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The 'heroes' from left: Binyamin Weiss, Levi Waks, Reuven Weiss and Zalmy Plotke
COTTAGE GROVE, MN [CHI] — A Minnesota woman sent a letter to her local paper thanking her 'heroes', local Chabad Bochurim. The Bochurim helped her get her car moving in the snow. The letter was published in the South Washington County Bulletin. She goes on in the letter how the Yeshiva, known as 'My Yeshiva' is doing a great job raising these Bochurim.
Read the Full Letter in the Extended Article!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Every year, long before the Shluchim from around the world come together in Crown Heights for the Kinus Hashluchim, there is a lot of time and effort that has to go into the planning and arranging the success of what has become the greatest conference in the world in many ways.
More Pictures in the Extended Article!
FRESNO, CA [CHI] — This past Shabbos a group of 5th and 6th graders attending the Shluchim Online School gathered together for a grand shabbaton at Chabad of Fresno, in conjunction with the Bas Mitzvah celebration of one of their fellow classmates, Esty Zirkind.
Rabbi Chaim Leib and Miki Hilel will IYH be going on Shlichus to California. They will be setting up a new Chabad House to service the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the surrounding communities.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Cunin.
CrownHeights.info wishes the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
Carolyn Sackariason for the Aspen Times
ASPEN, CO — Opposition appears to be growing over a proposal to establish a Jewish community center on the east end of Aspen.
The Aspen City Council at its meeting tonight is likely to hear from dozens of people who oppose the Jewish Community Center moving into the Silver Lining Ranch, a former nonprofit facility that for seven years provided a retreat for kids afflicted with cancer. The facility has largely been underutilized since 2006.
By Susannah Bryan for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
“It's time for Cooper City and the Chabad to mend their fences and move on. And hopefully no other religious [groups] will have the same problems Chabad did,” said attorney Franklin Zemel, who led the two-year legal battle against the city.
In 2005, Rabbi Shmuel Posner was forced to close his center after city officials told him it was not allowed in the city's business district. Posner filed suit in May 2007.
MOSCOW — With the surrounding streets blocked off to accommodate the swelling crowd, thousands of people turned out for the historic Blessing of the Sun ceremony earlier this month in Moscow. After praying in the Marina Roscha synagogue at the crack of dawn, the crowd moved outside to a large square abutting the Shaarei Tsedek Charity Center for the once-in-28-years ceremony.
More pictures at Chabad.org
MONTREAL [CHI] — At least 2000 Montreal-Anash (Men and Women) are expected to attend an emergency meeting tonight, Sunday 8:45pm at the Yeshiva at 6405 Westbury Avenue. After Crown Heights, Montreal is the next largest Chabad shchuna in the world!
The 68-year-old Tomchei Temimim is the only Chabad elementary school in Montreal, Canada.
On Sunday, Chol Hamoed Pesach, Chabad-Lubavitch Torah Learning Center, in Kansas City, Kansas, held its annual Kinus Torah.
The Kinus Torah is a forum in which local yeshiva students, who are home for Pesach, present Torah essays to the community.
Lubavitch.com
PARIS — Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in France will convene for the first national conference, Sunday-Monday, April 25-26.
To date, there are 113 Chabad centers and 452 representatives, (men and women) serving France’s Jewish population. The conference will address issues pertinent to the country’s Jewish population needs, and the challenges specific to French Jewry.
By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com
What is a woman’s responsibility to her unborn child? Is it her right not to birth the infant? Is it her obligation to care for her child?
Teenagers in 21 American cities grappled with this issue and other hot-button topics at the recently concluded MySpace/YourSpace course offered through the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), the adult education arm of the Lubavitch movement. This was the adult education institute’s first foray into the world of teenage minds, and by all accounts, it was a successful one. An additional 50 cities are on a waiting list to participate.
Chabad.org
An Ask the Rabbi scholar conducts research in the Brooklyn, N.Y., office of Chabad.org.
In the lead-up to Passover, Jews scattered across the globe turned to the Internet to answer their holiday-related questions on everything from the proper arrangement of a Seder plate to the deeper meanings of freedom.
Jpost
“These days I look upon you as my own personal rabbi,” wrote Roger H., in an e-mail to the Ask the Rabbi team at Chabad.org, a popular Internet site for Jewish content. “You have never forgotten me and every time you write I feel as if my soul has been kindled anew.”
In this post-modern age of virtual reality, in which Jews are not the only world citizens and extreme individualism has resulted in the disintegration of communities, a good Internet site sometimes stands in for a concrete synagogue and a flesh-and blood rabbi, especially in places where there are none.
GENEVA, Switzerland [CHI] — As the UN’s controversial Durban Conference got underway, less the participation of a number of countries, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Pevzner the head Shliach in Geneva came up with the Chabad response.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Besides for the Photo Gallery and Video we at CrownHeights.info published of Birchas HaChama in Crown Heights, we reported on many other such events across the globe. In honor of this once in a 28-year Mitzvah we compiled a list of all the events, with the many reports with pictures and video.
The Birchas Hachama Articles are all hyperlinked in the Extended Article!
Stock Photo - Mesivta Bochurim pose in front of 770
CORAL SPRINGS, FL [CHI] — Due to the amazing hatzlacha of our first year, and the applications that have come from all over, including other Mesivtas; we are opening a Shiur Beis. Hoping to replicate the passion and vitality of our existing Hanhala, we searched for a dynamic and personable Mashpia. After countless interviews with many capable yungerleit, we are excited to announce that Rabbi Yossi Raichik, will be joining our existing Hanhala of Rabbis Chaim Dovid Janowski (Rosh Yeshiva), Yankie Denburg (Mashpia), and Yankie Sheinberger (Menahel).
By Yair Ettinger for Haaretz
Shneur Jacobs of Burlington, VT at the Online School for Young Shluchim
Hundreds of children and teachers from all over the world come to this school every morning. After entering the building, they proceed down a long corridor from which girls split into one classroom and boys into another.
A picture of the late Menachem M. Schneerson hangs on the wall and the blackboard is inscribed with the motto “We Want Moshiach Now!”
By Ben Harris for the JTA
Here the Rebbe is enjoining his flock:Don’t convince yourself that you can live off the fat of the land and reside in these few blocks. Here you have radio and television, fresh milk every day, you can shower twice a day; there is no shortage of kosher milk and kosher bread, and you can serve God here and remain here. Listen! There is a ‘desolate land,’ which is thus far undeveloped spiritually. There are Jews there who don’t even know that they lack anything. You had the unearned privilege to be brought up with Torah and mitzvahs: ‘How lucky we are, how good is our lot.’ Be there for a day, a week, a month, a year, ten years. You won’t have nice clothes and a comfortable home? The Jews in the places you are going also manage without them. Why should you be better? Perhaps they’re better than you. If you have not used your treasures for this, it must bother you. And if you are not pained, then you are lacking in your love of God.The quote appears in a lengthy piece in New York magazine that, aside from being a pretty astonishing piece of writing, offers the fullest portrait of Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg, the Chabad emissaries killed in Mumbai in November, ever committed to print.
WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI [CHI] — All five orthodox Kehilos of Farmington Hills and West Bloomfield MI, which include three Chabad centers- Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills- Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein, Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield- Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg, and The Shul- Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov, joined together for Birchas Hachama at the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield. Close to five hundred people joined for the service, which began with Shachrit and was followed by a Siyum Bichoros by Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein and Mendel Shemtov.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
by Yonit Tanenbaum - Chabad.org
HOUSTON, TX — It was unseasonably bright and sunny last Wednesday morning as about 500 people from a string of communities around Texas’ largest city shielded their eyes to participate in a momentous ceremony that occurs just once every 28 years.
More pictures and a video in the Extended Article! (By Dr David Cotlar)
But why think about what can’t be helped? They are here because that’s what the Rebbe inspired them to do. And look at the blessings their sacrifice has brought them, just as he said it would: Moshe, their miracle, and now another child on the way. God willing, the family will grow and bring honor to their mission.
Sixth of eleven,the middlest of middle children, Rivka Rosenberg, born in 1980, grows up in Afula, Israel, in a Lubavitcher home: a smiler, a laugher, knowing how to fit in yet managing to be heard. Everyone calls her Rivki. “Not meek,” a friend says. “Not recessive. Full of life. Always looking to connect. That’s the secret.” The friend pauses. “And that’s the problem.”
Shliach Rabbi Levi Backman from the Chabad Jewish Center in Bellingham, WA, made it to the front page of the Bellingham Herald in their coverage of Birchas HaChama.
Full Scan of Paper in the Extended Article!
By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com
Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein in front of his vandalized Shul in Vladivostok.
BROOKLYN, NY — Following their recent expulsion from Russia, several rabbis have been working across phone lines and emails guiding their communities in Passover preparations.
Chabad representatives Rabbi Yisroel and Aliza Silberstein were living in Vladivostok, a port city on the Pacific Ocean, until they were forced to leave in February. Now, from their temporary residence in Brooklyn, the dedicated couple is still taking care of their community’s needs.
By Itamar Eichner for YNetNews
IRAN — Members of the Chabad organization smuggled a huge quantity of matzot into Iran last week in order to enable local Jews in the Islamic Republic to celebrate the Passover according to tradition.
Some 20,000 Jews currently live in Iran. The authorities allow them freedom to practice their religion, but forbid the import of Israel-made products to the country, an act that could cost a person three years imprisonment or the revoking of his passport for five years.
The Kahal of Beis Menachem of North Miami Beach gathered this morning to bless the sun. there was a very nice event with live music, kids saying pesukim, and of course the Florida sun!
More pictures in the Extended Article! (photos by: Sruly Meyer - DesignsBySruly.com)
SYDNEY, Australia [CHI] — In glorious sunshine, hundreds of members of Sydney’s Jewish community gathered in Waverley Park in Bondi for Birkat Hachamah, the Blessing of the Sun. They joined in with millions of other Jews around the world.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
By Ben Jacobson for the Jerusalem Post
Always eager to reach Jews in new and creative ways (see Manhattan's succa-mobile, or Seder eve in Kathmandu), the Chabad Chassidim have created one of the most formidable archives of downloadable and on-demand audio content focusing on Jewish teachings.
It can all be browsed at www.chabad.org/6230. Under Chabad.org director Zalman Shmotkin and audio section editor Rabbi Shmuel Lifshitz (pictured, courtesy photo) and aided by a myriad of volunteer field recording farmers the world over, the site now offers some 11,500 files totaling close to 5,000 hours of audio, which enjoy about 250,000 plays per month - and that's without counting their video content.
There is always a special feeling of achdus that surrounds a painful tragedy. Jews come together to support each other in times of need with unconditional love and genuine empathy. As time moves — shock and grief slowly fading — this feeling of unity often dissipates.
But not this time.
You can make a beracha shehakol bajillions of times a day. You have a chance to say “Baruch… Mechadesh Chadashim” only once a month. We say “Al Biur Chametz” just once a year. But Birchas Hachama comes only once every twenty-eight years. Nobody—not even your old grandfather—has done this mitzvah more than three times. When Birchas Hachama comes around again, you might be as old as your parents are now!
WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — In a list of fifty most influential Rabbis compiled by Newsweek, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was named as the fourth most influential Rabbi. Rabbi Krinsky was the Rebbe's secretary for some forty years and more recently, he is the chairman of educational and social services arms of Chabad.
WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — The United States President Barack H Obama declared Education and Sharing Day in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's birthday. Thus keeping a tradition of former President George W Bush. The proclomation can be viewed in the Extended Article!
CrownHeights.info is proud to present, Sholom Brochstat's niggun on the Rebbe's new kapital Tehillim.
by Mrs. Chaya Webb
I was asked by Mrs Shusterman to be one of several people from the community to be a judge for the Cheder Chabad student science fair. One can only imagine my enthusiasm at the prospect of doing this Thursday night less than two weeks before Pesach, but in retroscpect that is just what I feel.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
So 59 ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ rolled through Manhattan and paralyzed traffic, albeit for a short few minutes at a time, and people got to see the ‘Winnebago’s’ with the big signs that said ‘Happy Birthday’ and ‘Mitzvah Tank’ and young energetic Bochurim and children calling out ‘Happy Passover’, one may be tempted to dismissively ask ‘what’s the point?’ or ‘how many people even noticed it?’ all valid questions, for a pessimist, but the answer is quite surprising.
According to Google Trends one of today’s most popular searches is ‘mitzvah tank’ coming in at 55th from the top, and its peak was during the parade itself! Geographic data also showed that over 80% of the searches were made from New York.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A special preparatory Shiur took place last night, Tuesday, for the 570 Bochurim who are going out on to make Pesach Sedorim in 285 cities around the world, under Merkos L'inyonei Chinuch’s Merkos Shlichus program.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
By Susannah Moran for the Australian
SYDNEY, Australia — A Sydney rabbi took the “extraordinary” step of asking a civil court to rule that Jewish law should govern his employment contract because he is a senior judge of Sydney's Jewish tribunal that might have otherwise heard the dispute.
For two converging reasons, the publishers are announcing an unprecedented campaign to disseminate the best-selling halachic book: Zemonim.
First, as announced on Israel National News and all major Jewish media, a new web-based program (www.mikvahcalendar.com) has recently been launched. This site, the initiative of a U.S.-based professional staff, led by Mrs. Rivkah Bloom (MCS, M.I.T.) is expected to ease observance of family law for millions of people.
