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Picturesque Mikvah Being Renovated in Tzfat

TZFAT, Israel [CHI] — In his last visit to Tzfat Rabbi Joseph Gutnick visited the Mikvah in Kiriyat Chabad which he sponsored over 25 years ago, and he commissioned the renovation and refurbishment of the aging Mikvah.

Hateful ‘Kill Jews’ Notes Found Scattered Throughout Brooklyn Streets

By Matthew Lysiak and Wil Cruz for the NY Daily News

BROOKLYN, NY — A hate-monger blanketed a stretch of a Brooklyn neighborhood with “Kill Jews” notes Wednesday – weeks after a similar incident in two other communities.

Residents along Third Ave. in Bay Ridge woke up to find hundreds of two-inch handwritten signs bearing the ugly message in black marker.

Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally

by Yonit Tanenbaum

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — At the “Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally” Thursday, September 24th, a diverse cross-section of Americans and Iranians, from high school students to senior citizens, spanning religious sects of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presence at the 64th General Assembly.

Submariner At Sea Calls On Chabad For High Holy Day Prayer Texts

lubavitch.com

What’s a submariner at sea to do on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur without a prayer book? Shortly before the Jewish New Year set in, Chabad representative to Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Levi Brashevitsky, received the following email from U.S. submariner Brian Lantz, stationed on the USS Norfolk (SSN 714) submarine, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. The Chabad rabbi directed the letter to KEHOT, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.

My Land DVDs Released… This Time for Real

A last-minute crisis was staved off last week at JEM. Toward the end of last week, the new film for children, My Land, was slated for release.

The boxes of thousands of DVDs arrived at JEM as scheduled and was randomly tested by the staff, to make sure they were in working order. To their horror, all the DVDs were blank! After investigating, they discovered that the company which duplicates the DVDs had erroneously copied a blank DVD thinking it was the master.

Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe!

CownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is happy to present a first time released Photo of the Rebbe from Kos Shell Bracha in the early 1980’s. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org