5-26-06

Dear Friends,

We are now very close to the festival of Shavuos, the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai . This holiday, arguably one of the most important, certainly one of the least known and observed, is a day that should touch the heart and soul of every one of us, regardless our level of Torah knowledge or observance. This is the day that we became G‑d's Chosen People, chosen to be a light unto the nations. This is the day G‑d married us; G‑d chose us, a tiny nation, to whom to give His most precious gift – The Torah.

Each year on this day we re-experience the revelation at Sinai by gathering at shul to listen to the Ten Commandments. This year, this takes place Friday, June 2nd, at around 10:00AM. Following the services (around Noon) we will serve a dairy lunch, along with Ice Cream for the whole family. This is in accordance with the tradition of eating milchig (dairy) on Shavuos. (There will also be a 2nd Ten Commandments reading ice cream party for Hebrew School , to which all are also welcome, at 6:30 PM.)

I strongly encourage you, my dear friends, to make it your business to be there for this most important event. Bring the kids, babies, bubbies, everyone! Let's be there together in our shul, much as we all gathered round Mt. Sinai , while millions of others will be doing the same at shuls around the world!

Oh. By the way, Saturday, June 3rd , the second day of Shavuos, is also very important. Yizkor service will be held at approx 11AM, followed by a Kiddush planed by Barbara Newman and Co.

Hope to see you all soon!
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

Chabad Snapshots: New Album! Purim 2006 now online!
Visit our new & improved virtual photo album online: www.chabadpw.org/album to view an entire gallery of photos ranging from Holiday Celebrations to Youth Programs. We know you'll enjoy it! Many thanks to Rob Salzbank of Rampage Studios for the fabulous Purim photos!

Rob reports more than 90 people have visited his site with the Lag B’Omer pictures. If you missed the pictures, click here for the link: www.chabadpw.org/album. Here are some of the email responses I received:

So sorry we didn't make it to the barbeque. I loved looking at the photos, though, and must tell you that the photography was outstanding. What beautiful pictures! ~ Cheryl Podolsky
Hi rabbi, great pictures. ~ LZ / Ellen Schaier
Fantastic Pictures!! Thanks I really enjoyed them. ~ Becky Freifeld

CTC Shabbaton Dinner
Rabbi Mendy & Devorah Lewis and the Chabad Teen Club had a very successful Shabbaton Dinner this Friday night at Chabad House. More than 70 people attended and enjoyed the spirit of Shabbat together.

Yom Hashoa @ C.A.S.H.
By Helen Greenblatt

At Chabad Academy of Science and Humanities, Holocaust Memorial Week was commemorated with stirring educational events.

A wide assortment of children’s holocaust literature was on display all week for all to browse. In individual classrooms, teachers introduced this most difficult and sensitive topic with some very fine books of this genre. Teachers read aloud David Adler’s The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm and The Yellow Star by Carmen Agra Deedy to the lower elementary students. Third and fourth graders were spellbound by Patricia Polaco’s The Butterfly and Hilda and Eli by David Adler.

The fourth grade completed their Literature Circle of Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars and wrote a.. CONTINUE

Annual Dinner - on the web - update!
Final Call! Last chance to submit your ad online before we send our dinner ad journal to press! Click here to view all 10 ad samples.

	Community Events: Save These Dates!

MAY 31: 15th ANNIVERSARY DINNER
The Dinner will take place at the Woodbury Jewish Center. Guests of Honor will be Michael Faltischeck, and Maurice & Jonathan Mandelbaum and Lenny & Susan Lebovitch. Adam Katz will be Dinner Chairman. Please visit our website to view sample ads, submit your reservation, meet the honorees, read a message from the Rabbi, obtain further information and more - all just a click away: www.chabadpw.org/dinner.

JUNE 1: KABBALAH @ MIDNIGHT
In keeping with the tradition of studying all night long on Shvuot, join us for late night study along with light refreshments. No RSVP. Just show up! Study begins at 11:00 pm on Thursday evening.

JUNE 2: SHAVUOT SERVICES & ICE CREAM PARTY
Join us for a special reading of the Ten Commandments, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Revelation at Sinai more than 3300 years ago. Torah reading will be held at 10:00 AM and will be followed by a spirited ice cream party and holiday lunch for the entire family. Hebrew School reading of the Ten Commandments and Ice Cream Party at 6:30 PM, followed by Services at 7:00 PM.

JUNE 11: COMMUNITY-WIDE BLOOD DRIVE
Reserve the date of June 11, 2006, 8:30 AM to come by to Chabad to give blood. The goal is to collect 26 pints of blood for the Long island Blood Service. Please click to email Mark Fogel to confirm your participation in this tremendous mitzvah! We can literally save lives with this small act.

JUNE 18: COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
C.A.S.H. Max & Ruth Schwartz/Florence Brownstein Preschool Commencement Exercises.

JUNE 18: GRADUATION
Chabad Hebrew School graduation.

JUNE 28: TRIBUTE EVENING
Join all 22 Chabad Centers on Long Island for an evening of learning and inspiration, commemorating the Rebbe’s Yahrzeit. The Dinner and mini-academic conference will be held at the Huntington Town House, beginning at 5 pm. Couvert is $45 / Sponsor: $180. Please click here for further information.

JULY 3: CAMP GAN ISRAEL BEGINS
First day of Ethel & Irving Berkowitz Gan Israel Day Camp.