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As I write this email to you from Brooklyn, I am joined by my many colleagues and friends at our annual international convention at the Lubavitch World Headquarters. Each year, Rabbi Weinberg and I look forward to this event with anticipation. It is so very encouraging and heartwarming to spend the weekend with thousands of Chabad Rabbis from around the globe representing their communities worldwide.
The annual banquet culminating the convention will be streaming live on our website this Sunday - tune in at 5:15 PM (EST) to be a part of a remarkably extraordinary evening like none other! With thousands of Chabad Rabbis along with hundreds of friends, partners and supporters of Chabad worldwide - the energy in the room is electrifying. We will be there with a small group of delegates from our Chabad community. I encourage you to watch this event. As my Bubby likes to say - it's really somethin'!
Happy Thanksgiving, Shabbat Shalom & Gobble Tov,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
P. S. DID YOU SIGN UP FOR THE AMEX PROMO? It gives Chabad $25 while costing you nothing! If you haven't already done this, please take a moment to do this for your Chabad! Click here to register. Thank you!!
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Some of the Toddlers from the Florence Brownstein Preschool who created their own crowns, baked and decorated their own turkey cupcakes and of course danced and sang songs because we are so grateful for everything Hashem has given us.
Click here for more photos of our preschool in action.
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Last Chance to Help Chabad - At No Cost to YOu!
American Express has a program right now that will enable people to charge $25 to a vendor (including Chabad of Port Washington which is a registered vendor) on their AMEX card, which will then be refunded to the cardholder on their credit card statement. THIS IS REAL and a there is a very small window of opportunity, because there is a maximum number of refunds (300,000) they will approve, and the program is progressing very fast.
There is no catch. Simply click here to go to the AMEX web site link and register your card. It will allow you to do such as long as there are slots remaining. (Feel free to call AMEX customer service and ask about the Small Business Saturday program if you need to verify).
Then click here to make your $25 donation (which will be refunded to you). The actual donation will be processed on the night of November 26.
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Super League Program!
Boys and Girls Basketball programs at Chabad.
Click here for more info and to register.
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Coffee & Parsha: Daily Torah Class
Monday - Friday | 7:45 - 8:15 AM
(services at 7:00 AM)
In-depth study of weekly Torah portion using the text and classic commentary.
For Men & Women. All are welcome, no membership required. No previous knowledge necessary. |
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New Session: Mommy & Me with Yoga
Mondays | 9:45 - 10:45 AM
Join Michelle Lublin, of Om Sweet Om together with Sara Paltiel, director of Chabad of Port Washington
for Mommy and Me with Yoga, Music & Movement in a Preschool setting.
Click here for more info and to register online.
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Men's Basketball Night for Chabad Members
Wednesdays at 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Contact Dr. Glen Ruben at: grsmiles@hotmail.com - 516 729 8571. Click here for more info. |
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Monthly Parenting Class | At Chabad
Wednesday, December 7 | 10:45 AM
Monthly parenting class lead by Sara Paltiel of Chabad Port Washington.
Click here for more info. Please RSVP by calling the office 516 767 8672.
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Annual Membership Shabbat Dinner
Friday Night, December 9th 2011
Services: 6:00 PM | Shabbat Dinner: 6:30 PM
Chabad Members are invited to join us for the annual Membership Dinner.
Join us to celebrate Shabbat with our community and have the opportunity of meeting and getting to know other members in the Chabad of Port Washington family.
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THE REBBE on THANKSGIVING
America's foundation was laid down by its original settlers: Immediately after arriving in this country, they proclaimed a holiday of thanksgiving to G‑d for bringing them to a secure land and saving them from religious oppression. This faith in G‑d has been celebrated in America every generation since.
Click here to watch an 8-minute clip.
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Board of Directors
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Adam Katz, Esq., President
Frank Arnold
Bert Brodsky
Martin H. Brownstein, M.D.
Howard Fensterman, Esq.
M. Allan Hyman, Esq.
Sara E. Paltiel
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
Alan Rosenzweig
Alan Salzbank
Michael Samuel
Felix Sater
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Daily Thought
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Fire Burning Fire
By our nature, we are afire. We burn with anxiety, the angst of survival in a hostile world.
For this fire, we have meditation and prayer. We fan a fire of love for that which transcends this world. One fire swallows another and we are set free.
Liberated from fear, we face the world no longer as slaves, but as masters.
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| The Significance of Small Things |
 Two Big Words: Thank You!
Was it possible that his mother actually had the gall to pick him up without so much as a word?
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| Parshah in a Nutshell |
 Toldot
Jacob is born clutching Esau's heel; their father favors the hunter, their mother the scholar, and Esau sells his birthright for a pot of red lentil stew.
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| Toldot: Isaac the Well-Digger |
 Isaac's Wells
Isaac bored through the strata of emotion and experience in search of the quintessential waters of the soul.
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| Toldot: Focus on Twins |
 Torah in Ten: Toldot (Video)
Rebecca's pregnancy, Jacob and Esau as reincarnations of Cain and Abel, why Jacob carried the fragrance of the Garden of Eden.
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| OBITUARY |
 Scientist Advocated for Public Hygiene and Jewish Truths
Professor Velvl Green, former chair of epidemiology and public health and professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University, and director of its Lord Jakobovitz Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, passed away at the age of 83.
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| NORTH AMERICA |
 Young Emissaries Look Forward to New York Rabbinical Conference
Last December, Rabbi Chaim and Chaya Mushka Slavaticki moved to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to open a new Chabad-Lubavitch center.
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| CAMPUS LIFE |
 Fraternity Brothers Unite in Celebration of Jewish Sabbath
Kevin Fine's fraternity sponsored a Sabbath dinner the other week. As a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, he joined his brothers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus for a five course meal he called "delicious."
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| CAMPUS LIFE |
 College Students Return From N.Y. Weekend Inspired to Do More
When Noah Gross, 21, headed to Brooklyn, N.Y., for the Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton and Conference, he wasn't really sure what to expect, or if it'd really be the combination of fellow students, lectures, and community his campus rabbi had been promising.
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Parshat Toldot
Isaac and Rebecca endure twenty childless years, until their prayers are answered and Rebecca conceives. She experiences a difficult pregnancy as the "children struggle inside her"; G‑d tells her that "there are two nations in your womb," and that the younger will prevail over the elder.
Esau emerges first; Jacob is born clutching Esau's heel. Esau grows up to be "a cunning hunter, a man of the field"; Jacob is "a wholesome man," a dweller in the tents of learning. Isaac favors Esau; Rebecca loves Jacob. Returning exhausted and hungry from the hunt one day, Esau sells his birthright (his rights as the firstborn) to Jacob for a pot of red lentil stew.
In Gerar, in the land of the Philistines, Isaac presents Rebecca as his sister, out of fear that he will be killed by someone coveting her beauty. He farms the land, reopens the wells dug by his father Abraham, and digs a series of his own wells: over the first two there is strife with the Philistines, but the waters of the third well are enjoyed in tranquility.
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