The Rebbe walking into 770 in the early 1970’s. special thanks to Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum.
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Communicating for History” (Volume 40, Episode 157).
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — This week, the F.R.E.E. Publishing House, the publishing arm of Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, in a cooperative effort between the Lechaim Publishing House (Moscow) and the SHAMIR Publishing House (Jerusalem) have issued for the first time the “Selichot” (Prayers of Repentance) with a modern Russian translation, all in a clear new Russian and Hebrew typesetting.
With deep pain sadness and shock we inform you of the terribly tragic passing, of a HaBochur HaTomim Gershon ben R. Mordechai Leib A”H Gorodetsky, at the age of 34, earlier this morning when he was struck by a train in the Kingston Avenue Subway station.
The Levaya will take place Today, Thursday, and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at around 2:00pm and will be passing by 770 at around 2:30pm
Baruch Dayan Hoemes
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The NYPD is taking steps to protect the city’s Jewish community from terrorism during the upcoming High Holidays.
Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday that there is no reason to believe an attack is in the works, but they are stepping up police presence to be prepared, as they have in years past.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The harrowing message came down the wire early this morning, at around 8:00am, that there was a victim struck by a train and killed L”A in the Kingston Avenue Subway station.
Hatzalah, Shomrim and Chesed Shel Emes all arrived on scene along with NYPD ESU and FDNY EMS and tended to the victim, who was killed instantly.
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Chabad.org took the world of viral media up a notch with the release this week of a High Holiday greeting featuring Rabbi Itchy Kadoozy, the lead character from the highly popular “Itchy Kadoozy” cartoon featured on the Web site.
NEW YORK, NY — The New York Police Department has short-circuited a civilian oversight panel formed in the early 1990s by being blatantly dismissive of the panel’s investigations of wayward officers, according to a new study.
An analysis of the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s performance in recent years “allows for no other conclusion than this: The city’s civilian oversight system has failed,” the report says. ”It has been subverted and co-opted by the police department.”
Both police and CCRB officials called the findings released Wednesday by the New York Civil Liberties Union unfair and too reliant on outdated statistics.
PENZA, Russia — In the big picture of Russian Jewry, Penza is but a blip, a small industrial city located on the banks of the Sura River some 400 miles southeast of Moscow.
But the recent switch by the community’s leadership from one Jewish denomination to another — amid allegations of dirty tactics and possible illegal political activity — has thrust Penza into the center of the factional war that has weighed heavily on Jewish life in Russia over the last decade.
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