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Chabad of Port Washington � Email: rabbi@chabadpw.org � Voice: 516-767-8672 � www.ChabadPW.org
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Greetings!
Ever since Sara and I stepped foot in Port Washington for the first time, in May of 1991, we knew there was something really special about this town. More than just small town friendship, Port is truly a place of kindness, caring and community.
We thought we had seen it all. Until Hurricane Sandy caused over a million dollars of damage to the Chabad Center on Shore Road. When we first walked into the building after Sandy, our hearts sunk. What to do? Where to go from here? We knew our insurance didn't cover anything close to the damage we were looking at. Plus what will happen to our preschool, Hebrew school and synagogue until we could clean the place up and make it habitable again? What about the hundreds of children who use our gymnasium each week for sports program?
We turned to friends in town, who passed along the message to their friends, and a chain of kindness began to form.
Our heartfelt gratitude to so many who helped in so many ways. Special thanks to: Community Chest of Port Washington, Arnie Herz, Matt Harris, Suzanne Kolen, Ron DeMeo, Donna Preminger and The Children's Center at Landmark, Fern Cohen, Russ Burman, Howard Fensterman, Sheryl Pinner, Felix Sater, Mark Engel, Lee Najman, Sharyn & Burt Falkenstein, Becky Freifeld, Damon Gersh, Landmark on Main Street, John Maura, Sheryl Pinner, Barbara & Alan Rosenzweig, Felix Sater, Bruce & Steve & Ellen Stark-Gabe and to all who supported us with contributions as listed in the published ad appearing on back cover of this week's Port Washington News (click here to view ad).
"Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy," says the Psalmist. Please join us June 3 at the 22nd Anniversary Dinner - "An Evening of Gratitude" - which will be a celebration of CHABAD'S REOPENING. Please click here for more information and to rsvp or call us 516 767 8672. (Or you can simply hit reply and let me know you're coming, my staff will arrange the rsvp).
We firmly believe challenges are presented to us as opportunities for growth and transformation. Thank you for standing by CHABAD during the most serious challenge we've had to face in our 20+ years in Port Washington. It will mean so much to me if you'd join us in celebration as we turn the page for a new beginning towards even greater accomplishment in serving this amazing community in the years that lay ahead.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M Paltiel
P.S. We are looking for valuable prizes for the dinner raffle and silent auction. If you are able to donate something that people want (e.g. timeshare stays, yacht use, golf game, travel, sports memorabilia) please notify Suzanne Kolen: suzannekolen@gmail.com or Jim Neuwirth: jimneuwirth@yahoo.com Need not be something huge, just something valuable that people will want.
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Oklahoma Chabad Center Provides Tornado Assistance
The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma has opened its building as a shelter and is collecting supplies for families and the elderly displaced by the devastating tornado that sped through Oklahoma City Monday afternoon, leaving at least 91 dead, including 20 children, and hundreds more injured.
Click here to see how you can help out.
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Chabad member Dr. Geoffrey Gordon appointed Board Member of American Red Cross.
The American Red Cross on Long Island has recently welcomed six new board members.
Click here to read full article.
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Sunday may have been a cold, rainy evening, but the atmosphere inside the Chabad of Port Washington was one of warmth and camaraderie as the shul hosted a dinner for the participants of the Shalshelet program. Shalshelet, which is Hebrew for chain, is a unique program where Holocaust Survivors are paired with Chabad students to learn about that sad chapter of our history and to help keep the memory alive for the next generation. The festive dinner was attended by Rabbi Paltiel, Rabbi Weinberg, the Survivors, the students and their parents as well as Dr. Sarah Cushman, of the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove, who was instrumental in helping to create the Shalshelet program.
Each student presented the story of his or her survivor through an individual artistic expression. Most important, students learned the importance of being Jewish, keeping their faith alive, and the responsibility they have to be the next link in the chain of committed Jews.
One student, Matthew Kolen, wrote a poem to describe the experience of his Survivor, Jack:
I thought going on train would be great,
but that's something I can debate.
I arrived at the camps to see the terror that awaits.
Bread, made of sawdust I ate.
Watch my friends and family die.
I did not cry, I said, "Good for them.
Not to suffer any more."
I could not wait to get out of there.
But to my amazement I was freed.
How glad to be free, my brother and me.
And another day there is not worth a trillion to me.
Chabad is proud of their students, who embraced this optional program in addition to their regular course of study. Reflecting on the success of its first year, Rabbi Paltiel and Rabbi Weinberg appreciate Suzanne Kolen for implementing the program and are very grateful for the shul to be able to help students and their parents learn about the Holocaust together. Meeting with Survivors, and hearing them retell the horror of their Holocaust experiences, is the most effective way to ensure that we never forget.
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Annual Dinner | Monday, June 3, 2013
Chabad of Port Washington cordially invites you to the 22nd Anniversary Dinner honoring the community of Port Washington for its extraordinary spirit and support in response to hurricane Sandy.
Click here for more info and to RSVP.
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Camp Gan Israel 2013
Registration now open!
Click here for more info and to register.
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Who am I to bless the nation?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: I am a Cohen by birth, but I have not done the duchaning (priestly blessing in Shul) for many years. I feel I am not worthy to bless the community. I do not observe Shabbos, I eat non-kosher (I mean really non-kosher) and would never described myself as pious in the least. Who am I to get up and serve as a priest to bless the nation?
ANSWER>>
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Kiddush Calendar |
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This week's kiddush is sponsored by Michael and Adelle Greiff in honor of shloshim - 30 days of passing - of Adelle's mother, Pola Burstein of blessed memory. 
Michael and Adelle Greiff
Click here to let us know if you can sponsor a kiddush
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Penetrating Wisdom
At Mount Sinai, tradition tells, there was no echo.
Torah penetrates and is absorbed by all things, because it is their essence.
There is no place where it does not apply, no darkness it does not illuminate, nothing it cannot bring alive. Nothing will bounce it back and say, "Torah is too holy to belong here."
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| Real Life |
 "What's a Jew, Mama?"
Every day brought new torment. Katya sat at her desk in the classroom, alone, isolated and shunned. She never cried, though. She didn't cry when they chased her, or threw stones at her, or struck her with their backpacks.
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| Video |
 How to Combat Anti-Semitism
For decades the anti-semitism of Helen Thomas was ignored. But a brief encounter with Jewish filmmaker David Nesenoff brought Thomas' career to an end.
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 The Chassid and the Fool at the Leipzig Fair
"I don't understand," he complained. "You wanted to spend Shabbat with the rebbe, and you promised to hurry with your prayers. Now you've ruined all our chances of reaching Lubavitch on time!"
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Parshat Behaalotecha
Aaron is commanded to raise light in the lamps of the menorah, and the tribe of Levi is initiated into the service in the Sanctuary.
A "Second Passover" is instituted in response to the petition, "Why should we be deprived?" by a group of Jews who were unable to bring the Passover offering in its appointed time because they were ritually impure. G-d instructs Moses on the procedures for Israel's journeys and encampments in the desert, and the people journey in formation from Mount Sinai, where they had been camped for nearly a year.
The people are dissatisfied with their "bread from heaven" (the manna), and demand that Moses supply them with meat. Moses appoints 70 elders, to whom he imparts of his spirit, to assist him in the burden of governing the people. Miriam speaks negatively of Moses, and is punished with leprosy; Moses prays for her healing, and the entire community waits seven days for her recovery. |
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