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Chabad of Port Washington Email: [email protected] Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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A shul is meant to be a home; a community - an extended family.
This Shabbos, our Chabad community will be celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of Sammy Litvak, a young man whose family has been involved in our Chabad for over 13 years. In fact, Sammy's bris took place at our Chabad... 13 years ago. (I don't want to sound too nostalgic, but... how time has flown by!)
At a bris we bless the child: "Just as he has entered into the covenant (bris), so too may he enter into Torah study, the Chupah and good deeds." What is the meaning to this wish? Why evoke all future life-cycle events at the bris? One possible explanation might be: Just like the bris is celebrated with the child surrounded with so much love, family and community, the same should be at all future lifecycles. Essentially, we pray that the child remain true to his family and community for the rest of his life.
As we celebrate Sammy's "BIG DAY" tomorrow we can certainly proudly say this prayer has come true!
Allow me to segue:
This year our Chabad House celebrates its 21st anniversary. Thank G‑d, we are beginning to see many of our little ones go through, not only bar mitzvah but also college graduation, and marriage. (We recently celebrated with the Neissani family on the birth of Jessica's baby; what a thrill that was).
Please join us to celebrate our 21st Anniversary Dinner, June 21st, which will take place right here in our own Chabad House. Click here for details and to RSVP. YOUR Chabad community, YOUR extended family, needs your help and support, financially as well as by being there at our "BIG DAY". The evening won't be complete without you!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Registration is still open for our amazing summer camp.
Register your child for The Ethel and Irving Berkowitz Gan Israel day camp. Click here for more info or email: [email protected].
NEW FOR THIS SUMMER: Sports instructions by professional coaches from Island Garden Basketball and Shooting Stars Soccer.
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Shabbat Morning, June 9 | 11 AM
Sermon Lecture by Howard Birnbach "The Founding Fathers & the Jews". Services 9:30am, Sermon at 11am followed by Kiddush luncheon. |
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Monthly Parenting Class | At Chabad
Wednesday, June 13 | 10:45 AM
Monthly parenting class lead by Sara Paltiel of Chabad Port Washington. Topic: Setting boundaries and how to nourish ourselves so we can nourish others.
Click here for more info. Please RSVP by calling the office 516 767 8672.
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21st Anniversary Dinner | Thursday, June 21
RSVP today for your tickets and Scroll of Honor listing for the 21st Anniversary Dinner of our Chabad. Guest of Honor is Howard Fensterman. The dinner will celebrate the opening of Florence's Israel, the impressive indoor playground built by Dr Martin Brownstein in memory of Florence Brownstein.
Click here to RSVP.
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Girls Volleyball Clinics | 5 Wednesdays
- Program run by Chris Pinto, former NYU Head Woman's Volleyball Coach and regional volleyball coach of the year
- 5 Week Skill Development Classes For Summer Session Begin Wednesday July 11th, 2012 at 6-7:15pm
- All skills classes taught by 4 professional non-parent coaches
- Goals of the girls skills clinic is to develop a competitive volleyball program for all age groups for travel team competition.
Click here for more info. |
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What's Wrong with Judaism?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: The festival of Shavuos is to me an example of everything that's wrong with Judaism. On the one hand it is the time of the giving of the Torah - supposedly a holy and spiritual event. So how do Jews celebrate this sacred revelation? By eating cheese blintzes. Do you see why I am attracted to eastern spirituality? They don't just eat at every opportunity.
Answer: A great thinker once said: "Show me how you eat blintzes, and I will show you your soul." Or something like that.
Eating blintzes on Shavuos expresses the core message of Judaism. And there is no better way to celebrate a sacred moment than by eating the most indulgent and pleasurable dessert...
CONTINUE>>
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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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Shabbat Times
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Friday, Jun 1
8:02 pm
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Shabbat, Jun 2
9:11 pm
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Daily Thought
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For You
Everyone agrees with all the wonderful advice and ethics written in the books of the sages. Everyone agrees that this is the way to run your life. The only issue each one of us has is whether those words are truly meant for me, or for someone else in some other time and place.
If it is truth, it is meant for you, now, here.
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| Video |
 Belief in G‑d After the Holocaust (video)
Rabbi Nissen Mangel was a 10-year-old child when he came to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. There he witnessed unspeakable atrocities, but he also witnessed amazing acts of faith.
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| Parshah |
 The Recovering Addict
What the age-old nazirite vows can teach us about substance addiction and recovery.
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| Society and Living |
 The Role of Women in Judaism
I wanted to celebrate the differences inherent in the sexes, rather than diminish them. To unravel the mysteries of what it meant to be a woman... what it meant to be a Jewish woman...
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 Expensive Advice
In the pale moonlight, he saw a young man stealthily enter the house. Hours later, he left as secretly as he had come.
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| North America |
 California "Zayde" Embraced Summer Camp for All
The Ned Miller Camp Gan Israel of Valencia gives children who want to attend the summer camp the opportunity to spend six weeks with their Jewish peers. Miller strongly believed in the idea that financial concerns shouldn't stand in the way for kids who wanted to be there.
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| Photo Gallery |
 Young Professionals Camp Out in Crown Heights
Scores of Jewish young professionals from Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and other urban areas across North America flocked to the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Crown Heights to celebrate an inspiring weekend of programs organized by the Tzach Lubavitch Youth Organization. (Photos: Bentzi Sasson)
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| Book Bag |
 Volume on Rashi Studies Opens Door to Rebbe's Scholasticism
Scholars for generations have tried to decipher the seemingly simplistic words of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, the 12th-century commentator known as Rashi whose glosses on the Five Books of Moses have become standard fare for any student of the Torah.
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 Low-Income and New Immigrant Teenagers Celebrate Mass Bar Mitzvah
A gaggle of Israeli teenagers celebrated their Bar Mitzvahs at the Western Wall this week in an event organized by Chabad-Lubavitch centers in Israel and Italy.
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Parshat Naso
Completing the headcount of the Children of Israel taken in the Sinai Desert, a total of 8,580 Levite men between the ages of 30 and 50 are counted in a tally of those who will be doing the actual work of transporting the Tabernacle.
G‑d communicates to Moses the law of the sotah, the wayward wife suspected of unfaithfulness to her husband. Also given is the law of the nazir, who forswears wine, lets his or her hair grow long, and is forbidden to become contaminated through contact with a dead body. Aaron and his descendants, the kohanim, are instructed on how to bless the people of Israel.
The leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel each bring their offerings for the inauguration of the altar. Although their gifts are identical, each is brought on a different day and is individually described by the Torah. |
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