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Baby Boy!
Shraga Dovid and Zeldy (nee Gurary) Homnick (Crown Heights)
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Through Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday through Friday, September 23-25, for Yom Kippur and – L’havdil – a Muslim holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
1966: Rebbes Bless of ‘G’mar Chasima Tova’
Rare video from 1966 shows the Rebbe giving a special Brocha after Mincha in 770. “א חתימה און א גמר חתימה טובה לשנה טובה ומתוקה”.
Michigan Shliach Sues USDA to Allow Kaporos; Wins
In suburban Detroit, Congregation Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills — which said its kapparot ritual is its best-attended and “financially, the single most important” event – filed a suit against Tom Vilsack, secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, The Detroit News reported Monday.
Photos: Moscow Does Kapores in the Early Morning
Hundreds of Jews in the Russian capitol of Moscow got up in the early hours of the morning to perform the ancient ritual of Kapores at the cities main synogouge, the Marina Rosche Shul.
Video: The Power to Transform the World
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ha’azinu. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: From where do we get the power to transform this world into a G-dly place?
Baby Girl!
Leibel and Sharon (nee Sinclair) Hackner (Crown Heights)
Poll: De Blasio’s Approval Rating in Steady Decline
A new NY1/Baruch College City Poll reveals that approval numbers for New York City mayor Bill de Balsio are slipping—-a trend, insiders say, that has been slow but steady in recent months.
Op-Ed: “Tatty, how come we Kill Chickens?”
The sounds and smells confirm our destination is nearby. As we turn the corner, I instantly clutch their hands as we’re greeted by the annual jovial scene: crowds mil about, chickens swing, children duck and squeal from the chickens’ excrement in a mix of frightful delight, and collectors schnorr Tzedaka for their respective Institutions.
From Days Gone By: Kaparos, Mid 1980s
These three photos depict scenes from Kaparos being performed in Crown Heights in the mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
Picture of the Day: Shliach Gives Tour of Muslim Nation
Israeli Knesset Member Oren Hazan (left) and Israeli Druze Deputy Minister Mendi Safadi (far right) are given a tour of the Jewish institutions of Azerbaijan by Chabad Shliach and Chief Rabbi Shneor Segal (center left) and Jewish community president Alexander Shapiro (center right) in the Shi’ite Muslim nation’s capital city of Baku.
70 Years Later: Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah
Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer, co-director of Chabad on Campus Queens in Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., was making his rounds recently at the Franklin Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Flushing, N.Y., where he serves as a chaplain. He happened to check in on an 83-year-old man named Irving Malkis, a nursing-home resident from Manhattan.
Photos: Paris Anash Unite for Hakhel
The Lubavitch community of Paris gathered yesterday, Sunday, in the Chabad Shul for a special Hakhel gathering, joining their brethren all over the world in coordinated, simultaneous events.
Mivtzoim? There’s an app for that!
While many Haredi and Chassidic communities continue to reject modern technologies, the Rebbe always maintained that the “ultimate purpose for which these new technologies were developed is that they be used for holy purposes“. This position dated back in the 1960s, when the Rebbe pioneered broadcasting of Torah and farbrengens around the world.
