The Rebbe and Former President of Israel Zalman Shazar during one of his many visits that he made to see the Rebbe, the picture is from the new book on the Rebbe to see more Visit: www.inspiringageneration.com
BROOKLYN, NY — Eight young students sat around the table celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. In between singing stirring melodies, they ate bread, herring and hot potatoes, in the “Tailors’ Synagogue” in Berdichev, Ukraine.
WASHINGTON, DC [CNN] — The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday began circulating a redesigned $5 bill. The first transaction was at a gift shop near President Lincoln’s summer cottage overlooking Washington.
Also, “How to Catch a Counterfeit” in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuly and Aviva (nee Bressler) Rosler (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter, Esther Chana.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
Zalmy Laufer (Crown Heights) and Zeldie Nemanov (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!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Tuesday night, over 200 mothers and their daughters gathered at the Jewish Children’s Museum for the first-ever Friendship Circle “Mother and Daughter Tea” honoring the hard work and dedication of the high school volunteers.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A car with plates that came back as a stolen vehicle prompted a large police response. The incident began at 6:15pm today, Wednesday on Empire Boulevard and Bedford Avenue where a police van spotted the vehicle and ran its plates which came back as stolen.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
MONSEY, NY — It was Friday afternoon when the developer who had been intent on building a 215,000-square-foot Wal-Mart in this hamlet sent word to the town offices in Ramapo. The fax was terse, but its message clear: “We will not continue to proceed with the development.”
The news that the developer, and potentially Wal-Mart, had scrapped plans it had so diligently worked on gave observant Jews, who make up the bulk of the population here, reason to rejoice.
SHAWNEE DELAWARE, PA [CHI] — Onlookers at Shawnee Mountain watched Yisroel sit at the Moshiach Shiur surrounded by teacher Rabbi Eli Sandhaus and classmates. Even away from the classroom, these boys chose to attend this voluntary class. Following the class, fellow skiers watched Yisroel ski with finesse, in a seemingly-effortless glide down the mountain.
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Fittingly for a rabbi known for promoting inter-group cooperation, the search for Zev Segal drew upward of 300 volunteers — Lubavitcher and Satmar hasidim, Modern Orthodox and haredim, as well as members of the non-Orthodox Jewish and general communities.
The Honorable Judge Michael B. Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States addresses the crowd at the Jewish Children’s Museum Third Annual Dinner – March 9, 2008
A unique Farbrengen (Jewish gathering) was held Monday night at the Cocoa Beach Hilton with family and friends of Garrett Erin Reisman, the first Jewish Astronaut to reside on the International Space Station just hours before Shuttle Endeavor roared towards the Space Station in a spectacular night launch from Kennedy Space Center.
Organizer, Rabbi Zvi Konikov, director of Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts first met Dr. Reissman in Israel after the Shuttle Columbia Tragedy. Reisman flew to Israel as NASA’s representative to console Rona Ramon and Ilan’s family. The Ramons travelled from Israel to share in the joy of Reisman’s launch of Shuttle Endeavor to the Space Station. Asaf Ramon, eldest son of the late Ilan Ramon, received a special release from the Israeli Air Force to attend the launch.
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“I would like to donate money for a ‘big cause’ – something tremendous, awesome. What does the Rebbe suggest?” the following is an excerpt from the new book on the Rebbe “The Rebbe Inspiring a Generation” to see more on the book see: InspiringAGeneration.com.
The following is an encounter that took place shortly before the Passover holiday, when a philanthropist approached the Rebbe, wanting to make a generous donation to a Chabad institution. Apparently, concerning the definition of a “generous donation,” the Rebbe had different ideas. From this we learn that the “little things” done quietly, behind the scenes, can often prove to be in the Rebbe’s eyes a far greater cause.
The philanthropist waited impatiently outside the Rebbe’s office. Ignoring the swirl of black-coated bodies of students and secretaries around him, he instead concentrated on himself—not without satisfaction, he felt, considering his reasons for coming. No doubt the Rebbe would be impressed as well.
There was the joke about shooting the police commissioner.
There was the defense of illegal immigrants, because who else “takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?”
There was the concern that pushing them out of the country would make the United States a “piranha,” not a pariah, in the eyes of the world. And there was the description of a tree the Parks Department was cloning as being the one that “George Washington supposedly slept under and had an apple fall on his head, or maybe it was Newton, or one of those guys.”
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Boruch Van Halem (Amsterdam, Holland) and Chani Hoen (Cleveland, OH) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Today, Wednesday, Hey Adar Sheini, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha.
Click here to watch this weeks Shiur LIVE at 10 PM.
Or you can call 1-218-936-1600 Access code: 437541
