Photographer Itsik Roytman captured fascinating photos and video of Jews from all over the world dancing joyously through the night until the wee hours of the morning at the Crown Heights Simchas Beis Hashoeva.
A pair of baby faced thieves brazenly attempted to steal a bicycle on East New York Ave., only to be stopped by a passerby who, together with workers from a nearby supermarket, chased one of them down. He was later arrested by police officers.
Shmuel and Rivky (nee Kleinman) Kazen (Crown Heights)
The iconic Tefillin stand at the Kotel, operated by Tzeirei Chabad, ‘switched over’ to carrying the Daled Minim for the days of Yom Tov and thousands merited to shake the Lulav and Etrog. Photographer David Kotlar presents a gallery.
Mordechai Ben David sings a new song, titled “Hineh Lo Yanum”, at the Simchas Bais Hashoeva of congregation Shaarei Torah in Los Angeles, CA. The song was composed by philanthropist Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Hoshanah Rabbah, Shmini Atzeres and Simchas Torah for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota received a warm welcome from the Crown Heights community last night at Simchas Beis Hashoeva, after meeting with community leaders at a Sukkah in the neighborhood.
A 22-year-old Israeli Bochur, visiting Crown Heights with his family for the holidays, was violently assaulted while walking home from the celebrations of Simchas Beis Hashueva on Monday night. Leaving the victim beaten and bloodied, the assailants made off with his iPhone.
Chabad Lubavitch of Lichtfield County, CT held a Sukkos festival Monday night. The Jabali African Acrobats performed outside in the plaza following an evening of kosher food and fun for the children in attendance.
On the holiday of Sukkos, Jews around the world can be found sitting in Sukkahs – outdoor huts with roofs of branches or reeds. While the basic blueprint is the same, different locations lend to some pretty crazy iterations.
Jewish NBA player Omri Casspi, recently signed by the Houston Rockets, spent the first night of Sukkot at Chabad of Pinellas County in Clearwater, Fla.
The men gathered their children and hurried across San Jose Boulevard. One man covered his children in light-reflective safety vests. His beard reached down to his tie, his sons’ tufts of hair tucked behind their ears.
Peretz and Chaya (nee Teitlebaum) Mochkin (Montreal, Canada)
Police in Crown Heights are asking for the public’s help locating two suspects wanted in connection with a mugging that took place on Saturday.
Only 19 percent of the voters in the New York city mayoral primary on September 10 were Jewish.
From dusk to dawn, thousands of Chasidim and Jews from all walks of life danced joyously at Simchas Beis Hashoeva on Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights.
Wrapped in a Talis, a group of Tzfatis smashed through the front door of 770 yesterday to reenact the distribution of dollars, which the Rebbe would do every Sunday between 1986 and 1992. This incident caps month-long terror campaign in which the Rebbe’s Library was broken into, a Gabbai was beaten up and Tishrei guests were threatened not to visit the Ohel.
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