Shout out to BENNY!!!

Not Friedman you weirdos. Benny my brother, who blogs at running84.blogspot.com


He posted this cute picture of Chaim Shimshon and his cousin Kovi (Benny's son) watching Malkali together back when Kovi was visiting Montreal.

so cute!

Stepher Harper is AWESOME

Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn of Chabad of centrepoint shows the PM something...

Here is a terrific article about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to Chabad of Mumbai.

Ottawa!

This past Shabbos, Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn of Chabad of Centrepoint, which is an area in Ottawa - was in Mumbai with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who in my opinion is the greatest PM Canada has ever had. Anyway, Harper was going to visit Chabad of Mumbai (he didn;t visit any other locations) on the yahrzeit of the Kedoshim, and he asked Rabbi Mendelsohn, who was close to him before he even became Prime Minister, to join him.

So we came to Ottawa to cover for him. I think I did a good job leining, giving a nice speech and leading the Davening, and on Sunday we went downtown and to the Canadian Museum of civilization, which has an entire well made Children's area.

Here are some photos:



Chayale in front of the parliament building, where they have fire on water (or is it water on fire)?


Miriam in front of the parliament building.



In the Museum of Civilization, where Miriam got to be a shopkeeper and sell vegetables.


On a ship. Of all the cool things you can do like lift actual boxes and move them around via pulley, all Chaim wanted to do was take a mop and clean the deck (which he saw some other kid do).




Miriam in front of the pyramid. Inside there is a secret passageway.


Chaim on a camel.

The last one left - a glimpse into life in Voronezh

That picture is of a band playing Jewish songs in Stavropol during the 'City day' festival about a month ago.

Brynie Stiefel wrote a beautiful article about a woman in her community. You can read it here.

Miriam is cheating

Before I get to the story, here's me reading a story to Chaim Shimshon.



Miriam with baby Moishe, her (former) favorite doll.


This is her with TWO new dolls!!!!

I found Baby Moishe UNDER HER BED today (while she was in the other room with the new doll).

For those who understand hockey somewhat

This is a description of last night's hockey game in Boston.



Another one:



Bonus one that is just hilarious, reminding me of all the Lindros concussions...

Pictures form the event

Put them in backwards, so the sequence should start at the bottom...

Kickoff event

So I've been hired to run a program in which teens (not lubavitch) do different cool types of volunteerism and get their volunteer hours needed for school.

I'm doing it for Rabbi Krasnanski of 'Chabad of the Town'.

My first idea was for them to make a monument and donate it to some organization. Yesterday that is what we did. A woman named Edna Katz came over and taught the kids (and I) how to make monuments.

After chatting about anti-Semitism, we then took pictures of arms, and cut them into styrofoam, which we then slowly molded into looking (somewhat) like actual arms. It was very cool.

I'll post a picture when it's done, but it's in the forge right now being cast into alumnimum. The final 'product' will be a bunch of arms poking out of a bumpy peace of metal, with the words 'we will never forget' engraved into it, and the names of each teen next to their 'arm.'

Cool, huh?