SARATOGA, SPRINGS, NY [CHI] — Entertained by Jugglers, and urged on by their parents on the ground, scores of children at Saratoga Chabad’s Pesach Upstate NY fair dared to ascend 49 “Sefira” steps on a 3 story rock climbing symbolizing the daily Mitzva to reach the heights of “Mt. Sinai.”
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel and Devorie (nee Brackman) Nyman on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
KALININGRAD, Russia — Passover in Kaliningrad, like in Jewish communities worldwide, was marked with both celebration and pensiveness. Preparations were made by young and old in advance of the holiday. Before Passover began, adult Jews strove to sell their non-kosher items.
Mendy Dalfin (Brooklyn NY) and Haddasah Katz (Far Rockaway NY)
IYH at Bais Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
Hirshy Stolik (Crown Heights) and Sheva Gurwitz (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist granted an exclusive interview to Chabad.org just before the conclusion of the Passover holiday. Sitting down in his office with Rabbi Shneur Zalman Oirechman, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle in Tallahassee, and Menachem Cohen, Crist spoke about his warm relations with the Jewish community and shared his concern for the Chabad House of Miami Beach, found torched last week in an apparent arson.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shlomie and Chanie (nee Gratzman) Hershkop on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
VOLGOGRAD, Russia — A new TV program has been working on a feature on the Jewish community of Volgograd. Timed well with Passover, this show was aired as part of the series “The Peoples of Volgograd” and hosted by Svetlana Yuriecheva, whose work on the programs “The Saturday Album”, “Anisya” and “My Child” have also focused on everyday heroes within the Jewish community. Her current series, which underlines the life of the various ethnic and religious communities in the region, has been on the air since the beginning of 2008.
WARSAW, Poland — Jerusalem Post reporter Greer Fay Cashman proclaimed last week’s Torah dedication ceremony at Warsaw’s Belvedere Presidential Palace to be “one of the most joyful events” associated with the state visit by Israeli President Shimon Peres to the Polish capitol.
Organized by Rabbi Sholom DovBer Stambler, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Poland, the event saw Peres inscribe one of the Torah scroll’s last letters before it was rolled up and carried outside by Jewish communal officials.
WASHINGTON [CHI] — With a postal rate increase just two weeks away, Americans are buying 30 million Forever stamps a day.
The cost of sending a first-class letter will rise a penny to 42 cents on May 12, but the Forever stamps – currently selling for 41 cents – will remain valid for full postage after the increase.
Forever stamps were introduced last year and since then more than six billion have been sold, with interest growing as the rate increase nears.
BROOKLYN, NY — Dozens of cops were pulled off the streets in Brooklyn Saturday night after NYPD officials were tipped off to a plot to shoot patrolmen, police sources said.
Officers were taken off their foot patrols in East New York, and cop cars were positioned to block a route to the 75th Precinct stationhouse on Sutter Ave. for fear of a drive-by shooting.
The extraordinary measures were taken after a confidential informant – who works with the Brooklyn narcotics squad – told police around 6 p.m. there was a plan to shoot up the Brooklyn stationhouse, sources said.
MIAMI BEACH, FL — Sitting on donated chairs, with a donated curtain separating the men from the women, more than 200 worshipers attended Shabbat services Friday night on the lawn of a Miami Beach Orthodox synagogue that was consumed by fire this week.
Before services began at The Chabad Shul, 2401 Pinetree Dr., speakers noted that an outpouring of support has helped ease a trying time.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The last day of Passover (“Acharon Shel Pesach”) is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking of a “Seudas Moshiach” (Moshiachs Meal) on the afternoon of the last day of Passover; in addition to the Matzah eaten at “Seudas Moshiach”, the Rebbes of Chabad added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover’s first days.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — More than 40 Brooklyn families face eviction and foreclosure on condos they bought from a developer who pulled off a massive swindle and then fled the country.
The families, all Hasidim from Crown Heights, paid developer Eliyahu Ezagui – one of their own – for the apartments before they were built at two sites: 770 Lefferts Ave. and 613 East New York Ave.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossel and Devorah Leah (nee Gurary) Sirota (Monsey, NY) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
The goal is not just “to get more Jews in the pews,” according to the panelists at a forum on the future of the Jewish community.
With careful cordiality but often conflicting views, clergy representing the three largest denominations outlined their views on how to keep existing members while also reaching out to new ones.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovber and Gila (nee Wasserman) Marshall (Toronto, Canada) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
CH Shaimos is run by a Crown Heightser and their truck sat on Kingston and President for the days before Pesach. Pictured is Yakov Flint, who operates CH Shaimos preparing the Shaimos in the pit for burial.
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