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Now at a second convenient location, Esti Zimberg’s Peri Eli skirts are now available in University Heights!
~ For every $50 you spend in the store, get a $5 gift certificate toward your next purchase! ~
Pea Bee & Jae women’s and girls shells are also available in a HUGE selection of colors, sizes, sleeve lengths and materials!
Many, many gorgeous headbands, clips, berets, and tichels. Large selection of girls uniform and shabbos socks.
Beautiful merchandise has been arriving daily!
Give Shayna Kessler a call at 216-373-3666 to let us know you’re coming! [Read more…]
For every $50 you spend in the store, get a $5 gift certificate toward your next purchase!
Pea Bee & Jae women’s and girls shells are now available at Head Shoulders Toes & Bows in University Heights. HUGE selection of colors, sizes, sleeve lengths and materials!
Beautiful merchandise has been arriving daily!
Give Shayna Kessler a call at 216-373-3666 to let us know you’re coming! [Read more…]
Pea Bee & Jae women’s and girls shells are now available at Head Shoulders Toes & Bows in University Heights. HUGE selection of colors, sizes, sleeve lengths and materials!
New shipments just arrived and more is arriving this week. That means we now have girls’ socks, girls’ uniform socks, women’s pantyhose, women’s and girls’ tights, cute girls’ headbands, hair accessories, boys’ socks, towel bibs, pacifier clips and more. We have new merchandise arriving so quickly that there’s even more in the store than on the website!
Give us a call at 216-373-3666! Or, open 24/6 online.
Pea Bee & Jae women’s and girls shells are now available at Head Shoulders Toes & Bows in University Heights. HUGE selection of colors, sizes, sleeve lengths and materials!
New shipments just arrived and more is arriving this week. That means we now have girls’ socks, girls’ uniform socks, women’s pantyhose, women’s and girls’ tights, cute girls’ headbands, hair accessories, boys’ socks, towel bibs, pacifier clips and more. We have new merchandise arriving so quickly that there’s even more in the store than on the website!
Give us a call at 216-373-3666! Or, open 24/6 online.
In time for the start of the school year and yomtov, Head Shoulders Toes and Bows is selling Melas pantyhose & tights at Lakewood and Boro Park prices!
For every $50 of pantyhose or tights you buy, get a $5 gift certificate to HSTB!
Also, don’t forget about our great selection of soft & hard headbands, school uniform socks (with more on the way), fancy socks, girls hairclips and more!
Call Shayna Kessler today: 216-373-3666
Head Shoulders Tows & Bows – Accessories for Particular Moms
Kids and babies headbands, dressy socks, uniform socks, pacifier clips, towel bibs, and more.
Every order is beautifully gift-packaged.
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Revered for her fiery personality and rock-solid faith forged during a childhood in the former Soviet Union, Rebbetzin Shula Shifra Kazen nourished, guided and inspired thousands during decades of communal leadership in Cleveland, Ohio. She passed away on March 24 in New York at the age of 96.
She was born in 1922 in Gomel, Belarus, then part of the newly-created Soviet Union.1 The eldest of seven children born to Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan and Maryasha (Garelik) Shagalov, her life began in difficult circumstances. Russia had been devastated by the terrible civil war that birthed the Bolshevik revolution, and thousands were dying of starvation.
When the family dreamed of bread, Maryasha Shagalov told Shula to recite Psalms with concentration, and the day would come when they would have more than enough food. Shula prized saying Psalms, something that would sustain and encourage her for the rest of her long life.
By law, all children were required to attend public school, where Communist ideals were taught. Determined to raise their family according to Jewish law and tradition, the Shagalovs refused to send their children to the public schools. Eventually, the large family became known to the government, which revoked their rations of food and fuel, and even had them evicted from their home onto the frozen streets.
The Shagalovs moved into the local synagogue, where Elchanan continued battling for Jewish life, which included serving as mohel (circumcisor). He was often accompanied by Shula, who assisted him in his sacred (and illegal) task.
In 1937, he was arrested for illegal activities in support of Judaism for the last time. Years later it was learned that he was executed three months after his arrest, but his widow and orphans were left wondering about his fate for decades.
Facing an unrelenting barrage of pressure from the Communist government, Maryasha had no choice but to send her children into hiding. As the eldest, 14-year-old Shula took a 12-hour trip to the home of Rabbi Bentzion (Bentche) and Esther Golda Shemtov, pillars of the underground Chabad-Lubavitch network of Jewish life.
The Shemtovs sent her to Moscow, where she found work in a knitting factory that Bentzion Shemtov had arranged. It was one of the few places where people could find legal employment that did not require them to work on Shabbat.
Her job was to carry hundred-pound bags of material on her back from the supplier to the factory. After the material was made into scarves or other headgear, Shula would carry it to the buyer, who would pay her. Shula helped support her mother and younger siblings with her earnings.
Shortly after she turned 18, Shula was introduced to her future husband, Zalman Katzenelenbogen (later shortened to Kazen). Like her, he had also lost his father to the Communists in the dreadful purge of the fall of 1937.
Shula did not have a single decent outfit in which to meet her future husband. One friend loaned her stockings, another a shawl, a third one a coat, and somehow she was able to obtain boots. The only clothing she owned was a dress and a coat that “grew” with her. She received the coat at age ten, refitted it countless times, and wore it up to her wedding. For her wedding, a friend sewed her a white dress made of inexpensive fabric.
The wedding was held on 12 Elul, 1940, in a forest at the edge of Malachovka, outside of Moscow. Any religious ceremony was punishable by imprisonment or death, including a traditional Jewish wedding, so it had to take place in complete secrecy. After their wedding, Shula and Zalman Kazen settled in Leningrad. [Read more…]
MAH NOMER, MAH NEDABER? A SILENCE THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES.
What a blow to the Jewish Cleveland community and to so many worldwide institutions and individuals. What an unfathomable loss, an enormous void; most of Cleveland’s Jewish Community rested on REB MENDY KLEIN’S shoulders.
Instead of being honored amongst us mortals, at the Agudah Convention, he will receive the proper Kavod Bashomayim and tremendous S’char in Olam Hoemes.
Matan B’sayser lost a true friend whose heart was enormous, whose compassion was boundless and whose vision translated into his tremendous network of Chesed.
Matan B’sayser was close to his heart. His love, his empathy and kindness, his generosity and his Mitgefiehl for another Yid was so passionate and real.
We are deeply thankful to him for all his years of involvement. We lost one of the Gedolei Hador in Tzdokoh Vochesed.
May Hashem send a Nechomo to his special children and mostly to his dear wife Ita, who was his tower of strength and true partner in all his many Tzedokos throughout the world.
May the Neshomo Hakdosho of REB MENACHEM MOSHE BEN REB NAPHTALI HERTZKA have an Aliyoh in the Olam Haemes, v’yonuach b’gan Eden.
חבל דאבדין ולא משתכחין
Since this parsha discusses the special clothes worn by the kohanim, and all the melachos of Shabbos are derived from the building of the mishkan, what other week could be more appropriate to discuss the laws of wearing clothing on Shabbos?
Question #1: The clown of town
“To entertain a chosson and kallah at their Shabbos sheva brachos, I want to dress in a clown suit, which includes wearing multiple hats, one atop the other. May I walk this way through an area that has no eruv?”
Question #2: Belts and braces
“May I wear a belt on Shabbos when I am already holding my pants up with suspenders?”
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Expanded hours for last-minute Pesach shopping at Head Shoulders Toes & Bows:
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Head Shoulders Tows & Bows – Accessories for Particular Moms
Girls headbands, dressy girls socks, uniform socks, fancy pacifier clips, towel bibs, and other girls accessories.
Local pickup in time for Shavuos!
Every order is beautifully gift-packaged.
Special Deals – Like our Facebook page to find deals and coupon codes!