Trading Spaces: Neat Nooks Just for the Holidays

For motorists on Ridge Road, one of the main arteries of Munster, Ind., the sight of a bearded rabbi lugging an oversized ornate cabinet across the busy street has become a yearly spectacle. It is Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov transporting a specially constructed holy ark from the cozy sanctuary in his home to the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, where he and a cadre of volunteers set up a makeshift synagogue to accommodate the large crowds that join the congregation for the High Holidays.

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Keren Hashanah: Charity for Every Day of the Year

Unforgettable to those that were there, and relivable today via video (in extended article), in the first sicha spoken by the Rebbe, with Herculean physical effort, after the devastating “episode” of Shemini Atzeret, 1977, the Rebbe reminded his Chasidim to continue keeping his directives: Chitas, Keren Hashana and the mivtzoim.

Chabad House Bomber Dies, Charges Dropped Posthumously

Federal prosecutors Monday filed to dismiss their indictment of the homeless man accused of detonating an explosive near a S. Monica Chabad House in 2011. United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. pursued the motion in wake of defendant Ron Hirsch’s Aug. 24 death.

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