Children Help Open Ottawa’s First New Shul in 30 Years
About 90 children were on hand Sunday morning to help commemorate Ottawa’s first new synagogue in decades, just in time for Rosh Hashanah.
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Remembering Rebbetzin Chana: Jewish Feminine Role Model
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, a feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and wife of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok, is being remembered today, on her 50th yahrzeit.
NPR Profiles ‘Roving Rabbis’ in Rural West
On Sunday, NPR radio ran a feature broadcast on two Chabad Yeshiva students traveling through rural Arizona this summer as part of the ‘roving rabbis’ program. The two Bochurim, Zalman Refson and Yaakov Kaplan, were interviewed for the program, along with a couple of isolated Jews they encountered on their travels.
Tishrei Guests Welcomed with Banquet
On Sunday evening, Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, the organization seeing to the needs of the numerous guests who arrived in Crown Heights for Tishrei, hosted a grand welcoming banquet for them at Bais Rivka-Campus Chomesh.
Hong Kong Jews Cautious as Thousands Demonstrate
As unrest continues to escalate in Hong Kong, members of the area’s Jewish community are keeping a watchful eye on the nearby protests.“Like most things, the further away one is, the greater the hype is,” Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon, director of Chabad of Hong Kong, told VIN News.
Newly Discovered by JEM: Historic Letter of Rebbetzin Chana
In honor of Vov Tishrei, which this year marks 50 years to the passing Rebbetzin Chana, CrownHeights.info presents a never before seen letter written by Rebbetzin Chana, which includes new information pertaining to her famous memoirs.
Story: Yom Kippur with Boris
For many years, Rabbi Col. Fishel Jacobs has served as Chabad’s emissary to Israel’s prisons, where he visits incarcerated Jews and provides them with refreshments, words of encouragement and the opportunity to perform several Mitzvos. The following is an excerpt from his soon-to-be-released memoir, titled Coffee Melts Bars, in which he recounts a Yom Kippur encounter with a hulking middle-aged Russian-Jewish convict named Boris.
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Yossi Eilfort (S. Diego, CA) and Dassy Levilev (Crown Heights)
Netanyahu: ‘UN Human Rights Council’ an Oxymoron
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium today at the U.N. headquarters in New York City during the General Assembly, where he vigorously defended the beleaguered Jewish State in front of dozens of world leaders.
Shliach Thanks Minister for Israel-Belarus Visa-Waiver
To mark the visa-waiver for Israelis traveling to Belarus and Belarusians traveling to Israel, Sofa Landver, Israel’s Minister of Immigrant Absorption, visited the Belarus capital of Minsk. Landver visited the Jewish community and met with the city’s Chief Rabbi Shneur Deitch, who described a city that enjoys peaceful relationship between its minority Jewish community and broader population.
Shliach with ALS Needs Urgent Tehillim
Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, a California Shliach suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) was recently rushed to the emergency room for urgent medical care. Please say Tehillim for Yosef Yitzchok ben Brocha for an immediate and complete recovery. [Tehillim in the Extended article.]
Speeding cameras seen on an exit ramp near Ocean Parkway. Photo: Shimon Gifter/VINnews.com.
Speed Camera Issues $77,550 in Tickets in One Day
Records compiled by New York City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) reveal that a single speed camera located Brooklyn pumped out an astonishing 1,551 tickets on a single day this past July, totaling a staggering $77,550 for the city.
Picture of the Day: Beyond the Call of Duty
After having fed hundreds of Tishrei guests prior to the fast of Tzom Gedalia, veteran Hachnosas Orchim activist Nachum Markowitz was spotted by a CrownHeights.info reader tidying up Eastern Parkway’s service lane during the fast on Sunday afternoon.
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Shmuly and Dini (nee Korolitzky) Gutnik (Boca Raton, FL)
Rabbi Raleigh Resnick with his newly released wine.
Another Shliach Joins the Winemaking Fray
Following fellow California Shliach Rabbi Elchonon Tenenbaum’s foray into the winemaking profession, Rabbi Raleigh Resnick of Chabad of the Tri-Valley is trying his hand at the craft, with the release of a Cabernet Sauvignon named “Alef.”
Miriam Rechtshafer, of Coral Springs, with sons Eli, 3, and Avrami, 4, roll dough for challah bread at the “Challahpalooza Family Fest,” co-hosted by the Chabad of Tamarac and the Tamarac Winn-Dixie.
Winn-Dixie Hosts ‘Challahpalooza’
Chabad of Tamarac, FL, teamed up with the local Winn-Dixie store to host a “Challahpalooza Family Fest” in preparation for Rosh Hashanah. About two-hundred people came out to sample foods from the store’s kosher deli, as well as taking part in a hands-on challah-making activity, holiday-themed arts-and-crafts and interactive storytelling.
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Shimmy and Itty (nee Fellig) Gerlitzky (Crown Heights)
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