Rosh Hashanah brought a family reunion of sorts to Chabad Lubavitch of Playa del Carmen: The Jewish Center of the Riviera Maya in Mexico as 500 Jews, most of them strangers to one another, joined together for a holiday meal complete with round challahs, apples and honey, mouthwatering meats and lively conversation, complete with words of Torah.
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Reuven Abenaim (Montreal, Canada) and Chani Fischbein (S. Paulo, Brazil)
In his latest video, filmmaker Meir Kalmenson sat down three strangers and took away their ability to judge the others with their eyes, giving them an opportunity to listen to what the others had to say without any preconceived conclusions and prejudices.
Hundreds of Jews filled the central Marina Roscha shul on both days of Yom Tov, with additional minyanim being held in the neighboring mosdos for the Bucharian community, the Kavkazi community, Israelis, youth, and more.
An embattled Community Board 9, already operating without a district manager, will now likely have to operate for the rest of October with an interim chair after Chairman Demetrius Lawrence abruptly announced his resignation.
Yisroel (Roli) Abraham (Johanasburgh, South Africa) and Nechy (bas JJ) Katz (Crown Heights)
Mordy and Itty (nee Tennenhaus) Feiner (Hallandale Beach, FL)
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has landed in an open area in southern Israel this afternoon. No one was hurt in Thursday’s attack, but it came a day after another rocket landed in the town of Sderot, also without casualties.
Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes, a mass exodus ahead of a major storm packing power the U.S. hasn’t seen in more than a decade.
The Shofar Factory was on the road again over the month of Elul, with Tzivos Hashem’s traveling crafts workshops. Thousands of children from all backgrounds sawed, drilled, and sounded thousands of kosher shofars.
Chasidic singing superstar Avraham Fried joined forces with the talented composer Martin Meir Widerker to release a beautiful new version of the age-old Shabbos Zemirah – V’zakeinu Lekabel Shabbosos.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Sholom Ber Schneerson OBM, a Rov who had a Shul in his home in Flatbush. He was 84 years old. The Levaya will take place today – Thursday.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Nemes works in the administration of Tzivos Hashem youth group at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with Rebbe project in Brooklyn, in July of 2012.
A Bruchim Haboim ceremony took place in Bais Rivka, welcoming Guests that have come for Tishrei. Tomorrow: Join in and contribute to a campaign supporting the Bochurim, through the organization that cares for them during Tishrei and year round.
Mendel and Shayna (nee Perl) Konikov (Crown Heights)
A Chossid takes a sip of the Kos Shel Brocho he just received from the Rebbe, as other Chassidim line up for theirs, on Motzei Yomtov, circa mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Every few weeks, Rabbi Levi Pinson takes the ferry from Corsica to Nice. It’s much quicker by plane, about 45 minutes, but Pinson needs to bring his car along so he can cram it with kosher food on the way back.
