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Please click above to see video clips of Elie Wiesel on the importance of remembering and continuing after the destruction of the Holocaust. See also a clip by Dr. Nissan Mangel, who as a young child faced Dr. Mengele, discuss "Where was G‑d" during the Holocaust. These clips and others are being brought to you by the Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) as introduction to the upcoming course entitled: Beyond Never Again - What the Holocaust Means to us Today.
The course promises to be informative, engaging and uplifting. It will be offered at over 300 locations around the world over the next 6 weeks. At our Chabad, the course begins this Sunday, 10AM - 11:30AM, and will continue for 6 consecutive Sundays. For more information or to register for the course go to: www.chabadpw.org/jli Also, you can feel free to sample the first class free of charge, and then decide if you'd like to register for the course.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Mitzvahs (& tax deduction) for Klonkers |
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Save the date for Chabad's 19th Anniversary Dinner!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | (Eve of Tamuz 12, 5770)
Honoring:
Richard Kessel - Ben Landa - Chaya Teldon - Rabbi Ilan & Devorah Weinberg
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Click on this photo to view the entire album.This past Sunday, April 25th was Port Washinton Mitzvah Day. What an amazing sign of community spirit. Over 650 participants joined together to do good for others. I want to thank the hard work of our Chabad committee that truly made our first mitzvah day amazing: Tami Ruben, Bryan Sherman, Phyllis Hollander, Sheryl Pinner, Carol Arnold, Joy Meyerowitz, Karen Salzbank, Stephanie Salzbank, Ellen Schaier and Galia Greener. Here at Chabad 72 challahs were made and distributed to local hospitals and food banks, 80 pairs of the 400 pairs of jeans were collected, $125 of coins were rolled and collected for JNF, 30 brown paper bags were decorated and stuffed with breakfast items and distributed to underprivileged children on Long Island, teffillin instruction and mikveh tours. The culmination of the day was at the Sands Point Preserve, where all participants from all shuls joined together and celebrated the good we all did and can do. Yasher Koach!
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Lag B'omer Trip: The Great Parade
Sunday May 2 | 9:15 AM - 1:30 PM
Adults and families are invited to join our Hebrew School trip to Brooklyn for The Great Parade in celebration of Lag B'omer! We will meet at Chabad at 9:15 AM and travel to the parade together.
Click here for details or call 516-767-8672.
Click here to register.
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New JLI Course: Beyond Never Again
6 Sundays Beginning May 2 | 10:00 - 11:30 AM
80 Shore Road, Port Washington NY 11050
Click here for more info and to register.
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Mommy & Me with Yoga | April 12 - May 10
Mondays | 9:45 - 10:45 AM
80 Shore Road, Port Washington NY 11050
Fee: $50 for all 5 classes
Click here for more info and to register.
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"Why Don't We Put Flowers on a Grave?"
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
I am going to visit my grandmother's grave, and was planning to buy a bunch of her favourite flowers. But I have noticed that Jewish graves don't have bouquets, only stones laid on them. Is there anything wrong with placing flowers on a grave?
Click here for the full article.
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Daily Thought
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The Unlikely Pair
His world is woven with the threads of cause and effect; she makes her choices with no need for reason. He questions every premise; she accepts with complete certitude. His world revolves around his own good; hers around that which has greater gravitational pull.
Yet, without one another neither is complete, neither can find it's own essence or know its own truth.
Superficially, they seem impossibly incompatible. In essence, intellect and faith are the perfect marriage.
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Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
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Shabbat Candle Lighting:
Friday, Apr. 30 |
7:31 pm |
Shabbat Ends:
Shabbat, May. 1 |
8:35 pm |
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Schedule of Classes
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JLI - Beyond never Again
Begins May 2
With Rabbi Paltiel
Sundays | 10:00-11:30 AM
Tanya Class
With Rabbi Weinberg
Thursdays | 7:00 PM
Tanya Class
With Rabbi Paltiel
Saturdays | 8:45-9:30 AM
Women's Study Group
with Devorah Weinberg
every Shabbat after Kiddush lunch
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This Week @ www.ChabadPW.org |
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| Holidays: Lag BaOmer |
 Thirteen Years in a Cave, Now What?
They wallowed in sand, subsisting only on carobs and water. They exit after thirteen years. What is the first thing on Rabbi Shimon's agenda?
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| Holidays: The Second Passover |
 The Missing Complaint
A group of Jews had found themselves in a state which, by divine decree, absolved them from the duty to bring the Passover offering. Yet they refused to reconcile themselves to this
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| Judaism |
 Why Be Jewish?
Assimilation is when non-Jews love us so much they want to marry us. Anti-Semitism is when non-Jews hate us so much they want to kill us. Why can't we, for once, think about what we think of ourselves?
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| Parshah |
 Child Priests
Diligent and up-to-date parents might want to consider a relatively recent fundamental and sweeping innovation in the field of education, made available to us by Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch when he was but four or five years old...
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Chabad-Lubavitch News from Around the World |
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| EUROPE |
 Opposition Victory in Hungary Could Sideline Far-Right Party
Following the center-right opposition Fidesz party's stunning victory in yesterday's national elections, Jewish leaders expressed hope that Hungary's first non-Socialist government in eight years will both usher in a period of economic growth and clamp down on the growing influence of an increasingly xenophobic far-right faction.
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| AFRICA |
 Nigerian Day Camps Engage Jewish Children
Jewish children throughout Nigeria spent their annual spring break celebrating their heritage at day camps established for the first time in the nation's history by Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa.
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| ASIA |
 Shanghai Jewish Community Ready to Welcome the World
Last-minute World Expo preparations across Shanghai have taken on a feverous pace, including for its 1,500-strong Jewish community, which expects tens of thousands of people to need its services over the coming months.
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| OBITUARY |
 Founder of Chicago Women's Organization Passes Away
Chava "Evelyn" Shusterman, a respected leader of the Chicago Jewish community who founded the city's chapter of the Lubavitch Women's Organization, passed away April 18 at the age of 89.
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the parshah in a nutshell |
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ParshatEmor
The Torah section of Emor ("Speak") begins with the special laws pertaining to the Kohanim ("priests"), the Kohen Gadol ("High Priest"), and the Temple service: A Kohen may not become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, save on the occasion of the death of a close relative. A Kohen may not marry a divorcee or a woman with a promiscuous past; a Kohen Gadol can marry only a virgin. A Kohen with a physical deformity cannot serve in the Holy Temple, nor can a deformed animal be brought as an offering.
A newborn calf, lamb, or kid must be left with its mother for seven days before being eligible for an offering; one may not slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day.
The second part of Emor lists the annual Callings of Holiness — the festivals of the Jewish calendar: the weekly Shabbat; the bringing of the Passover offering on 14 Nissan; the seven-day Passover festival beginning on 15 Nissan; the bringing of the Omer offering from the first barley harvest on the 2nd day of Passover, and the commencement, on that day, of the 49-day Counting of the Omer, culminating in the festival of Shavuot on the 50th day; a "remembrance of shofar blowing" on 1 Tishrei; a solemn fast day on 10 Tishrei; the Sukkot festival — during which we are to dwell in huts for seven days and take the "Four Kinds" — beginning on 15 Tishrei; and the immediately following holiday of the "8th day" of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret).
Next the Torah discusses the lighting of the Menorah in the Temple, and the showbread (Lechem Hapanim) placed weekly on the table there.
Emor concludes with the incident of a man executed for blasphemy, and the penalties for murder (death) and for injuring one's fellow or destroying his property (monetary compensation).
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