58 Tanks Spread Light and Good Deeds in NY!

New York, NY [CHI] — This morning, Wednesday Bochurim and Children were seen milling around President Street, where they were all looking for their ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ and the group they will be sharing it with. The 58 Tanks, which correspond to the number of years of the Rebbes Nesius, were all lined up and ‘armed’ with Pesach Guides, Matzos, Neshe”K and pairs of Tefillin, to set off on the annual Mitzvah Tank Parade commemorating the Rebbes birthday which takes place today, Wednesday, Yud Alef Nissan.

Over 120 Gorgeous pictures of the Parade and Mivtzoim for your viewing pleasure, in the Extended Article!

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Picture of the Day! The Smallest Mitzva Tank!

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R. Moshe Schmukler and R. Mordy Hirsch riding in their Mini Cooper and coordinating the 58th Mitzvah Tank Parade!

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Victim calls for justice in Crown Heights attack

News 12 Brooklyn

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A black man is calling for justice after he says he was attacked in Crown Heights.

Andrew Charles claims he was walking down Carroll Street with his friend, Kevin Evans, on Monday evening when he was attacked. Charles says a group of Jewish men drove up in a black SUV and got out of the car. After an exchange of words, Charles says he was beaten with a wooden object and maced.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Esty (nee Lieberman) Majesky (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.

May the newborns be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

Rebbe’s Parisian Friend Sheds Light on Scientific Experience

By Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in his early 30s, around the time of his move to Paris. (Photo: Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library)

The Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Miami Beach, Fla., received a routine call in the days before Purim in 1993. An elderly man phoned that he couldn’t go to synagogue to hear the reading of the Scroll of Esther (megillah) and requested someone to come to his residence to read the scroll for him.

Sydney Chabad Funds Search Helicopter for Missing Israeli Backpacker

Michelle Coleman – The Australian Jewish News

Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch in New Zealand, heads off to search for missing Israeli backpacker Liat Tess-Okin.

The search for missing Israeli backpacker Liat Tess-Okin was boosted late last week by the addition of a search helicopter underwritten by Chabad-Lubavitch of Sydney.

The 35-year-old Israeli woman has been missing for almost three weeks, after failing to return from a three-day trek on the Routeburn Track near Queenstown, which she started on March 25.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovi and Yael (nee Steiner) Rabin (Johannesburg, South Africa) on the birth of their son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

Tanya Printed in Chalkida, Greece!

CHALKIDA, Greece [CHI] — In a country known for its contribution of paganism and hellinism to the world; just got an added dose of real G-dliness. Today being the holy and auspicious day of Yud-Aleph Nissan ; giving a gift to the Rebbe is on every Chossid’s mind.

More in the Extended Article!

Video of the Day! – Some Passover Humor!

The following is a piece from a TV show that airs in the UK called “are you smarter than a 10 year old”, challenging adult contestants with questions from the early grade school curriculum. In this piece the question was, “what is the name of the flat unleavened bread Jews eat on passover?”. For your viewing pleasure.

Chabad Emissaries Celebrate The Lubavitcher Rebbe!

36 years ago, at a special Farbrengen gathering to celebrate his 70th birthday, The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, asked his followers to establish 71 new Chabad educational and outreach institutions. At the Farbrengen, West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch immediately made a commitment to The Rebbe to open at least 10 percent of the new centers.

The very next day, the first of these new institutions — the Chabad House in Berkley, CA — was launched in The Rebbe’s office at 770 Eastern Parkway in a private audience with his emissaries on the West Coast, Rabbi Shmuel Dovid haLevi Raichik OBM, and Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Eliyohu Cunin, Director of West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch.

Picture of the Day!

The Rebbe walking out of a bunk house during one of his visits to Gan Yisroel. The picture is from the new book on the Rebbe “The Rebbe inspiring a Generation” to see more visit www.inspiringageneration.com

This picture is presented in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan, a new picture will be displayed each day.