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Volunteers to Spend Their High Holidays in Prison
Anna Koozmin, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Maryland, loves the popular Netflix series about a woman’s prison for the way it delves into the back stories and lives of inmates at a federal women’s prison. Now she is about to find out for herself what the place is like—at least for a day.
Chabad Delegation Meets with IDF Chief of Staff
A delegation of Chabad Chassidim met with the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, Lt. General Benny Gantz ahead of the upcoming holiday of Rosh Hashana. A new Sefer Torah, being written in merit of the soldiers serving in the IDF, had its first letters filled in by the Lt. General.
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Peretz and Mussie (nee Weingarten) Wolowik (Crown Heights)
Video: Joy in Challenging Times
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: How can one be joyous in challenging times? A bonus video on what one should meditate on when hearing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah is presented in the extended article.
New Engagement!
Ariel Stern (Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Mushky Shanowitz (Montreal, Canada)
Letter & Spirit: Faith Makes Us Feel Secure
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the idea of hashgocho protis as we see it in the 27th Perek of Tehillim – “L’Dovid H’ Ori,” which we say during Elul and most of Tishrei. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
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Boruch and Libby (nee Perl) Losh (Crown Heights)
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Shneur and Devorah Leah (nee Gitlin) Hirsch (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights Carjacker Indicted; Faces 25 Years
A 29-year-old Queens man has been indicted by Brooklyn’s D.A. for an armed carjacking that he allegedly committed on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights this summer.
Picture of the Day: Chabad in Uman
Among the tens of thousands of Jews who made the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine to spend Rosh Hashanah near the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was a group of Lubavitcher Chassidim. A ‘Chabad House’ with a Nusach Ari minyan was set up for their convenience.
Chabad Lawsuit Reinstated Against CT Town
A federal appeals court has reinstated a Chabad rabbi’s lawsuit accusing the Litchfield Historic District Commission of religious discrimination when it rejected plans for a synagogue in 2007.
New Engagement!
Yitzy Schoenberg (Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Adaya Heller (Tzfas, Israel)
Video: President Wishes ‘Shanah Tovah’
President Barrack Obama wishes all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah a happy and healthy new year.
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)
