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After the miraculous exodus from Egypt the Jewish people wandered in the desert for a period of forty years, during which they lived in temporary booths that provided shelter. It is for this reason that every year, beginning on the fifteenth of the month of Tishrei, we commemorate and relive this experience with a festival named “Sukkot”.

The word “Sukkot” means “booths.” The commandment to “dwell” in a Sukkah can be fulfilled by simply eating all of one's meals there. Many people even study and sleep in the Sukkah booth.

On this festive holiday we are also commanded to acquire the four species, referred to in Hebrew as “arbat haminim”. The four species are a citrus fruit (etrog), palm branch (lulav), myrtle branch (hadas), and willow branch (arava).

Festival of the Booths

After the miraculous exodus from Egypt the Jewish people wandered in the desert for a period of forty years, during which they lived in temporary booths that provided shelter. It is for this reason that every year, beginning on the fifteenth of the month of Tishrei, we commemorate and relive this experience with a festival named “Sukkot”.

The word “Sukkot” means “booths.” The commandment to “dwell” in a Sukkah can be fulfilled by simply eating all of one’s meals there. Many people even study and sleep in the Sukkah booth.

On this festive holiday we are also commanded to acquire the four species, referred to in Hebrew as “arbat haminim”. The four species are a citrus fruit (etrog), palm branch (lulav), myrtle branch (hadas), and willow branch (arava).

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Members of the Weisman family look
over the shoulder of Torah scribe Elly
Jacobs as he finishes writing the last
few letters of the scroll.
Solon, OH — With hundreds of children leading the way and musical accompaniment by Yiddishe Cup, 500 participants helped welcome a new Torah scroll to the Chabad Jewish Center of Solon on Sunday, Sept 10.

The sofer (scribe) Elly Jacobs of Columbus finished the last few letters with quill and ink in the Chabad sanctuary. Then the Torah scroll - the first one especially commissioned for the synagogue - was held aloft, dressed in a new mantle and adorned with silver crowns by Rabbi Zushe Greenberg. It was carried under a special chupah (wedding canopy) to the waiting throng.

Chabad Welcomes its New Torah scroll

Cleveland Jewish News
Members of the Weisman family look
over the shoulder of Torah scribe Elly
Jacobs as he finishes writing the last
few letters of the scroll.

Solon, OH — With hundreds of children leading the way and musical accompaniment by Yiddishe Cup, 500 participants helped welcome a new Torah scroll to the Chabad Jewish Center of Solon on Sunday, Sept 10.

The sofer (scribe) Elly Jacobs of Columbus finished the last few letters with quill and ink in the Chabad sanctuary. Then the Torah scroll – the first one especially commissioned for the synagogue – was held aloft, dressed in a new mantle and adorned with silver crowns by Rabbi Zushe Greenberg. It was carried under a special chupah (wedding canopy) to the waiting throng.

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Jewish Standard
Chabad of Teaneck’s Pizza in the Hut
Family Sukkah Party, held in 2004.
We read in the Talmud that Sukkot is when God judges the world for rainfall. In the days of the Temple, a special ritual, “the pouring of the water,” was performed each day of the holiday, asking God to provide the rain that was needed.

The rabbis tell us that thousands of spectators came to watch the drawing of the water used for the ceremony, and that the event was surrounded by feasting, dancing, and singing. In fact, says the Mishnah, “He who has not seen the rejoicing at the Place of the Water-Drawing has never seen rejoicing in his life.”

Today, we recall this special ceremony — a gathering marked by music and dance, with refreshments served in a sukkah. On Oct. 10, the entire Jewish community of Teaneck will have an opportunity to take part in such a celebration, to be held at Cong. Keter Torah.

A New Generation Enjoys an Ancient Celebration

Jewish Standard
Chabad of Teaneck’s Pizza in the Hut
Family Sukkah Party, held in 2004.

We read in the Talmud that Sukkot is when God judges the world for rainfall. In the days of the Temple, a special ritual, “the pouring of the water,” was performed each day of the holiday, asking God to provide the rain that was needed.

The rabbis tell us that thousands of spectators came to watch the drawing of the water used for the ceremony, and that the event was surrounded by feasting, dancing, and singing. In fact, says the Mishnah, “He who has not seen the rejoicing at the Place of the Water-Drawing has never seen rejoicing in his life.”

Today, we recall this special ceremony — a gathering marked by music and dance, with refreshments served in a sukkah. On Oct. 10, the entire Jewish community of Teaneck will have an opportunity to take part in such a celebration, to be held at Cong. Keter Torah.

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Rebecca Rosenthal - Lubavitch.com

Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the spotlight when CBS Studios hosted Chabad of Studio City’s High Holiday services.

Davening With the Stars

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com

Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the spotlight when CBS Studios hosted Chabad of Studio City’s High Holiday services.

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Simchas Bais Hashuava in Crown Heights!

Announced is most of the lineup for this years Shimchas Bais Hasuava here in Crown Heights.

Starting each night at 9:30 the guest singers will be as follows:

Motzoei Yom Tov (Oct. 8th) – Yacov Young
Monday (Oct. 9th) – Yeedle Werdiger
Tuesday (Oct. 10th) – Avrohom Fried
Wednesday (Oct. 11th) – Surprise Guests!
Hoshaana Rabba (Oct. 12th) – Surprise Guests! With the Yossi Cohen Band

Click the Extended Article to view the full poster!

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Leaders of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council met with Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, City Council Member Letitia James, and representatives from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to discuss actions being taken to combat the recent wave of crimes in the area.

Reacting to a series of muggings and assaults where local residents have been brutally attacked by roving gangs, District Attorney Hynes gave his assurance that he will work with the community and the police to keep track of all incidents and to prosecute those caught to the fullest extent of the law. Mr. Hynes also presented certificates of honor to two local residents who helped the NYPD arrest three of the recent attackers who assaulted a young man on his way home from synagogue on the night of Yom Kippur.

More in the Extended Article.

Crown Heights Leaders Meet to Fight Local Wave of Violence

Leaders of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council met with Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, City Council Member Letitia James, and representatives from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to discuss actions being taken to combat the recent wave of crimes in the area.

Reacting to a series of muggings and assaults where local residents have been brutally attacked by roving gangs, District Attorney Hynes gave his assurance that he will work with the community and the police to keep track of all incidents and to prosecute those caught to the fullest extent of the law. Mr. Hynes also presented certificates of honor to two local residents who helped the NYPD arrest three of the recent attackers who assaulted a young man on his way home from synagogue on the night of Yom Kippur.

More in the Extended Article.

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Over 3000 People Join Chabad Of The Conejo For Yom Kippur At 3 Locations – Hyatt Hotel Turns To “Little Jerusalem”

Once again, every boardroom, conference room, and ballroom was used to facilitate the overwhelming turnout for Chabad of the Conejo’s Yom Kippur Service at the luxuries Hyatt Westlake Plaza Hotel in Southern California. The huge Grand Ballroom was filled to capacity for Kol Nidre, Yizkor and Neilah. The hotel sold out every guest room to the 600 people spending the whole Yom Kippur at the hotel. After Kol Nidre and Maariv, the hotel lobbies, corridors, lounge areas, etc. were filled with Jews late into the night. Many commented how the upscale hotel was transformed into a “little Jerusalem”.

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Young Shliach Aizik Turk manning the Schach wagon.

Several years ago there was a picture floating around of Shliach Rabbi Yossi Turk of Cordoba Argentina delivering s'chach on a horse and boggy. This picture became very popular recently with local s'chach merchants using it for their ads. Today, CrownHeights.Info reconfirmed that this same horse still continues to deliver s'chach once again through the streets of Cordoba.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Delivering Schach in Cordoba, Argentina

Young Shliach Aizik Turk manning the Schach wagon.

Several years ago there was a picture floating around of Shliach Rabbi Yossi Turk of Cordoba Argentina delivering s’chach on a horse and boggy. This picture became very popular recently with local s’chach merchants using it for their ads. Today, CrownHeights.Info reconfirmed that this same horse still continues to deliver s’chach once again through the streets of Cordoba.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Click Here for a newscast of this event (NEWS12)

At 6:00pm Wednesday the sidewalk in front of 770 filled up with residents fed up with the sharp crime increase in general and the increase in biased violent assaults. Three weeks ago a Bochur was smashed in the face with a baseball bat, and then on the night of Yom Kippur a 16 year old Bochur was violently beaten by a group of 7 Black Youths.

Residents fed up with this increase in crime and the police’s disregard for the situation and hiding behind the ‘compstat’ numbers saying that crime is actually declining. One of the members of the community that got up to speak and yelled that ‘we are fed up of police reports being swept under the rug’.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Over 1000 Protest the Lack of Police Protection

Click Here for a newscast of this event (NEWS12)

At 6:00pm Wednesday the sidewalk in front of 770 filled up with residents fed up with the sharp crime increase in general and the increase in biased violent assaults. Three weeks ago a Bochur was smashed in the face with a baseball bat, and then on the night of Yom Kippur a 16 year old Bochur was violently beaten by a group of 7 Black Youths.

Residents fed up with this increase in crime and the police’s disregard for the situation and hiding behind the ‘compstat’ numbers saying that crime is actually declining. One of the members of the community that got up to speak and yelled that ‘we are fed up of police reports being swept under the rug’.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Home News Tribune
Above, Albert Tyberg, left, and Jacob
Roitman raise a beam to the top of the sukkah
they're building at the Chabad Jewish Center
of Monroe for the Jewish celebration of
Sukkot. At left, Tyberg and Rabbi
Eliezer Zaklikovsky carry a bundle of bamboo
for the hut's roof.
Monroe, NJ — Jacob Roitman swings the hammer down hard on a bamboo reed. Standing atop a metal ladder, he pauses to steady himself, then takes four quick thwacks at the nail. The bamboo bends from the strain.

Roitman, 60, of East Brunswick was building a hut, called a sukkah, that is central to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

“It's a mitzvah (good deed),” he said, working under a cloudless autumn sky.

Beginning Friday, Sukkot marks seven days of feasts and togetherness. The sukkah, a temporary structure, recalls the kind of hut Jews lived in during the biblical 40 years they wandered in the desert. It also has deeper significance.

Raising the roof on Sukkot

Home News Tribune
Above, Albert Tyberg, left, and Jacob
Roitman raise a beam to the top of the sukkah
they’re building at the Chabad Jewish Center
of Monroe for the Jewish celebration of
Sukkot. At left, Tyberg and Rabbi
Eliezer Zaklikovsky carry a bundle of bamboo
for the hut’s roof.

Monroe, NJ — Jacob Roitman swings the hammer down hard on a bamboo reed. Standing atop a metal ladder, he pauses to steady himself, then takes four quick thwacks at the nail. The bamboo bends from the strain.

Roitman, 60, of East Brunswick was building a hut, called a sukkah, that is central to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

“It’s a mitzvah (good deed),” he said, working under a cloudless autumn sky.

Beginning Friday, Sukkot marks seven days of feasts and togetherness. The sukkah, a temporary structure, recalls the kind of hut Jews lived in during the biblical 40 years they wandered in the desert. It also has deeper significance.

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Two mobile command posts have been set up one on Schenectady between Carroll and Crown and the other on the corner of Crown and Albany, officers posted on many street corners and officers walking up and down Kingston Ave. by day as well as the night.

We implore the 71st precinct to keep these officers out there till at least 5am each morning, as many of the posts are abandoned around 3am. These are good crime prevention measures, lets keep them up!

Still we urge residents to take extra care when out there, stay alert if you hear or see something don’t hesitate to call Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 and 911.

NYPD Increases Its Presence on the Streets

Two mobile command posts have been set up one on Schenectady between Carroll and Crown and the other on the corner of Crown and Albany, officers posted on many street corners and officers walking up and down Kingston Ave. by day as well as the night.

We implore the 71st precinct to keep these officers out there till at least 5am each morning, as many of the posts are abandoned around 3am. These are good crime prevention measures, lets keep them up!

Still we urge residents to take extra care when out there, stay alert if you hear or see something don’t hesitate to call Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 and 911.

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On Tuesday night, Rabbi Michoel Seligson farbrenged with hundreds of bochurim who are here for the month of Tishrei. The Farbrengen was part of the “Vaad Tmimim Haolomi” program for the month of Tishrei.

The Farbrengen consisted of two parts: 1) Research background on the Hayom Yom. 2) Sukkos through Simchas Torah by the Rebbe.

Rabbi Seligson described in detail the research he did on the Hayom Yom, discovering that the Hayom Yom quotes for the day reflects the Shiurei Chitas of the day. After further research, it was revealed that the Hayom Yom quotes reflect the 70 years of a person (until 120).

Farbrengen With R. Michol Seligson – Simchas Torah 5738

On Tuesday night, Rabbi Michoel Seligson farbrenged with hundreds of bochurim who are here for the month of Tishrei. The Farbrengen was part of the “Vaad Tmimim Haolomi” program for the month of Tishrei.

The Farbrengen consisted of two parts: 1) Research background on the Hayom Yom. 2) Sukkos through Simchas Torah by the Rebbe.

Rabbi Seligson described in detail the research he did on the Hayom Yom, discovering that the Hayom Yom quotes for the day reflects the Shiurei Chitas of the day. After further research, it was revealed that the Hayom Yom quotes reflect the 70 years of a person (until 120).

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NYPD Deploy New Watch Tower on Carroll and Troy

The device is called ‘Sky Watch’ and is designed to give an officer a line of sight from above of over 20ft. the tower is equipped with 4 thermal sensitive cameras, a high power spot light and various sensors all around. Its primary application is intended for crowd management and other parking lot type enforcement, giving police the ability to see in between cars and removing those blind spots.

The tower was deployed by officers from the Emergency Services Unit [ESU] whose specialty is such specialized systems.

The sky watch is made by a company called ‘ICX New Heights’ whose specialty is such towers for all type of applications. For more information Click Here.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Jpost.com
Former OC Ground Forces Maj.-Gen. Yiftah Ron-Tal being interviewed by Yitzchok Yehuda Holtzman of the Kfar Chabad Magazine. Photo: COL.org.il

Former OC Ground Forces Maj.-Gen. Yiftah Ron-Tal, who was discharged from the army by Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz on Wednesday night, said Thursday morning that he was not interested in becoming a politician.

Speculations arose that Ron-Tal would join the Likud Party after he held a meeting last week with Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu. Ron-Tal dismissed the claims however, saying it was a random meeting.

Ron-Tal, speaking to Israel Radio, blasted Halutz's decision to fire him, saying, “it is worthy of the Chief of Staff to first and foremost demand from himself what he so passionately demands from others, especially when lives and the security of the nation are at stake.”

Halutz fires Maj.-Gen. Ron-Tal

Jpost.com
Former OC Ground Forces Maj.-Gen. Yiftah Ron-Tal being interviewed by Yitzchok Yehuda Holtzman of the Kfar Chabad Magazine. Photo: COL.org.il

Former OC Ground Forces Maj.-Gen. Yiftah Ron-Tal, who was discharged from the army by Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz on Wednesday night, said Thursday morning that he was not interested in becoming a politician.

Speculations arose that Ron-Tal would join the Likud Party after he held a meeting last week with Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu. Ron-Tal dismissed the claims however, saying it was a random meeting.

Ron-Tal, speaking to Israel Radio, blasted Halutz’s decision to fire him, saying, “it is worthy of the Chief of Staff to first and foremost demand from himself what he so passionately demands from others, especially when lives and the security of the nation are at stake.”

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(Brooklyn, NY) — Moshe Rubashkin, Chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council has expressed his deepest concerns about the latest attack on a young Jewish bochur by 7 black men which sent him to the hospital on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year.

The assault occurred in an area frequented by violence at Schenectady and Carroll Avenues.

Because of a close connection with the 71st and 77th precincts of the NYPD, Chief Fox and Inspector Vega, police manpower was stationed within earshot of the incident only 1 block away who responded immediately to the commotion.

‘Press Release’ from the Vaad Hakohol

(Brooklyn, NY) — Moshe Rubashkin, Chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council has expressed his deepest concerns about the latest attack on a young Jewish bochur by 7 black men which sent him to the hospital on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year.

The assault occurred in an area frequented by violence at Schenectady and Carroll Avenues.

Because of a close connection with the 71st and 77th precincts of the NYPD, Chief Fox and Inspector Vega, police manpower was stationed within earshot of the incident only 1 block away who responded immediately to the commotion.

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Sukkos – Working for Others

Everyone is busy, building sukkahs, purchasing lulovim sets, shopping for food, and the list goes on.. the neighborhood is just hectic; everyone’s preparing themselves for Sukkos. Try walking up Kingston Ave? the place is over-crowded with vendors selling esrogim. Walk to the right and then to the left, to try and avoid them and you end up bumping into a sukkah, parked outside a Sukkah store, they’re all tied up with their big preps for Sukkos.

One group however is making big Sukkos preps, not for themselves, rather, for others. Moshe C. one of the Sukkah Mobile organizers says they ‎’re in their final preps and only hours away from confirming the final vehicles. Although they may have slightly fewer vehicles on the road this Sukkos, word in their offices is that there are some big surprises coming this Sukkos, but no further details were released.

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It is with great pain and sadness we inform you of the very sudden, shocking and untimely passing of Chana Kolodny at young age of 17. Chana was studying in Machon Morasha in Yerushalayim. She leaves behind her parents, Yosef and Shifra, brother Yitzchok and sister Menucha and Bracha Malka Hackner (England).

The Levaya will be Tomorrow [Thursday] Morning at 10:30 and will be leaving from the Shamgar chapel in Yerushalayim and the Levaya will proceed to Har Hamenuchos.

The mother, Shifra and sister Menucha will be sitting Shivah in Israel at 16 Agasi Rd. (Rechov Agasi) Apt. 12 in Har Nof, Yerushalayim and can be contacted at 011-972-57-7438643

The father Yosef and brother Yitzchok will be sitting Shiva in Crown Heights at their home 661 Lefferts Ave, Right Door, Upstairs. [between Albany and Troy] and can be emailed at josephkolodny@hotmail.com

Times for the Tefilos are as follows; 6:15 Mincha, Maariv Bizmana, Shacharis for tomorrow and Friday will be at 8:00am

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Boruch Dayan Ha’emes – Chana Kolodny OB”M

It is with great pain and sadness we inform you of the very sudden, shocking and untimely passing of Chana Kolodny at young age of 17. Chana was studying in Machon Morasha in Yerushalayim. She leaves behind her parents, Yosef and Shifra, brother Yitzchok and sister Menucha and Bracha Malka Hackner (England).

The Levaya will be Tomorrow [Thursday] Morning at 10:30 and will be leaving from the Shamgar chapel in Yerushalayim and the Levaya will proceed to Har Hamenuchos.

The mother, Shifra and sister Menucha will be sitting Shivah in Israel at 16 Agasi Rd. (Rechov Agasi) Apt. 12 in Har Nof, Yerushalayim and can be contacted at 011-972-57-7438643

The father Yosef and brother Yitzchok will be sitting Shiva in Crown Heights at their home 661 Lefferts Ave, Right Door, Upstairs. [between Albany and Troy] and can be emailed at josephkolodny@hotmail.com

Times for the Tefilos are as follows; 6:15 Mincha, Maariv Bizmana, Shacharis for tomorrow and Friday will be at 8:00am

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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