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Photos: Ohel’s Concert of Music We Love

Jewish Music Report

Photos by Ken Brown

The folks at Ohel took a huge gamble when they decided to stage a concert and keep the lineup top secret. Were people really going to spend big bucks to come to a show without knowing who the performers would be? The answer, apparently, was yes, as Mason Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center was completely sold out for the annual benefit concert.

Photos: Kosherfest 2011 in Secaucus, New Jersey

Photographer Itsik Roytman captured the sights, sounds — and smells (!) of this year’s Kosherfest, the world’s largest kosher products trade event, which took place across the Hudson River in Secaucus, New Jersey. Among the participants were many Kosher food purveyors from Crown Heights, as well as Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.

Thousands Attend Funeral of Beloved Bus Driver

Over 1,000 students exited Oholei Torah in order to attend the funeral of Reb Moshe Abelsky, their beloved and devoted bus driver. From there the entire school escorted the procession to 770, where hundreds more waited to escort the deceased chossid.

Photos: Last Night of Simchas Beis Hashoevah

A special energy radiated from the fullest crowd of the week, who danced non-stop knowing that this would be the last Simchas Beis Hashoevah of this year. At around 12:45am the crowd marched their way up Kingston Ave. to 770, where they recited the entire Tehillim as customary.