
Shliach Runs 4 Miles to Blow Shofar
The ‘Running Rabbi’, Rabbi Chalom Boujnah of Chabad at San Diego State University, ran 4 miles on Rosh Hashana to blow Shofar for those who couldn’t make it to Shul.
The ‘Running Rabbi’, Rabbi Chalom Boujnah of Chabad at San Diego State University, ran 4 miles on Rosh Hashana to blow Shofar for those who couldn’t make it to Shul.
A visit that was meant to be a pre-Rosh Hashana whirlwind four-day speaking tour and a yartzeit commemoration, turned out to be much more than that. Rabbi Simon Jacobson traveled to Sydney this past weekend to inspire the community for the Yamim Nora’im (Days of Awe). Just as he arrived, the entire city was left reeling by an aborted terrorist plot and pre-dawn raids in north-west Sydney.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 36, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a Special Aseres Yemei Teshuva and Pre-Yom Kippur Edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topic: How forgiveness heals wounds.
The monthly meeting of Community Board 9 at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights turned hostile Tuesday night, when critics of a controversial plan to rezone Empire Blvd. showed up en masse and loudly demanded that the board rescind its request for a study of the move.
Yosef Levi and Rivi Andrusier (Crown Heights)
On Tuesday night, the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, the organization seeing to the needs of the numerous guests who arrived in Crown Heights for Tishrei, organized a Shiur on Chassidus delivered by Rabbi Yoel Kahan.
Yaacov and Chaya Hoffinger (Crown Heights)
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Rivkah Fleishman OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights who passed away on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. She was 67 years old.
As the new year approached, the Chabad Shliach to Nepal, Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, found himself trapped in a nightmare that only ended on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Instead of leading the prayers and Yom Tov meals for the hundreds of Jewish tourists and locals at his Kathmandu Chabad Center, the revered rabbi spent the holiday in a decrepit prison, all due to an error made by a Nepalese official on his visa.
Sholom and Esther (nee Korolitzky) Mahatuf (Crown Heights)
Shmuel and Nechama Dina (nee Naparstek) Perman (S. Paulo, Brazil)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday issued Rosh Hashanah greetings to the Jewish community in Russia and worldwide at a meeting with Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Benyamin and Naomi (nee Kohan) Amrami
534 Crown St. [between Albany and Kingston Aves.]
Sholom and Esther Laine
1354 Carroll St. [between Brooklyn and Kingston Aves.]
Peretz and Mussie (nee Weingarten) Wolowik
440 Brooklyn Ave. Apt. #5G. [between Empire Blvd. and Sterling St.]
Shneur and Devorah Leah (nee Gitlin) Hirsch
439 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Levi and Rochel Leah (nee Hurwitz) Stein
460 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Mendy and Simi (nee Gutnick) Cohen
829 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
After an interview he conducted with Sarah Palin, Breitbart.com editor Joel B. Pollak was asked on Twitter whether the book sitting on the table next to the former U.S. Vice Presidential candidate was indeed Joseph Telushkin’s best-selling biography on the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He responded that it was.
Last night a Farbrengen was held in the ‘small zal’ of 770 for the Tishrei guests, led by the Mashpia Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi.