Well Behaved Students Receive Daled Minim Sets
This past Sunday, a raffle was held for each of the 37 Elementary school classes in Oholei Torah for a set of Daled Mimin, sponsored by Mendy Lipsker of the Esrogim Center of Crown Heights.
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Photos: Crown Heights Daled Minim Market
Seasonal merchants peddle their wares of Esrogim, Lulavim, Hadasim, Aravos and other Sukkos merchandise all along Kingston Ave.
A Manhattan billboard by the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos.
Op-Ed: A Double Standard on Kaparot
This week thousands of chickens are being slaughtered as part of the ‘Kaparot’ ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur. A live chicken is rotated over the head, expiation prayers recited and then the fowl is slaughtered by slitting its throat with a knife as sharp as a scalpel. The meat is then donated to the poor.
Picture of the Day: Alternate Side Parking
The Twins from France navigate their iconic “vehicle” across the street for Alternate Side Parking.
100 Years: Krinsky Family Begins New Sefer Torah
On Sunday evening, friends and family gathered at the home of Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Krinsky, the Rebbe’s trusted secretary and chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, for the commencement of the writing of a Sefer Torah.
Rosh Hashana Meal Sign of a Changing Bed-Stuy
Children prayed and lit candles, a symbolic fish head adorned the dinner table and a rabbi blessed the food at a recent Rosh Hashanah communal dinner in central Brooklyn. But this scene wasn’t unfolding in Crown Heights; it was in a far less-likely locale — Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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The Chabad House in Longmont, Colorado surrounded by 5 feet of water.
Yom Kippur Inspires Determination in Wake of Floods
As heavy rains and flash-flooding continued to batter the Boulder, Colo., area straight through Yom Kippur, and with rains continuing to hamper rescue efforts throughout the region on Sunday, Chabad rabbis told of devastation and devotion, as well as a dedication to volunteerism in the tough and uncertain days ahead.
Students Honor 9/11 Victims with Good Deeds
Chabad at Bradley University commemorated the 12th anniversary of 9/11 Wednesday by encouraging students, staff and other passersby to do something good for humanity.
Eight-Year-Old Boy Run Over by Van, Emerges with Mere Scrapes and Bruises
An eight-year-old boy escaped a frightening accident with just some scrapes and bruises, after he was hit by a van which was making a left turn. The boy was able to crawl out from underneath the vehicle on his own.
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Mayer Wayden (Philadelphia, PA) and Sara Mogilevsky (Toronto, Canada)
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1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
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Ezriel and Elky (nee Schtroks) and Raitport (Crown Heights)
Photo: Bob Jacob - Cleveland Jewish News.
1,200 Walk for Friendship Circle in Ohio
About 1,200 people took part in Friendship Circle of Cleveland’s fourth annual ‘My Walk 4 Friends.’
Cleveland Jewish News
The Ohel. Photo by Bentzi Sasson.
NYT: Jews Make Pilgrimage to the Rebbe
At midnight on Wednesday, Gaby Danieli stepped into the warm night on Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens, the locks of hair flowing from each temple still sopping wet. He had just dunked in a Jewish ritual bath built beneath a modest house, and was ready for a visit to the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Lubavitcher group of Hasidic Jews.
NY Times
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Mickey and Chani (nee Fischweicher) Ettelson (Crown Heights)
Thousands of Kaporos Chickens Die from Heat
Kaporos services in parts of Borough Park were negatively affected Thursday after thousands of chickens awaiting slaughter suffocated in their cages due to the intense heat.
NY Daily News
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