As reported earlier the Rebbe’s house was open for Mincha, there were 2 Minyanim and a estimated total of 1,000 Bochurim that partook in the Minyanim. For the first Minyan R. Dovber Levin Davend for the Omud and the second Minyan R. Yehuday Krinski Davend for the Omud.
A group of Bochurim did stand outside and “demonstrate” against Davening in the Rebbe’s house, but other then that everything went very nice and smooth.
What do you give to a community who has lost a good portion of their material possessions, along with their homes, jobs and secure future? As humanitarian organizations and individuals scramble to adequately provide for the many needs of a displaced population, Louisiana’s Chabad Rabbis came through this Rosh Hashanah with something only they could offer: a sense of community.
“When people talk about what they miss about being home in New Orleans, a common theme that emerges is the sense of being together with your community, feeling at home with a group of people with whom you share so much,” says Rabbi Yossi Nemes, director of Chabad of Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. Nemes, along with Louisiana’s senior Chabad Rabbi Zelig Rivkin, three other local Rabbis and their respective families spent Rosh Hashanah with close to 150 New Orleaneans who shared those feelings over the holiday. Celebrating with members of their own community at Chabad’s Rosh Hashanah retreat in Monroe, Louisiana, he says, was a priceless gift.
Today – Vov Tishrai the Yortziat of Rebbetzin Chana A”H – the Rebbetzin residence 1304 president street will be open for Davening today. This has been arranged by the “Va’ad Talmidai Hatmimim Haolami” for the benefit of the Bochurim that came to spend Tishrai in Crown Heights.
There will be 2 Minyanim, one at 2:00pm for the Yeshiva Gedolah Bochurim and another at 2:30 for the Yeshiva Ketana Bochurim.
The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity will soon say hello to a new next-door neighbor as Chabad on Campus moves into its recently purchased location on Forsyth Boulevard. Chabad, a Jewish organization in St. Louis, has been steadily growing since its establishment in 2001 and plans to renovate the apartment building into a new religious center for students.
Over its four years in the area, Chabad has amassed a mailing list of 700 undergraduate students. Rabbi Hershey Novack, the organization’s director and spiritual leader, said they have seen a growth of approximately 30 percent each year.
At Agudath Israel forum, Democrat asked about activist’s endorsement; Bloomberg names liaison to Jewish day schools.
Both major candidates for mayor appeared separately before national officers of the Orthodox group Agudath Israel last week, fielding questions about housing, private school tuition and other matters.
But Democrat Fernando Ferrer faced the toughest question of the evening when he was asked about his relationship with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whom many Jewish leaders have shunned because of his role during black-Jewish flashpoints in the ‘90s. Ferrer in turn mentioned a controversial ally of Bloomberg.
This Shabbos Crown Heights experienced some sever weather, a lot of rain and wind. A part of a tree collapsed on Montgomery St. landing on 2 cars and appears to have damaged them. Another tree fell on President St. but didn’t damage any cars.
MONTICELLO, N.Y. — Three teenagers were charged with felony hate crimes in the vandalism of a synagogue in a colony of Orthodox Jews, state police said.
Being held without bail following their arrests Wednesday were Dominick DePreizio, 16; Anthony Wingert, 18; and Raymond Surerus, 18. They face charges of third-degree burglary and third-degree criminal mischief as hate crimes, along with misdemeanors of making graffiti, possession of graffiti instruments and possession of burglar’s tools.
Local Jewish residents had the opportunity to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year with visiting Rabbis from the Chabad Lubavitch organization. Rabbis Daniel Denburg and Zalman Shneur, from new York, hosted an orthodox service, song and kosher food at the Marriott Resort Grand Cayman on 3 October, the eve of the celebration.
There were numerous medical students at St Matthews University School of Medicine who wanted to celebrate the Jewish New Year and as a result they contacted Chabad Lubavitch, a non-profit Jewish organization, which sponsors rabbis to visits rurul Jewish communities all over the world.
American legislators, Israeli officials and Jewish groups are working diplomatic channels in an effort to stave off a looming lulav shortage ahead of Sukkot.
Their efforts follow a surprise move by Egypt, which – after years as the world’s primary supplier of the palm fronds that form the spine of the ritual lulav – said it no longer would provide the leaves to suppliers in the United States, Israel and beyond.
“We’ve got everybody on the case, and I told them to shake a leg,” Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) said, pun intended.
President Vladimir Putin named one of Russia’s two chief rabbis as one of his personal choices to sit on a new advisory body.
Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar of the Federation of Jewish Communities and main Chabad emissary in the region was one of several religious leaders appointed to the Public Chamber alongside clerics representing Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Pentecostalism.
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