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Southwest Florida celebrates Passover

Edit Naples Daily News 30 Apr 2016
To help mark Passover, Chabad of Bonita Springs & Estero is inviting the community to a Seder dinner 8.30 p.m ... According to Chabad.org, the eight-day festival of Passover is celebrated in the early spring, from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan ... Rabbi Mendy Greenberg of Chabad of Bonita Springs & Estero said the relatively late hour for the Seder dinner is prescribed in the Torah....

3 quirky ways Passover will be celebrated this year

Edit The Oklahoman 24 Apr 2016
Jews have been celebrating Passover for centuries, and modern life has influenced the ritual in surprising ways. The eight-day holiday, celebrated this year from sundown on Friday, April 22, to Saturday evening, April 30, commemorates the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt ... They also recite the Haggadah, "a liturgy that describes in detail the story of the exodus from Egypt," according to Chabad.org ... 1. With a vacation ... 2 ... 3 ... ....

Local Jews clean house as part of Passover ritual

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Apr 2016
However, an important part of the Jewish holiday occurred before the sacred meal ever took place ... wheat, barley, oat, rye and spelt ... Lupia, who attends services at Chabad Jewish Center of Greater Oklahoma City, said hametz is a metaphor for pride and haughtiness ... Jacobson and Rabbi Ovadia Goldman, Chabad's spiritual leader, said sometimes members of their congregations sign contracts to sell their hametz to a non-Jew for a fee ... ....

5 things to know about Passover

Edit AZ Central 23 Apr 2016
Friday,�millions of Jews across the globe gathered around a table for Passover, including at Chabad of Scottsdale ... ....

TR Chabad could move to synagogue property

Edit Asbury Park Press 22 Apr 2016
Congregation B'nai Israel's board has approved discussions with Chabad Jewish Center to relocate on Old Freehold Road.        .   ... ....

Young Dallas Jews offer their own spin on tradition-filled Passover

Edit The Dallas Morning News 22 Apr 2016
Dallas Rabbi Zvi Drizin knows that won’t leave much for the mostly millennial crowd that makes up the Intown Chabad, which he leads ... The rabbi said he started the festival last year to help make sure all members of the Intown Chabad community, which numbers in the hundreds, also have an opportunity to drink their last beers and pick up a supply of “the most legit matzah” for Passover ... She found it at the Intown Chabad....

Rabbi torpedoes plan to erect Moses statue in Siberian 'Jewish' enclave

Edit The Jerusalem Post 22 Apr 2016
Eli Riss, a Chabad envoy who serves as Birobidzhan’s chief rabbi, torpedoed the plan earlier this month, he told JTA Thursday ... ....

Toms River Chabad could move to synagogue property

Edit Asbury Park Press 21 Apr 2016
Congregation B'nai Israel's board has approved discussions with Chabad Jewish Center to relocate on Old Freehold Road.        .   ... ....

Central Florida Chabad projects set stage for growth

Edit Orlando Sentinel 21 Apr 2016
Most every Friday for the past several years, Jessica Wolff and a dozen University of Central Florida students have stayed the night in their rabbi's family home – girls in one bedroom, boys in another and all five of Rabbi Chaim Lipskier's children in a third. It's tight quarters, Wolff said,... ....

Mercy mission saves Bahrain's matzah

Edit Topix 21 Apr 2016
Bahrain's tiny Jewish community will have matzahs for Pesach after a mercy dash orchestrated by rabbis, a businessman and an MP. But after Chabad rabbis in London were alerted to the problem, a last-minute operation ensured the 50 Jews in the country would receive the unleavened goods in time for Seder night ... ....

JProStl Announces New Board for 2016-18 (Jewish Federation of St Louis)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Jewish Federation of St Louis). Posted on Apr 21, 2016. Julie Gibbs, Director of Women's Philanthropy at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, has been selected as the President of JProStl for 2016-18. Julie becomes the seventh JProStl president, succeeding Rabbi Levi Landa of Chabad. JProStl is an initiative of the Jewish Federation of St ... Julie joined the Jewish Federation of St ... Louis ... Louis Visitor Guide ... Louis. He received his B.S....

Russian protesters demand ban on Chabad movement

Edit Topix 20 Apr 2016
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, a Chabad emissary, with congregants at an unfinished synagogue in Sevatopol, Crimea, July 14, 2014. Demonstrators protesting the allocation of land to the Jewish community in the Russian city of Perm demanded the outlawing of the Chabad movement ... ....

Hebrew Academy of Tampa Bay expands

Edit Tampa Bay Online 20 Apr 2016
Members of the Tampa Bay area’s Jewish community and friends gathered together on April 10 for a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating construction of a new home for the Hebrew Academy of Tampa Bay, and expansion of the Chabad of Tampa Bay Center for Jewish Life in Carrollwood ... Besides the new school, the building currently housing Chabad of Tampa Bay’s Center for Jewish Life will be renovated....
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