Chabad of WNC Starts the Year on a High Note

The Citizen Times
Rabbi Shaya Susskind presenting Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy with a honey cake in honor of the Jewish New Year.

ASHEVILLE, NC — In an effort to ensure that every Jewish individual in Western North Carolina has a place to go for the upcoming High Holy Days, Chabad, for the first time, will be holding its Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the new Chabad Center, 660 Merrimon Ave.

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Chabad School Fingerprints Pupils

Kobi Nachshoni – YNet News
Illustration Photo – Fingerprint identification device

JERUSALEM, Israel — The new school year brings with it innovative (and questionable) methods of guaranteeing students’ attendance as students of a Jerusalem high school found on their first day of school last week. 
 
Pupils of the Chabad movement’s Beit Hannah girls’ high school in Jerusalem were surprised to find upon arrival that the school had installed a biometric fingerprint identification device.

Fowl Ritual, Rabbis Re-Examine Chicken Swinging

Todd Venezia – NY Post
Illustration Photo – Kaporos

BROOKLYN, NY — Rabbis in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities are taking a hard look at an annual religious ceremony in which the faithful swing live chickens over their heads.

Called kapparot, the fowl-whirling event occurs each year between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur – which take place next month – and is meant to transfer the sins of the believer to the chicken, which is then sacrificed.

Parking Regulations for Sunday and Monday

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — On Sunday starting at 4 PM there will be no parking on Eastern Pkwy and on all avenues from President St to S Johns Pl, places where you cant park are marked in red in the <%popup(20070901-no-parking-800.jpg|800|405|MAP ABOVE)%>. Tow trucks will be going around starting at 4 PM towing and relocating violators.

Alternate side parking regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended Monday. Click the Extended Article for street closures info.