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Driver Lay Shot Dead in Car, while Parking Tickets Piled

NY Post

Police and Chesed Shel Emes inspect the vehicle.

BROOKLYN, NY – He died as he lived — sadly.

Yosef ben Mirayum (Jeffrey) Schneider never married or had children. Always in debt, he was forced to sell his house. Bookies followed him trying to collect. For years he had threatened to commit suicide.

Cheder at the Ohel Students, Soldiers in Tzivos Hashem

Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum explaining how the new program works.

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — Last week the Cheder at the Ohel joined the many Lubavitcher schools worldwide that are part of the all-new Chayolei Tzivos Hashem. The elite brigade, exclusively for Lubavitcher children, marks a revolutionary new phase in the Rebbe’s vision for soldiers in Hashem’s army. The students were very thrilled to be involved in this great program and are eagerly waiting to climb the ranks by fulfilling their missions!

More in the Extended Article!

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Daled)

From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

To see the rest of the text of the Nasi click the Extended Article!

Mazal Tov! – 2 Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Benny Friedman (S. Paul, MN) and Chanale Gopin (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Shmuel Goldberg (Yerres, France) and Malkie Mellul (Creteil, France) .
IYH 8:30pm at 711 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Albany Ave].

Chabad of The Plaza Established

By Rick Hellman for the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

Rabbi Yitzhak, Chana and Meir Itkin just moved to town.

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement put down roots in Kansas City, Mo., in 1970, when Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson dispatched his emissaries, Rabbi Sholom and Blumah Wineberg, here.

Mazal Tov! – 2 Motzei Shabbos L’Chaims

Shmulik Schneerson (Los Angeles, CA) and Chashie Vishedsky (Kfar Chabad, Israel) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Yankel Katz (Montreal, Canada) and Chaya Mushka Gerber (Philadelphia, PA) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Jewish Center Marked with Anti-Semitic Graffiti

The Press-Enterprise

Graffiti covers a door at Chabad Jewish
Community Center. The words “Actung!
Juden” translate to “Warning! Jews.”

RIVERSIDE, CA — Vandals marred the Chabad Jewish Community Center late Thursday with anti-Semitic graffiti in German and swastikas.

The words and symbols were painted in purple on the center’s suite within a nondescript office building on Riverside’s Arlington Avenue.

The center and the Anti-Defamation League are offering a $1,000 reward for information.

Rabbi Shmuel M. Fuss said the center has received threatening phone calls in the past but nothing as shocking as the markings Thursday night.

The windows were covered with swastikas, an “SS,” and words such as “Actung! Juden,” which translates to “Warning! Jews.”

“Your average kid doesn’t know this kind of stuff,” he said.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmulik Schneerson (Los Angeles, CA) and Chashie Vishedsky (Kfar Chabad, Israel) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzai Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].


New Feature on Chabad.org “What if?”


What if?” is a brand new feature from Chabad.org that gives families a place to watch, learn, play, and talk about Jewish ideas. Centered around a computer-animated adventure through imagination, “What if?” follows the whimsical imaginings of Eli, Ezi and Dina, as they ponder such questions as: “What if we never left Egypt?” Each “episode” is really a complete experience including videos, hands on experiments, games and discussion startersómaking “What if?” a truly unique and immersive Jewish experience.

Click here to visit the new “What if?” section.