PSA: Darchai Menorah Drawing Pushed Off

Due to a mail error, Darchai Menachem auction booklet have only started arriving at homes this past Shabbos. Therefore, the Silver Menorah from Sterling Elite and Car Menorah drawings will be held this Wednesday morning at 11:00 AM., leaving enough time to for the winner pick up his prize for the first Menorah lighting.

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One Year Ago Today: Shomrim Six Vindicated from the Messirah and Blood Libel

749: Not just an address, a Shomrim Scooter dedicated in honor of the Shomrim Six.

It was last year on this day, the 22nd of Kislev, just a day after the Alter Rebbe celebrated his Didan Notzach, that the Shomrim Six were vindicated from the vicious blood libel and Messirah against them.

Shomrim did not celebrate the verdict as a victory, but as a salvation. The motto of cases conclusion rested in the song which is sung at Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengens around the world, “Podo Beshalom Nafshi… Anshei Domim Umirma Lo Yechtzu Yemaihem” ([g-d] has redeemed my soul in peace… men of blood and swindle may their days be halved).

Vandals Set Trash Fires on their Way Home from School

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – A group of young hooligans set a number of trash cans aflame as they walked down Lefferts Avenue. The incident took place at around 3:45pm just as the public school around the corner dismisses their students.

CYN Enjoyes Amazing NYC Shabbaton

Pictures by ChaimPerl.com

With descriptions of “fantastic retreat” and “life-altering experience”, Chabad Youth Network of Ontario, directed by Rabbi Shmuli Nachlas, has wrapped up its 2010 New York Shabbaton for nearly 100 high-school students from Toronto, join by teens from Chabad of Markham, Chabad of Niagara and Montreal Chai Centre, impacting teens with an unforgettable and inspiring weekend in the Big Apple.

Jews Expect Proposed Ban Won’t Stop Circumcision

By Aaron Glantz for the New York Times
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SAN FRANCISCO — Over the last decade, Rabbi Moshe Trager has performed more than 3,000 circumcisions on Bay Area Jews, he estimates. Mr. Trager, 45, said he sometimes performs as many as five in one day — driving as far as Lake Tahoe to snip a foreskin, helping modern Jews fulfill a commandment they believe was first issued by God to Abraham thousands of years ago.

Beis Eliyahu Nochum Farbrenges for 19 Kislev

Congrangents of Beis Hamedrash Eliyahu Nochum on Lefferts Avenue got together for a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen. In addition to the Divrei Hisorrerus and Siyum Hatanya the crowd was treated to as special fiddle performance by Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz who played the Daled Bovos, video in the Extended Article.

Oholei Torah Celebrates Yud Tes Kislev

2 days, 1600 Talmidim, 3400 Seudos, 7 major farbrengens and 100 Shuls and Yeshivas visited, over the days of Yud Tes and Chof Kislev, the walls of Oholei Torah permeated with Niggunim, Farbrengens, and Chassidus. Not withstanding the restraints of Erev Shabbos, the 1600 talmidim in all divisions had a full measure of chassidishkeit and celebration.