
Man Attempting to Pass Fake Currency Arrested
A man who attempted to pass fake currency in a Crown Heights grocery store after midnight was apprehended by store employees and was arrested.
A man who attempted to pass fake currency in a Crown Heights grocery store after midnight was apprehended by store employees and was arrested.
Bentzi Sasson is a survivor of Yeneh Machla and ahead of Yom Kippur he penned an eye opening and emotional essay on going through the holiday while battling this terrible illness, and the virtues of never judging anyone.
Avi and Chayaleh (nee Gopin) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yossy Goldman has served as an emissary of the Rebbe in South Africa since 1976, first in Johannesburg and, more recently, as the senior rabbi at the Sydenham Shul. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in Brooklyn in October of 2014.
Shaya and Chaya (nee Kirshenberg) Denburg (Coral Springs, FL)
Yitzi and Perry (nee Lefkowitz) Klein (Crown Heights)
Jews perform the traditional custom of Kaparos early in the morning on Erev Yom Kippur in Beijing, China.
Guests and residents of Crown Heights fulfilled the ancient custom of Kapores in the ‘morning watch’.
Shraga Dovid and Zeldy (nee Gurary) Homnick (Crown Heights)
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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?