Photos: Crowds Dance at Simchas Beis Hashoeva
From dusk to dawn, crowds of Chasidim and Jews from all walks of life danced joyously to live music played by Avi Piamenta at Simchas Beis Hashoeva on Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights.
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Zalmy Chesney, right, (grey shirt), and his brother Bentzy, of Crown Heights, build a sukkah on the second floor deck of a Borough Park synagogue. Photo: Todd Maisel/NY Daily News.
Daily News: Sukkah Builders Rake It In
A crown Heights-based business was the subject of a NY Daily News feature article on the seasonal ‘pop-up’ industry of Sukkah building, describing how Yeshiva Students earn a quick buck building the wooden and canvas huts in advance of the weeklong holiday.
Baby Girl!
Uri and Dina (nee Orron) Fraenkel (Crown Heights)
Jews of All Stripes Dance Together in Beitar Illit
Thousands of residents of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Beitar Illit, Israel, turned out for a Simchas Beis Hashoeva celebration, hosted by the local Chabad Shul.
After Firebomb Ukraine Synagogue Sees Growth
When a fire bomb landed in the synagogue in Zaparozhye, Ukraine in August, many said it was a sign of the times: the current government in the battle for Ukraine is anti-Semitic. For Rabbi Nochum and Dina Ehrentreu, Chabad representatives to the city, it was one time incident, with anti-Semitism in the city – controlled by the current government for the past four years – always a non-issue.
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Thursday & Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday and Friday, October 9-10, for Sukkos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Levi and Chani (nee Popack) Wilschanski
789 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Yisroel and Mushka Slava Sternbach
1563 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
Yoel and Chevy (nee Gurary) Naparstek
1320 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Berry and Chaya (nee Kaufmann) Silver
703 Lefferts Ave. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Daniel and Chaya Ladaiov (Crown Heights)
Brana Shaina Deitsch Recalls Simchas Torah 1958
In an interview conducted in 2012, Mrs. Brana Shaina Deitsch recalls how the Rebbe taught the Niggun Shamiel on Simchas Torah, 5719.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during morning prayers on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.
Israeli Girl Violated While Sleeping in 770
The NYPD’s Special Victims Unit is investigating a report that a young woman, who is visiting from Israel for the month of Tishrei, was assaulted while sleeping in the women’s section of 770. With the help of Shomrim, police have successfully apprehended the suspect, who has since been charged with the crime.
Baby Girl!
Dovid and Elisa (nee Erdvin) Goldstein (Houston, TX)
Video: Attaining the Greatest Level of Joy
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the holiday of Sukkos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one attain the highest level of joy?
Letter & Spirit: Science Affirms Monotheism
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he expounds on the unity we find in creation, which science is coming to realize more and more as it searches for the ideal formula which would combine all physical phenomena into one comprehensive equation. 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.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mendel Cotlar, 13, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Mendel Cotlar of Houston, TX. He passed away this morning after many years of living with Glycogen Storage Disease. He was 13 years old, having just celebrated his Bar Mitzvah last month.
Videos: What We Can Learn from the Rebbe Maharash
Being that today is the 13th of Tishrei, the Rebbe Maharash’s yahrtzeit, JEM compiled a collection of videos in which the Rebbe describes what we can learn from his life and legacy.
From Days Gone By: One of the First Sukkah Mobiles
In this photo collection from Lubavitch Archives, one of the very first ‘sukkah mobiles’ can be seen on the streets of College Park, Maryland. The photos were taken on Chol Hamoed Sukkos, circa 1970.
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