Mugger Attempts to Shoot Father of 12 on Yom Tov

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Crown Heights father’s pleasant Rosh Hashanah evening turned into a nightmare as he returned home from a meal on the second night of Rosh Hashanah. A gun was pointed at him point blank, and no matter how much he tried to explain that a Jew would not have money on a holiday, the mugger was unmoved – he pulled the trigger.

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Shofar: The Sound of Freedom

Colombus Dispatch

Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann blows a shofar during morning service at the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in New Albany.

When Joseph Kaltmann blows a ram’s horn called a shofar, the trumpetlike sound is booming, piercing, just “really loud,” according to his son, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann of New Albany, Ohio. The vigor with which the 84-year-old man blows is inspired by the sounds he heard as a teen lying half-dead in a World War II Nazi concentration camp in Halberstadt, Germany.

Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: R’ Yechezkel Zweibel, OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yechezkel Zweibel, OBM, of Jerusalem, at the age of 70. Reb Yechezkel was a well known figure in the Charedi community in the holy city, serving as the Rosh Yeshiva of Tiferes Yaakov for many years. His brother, R’ Elimelech Zweibel, is the senior Mashpia in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim of Morristown, NJ.