Hundreds of guests began pouring into Crown Heights ahead of the upcoming high holidays, and with this year being a ‘Shnas Hakhel,’ thousands more than usual are expected. Many of the guests made their first stop at 770, creating the familiar scene of piling up luggage.
Eli Goorevitch (Laguna Beach, CA) and Faygie Lew (Peachtree City, GA)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Nitzavim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the best way to be there for another human being?
Rabbi Yossi and Suri Marozov are Chabad Shluchim in Ulyanovsk, Russia. Since their city does not have a Mikvah, any Jewish woman who wishes to immerse in one must travel for four hours each way – often in the frozen Siberian winter.
“This Friendship Circle lives on miracles,” says Chanie Canterman, who has directed the program in central Jerusalem since 2008.
The traditional Selichos featuring Chazzan Rabbi Yossi Lebovics and the Lebovics Boys Choir took place Motzoei Shabbos in Hallandale Beach, FL, at Chabad of South Broward Headquarters.
Italian hat manufacturer Borsalino opened a state-of-the-art branch in Flatbush, where their wide variety of Chasidic, Litvish and Lubavitch hats are on display. A few Crown Heights residents went to have a look, accompanied by photographer Itzik Roitman.
Over 200 people gathered last week at Adath Israel Synagogue in St. Paul to pay tribute to a beloved rabbi and legendary humanitarian. They were a diverse assemblage from every sector of the Jewish community and they were there to honor the legacy of Rabbi Gershon Giter, who passed away in August at the age of 61 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Dozens of Chasidim and local Jews traveled to the Alter Rebbe’s gravesite in Hadiach, Ukraine, to recite Selichos at midnight Motzei Shabbos. The Selichos prayers were led by R’ Bentzion Raskin of Crown Heights.
For over fifty years, R’ Meir Roness, OBM, dedicated himself to illuminating the lives of others. Beginning as a bochur many decades ago, and continuing to do so under Tzach-Lubavitch Youth Organization until his last days, thousands were introduced by him to the inner teachings of the Torah – Chassidus.
Police are investigating the death of a Hispanic man who was discovered dead in the hallway of a Crown Heights building. Neighbors told CrownHeights.info that the body was found inside a shopping cart.
Bentzi Gopin (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Devorah Leah Goldstein (Madrid, Spain)
An elderly Dutch Jewish couple said they were subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by robbers who broke into their Amsterdam home.
The main synagogue of Kazan, capital city of the autonomous Russian republic of Tatarstan – which has a Muslim majority – underwent a complete restoration in honor of its 100 year anniversary.
Mendy Berkowitz (Kensington, NY) and Aydla (bas R’ Gershon) Zirkind (Montreal, Canada)
Elul is the Chodesh Harachamim, the time when the King is in the field and hears our Tefillos with a broad smile. It is also the month of Ani L’dodi V’dodi Li. All of us know someone who needs a Shidduch, and a special time, place and Zechus together can bring that Brocho.
In years past, the Jewish community of Tallinn, Estonia, kept a low profile, the long-term result of half-a-century of Soviet oppression and Nazi persecution. Yet come Rosh Hashanah, hundreds of Jewish people will parade through the center of this nation’s capital city again this year, singing Jewish songs, many wearing kipahs on their heads.
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