With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Rivkah Fleishman OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights who passed away on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. She was 67 years old.
As the new year approached, the Chabad Shliach to Nepal, Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, found himself trapped in a nightmare that only ended on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Instead of leading the prayers and Yom Tov meals for the hundreds of Jewish tourists and locals at his Kathmandu Chabad Center, the revered rabbi spent the holiday in a decrepit prison, all due to an error made by a Nepalese official on his visa.
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