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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yossi Eilfort (S. Diego, CA) and Dassy Levilev (Crown Heights)
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.
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.
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.]
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.
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.
Shmuly and Dini (nee Korolitzky) Gutnik (Boca Raton, FL)
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.”
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.
Shimmy and Itty (nee Fellig) Gerlitzky (Crown Heights)
Thousands of guests have flocked to New York in order to spend the month of Tishrei in the Rebbes vicinity, and yesterday the Vaad Hatmimim HaOlami – who has set up accommodations and a comprehensive program for Bochurim – held a Kinus and Farbrengen welcoming the guests.
Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz (Kharkov, Ukraine)
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