Twin Boys!
Sholom Ber and Elie (nee Hoffman) Estrin (Raleigh, NC)
The Sholom Zochor will be at 400 Forest Hills Rd. Sandy Springs, GA.

Hundreds of Jewish Families Stuck in Ukraine War-Zone for High Holidays
Hundreds of Jewish families are staying in the flashpoint eastern Ukraine cities of Donetsk and Mariupol and will spend Rosh Hashanah there. The families are hoping for an extended calm after the signing of a cease-fire agreement reached last week between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian militias, said the chief rabbi of Donetsk, Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski.

Video: Senator Ted Cruz Booed for Pro-Israel Remarks
Last night, at a gathering with Arab Christians, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was booed for saying “Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” and “Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.”

Letter & Spirit: The Danger of Concessions
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the dangers of giving liberated land back to Israel’s enemies. 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.

Remembering Reb Moshe Katsenelenbogen, 83, OBM
Moshe Katsenelenbogen, or Reb Maishke, as he was later known, was born on the 11th of Nissan in 1931 in Gzhatsk, in the former Soviet Union, to Rabbi Michoel and Sarah Katsenelenbogen, the youngest of five children.
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Devorah Leah (nee Hertz) Kotlarsky (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 1568 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
New Engagement!
Mendel (ben R’ Dovid Shraga) Polter (Oak Park, MI) and Kayla Brikman (Crown Heights)
L’chaim tonight, Thursday, at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]

Chabad Rabbi Named One of CSU’s 6 Best Teachers
Donning a long beard and a kippa on the crown of his head, Colorado State University’s Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik is not the type of philosophy teacher one would expect to walk into a classroom, joking with students in a thick Australian accent.

BC Women Join Together for ‘Mega Challah Bake’
120 women from across the greater Vancouver area gathered on Wednesday evening, September 10th, for a ‘Community Mega Challah Bake’ at the Lubavitch Centre.

Hallandale Holds Siyum on ‘Hemshech Ayin Beis’
After over three years of daily weekday study of the famous Hemshech 5672 (Ayin Beis) from the Rebbe Rashab, his longest series of discourses (144 Maamorim), a Siyum of the second part of Ayin Beis was held Friday, 10 Elul, in Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch in Hallandale Beach, Florida, the Headquarters of Chabad of South Broward.
New Engagement!
Yisroel Jacobs (Amersfoort, Netherlands) and Nechama Berger (London, UK)

Photos: 9/11 Through the Eyes of Shomrim Volunteers
Amid the chaos and panic following the airliners slamming into the two World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, many men and woman answered a higher calling – instead of running away, they turned and ran towards the burning buildings in desperate attempts to rescue those trapped in the burning inferno. Among those brave men was a band of Shomrim volunteers from Crown Heights.

Music Video Highlights Plight of the Childless
As the Yomim Norai’m are ever so quickly approaching, this brand new inspiring music video to help us get into the right mind frame to daven on behalf of our brothers and sisters around the world.
Baby Boy!
Sholom Ber and Chaya (nee Edelman) Evers (Paris, France)

Video: How to Outsmart the MTA with Simple Math
Refilling your MTA card is a pretty standard procedure for anyone traveling underground in New York City. But for those who pay attention to the details, you probably noticed that annoying leftover balance that’s either a nickel or dime, or just a few cents shy of a ride. In other words, it’s useless.

Dangerous Intersection Claims Another Victim
An elderly Jewish woman was struck and injured by a construction van at the intersection of Albany Ave. and Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights. The van making a left turn onto Empire Blvd. after coming down Albany Ave.

600 Captivated by Story of Anne Frank’s Stepsister
Almost 600 people gathered for an evening with the noted author, holocaust survivor and childhood friend and step-sister of Anne Frank, Mrs. Eva Schloss, 85, of London, UK. The event was hosted by the Chabad community center of Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, directed by Rabbi Chesky and Mrs. Miri Rothman.