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By Colin McDonald for Express-News

SAN ANTONIO, TX — As Passover begins, the San Antonio Jewish community came together for a ceremony held once every 28 years to bless the rising sun.

On Wednesday more than 100 gathered on the gently slopping east front lawn of Chabad Lubavitch of South Texas in San Antonio for Birkat Hachamah.

Video – San Antonio Blesses the Sun

By Colin McDonald for Express-News

SAN ANTONIO, TX — As Passover begins, the San Antonio Jewish community came together for a ceremony held once every 28 years to bless the rising sun.

On Wednesday more than 100 gathered on the gently slopping east front lawn of Chabad Lubavitch of South Texas in San Antonio for Birkat Hachamah.

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Albany Maimonides Seals 28 Year Time Capsule

ALBANY, NY [CHI] — Assemblyman Jack MacNeny presented an official New York State proclamation honoring Albany’s communal Birkat Hachama celebration of over 200 people, including Montreal/New York travelers, expanding this year’s “Hakhel” experience.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Chabad Houses in California Unite in Birchas HaChama

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Several Chabad Houses in the eastern sections of Los Angeles including Chabad Centers of: Los Feliz, Glendale, Burbank, Pasadena, Studio City, Mount Olympus, University of Southern California and Larchmont, gathered together at the famous Griffith Observatory for Birchas HaChama. The eastern observation terrace at the Griffith Observatory is known as one of the best places in the entire Los Angeles to watch the sun rise. The brocho was said under a brilliantly bright sunrise, and a beautiful blue sky with not one cloud in the sky — despite weather forecasts of heavy clouds and rain. It was a truly spectacular event with many people in participation and a genuine kiddush shem Lubavitch.

Few More Pictures in the Extended Article!

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Birchas Hachamah Unites Communities in Michigan

WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI [CHI] — All five orthodox Kehilos of Farmington Hills and West Bloomfield MI, which include three Chabad centers- Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills- Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein, Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield- Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg, and The Shul- Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov, joined together for Birchas Hachama at the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield. Close to five hundred people joined for the service, which began with Shachrit and was followed by a Siyum Bichoros by Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein and Mendel Shemtov.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Top, Rabbi Shmuel Kravitsky crouches in front of a store of food ready for Passover celebrations this week. Aluminium foil covers the kitchen to ensure that all surfaces are kosher.

AMHERST, MA — To mark the beginning of Passover, there will be a seder tonight on the town common, with activities ranging from a matzo-eating contest to a discussion of how an ancient Jewish ritual can inform modern life.

‘Big Tent’ for Amherst Common Seder

Top, Rabbi Shmuel Kravitsky crouches in front of a store of food ready for Passover celebrations this week. Aluminium foil covers the kitchen to ensure that all surfaces are kosher.

AMHERST, MA — To mark the beginning of Passover, there will be a seder tonight on the town common, with activities ranging from a matzo-eating contest to a discussion of how an ancient Jewish ritual can inform modern life.

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Do you make the cut?

Due to the high demand of players in Crown Heights that want to play softball this season, the Crown Heights Softball League added another team to the league.

We are looking for five really good players to anchor the sixth team of the Crown Heights Softball league.

The deadline is today!!

Please email chsoftball@gmail.com or go to chsoftball.com to see what we are all about.

CHSL: Are you one of the Five?

Do you make the cut?

Due to the high demand of players in Crown Heights that want to play softball this season, the Crown Heights Softball League added another team to the league.

We are looking for five really good players to anchor the sixth team of the Crown Heights Softball league.

The deadline is today!!

Please email chsoftball@gmail.com or go to chsoftball.com to see what we are all about.

PSA
Little Moshe has passed through the time of danger. He is healthy and clever, and if he’s sometimes clingy, that’s fine with Rivki. Staying busy with him, with all her work, keeps difficult thoughts at bay. Such as: Why are she and Gabi here, amid the stench and chaos and otherness of Mumbai? They could have been in Brooklyn or Israel instead, with family and comforts nearby to ease their sadness.

But why think about what can’t be helped? They are here because that’s what the Rebbe inspired them to do. And look at the blessings their sacrifice has brought them, just as he said it would: Moshe, their miracle, and now another child on the way. God willing, the family will grow and bring honor to their mission.

Sixth of eleven,the middlest of middle children, Rivka Rosenberg, born in 1980, grows up in Afula, Israel, in a Lubavitcher home: a smiler, a laugher, knowing how to fit in yet managing to be heard. Everyone calls her Rivki. “Not meek,” a friend says. “Not recessive. Full of life. Always looking to connect. That’s the secret.” The friend pauses. “And that’s the problem.”

NY Mag: Gabi and Rivkas Quest

Little Moshe has passed through the time of danger. He is healthy and clever, and if he’s sometimes clingy, that’s fine with Rivki. Staying busy with him, with all her work, keeps difficult thoughts at bay. Such as: Why are she and Gabi here, amid the stench and chaos and otherness of Mumbai? They could have been in Brooklyn or Israel instead, with family and comforts nearby to ease their sadness.

But why think about what can’t be helped? They are here because that’s what the Rebbe inspired them to do. And look at the blessings their sacrifice has brought them, just as he said it would: Moshe, their miracle, and now another child on the way. God willing, the family will grow and bring honor to their mission.

Sixth of eleven,the middlest of middle children, Rivka Rosenberg, born in 1980, grows up in Afula, Israel, in a Lubavitcher home: a smiler, a laugher, knowing how to fit in yet managing to be heard. Everyone calls her Rivki. “Not meek,” a friend says. “Not recessive. Full of life. Always looking to connect. That’s the secret.” The friend pauses. “And that’s the problem.”

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In Jerusalem, New York and other major Jewish population centers, thousands thronged to participate in the once-in-28-year Jewish ritual of blessing the sun. In the Democratic Republic of The Congo, there weren't thousands, not even hundreds. But they rose at the crack of dawn Wednesday morning to conduct their own blessing-of-the-sun ritual on the Congo River.

Blessing the Sun On the Congo River

In Jerusalem, New York and other major Jewish population centers, thousands thronged to participate in the once-in-28-year Jewish ritual of blessing the sun. In the Democratic Republic of The Congo, there weren’t thousands, not even hundreds. But they rose at the crack of dawn Wednesday morning to conduct their own blessing-of-the-sun ritual on the Congo River.

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From left, Shliach to West Bloomfield Rabbi Yisrael Pinson and Shliach to Boca Raton Rabbi Meir Kessler both hosted sober Sederim

MIAMI [AP] — Around the Passover table, people drink red wine, swallowing a symbol of freedom, deliverance, redemption and release. But not Joe Nevenansky. Not this time.

On Wednesday he and his family celebrated the ancient Israelites' liberation from Egyptian slavery, but he drank grape juice instead. Years ago he would have doubled or tripled the four glasses of wine traditionally imbibed during the ritual meal on the first day of the Jewish festival.

Rabbis, Addicts Skip Wine for a Sober Seder

From left, Shliach to West Bloomfield Rabbi Yisrael Pinson and Shliach to Boca Raton Rabbi Meir Kessler both hosted sober Sederim

MIAMI [AP] — Around the Passover table, people drink red wine, swallowing a symbol of freedom, deliverance, redemption and release. But not Joe Nevenansky. Not this time.

On Wednesday he and his family celebrated the ancient Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but he drank grape juice instead. Years ago he would have doubled or tripled the four glasses of wine traditionally imbibed during the ritual meal on the first day of the Jewish festival.

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