Video: President Wishes ‘Shanah Tovah’
President Barrack Obama wishes all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah a happy and healthy new year.
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Laws and Customs: Rosh Hashanah and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Rosh Hashanah and the Ten Days of Teshuva, Blowing Shofar and Tzom Gedalia for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Update: Guide from Crown Heights Badatz Added.
Miami Mayor Meets with Community Leaders
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Director of The Miami-Dade Police Dept. J.D. Patterson met with some of South Florida’s leading rabbis and community leaders yesterday to discuss security plans for the various Jewish communities throughout the south Florida county over the High Holidays.
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Shmuely and Devorah (nee DeVries) Levitin (Crown Heights)
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Ariel and Sarah (nee Naparstek) Hess (Los Angeles, CA)
Chabad of South Broward Sails Into the New Year
On Sunday night, 26 Elul, September 21, the 33rd Dinner of Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch and Chabad of South Broward, FL, Award Ceremony took place on a magnificent boat, “The Catalina,” in what was by far the most exciting and memorable Dinner in the institution’s 34 year history.
Soldiers surround the building where the Hamas suspects were hiding out. Inset: The three murdered teens.
Murderers of Three Israeli Teens Killed by IDF
The two wanted Palestinians who have been suspected of kidnapping and murdering three Jewish teenagers in Gush Etzion earlier this summer, were shot and killed by the IDF in an exchange of fire on Tuesday morning.
Monsey Community Grows with Opening of New Mesivta
Marking the communities continued growth, a new Mesivta opened this year in Monsey and they are already having a great year. The new Mesivta joins the existing six Shuls and two successful boy’s and girl’s schools.
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Shmaya and Rochi (nee Silver) Galperin (Holmdel, NJ)
New Shluchim to Massachusetts
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy first opened its doors close to 70 years ago, in a small house on Belmont Avenue in Springfield, MA as the areas first Jewish day school, providing quality secular and Judaic education for children in the Greater Springfield community. Rabbi Lavy Kosofsky and his wife, Mushkie, have relocated to Springfield from New York, to join LYA.
6th Graders Gather at Dawn for Selichos
In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, the entire Oholei Torah sixth grade, along with their Melamdim and principal, gathered early Monday morning, B’hashkoma, to recite Selichos and daven Shacharis together.
Up-and-Coming Chabad Community Gets New Torah
The Chabad Shul in Ramat Bet Shemesh Gimmel, Israel, a new neighborhood planned for 5,000 families but currently housing 400 families, celebrated a grand Hachnosas Sefer Torah Sunday night.
Picture of the Day: Born on Grandfather’s 1st Yahrzeit
A healthy baby boy was born today to Rabbi Naftoli and Faiga Smith, of Granada Hills, CA, exactly one year after the passing of the baby’s grandfather, Rabbi Motty Berger, OBM.
Miami Police ‘Know People Involved’ in Raksin Murder
Miami-Dade detectives believe they have identified “some of the people involved” in Rabbi Yosef Raksin’s murder last month, but assert that it was not a hate crime, a local CBS affiliate reported.
After Treacherous 1,200-Mile Drive, Aid Arrives in Cabo
Police blockades, armed bandits, flooded roads and even a cracked axle couldn’t deter volunteers of Chabad Without Borders from bringing a truck of much-needed emergency supplies to the beleaguered Jewish community in hurricane-ravaged Cabo San Lucas, on the southernmost tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
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