Lehigh Valley, PA — A huge surprise awaited hundreds of Jews at the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, who gathered for a Sefer Torah dedication, when the shliach Rabbi Yaacov Halperin announced, “We are marching to the new Chabad House”. The new Chabad House will be shortly inaugurated and will be the center of a row of activities.
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An impressive Sefer Torah procession was held on Sunday in Bergen County, New Jersey, joined by hundreds of locals. The canopy was prepared in a course of several weeks by tens of children of the Tzivos Hashem club of the Chabad House headed by the shliach, Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan. After filling the last letters, a parade and Seudas Mitzvah containing a special program was held for the guests. The Sefer Torah was donated by Reb Avremi Lerer of Crown Heights.
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Kiev, Ukraine — As a preparation for the holiday of Shovous, the director of Programs and Publishing House for Tzivos Hashem of the C.I.S. Shmuli Brown organised a very unique program for children of Ukraine.
Tzivos Hashem workers travelled to many cities in Ukraine and showed hundreds of children a Sefer Torah, told them the story of Matan Torah and the importance of the Torah to the Jewish nation.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Elimelech Perman (Santiago, Chile) and Goldi Zilbershtrom (Lod, Israel) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Wednesday night the 13th Sivan, May 30th at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany ave].
A professor once lamented to the Lubavitcher Rebbe about the depravity of human nature. “While most people,” argued the academic, “seem very nice and charming on the outside, beneath the surface we all tend to share the same ugly essence. We are all selfish, arrogant, and egotistical. Why should the intrinsic character of man be so abhorrent?”
The Rebbe responded with a parable: “When one strolls in the street one sees lovely houses, green lawns, flowery trees, paved roads and shiny cars. But when one takes a hoe and digs beneath the surface he exposes nothing but dirt and more dirt, all the surface beauty is gone.”
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitzchok Aron Steinmetz (Boro Park, Brooklyn) and Chana (bas R Sholom) Jacobson (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended on Wednesday and Thursday, May 23-24 for holiday observance. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Click here for the 2007 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar.
Los Angeles, CA — Excitement filled the air, as children and their parents filled the room. The occasion was the seventh annual Mishnayos Baal Peh awards ceremony at Cheder Menachem of Los Angeles.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- The neighborhood nosh and ice cream store, Nosh World Was shut down late last week by New York City’s Health Department. Last week Thursday, May 17th, a two hour long inspection left the store closed and the owner, Moshe Machputz an extensive list of items he needs to fix and correct.
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The following is a first-time-release picture of the Rebbe from Motzoei Shavuos 5737 (1977). Special thanks to Rabbi Pinny Lew and Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum – Shliach of the Rebbe to Prospect Heights Brooklyn.
Readers are welcome to identify those in the picture by using the Comment System!
One of the customs of Shavuot is to adorn the home with flowers and greens, our Sages relate that although Mount Sinai was situated in a desert, when the Torah was given the mountain bloomed and sprouted flowers and since it is the Harvest Festival.
In the picture, a flower merchant is preparing hundreds of bouquets of flowers in order to meet todays demand.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Faivish and Tamar (nee Elberg) Pewzner (Cedarhurst, NY) on the birth of their newborn son!
May the newborn be an endless source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
The Rebbe says:
1. The Midrash (a great collection of Homilies) tells us: “The night before Hashem came down to give the Torah the Jewish people went to sleep because the sleep of Yom Tov is sweet and the night is short, and (to top it all off) they didn’t even get bitten by any mosquitoes. But when Hashem came down (the next morning) to give the Torah all the Jewish people were sleeping and Hashem had to wake them up. As the Torah says “(Hashem says) Why do I come and no one calls out for me? No one even answers My calls!” (see Isaiah, Chapter 50, Verse 2).
And this is why we stay up all night on the night before the giving of the Torah (the first night of the festival of Shavous).
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Nossin and Ilana (nee Saul) Hoen (Crown Heights) 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 your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Faigy (nee Shomer) Chapley (Monsey, NY) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Redondo Beach, CA — Redondo Beach’s Jewish Community Center Chabad members added letters to finish the scrolls, two years in the making. On Sunday, the rabbi led them on a procession to celebrate the unveiling of the scrolls.
Edo Cohen looked on as a scribe scratched out his Hebrew letter on the thin parchment of the new Torah scrolls.
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