Road Sage Big Winner At Richmond Maccabi Games
RICHMOND, VA [CHI] — In the parking lot of the Maccabi Games in Richmond, VA the famous Road Sage stationed itself for three days! Rabbis Yudel Rader and Levi Margolin drove the mobile mitzvah center to Richmond to assist in distributing Shabbat Candles, souvenirs and to put on teffilin with people at the games.
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Mivtza Pesach in Manchester
MANCHESTER, England [CHI] — This year, as a gift to the Rebbe, the Bochurim and Anash distributed over 6000 boxes of packed shmura matzah, five times the amount given out last year, to Jews in Manchester and those spread out in South England.
#2 NYC Twitter Trend: 60 Mitzvah Tanks Parade
One of the top 4 hottest NYC trends on Twitter today was the Mitzvah Tank Parade in Manhattan. Tens of thousands of people tweeted messages about their sightings of the RVs parading through the busy NYC streets. Jewish tunes blared from 60 vehicles commemorating the 60 years since the commencement of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's leadership.
Chabad Cheers on Los Angeles Marathon Runners
Chabad of Simcha Monica and the “Mitzvos on the spot for people on the go” cart were spotted at the finish line of the LA marathon, in which over 25,000 runners participated. They put on Teffilin with the runners as well as friends and family who came to congratulate them.
My Rikers Island Purim Experience
by Yosef Shidler
The time is 8:30 AM, Purim morning, in Crown Heights. Most people in the neighborhood are just getting up to hear the megillah and daven shacharis. On the street corner of Empire and Albany a group of Lubavitchers are gathering together to set out on a Purim day mission; a visit to the Rikers Island Correctional Facility. This ritual has taken place Purim day, for the last 20 years. Founded by Rabbi Yossel Tevel OBM, and Rabbi Michoel Chazan, under the auspices of Tzach, it has become a hallmark outreach project for many bochurim and yungerleit of Crown Heights.
Special Yud Shvat Mivtzoyim by 400 Beis Rivkah Students
MONTREAL, Canada [CHI] — Six busses transported 400 Beis Rivkah Montreal students to do Mivtzoyim in 20 different locations throughout Montreal, in honor of Yud Shvat - Shnas Hashishim, marking 60 years of the Rebbe's leadership.
Bochurim Doing Mivtoim at London's Heathrow Airport
Throughout the nights of Chanukah El Al had a 10:15pm flight taking off from London's Heathrow Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel. These lucky passengers and flight crew were welcomed in boarding lounge by the Bochurim, who distributed delicious jelly doughnuts and a travel size Chanukah Menorah with candles for they trip. The passengers and crew enjoyed the company and Divrei Torah while waiting for their plane. Thousands of Menorahs and doughnuts were distributed throughout the nights of Chanukah.
500 Released Time Families Visited Over Chanukah
Over the eight days of Chanukah, the tireless and dedicated released time instructors visited their students in their homes, bringing the joy and beauty of Chanukah to each one of the children’s families. They lit the Menorah with the children and their families, played dreidle and distributed doughnuts and Chanukah gelt. Additionally, they put up Mezuzos in those homes that didn’t have one yet.
Chanukah Mivtzoim for all!
A new initiative for Chanukah spearheaded by the Igud Avreichim of Crown Heights aims to get families and individuals to go out on Chanukah Mivtzoim. “Thousands of Jewish families living within a half hour of Crown Heights, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, will celebrate Chanukah this year with visits from Lubavitch families like yours.”
Photos: Lighting the Symbol of Freedom at the Eiffel Tower!
PARIS, France [CHI] — Last night hundreds gathered to celebrate the annual grand Menorah lighting which took place in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Over 200 Menorah Cars Take Part in Philadelphia Parade!
PHILADELPHIA, PA [CHI] – Over 200 cars partook in the annual Chanukah Menorah Parade in Philadelphia. The Parade began at the Museum, passed the Philadelphia City Hall and made its way to the mall where hot Latkes and yummy doughnuts were served followed by the grand Menorah lighting.
Bloomberg Lights First Candle in Manhattan
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] – On hand for an early Menorah lighting was Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who a few hours before Chanukah lit the worlds largest kosher Chanukah Menorah with Rabbi Shmuel Butman and the Menorahs designer Yaakov Agam.
Community Holds Meet and Greet for Smicha Bochurim
PRETORIA, South Africa [CHI] — Recently, over 100 members of the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation hosted a braai, or as Americans know it ‘barbeque’, in order for the Baalei Batim to have a chance to meet the Bochurim of the Mochon Lehoraah Smicha program on a more social level in order to choose a learning partner, and to make friends.
Youngest President on Wall St. Affixes Mezuzah
(L -R) Rabbi Shmaya Katz, Cory Miller, and Rabbi Moshe Frank standing beside the new Mezuzah.
Cory Miller is the youngest President of a financial trading firm; he is just twenty two years old. This past Monday afternoon Chabad of Wall Street Rabbis Shmaya Katz and Moshe Frank installed a mezuzah in his company branch on Wall Street.
Manchester Students Take Holiday Celebrations to the Homebound
by Chana Kroll - Chabad.org
Residents of a Manchester, England, nursing home enjoy a performance by visiting yeshiva students.
Coming off of one of the busiest times of the year, Jewish community members and yeshiva students in Manchester, England, said that a campaign to bring the fall holiday season to homebound and hospitalized individuals resulted in hundreds of people getting a chance to celebrate the High Holidays.
Teenager Pedaling Holiday Celebration Throughout New York
By Joshua Runyan for Chabad.org
Levi Duchman says the hard part is the pedaling.
NEW YORK — Coming alongside a New York City push to license pedicab operators, the initiative of a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn has given pedestrians and motorists an interesting site: a mobile bamboo-topped latticework hut affixed to a rickshaw.
With Sukkos Approaching, the Sukkah Mobiles are Back!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — As Sukkos is quickly approaching, dozens of Bochurim and Shluchim have already confirmed their Sukkah Mobiles for this coming Chol Hamo'ed. After tremendous efforts, by Bochurim and Yungerleit, the Sukkahs are ready to be assembled, rental contracts are already confirmed and much more has already been done in advance of the biggest Sukkah Mobile Season yet.
At Statue of Liberty, Jews Embrace Their Heritage
by Yonit Tanenbaum - Chabad.org
Stories of Jewish immigrants throwing their tefillin overboard upon encountering the freedom and promise of life in the United States may be the stuff of legend, but for Mendel Aisenbach, a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., such tales emphasize an important point: When they approached the Statue of Liberty, many of the tired and poor masses from across Europe – a good portion of them Jewish – pushed their identities to recesses deep inside in the quest to become Americans.
Chabad Turns the World Over from “Down Under”
SYDNEY, Australia [CHI] — A convoy of ten “Mitzva Tanks” conquered the streets of the city Sydney, Australia this Thursday, Gimel Tamuz, setting out from the “Yeshiva Center - Chabad Headquarters of NSW”.
Yud Aleph Nissan in Toronto!
TORONTO, Canada [CHI] — On Sunday morning 11 Nissan, in honor of the Rebbe's 107th Birthday, 5 Mitzvah Tanks went out into the streets of Toronto to spread Torah and Mitzvos and the Spirit of the Yom Tov of Pesach to the Jewish Community at large.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
His First Mezuzah - Mivtzoim in Yehupitzvil
You thought Yehupitz was a mythical place. It isn't. It's in Hastings, Minnesota, a twenty minute drive from the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. As Yehupitz's go, this one doesn't have many if any Jews. And out of this Yehupitz came Deke, a Coffee shop owner whose Jewish name is Chaim Branchaud-Linsk, a Jew from North Minneapolis.
Mivtziom Encounter in LA: A Bar Mitzvah at the age of 86!
By Zalman Dubinsky
Hatmimim Zalman Dubinsky and Nisson Friedman with Velvel (Bill).
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — For weeks Hatmimim Zalman Dubinsky and Nisson Friedman, students in Yeshivas Ohr Elchanan Chabad in Los Angeles, would go into a furniture store and drop off a weekly L’chaim pamphlet by the elderly man, in his mid-to-late eighties, by the desk. “The man you’re looking for is not here” he said every week. “I’ll give it to the owner” he says making sure to show that he wouldn’t read it.
More in the Extended Article!
Photos: Megillah Reading at the Mall!
YORBA LINDA, CA [CHI] — Hatomim Shalom Bluming Went through the shopping mall on Purim day and read Megillah for many of the shoppers, most Israeli, in middle of a regular business day.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
