing.
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BOCA RATON, FL [CHI] — Chabad Youth Network of Florida directed by Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick arranged a spectacular unity day rally in honor of Lag B’omer in which over a thousand children from schools in South Florida joined together.
BERLIN [JTA] — A former police officer was fined for beheading a wax figure of Hitler last summer. The unnamed perpetrator, who is unemployed, must pay $1,227 for taking off the head at Berlin’s new Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in July.
THESSALONIKI, GREECE — After the trophies and closing ceremonies at last week’s World School Chess Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Israeli and Iranian teams met with their coaches and local Chabad Rabbi Yoel Kaplan to talk chess and peace.
MALAKHOVA, Russia — Shlima Gorinova is among those anxiously waiting the completion of a new synagogue and Jewish community center in the Moscow suburb of Malakhovka after its historical place of worship was burned to the ground.
OGDENSBURG, NY — The City Council finalized an agreement Monday to sell the defunct cheese plant on Main Street.
Oihel Nosson and CrownHeghts.info are pleased to announce the launch of a new Shiur series for men with Rabbi Chaim Miller author of the Gutnick Chumush, Hagada, and the Slagar Edition Rambam: 13 Principles of Faith.
The Shuir is titled: “Prophesy – Unraveling the Mystical Experience from the Voices of Above.” Based on the Rabbi’s forthcoming Sefer.
A recording of the Shiur will be later posted here on CrownHeights.info.
We all dream of “falling in love” and being totally swept away in a wave of passion and excitement. We are certain that when we meet our destined one we will know without doubt in our hearts that this is “the one” We have this vision in our minds of how it’s supposed to be, and when reality fails to live up to our expectations we are certain something must be wrong in the relationship.
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