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Photo Gallery: Kapores! Kapores!

Getting a jump-start on the age old pre-Yom Kippur custom of ‘shlugging kapores‘ many families took advantage of the daylight and relatively warm weather, and to the sounds of shrill delight and shrieks of terror chickens went swinging!

Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56

NY Times

Steven P. Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 in San Francisco in 2010.

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.

Rabbi’s High Holiday Show-and-Tells Wow Kids

Miami Herald

Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick travels around to South Florida schools and temples, teaching children about the Jewish holidays in interactive and quirky workshops that feature bees and traditional animal-horn shofars.

Israel: Out With the Old Tents, In With the New

A tent camp in Tel Aviv, Israel protesting against rising housing prices and social inequalities.

The tents pitched by Israeli demonstrators protesting this summer’s high housing are all but gone, but Chabad-Lubavitch centers all over the country are erecting their own, all in preparation for the holiday of Yom Kippur that begins Friday night.

Dynamic Rabbi is a Boon to Community

Jewish Telegraph

Rabbi Yossi Jacobs (right) at the Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham.

Rabbi Yossi Jacobs has shown dynamic leadership in a six-year association at Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham. Shul membership has escalated fourfold to 550 with members across the Midlands. Attendances on Shabbat, morning minyanim and children’s services have improved.

Suspicious Package Prompts Police to Remove Charity Boxes

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In today’s climate, which sees terror behind every corner and inside every unattended package, police urged guests not to leave their suitcases unattended in 770. One such guest, however, decided to leave his suitcase right near the steps leading to the woman’s section.

Larry King Returns, Raises $4.2 Million for Chabad

Broadway World

Larry King hosts the Chabad Telethon in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Lubavitch.com

After stepping down last December from the throne that he held for 25 years and 60,000 interviews on Larry King Live, the broadcasting icon stepped back up on the air with “Larry King To Life” hosting the 31st Chabad Lechaim To Life Telethon, with celebrity guests Howie Mandel, Oscar winners John Voight and Elliot Gould, Brad Garrett, Tom Arnold and Paula Abdul, among others. It was broadcast live from Hollywood Sunday Sept 25 and reached over 45 million households worldwide, breaking the record as the most viewed Jewish holiday program of all time!