As word of Gilad Shalt’s release from Gaza broke Tuesday afternoon in Israel, Rabbis Yosef Lipsker, Elazar Kenig and Rabbi Yaakov Fridman, Chabad’s emissaries to the Russian Federation, joined members of the Israeli embassy in celebration. Arriving at the courtyard of the embassy in Moscow, they set up a portable sukkah.
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A special energy radiated from the fullest crowd of the week, who danced non-stop knowing that this would be the last Simchas Beis Hashoevah of this year. At around 12:45am the crowd marched their way up Kingston Ave. to 770, where they recited the entire Tehillim as customary.
At the start of Chabad of Rego Park’s recent Yom Kippur eve services, Rabbi Eli Blokh asked two men to hold the Torah scrolls in front of the ark as a visiting chazzan chanted Kol Nidre.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A careless driver cut a taxi off and caused him to swerve and strike another vehicle and traffic signal pole. Two were injured and taken to local hospitals for treatment.
Marking the month of Tishrei CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos of the Rebbe giving Kos Shell Bracha.
Taking advantage of a visit to his close friend Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, major Chabad donor Mr. George Rohr joined the Kotlarsky family and together danced with the crowds at Simchas Beis Hashuevah Tuesday night.
Melbourne’s orthodox Jewish Yeshivah community has been rocked by another alleged child abuse scandal with a youth worker arrested on indecency charges.
The president of Wilfrid Laurier University, one of Canada’s top schools for business, visited the Chabad sukkah mobile on campus on Tuesday and learned about the Arba Minim.
For the first time, Sukkos was celebrated at the Pikesville Military Reservation Armory for the soldiers of the Maryland Defense Force. Chaplain Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, who is the only Jewish Chaplain at the Maryland Defense Force, arranged for a Sukka mobile to visit the Armory in Baltimore.
On October 18, 2011, Mr. Robert A. Mandell was officially approved by the Senate as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg, after being appointed by President Barack Obama.
No Jew, and indeed no decent person in whom there beats a human heart, could fail to be moved to tears by the reunion of Gilad Shalit and his family in Israel. Looking pale from years of being held in a cell and deprived of sunlight, and extremely shy due to years of being denied virtually all human contact, Israel welcomed home a hero for whom they had traded one thousand murderers, terrorists, and criminals committed to its destruction to keep true to its promise, that no soldier is ever forgotten or left behind.
On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth. But as the bus began to fill up, the men told her that she had to get up. Move to the back, they insisted.
