This weeks Living Torah clip is from Volume 35, Episode 140, titled ‘A Life Changing Sermon’.
Also available in in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article!
The Valley, CA — Over a thousand people from three Chabad communities of the greater Valley, Chabad of North Hollywood, Chabad of Sherman Oaks and Chabad of Encino gathered together for 4 hours on Lag B’Omer in Woodley Park.
More in the Extended!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Esther (nee Saull) Makowsky (Brooklyn, NY) on the birth firstborn daughter!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Mineola, NY — Under the leadership of Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Long Island New York, joined the worldwide list of parades in honor of Lag BaOmer. Hundreds of children and their parents gathered from the Chabad Hebrew Schools of Nassau County on Meadowbrook Rd in North Merrick, NY.
More in the Extended
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel and Miriam Hecht (Shluchim to Sunnyvale, CA) on the birth of their baby a girl.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Chabad.org just launched a new section bringing the timeless stories from Dial-A-Jewish-Story of the “Dialing Age” to the “i-Pod Generation”… Enjoy (we know that inner child always missed those stories… so go for it, it’s just a click away – we won’t tell!).
The new “Jewish Story Time” section has been added to the Kids Zone. These short audio clips are taken from the ever popular and timeless “Dial-a-Jewish-Story” service of Tzivos Hashem that for over 15 years has been making these stories available via telephone.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avrohom and Dina (nee Kalmenson) Hendel (Coral Springs, FL) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Woodley Park, CA — At the recent Israeli Freedom Day celebration, over 3000 women received decorative tins containing tools for an important mitzvah that’s been passed on for generations. The special tins were FridayLight starter kits, and they held the chance for women to rekindle an important Jewish tradition.
Kharkov, Ukraine — For over 70 years the Jews of the former Soviet Union were denied the right to practice their religion openly. Even after the fall of communism, those same Jews longed to see a proper Lag B’Omer Parade as they had seen in pictures. After days of building, painting and organizing, those dreams came true.
More in the Extended Article.
Registration is now open for the summer Merkos Shlichus program. Register at ms.lubavitch.com, you have to get you application in before May 25th, applications will not be accepted afterwards.
Philadelphia, PA — Swimming under waterfalls in the Galilee, walking the beach in Tel Aviv, squeezing through a water tunnel dug by King Hezekiah’s army more than 2,700 years ago, spending Shabbat in Jerusalem: These activities are just a sample of the offerings awaiting the some 2,500 participants of Mayanot’s Taglit-birthright israel free trips this summer.
Some are even enjoying them right now.
ATTENTION PARENTS: special reminder, Tonight, special joint program of guidance and inspiration for all parents and educators of all boys’ community Yeshivos of our Shchuna grades 5 thru 8 and Mesivta
Title: Is Your Child Safe?
When: Wednesday May 9th – 21st of Iyar
Time: 8:00 pm Sharp
Where: Oholei Torah Ballroom 667 Eastern Parkway
Distinguished mechanchem will address the audience
Chicago, IL –A few seconds before the vehicle turns the corner of Rush and Oak streets in the heart of the ritzy Gold Coast, the unsuspecting pedestrian hears loud music. But this isn’t the thumping bass one usually hears.
Dovid Leib Shur (Crown Heights) and Shaina Sara Abramowitz (Crown Heights) .
IYH at the Abramowitz’s, 392 Crown St, [bet Brooklyn and New York aves].
Mordechai Adjiashvili (Kiryat Ata, Israel) and Devorah Leah Chein (Queens, NY) .
IYH at Da Mikelle Palace, 102-55 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY 11375.
Moscow, Russia — Of all the strange relationships that define today’s Russia, few are stranger than the alliance between President Vladimir Putin and an ultra-Orthodox rabbi named Berel Lazar.
Rabbi Lazar is a follower of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic sect based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that is on the fringes of mainstream Judaism. Its devotees are known for their love of the Rebbe, their late spiritual leader. Some even think he’s the Messiah.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chaim Meir and Rivky (nee Solomon) Steigman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — For the past eight years, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute has been revolutionizing the way Shiurim are given at Chabad Houses across the globe. At over 200 locations, 72,000 adults have pursued intellectual and spiritual growth through a standardized curriculum, enhanced by dynamic textbooks and dramatic audio-visual presentations.
