The End... (Happily Ever After...)

End of an Era...

There comes a time in every bloggers life where they feel as if they're not on the top of their game. In part due to the fact that I have run out of material, and the fact that I will not be joining the crew this summer, I feel it is my duty to hang up the computer and move on to greener pastures. I hereby declare this post, just shy of our 200th post, my final post.
Unfortunately the future of this blog seems grim, and unfortunately it looks like it will also end with this post.
I wish all my readers and fans much love and happiness in the future. Keep on truckin' and stay classy...

40 Days

We're already within 40 days! The boys are getting ready for what is to be one of the greatest summer experiences ever!

צדיק בא לעיר

Mazel Tov!

Mazel Tov to associate member Shmuel Zev Westreich  on his engagement to The Sister of MuLu. Mazel Tov to the entire Recharge Community, and all of Israel on this wondrous occasion! 

Celebratory Gathering:

Sunday, July 10th,  4-7  P.M.

At the House of MuLu

55 Jones Road

Englewood, NJ 07631

All are invited.

This possibly may constitute as the first ever Project Recharge shidduch.

PR SUPPORTS A MIKVAH AT YU

Students, Graduates, & Supporters

of Yeshiva University

please sign the Wilf Campus Mikvah petition.

In order to facilitate proper tevillah

and bring the complete tikkun and eventual geula,

we ask that you help us by letting the Administration of Yeshiva University know....

WE WANT A MIKVAH

Chazak Reyut,

Project Recharge

Ed. Note: Any questions or comments please email yumikvah@gmail.com

Mazel Tov Garth (& Lakey) !

The Boys Are Back In Town

With the summer here, it is that time of year again to announce where we are headed. Amongst much speculation, and Ackerman figuring it out as much as we tried to keep it a secret, we're headed to...

Ed. Note: Milgraum lost a million pounds since last Recharge.

Stollel Shavuos

DON'T HAVE PLANS FOR SHAVUOS?

WORRY NOT, YOUNG ONES

Our dear friend MI-KE S-HN asked us to let the world know about

Stollel Shavuos 2.0

Join
Rosh Stollel Rav Moshe Tzvi Weinberg

Rav Dovid Henoch Mordechai Weinberg, Rosh Chaburah @ Camp Hasc

Dr. Jerry Friedman, Benefactor of Stollel

and many other great guests.

Please Check Out the Spreadsheet and Signup Now!

Ed. Note: OPEN TO ALL OF WORLD JEWERY!

History Will Be Made: Rav Judah

With Rav Judah's final week of morning shiur approaching, us here at ProjectRecharge would like to express our gratitude for all the love and support he has shown us.

Ed Note: Props to the one who could figure out the chap behind the video. 

SAVE THE DATE!

Special Yom Ha'atzmaut Maariv

In honor of Yom Ha'atzmaut
Cantor Dani Kaye CC
will be leading a special maariv service Monday evening
10pm in Muss Beis (Rav Simon's)

Please come join
in celebration of
the birth of the State of Israel
(regardless of your political views).

Thank You and Chazaq Reut

Where We Headed?

There are many rumors floating around as to our destination this summer. People have been guessing Virginia, Kentucky, New Hampshire. In reality these are just guesses. It looks like the leading destinations are Maine, Maryland and Delaware. Check back here in the next couple of weeks, once the destination is finalized, to see where we'll be spreading our light next.

DON'T FEED PHILL!

Tzachi "Phill" "Vern" Popowitz

has entered a highly competitive competition

that could win him $1000 (or free Recharge as he looks at it.)

People are comparing it to The Biggest Loser. He, along with 10 others are in competition to see who can lose the most weight (weight loss %) by August 1st.

As we cheer him on, all we ask here at Project Recharge is

"DON'T FEED PHILL!"

Thanks,

Hanhalas PR

Ed. Note: By any means neccesary

'Redemption'

For all those celebrating, from us here at ProjectRecharge we wish you a zissen Pesach, with hope that this year we will merit to see the coming of the final redemption.

"Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom? - 

'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs;

Redemption songs;

Redemption songs."

In Blake We Trust!

Keith/Shmuel

Welcome back, WE MISSED YOU!

A Message from Kollel Beaver Lake

I have been asked by fellow ProjectRecahrge participator, Jakey Berman, to post the following info about a shabbaSO-HN up in Beaver Lake. For anybody who is interested I have posted the link to sign up. Jakey kindly asks that if you can drive and/or bring a dish please indicate so on the sign up sheet.

Click HERE to sign up

Purim!

א פריילעכן פורים!

... 'Nuff Said...

Signup for Shabbos Zachor/Purim!

Signup for Shabbos Zachor/Purim has now been posted. Please let us know if you will be joining us, as we need a head count for food. Please also indicate which meals you will be joining us for and what dish you will be bringing. If you can't acquire a dish to bring, we will accept a monetary contribution that will go to helping lighten the cost for what is to be an amazing weekend.

CLICK HERE to signup NOW!

Two Lane!

We'd like to congratulate Josh "Two-Lane""Buns" Silverman on graduating from Tulane University. Hopefully one day he'll learn to drive in one lane...

Purim!

With Purim quickly approaching, I have been asked my the Principles and my co-contributer Azriel Tzvi Tzadok to post the two following messages receptively.

First from the Principles:

They would like to know whose coming so they could get a proper head count. If you think/know you you will be going please contact Buns as soon as possible. The next item on the agenda, the purim seuda... the location of this years seuda is "still up in the air," but we will post it here as soon as we know. 

Now from Adam:

  Its that time of year again.

 I will be collecting Matanos L’Evyonim to be distributed in Eretz Yisrael over Purim.

 Last year we had a very successful campaign, far exceeding expectations. To collect half of what we collected last year would be a tremendous blessing. Please help with whatever your heart desires.

 If you want to donate to this worthy cause but are not around YU, please email me: Adamz.friedman@gmail.com and I will try and work out how to get the money from you.

Ed Note: Money to be distributed in JBV by Kehillas Bnei Heichala Dichsifin.

Much Love,

Adam 

Saran Wrapped

As the second installment of videos from Dirat Ashdod, we bring to you this video. Just some background, somehow Dirat Ashdod wound up with 3 massive rolls of Saran wrap, probably taken from the Reishit kitchen. One evening, post dinner, it was decided that we were going to wrap every last item belonging to Dani Kaye, including the bills inside his wallet. Anyway the rest is history, check it out...

The Battle at Dirat Ashdod

With Shpeech, I mean Shmiel Ahron getting engaged this past week, and the lack of stuff to post and the fact that I have a ton of Dirat Ashdod videos, I figured we'd start a segment of where it all began for ProjectRecharge. The video below was shot the morning after an attack on Dirat Ashdod. This is only a small taste of what occurred but this is all we got on tape. More to come...

Mazel Tov!

מזל טוב!

Way back when, when we were known still as דירת אשדוד, there was a fellow by the name of Shmiel Ahron Hoenig (Brian) who resided with us. This fellow is now engaged, so from us here at ProjectRecharge we'd like to wish him and his כלה, Evie, a hearty Mazel Tov, and hoping that we'll share in many more together.

מזל טוב!

Ahh the good ole' days of דירת אשדוד...

Project Recharge in Eretz Yisroel

I received an email with a link to the following video earlier this morning, and it completely changed my day. It's always great to see the חברה that's learning in א''י, especially Keith/Shmuel, Dylan and DSchwartz, who we missed this summer, and was glad to see some new faces too. Hopefully these guys will continue they're sparks seeking mission and recruit a new flock of sheep for us.

The Origination of Chazak Reiut

Hischazkus Maariv @ YU

After a strong week at The Stollel 3.0, the chevra has decided to start a weekly "Stollel" maariv.

The first maariv is this Wed. 1.26.2011 @ 10pm in Glueck 416.

Thanks and Hope to see you there!

ProjectRecharge 2.5: Motzei Shabbos and Sunday

With שבת just leaving us and our souls still flying high, the חברה gathered to say goodbye as some of עולם needed to head home. Once they left, the rest of the gathered in the living room and had a nice kumzits and rocked out for a bit. In the middle of the kumzits Popowitz broke the news of the impending snow storm which majorly bugged some people out. But all was good, everyone calmed down and eventually rocked out with some major Sohn jams and Bagel Cheese jams. Dani gave us a rendition of how Moshe Dayan lost his eye and told us about his friend Rold Gold and Tzidka's and Notorious G.I.D. taught us about "Taka U'Shbeit - We 'Aint Stopping". We learnt two new ניגונים, Keep On Truckin' written by the Apt. 41 gang and the L'Chaim Song. The jamming went on into the late hours of the night and we all retreated to our respectful corners of the house. While en route to their corner Dani and Tzidkas thought that it would be an amazing idea to slide down the stares on a spare mattress. The plan worked out well up until Tzidkas rolled down the stairs leaving the mattress behind (ask him to show you the battle scars.)

In the middle of the night MuLu and Sendy figured it would be best to leave as they felt that we were going to get snowed in - thanks again Popowitz for the bug out.

Anyways as the sun rose on our final morning in Lake Harmony we awoke and quickly cleaned the house and then decided it was time to pray. Ackerman led us off with Tzidkas finishing us off with a beautiful happy minyan. We ate a quick breakfast and cleaned the remainder of the house and packed all out stuff into the cars.

We said our final goodbyes and then it was time to head into the blizzard that would befall us on our journey back to civilization...

Shout Out's From Pittsburgh

Ed. Note: Thanks to Jakey Berman for the videos. 

Save Your Cup Day!

ProjectRecharge 2.5: Shabbos!

With the sun setting and שבת coming upon us we all gathered in the living room for קבלת שבת led by our cantor extraordinaire and principle, Josh "Buns" Silverman. After the completion of services we all gathered around the table and sat down for the סעודה which we had prepared earlier. During the meal it was announces that Dani's party, רעוּת, and Dan's political party, חזק, were combining forces to create a new political party name חזק רעוּת. The meal was completed with a טיש filled with beautiful ניגונים and a lot of candy. At that late hour it was time to call it night...

שבת morning we woke up and were graced with a שיעור from Rav Judah (מקומות can be found by clicking HERE). We then began davening שחרית led by Azriel Tzvi Tzadok Friedman which was on one of the highest levels most of חברה the has ever seen. As is the norm, שחרית led into קריאת התורה which was split amongst the עולם. It was suggested that on this Recharge the עליות be auctioned off. The items sponsored ranged from number of hugs to random strangers to number of bottles of wine for פורים. The big auction was for הגבה & גלילה, money to be donated to בני היכלא דכסיפין in order to help fund the writing of a ספר תורה. Each person's bid was his donation to this major project in the end it was the Brooks/Mutty team that sponsored the most money by donating $420. [Ed. Note: A list of all the donors can be found on the side bar of this blog, and if you are interested in donating please contact Rav Judah or Adam Friedman.] Davening was finished with מוסף which was  led by Josh "Buns" Silverman  at which point it was time to sit down to lunch as it was 2 PM and we were starving. At this point we realized we had run out of some essential items such as plates and cups and had none left for further meals. It was decided, solely by Azriel Tzvi Tzadok, that each person was required to save his cup from the previous meal and if he were to lose said cup he would have to pay a tax, the Save Your Cup (SYC) tax, to the ספר תורה to the fund. 

After lunch there was a short break, where some of the guys decided to go for a walk around Lake Harmony and we were graced with another שיעור from Rav Judah (מקומות can be found by clicking HERE). At this time we davened מנחה and raised some more money for the ספר תורה fund. We sat down to שלוש סעודות and ate the remainder of the food and rocked out with tons of זמירות into the late night way past צאת. Jakie Berman made the ultimate sacrifice and ended his שבת at the normal hour in order to turn off the lights to enhance the mood. Late into the night it was decided that it was time to end שבת as some of the חברה had to get home, thus ending arguably the greatest שבת ever. Stay tuned to find out what went down on מוצ''שק and the rest of the weekend...

Ed Note: If you have made a commitment to donate funds, please do so accordingly in proper time. Thanks.