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Chabad student center expands celebration

by Sarah Neff – Kansan.com

Charles Goldberg, Chicago junior, gives directions to Devon Gilinsky, Omaha, Neb. freshman, left, and Jordan LeBoyer, North Brook, Ill. freshman, center, while constructing a Sukkah at the Chabad house in Lawrence Tuesday evening. A Sukkah is a traditional shelter built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity constructed the shelter. (Photo by Anna Faltermeier)

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.

Simchas Beis Hashoeva at the Sephardic Center of Laval, Canaada

More than 500 men, women, and children attended the Simchas Bais Hashoeva in front of the Sephardic center of Chomedey, Laval to enjoy dancing with lively music, a barbeque, a huge moon bounce, cotton candy and a grand raffle.

The event was organized by Levi and Avram Banon, sons of the Shliach to Laval, Rabbi David R. Banon.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Simchas Beis Hashueva in Boro Park

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn [CHI] — 13th Avenue, one of Borough Parks main streets, was closed to traffic for a gala Simchas Beis Hashoeva event. Thousands of Yiddishe residents all danced and sang together, celebrating Simcahs Bais Hashueva.

This is the third year that the Chabad House in Borough Park, under the directorship of Rabbi Aaron Ginsberg, organized such an event.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: shturem.net)