Daily Archives: October 27, 2011
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Stock Market Enjoys Best Month Since 1974
New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street
The Dow Jones industrial average surged nearly 339 points Thursday after European leaders agreed on a deal to slash Greece’s debt load and prevent the debt crisis there from engulfing larger countries like Italy. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is close to having its best month since 1974.
Frum Jew Indicted for Brokering Human Kidney Sales
AP
Lawyers for a New York man who pleaded guilty Thursday in the first ever federal conviction for illegal organ trafficking say their client performed life-saving services for severely ill people.
Writings of Persecuted Rabbi Released for First Time
Rabbi Ezriel Chaikin reviews documents he smuggled out of the Soviet Union at the age of 14.
The writings and transcribed lectures of Rabbi Meir Chaim Chaikin, a Talmudic scholar who endured Soviet labor camps for three years as punishment for his clandestine efforts to strengthen Jewish life, have for the first time been published, released under the title Tiferes Ezriel in keeping with the author’s directive shortly before his 1966 passing.
Chabad Activist Seeks to Be Next Mayor of Tenafly
Barry Honig, flanked by his wife, Diane, is sworn in as a Tenefly City Councilman in January, 2011. [Note: He is being sworn in with a Chitas!]
Barry Honig is running as the Republican candidate for mayor of Tenefly, NJ. Members of the local Chabad house run by Rabbi Mordechai Shain know Barry as the man who runs the Tenafly Chabad Free Loan Association, a well known community program that help those in need without making them resort to charity.
Letter: Do a Mitzvah in the Memory of Our Alta Shula
Alta Shula A“H Swerdlov
Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov penned the following open letter to family and friends in honor of the upcoming 2nd Yahrzeit of their beloved daughter Alta Shula A”H:
A T-Shirt with an Eternal Message
Whether you’re on a plane to Israel, in Brooklyn, or spending time in Central Park in New York City, you can’t miss Rabbi Chayim Boruch Alevsky — he’s the one in the “Did you wrap the straps today?” T-shirt. A fun play on words, no doubt, the shirt inspires questions, the occasional thumbs-up, laughs, and, most importantly, the mitzvah of tefillin.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav HaTomim Rabbi Aaron ben HaRav Yehuda Chitrik OBM of Crown Heights at age 73. Rabbi Chitrik was the director of the editorial board of the Hebrew Department of Vaad Kisvei Kodesh which was responsible for publishing the Chassidus Seforim of the Rebbeim.
He is survived by his dear wife Slava and son Hershey Chitrik (Crown Heights / Miami), and daughter Mrs. Rochel Gross (Crown Heights), as well as his brother Tzvi Hersh Chitrik (Crown Heights), and sisters Mrs. Chaya Lieberman (Belgium) and Mrs. Shaindel Schneerson (Brooklyn). He was predeceased by his son Shmully.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Rabbi Aaron Chitrik OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav HaTomim Rabbi Aaron ben HaRav Yehuda Chitrik OBM of Crown Heights at age 73. Rabbi Chitrik was the director of the editorial board of the Hebrew Department of Vaad Kisvei Kodesh which was responsible for publishing the Chassidus Seforim of the Rebbeim.
He is survived by his dear wife Slava and son Hershey Chitrik (Crown Heights / Miami), and daughter Mrs. Rochel Gross (Crown Heights), as well as his brother Tzvi Hersh Chitrik (Crown Heights), and sisters Mrs. Chaya Lieberman (Belgium) and Mrs. Shaindel Schneerson (Brooklyn). He was predeceased by his son Shmully.
‘Mountain Jews’ Celebrate Historic Simchat Torah
FJC
Newly built Synagogue in Baku, Azerbaijan
For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.
South African Émigrés Build a Home in Australia
A new cultural and spiritual home in Melbourne’s inner south, the innovative Chabad Central Shule will provide a wide range of spiritual and community services for generations to come.
An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that will benefit not only its congregants, but the entire local Jewish community as well.
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