New series begins this Thursday!

The news of Uptown:

• Our Tuesday Lunch & Learn (12-1:15) Parsha Class entitled “Numbers” is on the track! Join us!
• Thursday at 8-9pm we begin a new series entitled: Basic Mitzvot: Its source, application and mystique. We will begin with a general overview of Mitzvot and start off the series with the Mitzvah of kosher.
• Mommy & Me Summer session has started! June 26-July 31. Pass around the word!
• Next Shabbaton will be on July 6-7.
• Our next Young Adults Shabbaton will be on Friday, July 20! Save the date!

In other news....

• We all - and especially the children – had an inspiring and great time in New York. A (slightly edited) video can be watched and personal photo gallery can be seen on our blog. Aside from the energy absorbed from experiencing a visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel, office and Shul, the best time was had at the magnificent Jewish Children’s Museum. If you visit NY you have to see this place! ( - we did not have our camera with us for the Jewish one, the pictures and video are of the regular Brooklyn Children’s Museum).
• We learned some valuable lessons about eating is small NYC style cramped eateries with small children. We spent more time cleaning up the messes and in the restroom with the kids, than anything else!
• We celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of Chanie’s brother, Mendel Galperin. See the video and pics!
• Chabad of College Station at Texas A&M (www.chabadtamu.org) has opened with the arrival of my brother, Rabbi Yossi & Manya Lazaroff. They are awaiting their moving truck and are hanging out in Houston for now. If you know of any students please be sure to let me know!
• The dishes mikvah for Chabad Lubavitch Center was built this week. Mikvah specialist Rabbi Gershon Grossbaum designed, and along with his son Mendel, came out to Houston to help us build it. Check out the construction photo gallery! Full mikvah construction gallery can be seen here.
• I celebrate my 30th birthday next Thursday on the 19th of Tammuz, and Chanie decided to make a call for gifts. The greatest present you can give, she argues, is to take upon yourself a Mitzvah. Although I usually do not appreciate gifts, with this concept, I could not argue. She had me put up a Mitzvah gift form here.
• As is customary among Chabad Chasidim, I will be making a birthday "farbrengen" (FOR MEN) in honor of my birthday on Thursday evening, 19 Tammuz, at my home at 7743 Portal Drive beginning at about 9 p.m. I fully understand if your schedule does not allow you to attend. For more about celebrating birthdays read: What is a Jewish Birthday? and related articles there on the right.

That is all for now!

Rabbi Chaim