Mazal tov to the Shaiman, Klein, Charendoff, Hoffman, Lerner, Kodish, and Plotkin Families!
Thanks for sharing your simchas with us.


Raizy, with her parents, Simcha and Ellen Shaiman

Shifra Chaya, daughter of Robert and Sarah Klein


Rochel Maya, daughter of Shaul and Susie Charendoff


Rabbi Joel and Beth Hoffman's twins, Abby and Avi

Upsherin/Chalaka
Many are accustomed to leave a boy's hair uncut until age 3, and then celebrate the hair-cutting, the Upsherin, (that often takes place on Lag B'Omer) as the child's first day of Chinuch, of Jewish education. Mazal tov to the Lerner, Plotkin, and Kodish families!


Hagaon Harav Mordechai Tzukerman, shlita cuts off a bit of Yitzchak Lerner (son of DN/S alumnus Dovid Lerner)'s hair. Rav Tzukerman is a talmid of the Chofetz Chaim zt"l.


Dovid Lerner with his son Yitzchak at the Kotel on the day of his Upsherin

A Double Upsherin at Darche Noam/Shapell's
Lag B'Omer 5763
Yossi, son of Baruch and Sheindel Plotkin (YDN/S & MR)
Eitan, son of Kenny and Debra Kodish


Kenny Kodish with Eitan, before the Upsherin


Rabbi Yitzchak Hirshfeld, taking the first snip at Yossi Plotkin's hair. Eitan Kodish looks on.


Rav Meshulam Isaac takes a snip and gives a Birkat Kohanim.


Baruch Plotkin takes a snip; Binny looks on.

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