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Paula Abdul: Shabbat Candle-lighting a Source of Inspiration

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JLI's new course, Oasis in Time; The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World, which launched this spring, has received wide support from celebrities nation-wide. Paula Abdul, popular pop singer, dancer, choreographer and television personality, who lights Shabbos candles on Friday evening, said, “I encourage you to explore [the Mitzvah of Shabbat candles] this spring with JLI's course, I know it will be a source of inspiration and help make your life brighter and the world around you a more peaceful place.”

Hundreds at March of the Living Don Tefillin with Chabad

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Thousands of participants in the March of the Living marched Monday from the gate of Auschwitz to Birkenau, where a memorial ceremony was held at a monument to the camp’s victims.

Video: Tanks on the Times Homepage!

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Earlier this morning a video interview with with Yishai Eliefja, a Yungerman who mans the weekly Mitzvah Tank, was featured on the homepage of the New York Times.

“They’re Hungry for This”

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Northwest Florida Daily News
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Student Rabbi Hirshi Sputz shows Noah Boskila, left, and Jacob Tawil how to prepare matzah during a baking class.

DESTIN — It only took a few phone calls for Rabbis Levi Mentz and Hirshi Sputz to fill Thursday’s baking class with children. The student rabbis from Brooklyn came to the “remote area” of Destin to hold a traditional Passover for the local Jewish community.

Prime Minister of Aruba Recives a Hagaddah

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In honor of the Rebbe's birthday - Yud Alef Nissan,two Lubavitcher Bochurim, Moshe Gruenberg and Sruly Clapman, who were sent to Kasher the Westin resort on the island of Aruba, went touring the island in order to hunt for Jews.

Released Time Distributes 800 Pounds of Matzah

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Yesterday, Wednesday, Jewish public school students were given a taste of the upcoming Passover holiday. Learning hands-on the ins and outs of the upcoming holiday, Jewish children from public schools across the New York City area participated in model Matza bakeries arranged by the local Shluchim.

Sixty One “Mitzvah Mobiles” to Parade up Fifth Avenue

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New Yorkers and tourists heading out for lunch this Thursday, April 14, could be greeted by an unexpected surprise. A parade, consisting of Sixty One motor homes, known as “Mitzvah Mobiles”, will roll through the streets of Manhattan, to raise awareness of the upcoming Passover holiday.

Before School Ends, Time to Make the Matzo

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New York Times
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The children filed out of yellow school buses and descended the stairs to the basement of a Jewish community center in Queens, where they put on plastic aprons and paper chef hats in preparation for a lesson on how to make matzo.

YGL Distributes Over 2000 Matzos

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The Bochurim of London Yeshiva packed and delivered over 2000 Matzos to the local residents of North West London. The Bochurim where driven around by the Baalei Baatim of Beis Hamidrash Kingsley Way.

At AHA, Students Do a Mitzvah for a Friend

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by Mendy Rimler - Lubavitch.com
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Zachary Shporer, 18, from Charlotte, NC, was diagnosed with leukemia on March 1. Two weeks later, all one hundred and fifty students and faculty of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, where Zachary is a student, did a mitzvah in his honor.

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