GAITHERSBURG, MD [CHI] — Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum of Chabad of Upper Montgomery County visited the Rainbow Senior Citizens center in Gaithersburg on Chol Hamoed Sukkos and over 50 people performed the Mitzvah of Lulov and Esrog.
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A mobile sukkah hut made of branches and greenery will travel around the University of Kansas and Lawrence for the next week. The traveling hut is part of the Chabad student center’s celebration of Sukkot.
The student center placed the hut atop a truck to travel around campus, to residence halls and the city of Lawrence.
MONROE, NY [CHI] — A spirited and special Simcahs Beis Hashoeivah Farbengen took place in Monroe, NY at the Sukkah of Dr. Zev & Sima Chana Zelenko, on Chai Tishrei. Many Satmar Chasidim and locals from the Chabad community, including the Shliach to the area, Rabbi Pesach Burston, united together at this occasion.
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PEORIA, IL — Michael Uretzky liked seeing friends.
Blake Randell liked the magic tricks.
Esther Langsam enjoyed making an edible sukkah.
And her father, Rabbi Eli Langsam, liked seeing children and adults fulfill two commandments of Jewish law: Sitting in a sukkah and shaking a lulav and an etrog, two main components of the Feast of Sukkot.
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GEORGE TOWN, Brooklyn [CHI] – Hundreds of local Jewish residents came together for a wide array of Sukkos events arranged by the local Chabad Shliach, Rabbi Avrohom Holtzberg.
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Above, Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky, head of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe, offers a blessing Wednesday with his family — from left, Moussia, 7; wife, Chanie, and Mendel, 7 — at the start of Sukkot in a dwelling called a sukkah. Below left, Rabbi Zaklikovsky and others sit at a table. Bottom right is the sukkah’s exterior.
PRINCTON, NJ [CHI] — On the evening of September 23rd, 2007, Chabad of Greater Mercer County held its Gala Community Dinner at the beautiful Princeton Westin Hotel in Forrestal Village.
This years honorees were William and Gail Bogner, David and Andrea Gaynor, Jeffrey and Robin Persky, and Clive and Teresa Samuels. Almost 300 individuals from the central New Jersey area turned out to pay tribute to the honorees and this elegant semiformal affair.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — “Are these going to be high enough, Mayer?” Saadya Notik asked of the potted palms that had just been wheeled in on a trolley to the Phnom Penh room at the Hotel InterContinental.
Rabbi Mayer Zarchi, 25, from Brooklyn in New York City, leaned back to assess the situation. He squinted and finally nodded his approval.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Almost one year after the establishment of a permanent Chabad-Lubavitch presence in Vietnam, Jewish life has blossomed across southeast Asia. As evidenced by those in attendance at High Holiday services this month in Ho Chi Minh City, a cross section of world Jewry has been empowered to fully connect with their heritage.
Recording legend Bob Dylan joined Chabad-Lubavitch of Georgia for Yom Kippur services over the weekend. Dylan, who was in town for a concert following the holiday, was called up to the Torah, but otherwise did not cause much of a stir among the congregation.
Irvine, CA [CHI] — It could have been one of those simple and nice Chabad events where people come to socialize and celebrate a special occasion. After all, how really inspiring could it be to watch a person writing? I myself have been to a Siyum Sefer Torah many times. Sure, there is the Jewish music playing in the background, or special food that might be served. But this one was different. Not just that the program was different, but the magical experience of something really spiritual happening. This was an event that I have never witness before – IT WAS REAL!
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WEST ORANGE, NJ — More than 700 people gathered for the first “Friendship Walk” at the newly-renovated Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J. Participants in wheelchairs, baby carriages and on foot, were able to walk a one- or five-mile course in the Sept. 9 event; both routes wound past the new Reptile House and Red Panda exhibit.
STAMFORD, CT [CHI] — Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) set aside a busy schedule of activities this Monday and came to the new Chabad Center in Stamford to participate in a meeting of key supporters who are planning the campaign to finish the center.
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VANCOUVER, Canada — “Every Jew probably celebrates this day in some way,” says Rabbi Meir Kaplan of Chabad Centre of Vancouver Island.
MYRTLE BEACH, SC — Yom Kippur – the holiest day of the year for Jews worldwide – begins at sundown today with Jews looking into themselves and looking to God for forgiveness.
NASHVILLE, TN — Today is the day of Yom Kippur. It is the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar — the day on which we are closest to G-d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement.
Systems exist all around us. The way we live; the way we do business. Each element of our lives from the mundane to the sublime — they always come down to some sort of system. We may not think of most of what takes place in our world as a “system” at work, but everything in our universe can be traced to the functions of one system or another.
EAST MANATEE, FL — The High Holy Day season is here, and Jews across the nation are celebrating a new year and a fresh start with G-D.
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