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ASPCA Seen Around the Neighborhood Kappores Locations

An ASPCA agent sits at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Albany.

News of the city health department shutting down one Kapores location in Boro Park last night, came along with an agent for the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) seen hanging around Crown Heights and checking out the locations where Kapores in done.

As Yom Kippur Nears, Volunteers Turn to Needs of Jewish Prisoners

by Jessica Naiman – Chabad.org

A volunteer with the Chabad-Lubavitch run Aleph Institute leads a Torah class for Jewish prisoners at the Dade Correctional Institution in Florida City, Fla.

As Jews throughout the world head to synagogue this weekend to spend the holiest day of their calendar immersed in prayer and fasting, the often overlooked population of Jewish prisoners will likewise participate in services of their own.

Emergency Responders Answer to Higher Calling

Jewish Exponent

Hatzolah of Philadelphia members
(from left) Roman Kourinnoi, Mark Khavinson, Alec Braverstein and Rabbi Shloime Isaacson

PHILADELPHIA, PA — On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing.

Mid-West Shluchim Gather in Milwaukee, WI

With Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei on the horizon, dozens of Shluchim from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin gathered at Lubavitch House in Milwaukee, WI for the Midwest Kinnus HaShluchim Ha’ezori 5770. Upon arrival, one was met with a sense of warmth — a warm drink and refreshments, a hot Erev Shabbos mikvah, incredibly hospitable accommodations, a whole-hearted embrace from fellow Shluchim, and a cheerful smile from the host Shliach, Rabbi Yisroel Shmotkin.