Life Story of a Holocaust Survivor, Kiddush for Baby Bluma

The final days of Pesach were peaceful and meaningful with a nice showing for Yizkor and an uplifting culmination with the Moshiach Seudah.

Chanie's family has returned home, and we already miss them dearly.

Our popular Chabad of Uptown yarmulka was up for reorder and the new batch came just in time for Pesach. See our new video promo for our new and improved Chabad of Uptown Yarmulka, The Uptown Lid here.

 This Wednesday, May 4 at 8:30 pm we will have very special event for Chabad's Young Adults & Professionals, Beyond Never Again, an evening with Holocaust Survivor Lisa Struesand at Eric Barvin's House. More details are on Facebook here. 

In keeping with Jewish tradition, we will host a special kiddush for the new Baby Bluma this Shabbos, after morning services. Please let us know if you intend on joining us so we can plan accordingly.

This Shabbat is Shabbat Mevarchim ("the Shabbat that blesses" the new month): a special prayer is recited blessing the Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") of upcoming month of Iyar, which falls on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Prior to the blessing, we announce the precise time of the molad, the "birth" of the new moon. It is a Chabad custom to recite the entire book of Psalms before morning prayers, and to conduct farbrengens (chassidic gatherings) in the course of the Shabbat. Links:  On the Significance of Shabbat Mevarchim; Tehillim (the Book of Psalms); The Farbrengen

Shabbos Mevarchim Parshas Kedoshim
Friday April 29
Services at 7:30 pm
    Candle Lighting at 7:39 pm | RSVP for Shabbat Dinner www.ChabadUptown.org/ShabbatDinner

Shabbos April 30
Shabbos Mevarchm Tehillim 8:30 am
Services at 10 am
    Followed by a Kiddush in honor of Bluma Lazaroff
Mincha at 7:45 pm
Ethics of our Fathers Chapter 1

In preparation for the festival of Shavuot, we study one of the six chapters of the Talmud's Ethics of the Fathers ("Avot") on the afternoon of each of the six Shabbatot between Passover and Shavuot; this week, being the first Shabbat after Passover, we study Chapter One. (In many communities -- and such is the Chabad custom -- the study cycle is repeated through the summer, until the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah.) Link:  Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 1

Maariv, Havdalla and Shabbos Ends at 8:35 pm
Living Torah

See ya on Shabbos! 

Rabbi Chaim & Chanie