The Jewish community of Manchester, UK, gathered Chol Hamoed night for a grand Simchas Beis Hashoeva celebration, with live music, dancing and a rocking performance by Chasidic singing star Shloime Gertner.
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of protesters (mostly from Crown Heights) assembled in front of the Israeli Consulate to protest the recent wave of violence and terrorism in Israel.
Last Wednesday night, Chol Hamoed Sukkos, September 30th, Chabad Youth of Melbourne held its annual Sukkot at the city’s historic ‘Luna Park.’
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach to Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, has returned to YouTube with his brief and hilarious thoughts on the weekly Parasha.
Yitzy Smith (Crown Heights) and Leeby Dubinsky (Los Angeles, CA)
Mendy and Mushka (nee Harel) Chaimson (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Gershon Overlander, Director of the Chabad House of Hendon in London, UK, launched his own little campaign against the BDS movement (the “Boycott Divestment and Sanctions” movement against Israel), with a creative bumper sticker that reads: BSD we’ll beat BDS!
The wave of Palestinian terror continues, as another three stabbing attacks occurred in Israel today, following three similar attacks that occurred yesterday.
Update: Fourth stabbing attack today occurs in Afula.
David and Shoshana Levi (Coral Springs, FL)
Joe Davidovitz is a philanthropist and property developer in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in August of 2014.
Yisroel and Vita (nee Zeiler) New (Jerusalem, Israel)
Levi (ben Kasriel) Sudak (Crown Heights) and Tzaity (bas Shmuel) Marasow (Crown Heights)
Investigators now say that the Saturday explosion in an apartment building in Borough Park that left two people dead might have been intentional.
At a State Department Briefing with Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner, an AP journalist called out the Obama Administration for its blatant hypocrisy: Last year, the Administration called Israel’s shelling of a terrorist-harboring school in Gaza “appalling” and “disgraceful,” yet they refused to condemn with similar language an American bombing of an Afghan hospital they accused of harboring Taliban insurgents.
Mendush and Mushky (nee Wilhelm) Naparstek (Lausanne, Switzerland)
This year, for the second year in a row, Pesichas Haaron for the daytime Hakafos at Empire Shtiebel in Crown Heights was ‘sold’ to the children in exchange for Mishnayos Baal Peh. Unlike last year, when it was sold for a mere 100 Mishnayos shared by 3 boys (33 Mishanyos each), this year the boys kept bidding until it reached the staggering amouint of 1,000 Mishnayos baal Peh!
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