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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.
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12 Killed in Washington, D.C. Shooting Rampage
A former naval officer packing an assault rifle and two other guns sprayed an office building with bullets at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, killing 12 people in a rampage that paralyzed part of the nation’s capital, authorities said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.
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Dovid and Dina (nee Shanowitz) Rendler (Crown Heights)
Before and After: Video footage reveals an open miracle.
MIRACLE: Boy, 8, Run Over By Van; Walks Away
Surveillance video obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info reveals the open miracle that occurred yesterday, when an 8-year-old boy was run over by a van and walked away without any serious injuries.
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.
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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