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Eli Oppenheimer celebrated the most recent High Holiday by busting a move. A fourth-year University of Florida dental student, Oppenheimer was among UF students who danced until 2 a.m. Tuesday at Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center to celebrate Simchat Torah, the end of the High Holy Days period.
Levi Lerer (Jerusalem, Israel) and Chana’le Weisz (London, UK)
After months of debate, today the German cabinet decided to introduce new legislation which would clearly enable and support the religious practice of circumcision.
Rabbi Berel Zaklikofsky of Goodyear’s Chabad Jewish Center built a mobile sukkah on his truck to help celebrate the Jewish holiday Sukkot.
Just heading into the year of Bar Mitzvah, the boys of seventh grade at Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. proved that they are not too young to conquer New York City – with their sets of Lulavim and Esrogim and mobile Sukkahs.
Sholom and Shaina (nee Rabiski) Rapoport (Crown Heights)
Two Bochurim from Bal Harbour, Dovid Labkowski and Pesach Gewirtz, went on Chol Hamoed to the nearby Aventura Mall – the largest mall in Florida – to help Jews perform the Mitzvah of Lulav and Esrog. They were greeted with much enthusiasm, and over 150 people opted to partake in the Mitzvah.
The Teleshevsky family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and grandfather, Reb Moshe, OBM, at 1569 Carroll St. [between. Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Shachris: 7:00am
Mincha: Shkia
Maariv: Tzeis
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
If the sight of a white pickup truck driving around with a big wooden box built onto its bed made you look twice last Wednesday, rest assured, you weren’t seeing things.
David Tayts (New York, NY) and Dorine Doliner (San Antonio, TX)
Following the Chabad custom of reciting the entire Tehillim and Chumash Devarim, thousands packed into 770 and stayed up through the night.
The following notice was sent by Rabbi Sholom Ber Baumgarten regarding a special Hakkafos for children which will take Monday evening place in 770:
This past Wednesday, Velvel Freedman – a graduate of Chabad Yeshivos – was an honored speaker at Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals after obtaining the highest score on the bar exam in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Rosh Hashanah you hear the shofar. Yom Kippur you fast. Sukkos you eat in the sukkah and take the lulav-esrog. Simchas Torah you have no mitzvah. Simchas Torah, the joy of the torah, the joy of this learning that takes a lifetime, Simchas Torah has no learning. At night, we take the Torah but don’t read the Torah; we don’t even unfurl it. Simchas Torah we dance.
Each day of Chol Hamo’ed, under the auspices of the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, hundreds of Bochurim would take to the streets all over New York City, armed with mobile Sukkahs and sets of Arba Minim, looking for Jews who are willing to perform the Mitzvos of Yomtov.
Marking the final night of dancing at Simchas Beis Hashueva in Crown Heights, thousands danced till 1:00am when the music ended and the throngs of people made their way up Kingston Avenue to 770 where Tehillim and Mishna Torah was recited throughout the night.
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