A Bochur on his way back to Crown Heights from doing Mivtzoim in Queens, had a rock thrown at his car and a racial slur yelled at him. This disturbing even took place at the Nostrand Ave. & Fulton St. intersection.
A few pictures of people buying Hoishanos.
The last night of Simchas Bais Hashuaiva started off at 11:00pm after the children’s program and went on until 1:00am, Music was played by Yossi Cohen and our “special guest” was a variety of performers, officially it was Yossi Fraenkel. And as one our commenter’s said the reason that it said “special guest” was because they had yet to finalize on who it would be.
At 1:00pm the crowed danced their way to 770 to say Mishna Torah and Tehilim as it is customary to do so on the night of Hoshaana Rabaa.
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Kenneth Alan Spector’s mother’s medical bills were such a puzzle that when the insurance company’s telephone rep read the record she could not help but sigh, “Oy vey.”
Spector, a new congregant at Chabad of Northridge heard her classic Jewish groan and replied, “Chag Sameach!” After a beat, the rep returned the happy holiday greeting. As the two chatted about the Jewish New Year, Spector asked if the rep had fulfilled the Sukkot observance of waving the four plant species: palm, myrtle, willow and citron, known as lulav and etrog. When he got a negative reply, Spector – who bought his first lulav and etrog set this year – explained the practice and its message of Jewish unity.
The crowd was thick around Bloomberg yesterday as he walked the streets of Crown Heights and picked up the endorsement of the Crown Heights Political Action Committee.
There may have been one person he wished wasn’t in the crowd: Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council.
Rubashkin, who served time in prison for passing more than $300,000 in bad checks, didn’t speak at the endorsement event but was recognized by Chanina Sperlin, chairman of the Crown Heights PAC, as “my colleague.”
Bloomberg campaign aides noted Rubashkin is not a member of the Crown Heights Political Action Committee and had no official involvement in the event.
Eight years after arriving at Columbia, Chabad has finally been recognized as an official campus group.
Chabad, an organization led by Hasidic Jews, has unofficially been a part of campus for years but was just granted recognition under United Campus Ministries as Columbia’s newest Jewish organization, after first applying in 2003.
“Everything is a process and this wasn’t going to happen overnight,” said Rabbi Yonah Blum, who runs Chabad out of his 110th street apartment. “It took a while but sometimes that is how life works. Not everything is simple and immediate.”
As scholars prepare to mark the 100th anniversary of the antisemitic ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ a US magazine has published a Protocols-style “dual loyalty” slur against Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr., one of the most prominent Jews in early twentieth-century American politics, alleges an institute that focuses on America’s response to the Holocaust.
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine has printed an article in its November 2005 issue that the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies claims blames Morgenthau and Zionism for prolonging World War I. The Wyman Institute is located on the campus of Gratz College, and includes the Institute’s advisory committee includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Members of Congress, and other luminaries.
This is a blog post from a Jewish guy that lives in park slope and his experience with “Lubavitchers” (trying to do Mivtzoim). Good Reading.
Yesterday, I found myself irritated by the Lubavitch men on Seventh Avenue. Walking home at 6 p.m., I was asked at least five times by different groups of men: “Are you Jewish?” Each time I said “No” and they seemed to believe me. Maybe it’s the blonde hair. Surprisingly, they didn’t seem to flinch at all when I said: “No.”
As a kid in a secular Jewish family, I loved the idea of Sukkot. I knew what it was even though my Jewish education was somewhat spotty. Building a Sukkah, a make-shift structure, out of branches, leaves, shrubs, and straw seemed so cool. Who wouldn’t want to create a beautiful little playhouse in the courtyard of our apartment building or in Riverside Park.
In Park Slope, Sukkot means that there’s a rather impressive Sukkah at Chai Tots on the corner of Prospect Park West and Third Street and the men from an extremely evangelical wing of hasidic Judaism, the Lubavitch sect, are out in droves in their dark suits trying to pursuade Jews to shake the lulav.
The Shabbat after Simchat Torah is Shabbat Bereishit — “Shabbat of Beginning” — the first Shabbat of the annual Torah reading cycle, on which the Torah section of Bereishit (“In the Beginning”) is read.
The weekly Torah reading is what defines the Jewish week, serving as the guide and point of reference for the week’s events, deeds and decisions; Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi called this “living with the times.” Hence the theme and tone of this week is one of beginning and renewal, as we launch into yet another cycle of Torah life. The Rebbes of Chabad would say: “As one establishes oneself on Shabbat Bereishit, so goes the rest of the year.”
Leaders keep routines, but watch weather.
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Chabad of South Broward is planning its Simhat Torah dinner-dance for 7 p.m. Tuesday, although Rabbi Raphael Tennenhaus may shift gears if the hurricane comes this way.
“In Jewish law, when something is doubtful and something is definite, you stay with the definite,” said the Hallandale Beach rabbi, who founded the first Chabad Lubavitch center in Broward and Palm Beach counties. “Simhat Torah is a definite. You can’t cancel a holiday.”
Beyond that, he said, his Chabad of South Broward is following normal storm-time practice: calling on the elderly, delivering food and supplies, seeing who may need to be moved. But Tennenhaus isn’t planning for the worst.
Sometime around 8 o’clock this morning, rabbis Yossi Lipsker, Alti Bukiet, and Asher Bronstein will drive up to the foot of the Sam Adams statue at Faneuil Hall and start building a sukkah.
Constructing a sukkah — a temporary dwelling — during the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot is a biblical commandment that Jews have been observing since the Exodus. And, while sukkahs have long been fixtures in synagogue courtyards and in congregants’ backyards, this is a first for Faneuil Hall.
”We feel that the motif and the theme of the sukkah resonates beautifully with the birthplace of freedom in America,” says Lipsker, who along with Bukiet and Bronstein, set up an educational center last year at 10 Milk St. to teach Torah, Talmud, and Judaism in general.
Fernando Ferrer wants to one-up the mayor on property tax relief.
The Democratic mayoral nominee went to the easternmost corner of Queens yesterday to unveil a proposal to reduce property taxes for most homeowners in the city.
Criticizing Mayor Michael Bloomberg for raising property taxes several years ago, Ferrer announced announced at the Little Neck event that he would cut the tax value of all homes under $800,000.
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