Today, Wednesday, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha.
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ACCRA, Ghana — It was a rocky start for two of the hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students dispatched by Merkos, the Lubavitch educational division (with the support of regional Chabad centers) to create a Passover experience for Jewish people in some 150 locations exotic and obscure. Among them: Esquel, Argentina; Nipawin, Canada; Hong Kong; and Pervoo, Finland.
KRAKOW, Poland — In Krakow, Poland, where Jewish life was nearly destroyed by Nazism and communism, Rabbi Eliezer Gurary and his wife Esther are hoping to bring it back, one Shabbat at a time.
Eliezer and Esther, granddaughter of Devorah and Rabbi Leibel Alevsky, who run the Chabad House of Cleveland, recently opened Chabad-Lubavitch of Krakow. The young couple was living in New York and decided they “were ready to go wherever” to open a Chabad center to help Jews, Esther explains. The rabbi at the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters offered them the chance to build a Chabad community in Krakow from the ground up.
Mendy Schechter (Crown Heights) and Chavie Kalmanson (Cincinati, OH) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
Betzalel Bassman (Chicago, IL) and Chaya Weinstein (Pittsburgh, PA) .
IYH at Bais Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
Menachem Bialo (Cleveland, OH) to Noemi Druin (N Miami Beach, FL) .
IYH at 17131 NE 11th Ave. North Miami Beach, FL.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
The Chabad Jewish Student Center serving Texas A&M University managed a special Passover dining program, providing students with meals throughout the eight-day holiday.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yeshaya and Chani (nee Klein) Farron (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter, Menucha Rochel.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
MANCHESTER, England [CHI] — In the small Lubavitch community of Manchester, England, the bochurim returning for the Nissan Bein Hazmanim from yeshiva ketanos around the world, were not bored.
The Yeshivas Bein Hazmanim occupied the bochurim all through the month. The Sedorim took place at Beis Menachem Community Centre where the bochurim learned Gemorah Mesichtas Pesachim and studied the first few perakim of Shaar Hayichud VeHoemunah in depth.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Hirshy Stolik (Crown Heights) and Sheva Gurwitz (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
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].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
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.
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