Hundreds packed the block of Kingston between Crown and Montgomery, on the stage the Piamenta brothers rocked the night along with Yaakov Young and Avremi G. and had everyone dancing up into daybreak at 6:00am when police had to open up the street. Great weather contributed to the massive turnout.
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Jonathan Boyarin’s feelings toward the Yiddish language go beyond mere scholarship.
“I heard a lot of Yiddish in my childhood, growing up in a community of Jewish chicken farmers,” he says. “I can’t say I learned the language there, but I picked up a heritage of nostalgia for it at least.”
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In preparation for Simchas Bais Hashuaivah the stage upon which the bands and singers perform was being constructed.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.”
(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.
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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(CBS) NEW YORK — A picture may be worth a thousands words, but if the photo is of a police officer’s personal car parked illegally, you may need some of those words to talk your way out of a pair of handcuffs.
Three people said recently police detained them for nothing more than taking pictures on public, New York City sidewalks.
It happened to Jan Lee. The Chinatown businessman, frustrated by city employees parking illegally in front of his antique store on Mott Street, decided to start documenting the abuses.
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Building on the success of previous Fruit and Vegetable distribution for this past Pesach, Mr. Greens has done it again, donating pallets of Fruits and Vegetables for the needy.
The produce was set up on the corner of Albany and Union where the people lined up received what they needed. From early in the morning the owners were seen unloading the pallets onto the sidewalk and laying it all out in a neat and organized fashion.
One of the owners, Shloime Klein told CrownHeights.info that after last Pesach’s article on CrownHeights.info he was approached by several individuals who wanted to help with the cost of the program, and that he would like to thank those people that allowed him make this years program bigger than ever.
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Getty Images, one of the largest image banks on the internet had one of its contributing photographers Mario Tama at the Ohel on Erev Yom Kippur.
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We have seen the scooters zipping around day and night, and for the first time ever Crown Heights Shomrim Division is putting a fully marked patrol car on the road. Donated by Aron & Mirit Hershkop of Everything Automotive this is the first of two cars that have been donated, in memory of Ephraim Klein HY”D who was murdered on the streets of Crown Heights. The second car is due to hit the streets next month.
The idea behind the marked patrol car is with ‘crime prevention’ in mind. Every night there are one or two Shomrim members patrolling in their private cars keeping a watchful eye on the neighborhood, while this is good for an immediate response to call’s and to spot the crime as it happens, it is not as affective for preventing crime.
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Brighton, Boston – The city is cracking down on the rabbi who ruffled feathers in his Brighton neighborhood by slaughtering dozens of chickens Erev Yom Kippur as part of a religious ritual and later turned his driveway into a makeshift butcher shop.
The city plans to issue a nuisance notice today to the owner of 239 Chestnut Hill Ave., where yesterday dozens of squawking chickens were beheaded as part of a ritual preceding.
Rabbi Pinchus Krinsky of the Lubavitcher Shul, started performing the slaughter at his home five years ago after his butcher shop closed, said next-door neighbor Larry Loew who says he complained to the city about the unsanitary conditions. “This is not a religious issue. This is a health issue,” Loew said. “You can’t butcher in the name of any God in your back yard without the proper drainage and meeting health codes. He’s putting everyone around him at risk.”
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