With the arduous campaign to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in its final stage, New Yorkers now have their choices before them: stick with policies that have kept the city relatively safe and prosperous, or break from a past that some residents complain has nurtured income inequality and racial divisions.
From Chasidic comedian Mendy Pellin’s latest series: The Jews that wandered the desert were no different than your average Florida retiree. With all the Jewbellishing, can you blame Moses for hitting the rock?
Hundreds of Jews took to the streets to celebrate the arrival of a new Torah scroll in Buckhurst Hill, a suburb of London, UK.
Mickey and Chani Ettelson (Crown Heights)
With sadness we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Mrs. Shaindel Lieberman, OBM, of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Updated Levaya times added.
Update: Levaya information added.
Two boys, both Bar Mitzvah age. One has grown up in Zurich, Switzerland, the other in Israel. Their lives have taken very different paths but recently they shared a wonderful, memorable, exciting day as Bar Mitzvah “twins”.
Mendel and Shaina (nee Lison) Gourarie (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1217 President St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
This short video tutorial will teach you how to make a Lulav ring in just 25 seconds.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe during a Farbrengen in the Sukkah in the late 1950s.
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.
Shneur and Mushky (nee Springer) Cohen (Crown Heights)
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.
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]
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.
Schneur and Levi Malinas and Yosef Chaim Maor cut and gather schach for the Sukkah of the Postville, Iowa Shul.
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.
The Besht Center, in collaboration with the Lubavitch Youth Organization, kicked off the new year with a lecture for women by Rabbi Manis Friedman.
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