Video: How to Make a Lulav Ring
This short video tutorial will teach you how to make a Lulav ring in just 25 seconds.
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Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe during a Farbrengen in the Sukkah in the late 1950s.
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Thursday, Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday and Friday, September 19-20 for Sukkos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Update: as several readers pointed out, alternate side parking on parts of Eastern Parkway’s service lane will be in effect on Saturday. Please do not leave your car parked there over Yomtov as you will be unable to move your car before then and you will be ticketed.
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Shneur and Mushky (nee Springer) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Russia: No Talks on Library Until Lawsuit Withdrawn
No negotiations on the future of the Schneerson Library, a collection of old Jewish books and manuscripts built by Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson at the end of the 19th century, are possible until a New York-based Hasidic organization withdraws its lawsuit against the Russian Federation, said Mikhail Shvydkoi, a Russian presidential envoy for international cultural cooperation.
RBTH
Laws and Customs: Sukkos and Eruv Tavshilin
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sukkos (up to – but not including – Hoshanah Rabbah) and Eruv Tavshilin for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
[Update: Guide from Crown Heights Badatz Added]
Photos: KSCVK Hosts Monday Morning Cooking Club
A few dozen women gathered at the home of Laya Biggs on New York Ave. for a show by the Australian group ‘Monday Morning Cooking Club.’ Proceeds from the event went to KSCVK, a fund that helps young Crown Heights couples cover their wedding expenses.
Picture of the Day: Gathering Schach in Iowa
Schneur and Levi Malinas and Yosef Chaim Maor cut and gather schach for the Sukkah of the Postville, Iowa Shul.
Wrong Turn Leads to Connection with Jewish Roots
That must be something Jewish, Ben Hadden thought, recognizing the five-foot-tall golden menorah in front of the brick building from childhood holidays at his grandmother’s house.
Houston Chronicle
Over 100 Inspired by Rabbi Manis Friedman
The Besht Center, in collaboration with the Lubavitch Youth Organization, kicked off the new year with a lecture for women by Rabbi Manis Friedman.
Fox News Editor Headlines Algemeiner Event
The Algemeiner Editor’s Club hosted Fox News Executive Editor John Moody Tuesday night at its second annual (End of) Summer Party.
Oihel Nosson Builds Largest Sukkah in Crown Heights
The congregants of Oihel Nosson, located at 580 Crown St., have built what is being billed as the largest Sukkah in Crown Heights on the property of adjacent Lubavitcher Yeshiva.
Florida Woman Killed on Way to Yom Kippur Sevices
57 year-old Esther Benzohar Ohayon, a member of Chabad of Jacksonville, FL, was tragically killed by a car while crossing the street on her way to Shul the eve of Yom Kippur.
Illustration photo: Chabad of the Cayman Islands.
Cayman Islands Celebrate Arrival of Torah
It was a celebration unlike any other in Grand Cayman. The Jewish community on the island Monday night welcomed its first Torah, which was delivered to Grand Cayman from Israel by an anonymous benefactor and will reside next to a borrowed Torah at the home of Rabbi Moshe Katz. His home, for the time being, serves as a synagogue for the small congregation.
Cayman Compass
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Shuli and Esty (nee Lasker) Kahan (Crown Heights)
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Eli and Rachelle (nee Evans) Schachter (Miami, FL)
Rabbi Shmuel Lew’s Yom Kippur at the North Pole
The Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa, Canada, directed by Dr. Yosef and Devora Caytak, recently hosted a Shabbaton for over two hundred people, with Rabbi Shmuel Lew of London, UK as a guest speaker. He told a fascinating and amusing story of a Yom Kippur he spent at the North Pole.
by Neshi Rodin
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