Simchas Beis Hashoeva on Monday evening in Crown Heights began with early music and dancing specially catered to children. Beginning at 7:00pm, Fitche Benshimon — accompanied by a boys’ choir — played music to the delight of hundreds of children who joyously danced with their parents.
Chabad of Orange County, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, held a community “Shakshukah in the Sukkah” at the Burston home in Monroe, New York. The event featured a gourmet Israeli Breakfast spread, a dynamic fire show, and enabled more than 100 people to partake in the mitzvos of Sukkos.
Zevi and Chana (nee Simon) Goldin (Crown Heights)
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, October 12, for Shemini Atzeres and Friday, October 13, for Simchas Torah. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Levi Yitzchok and Devorah Leah (nee Baras) Engleberg (West Hempstead, NY)
Chezky and Chani (nee Rapoport) Landa (Crown Heights)
Chabad of Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD) hosted their 18th Annual Sukkot Luncheon in the City on Monday. In attendance was the Mayor of Melbourne, the Honorable Lord Mr. Robert Doyle.
An estimated 1,500 buildings have been destroyed and more than 75,000 acres have burned in eight counties as a result of the fires that started on Sunday night in Northern California. At the same time, a brush fire in Anaheim, in Southern California, has been making its way towards homes and buildings, necessitating more than 1,000 firefighters to battle the flames.
This unique bounce-house for children to enjoy this Chol Hamoed was spotted in Israel by a CrownHeights.info reader.
A Lubavitcher Chosid in Israel found a creative and fun way to bring the Mitzvos of Sukkah and Daled Minim to his fellow Jews on the streets.
All lanes of the upper level of the Brooklyn-bound side of the Verrazano Bridge were blocked Monday night, causing traffic delays. Included in the jam, which stretched for almost five miles, was a sukka mobile returning from a day of mivtzoim in the Staten Island area. The vehicle sat idle, but the Bochurim that were on it did not.
Sukkos celebrates differences. It’s about unity, but it is not about being the same. It’s about a unity in which we bring our differences along with us and engage each other and work together with those differences.
Rabbi Shimon Posner, Shliach of the Rebbe to Rancho Mirage, CA, penned a heartfelt and personal letter to the family of Dr. Yitzchok Block, OBM, describing the tremendous positive effect he had on all who encountered him, which he kindly allowed us to share with our readers.
An enormous sukka that can fit about 1,000 people was built just outside of Moscow’s Jewish Community Center in the Marina Roscha neighborhood.
Kulam Sharim — featuring Benny Friedman and the cast of Mitzvah Boulevard — is a truly pumping song that reminds us that the work of serving Hashem with joy is a serious one! So make sure you have your dancing shoes on, get your friends together, and enjoy!
The family of a 31-year-old man, who has been missing since Motzai Shabbos, is requesting the public’s help in locating him. UPDATE: He has been found!
Rabbi Leibel Posner was one of the first students of the yeshivah in 770 and was involved in Jewish education for many decades. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in November of 2006.
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