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Video: 3 Years After Capture, Gilad Schalit Yearns for Family

The Jerusalem Post

After over three years in which IDF St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit has been held in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, Israel breathed a sigh of relief on Friday afternoon after video footage of the captive soldier was released to the media and aired on Israeli television channels.

JCM Presents a Special Sukkos Screening of My Land

The Jewish Children’s Museum and JEM is pleased to announce a special viewing for the Crown Heights community of the long anticipated JEM/Malka Touger production: “My Land”.

On Monday, (October 5th) the first day of Chol Hamoed at 11 am, the JCM will show the brand new film My Land.

Chol HaMoed Sukkos Experience on Kingston Ave

Monday, the first day of Chol HaMoed, Tzivos Hashem will host their 29th annual Sukkos Experience on Kingston Ave. There will be mechanical rides, inflatable rides a petting Zoo, pony rides, hay rides and much more. There also be food stands and a Sukkah on premises. They are going to be open on Monday at 12:00pm through 6:00pm, on Kingston Ave [between Carroll St and Eastern Pkwy].

ULY 8th Grade Urges All Students to do Mivzoim this Sukkos!

Students Yechiel Piekarsky and Yehuda Gorkin with a senior manager at Enterprise Rent a Car last Sukkos

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Students of Lubavicher Yeshiva, are in the final stages of organizing Mivzoim for this coming Sukkos.

The 8th grade is inviting all students of grades 5 through 7 to participate in the mivtzoim on Friday morning, Hoshana Raba, after last years tremendous success. The mivtzoim is one of several programs which the all new Chayolei Beis Dovid, 8th grade program of Lubavitcher Yeshiva, has organized for the students of the Yeshiva. (to register please call the Yeshiva 718-774-4131and dial ext. 113)

Suffern’s Friendship Circle Kicks off New Year at Yankees Stadium

SUFFERN, NY [CHI] — Chabad of Suffern’s Friendship Circle, headed by Rabbi Shmuel and his wife Devorah Gancz, kicked off the new year at one of the VIP luxury lounges at the new Yankee Stadium!

Experts: Zazi Could Have Killed Many With Beauty Supplies

By Jen Chung for the Gothamist

NEW YORK, NY — With terror suspect Najibullah Zazi in custody, accused to plotting to bomb NYC mass transit, experts are now weighing on how Zazi’s purchases from a beauty supply store were very dangerous. They say that Zazi “had the means to kill scores of people — not hundreds or thousands,” with retired FBI explosives expert Denny Kline saying, “These explosives are meant to be concealed easily and deployed easily and kill and maim and cause havoc in small areas.”

Worldwide Events Make Fall Holiday a Public Affair

By Chana Kroll for Chabad.org
Rabbi Eli Backman, second from right, poses with students at the University of Maryland from the mobile sukkah operated by his Chabad House.

For the first time in its long, storied history, Rome’s Jewish community is taking the fall holiday of Sukkot to the streets by erecting a temporary dwelling known as a sukkah at a public piazza in the heart of the Italian capital.

A Spine Is A Terrible Thing To Waste! – Are All Our Faculties Headed In The Same Direction?

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov – Jax, Florida

Illustration Photo.

You’re sitting on a plane buckled-up in your seat, the plane is pushing back. You’re ready to relax – read a book, close your eyes and catch up on some badly needed sleep — but there’s one more piece of business to be taken care-of before you can kick back; the airline safety demonstration. This, you know, is when the flight attendant gets up to do her/his little buckle-vest-mask ditty.