Photos: Besht Celebrates President’s Birthday
Members of the Crown Heights Besht Center, along with family and friends, gathered for a Farbrengen last night to celebrate the 26th birthday of the Center’s beloved president, Sruly Clapman.
Members of the Crown Heights Besht Center, along with family and friends, gathered for a Farbrengen last night to celebrate the 26th birthday of the Center’s beloved president, Sruly Clapman.
Yechiel Yossi and Sheina (nee Schildkraut) Schanowitz (Baltimore, MD)
Nachum Markowitz‘s grand Kidushim and food distributions have been a staple of Tishrei in Lubavitch for the past 31 years. Since last year, in addition to all that, guests, students, and residents have been treated by Markowitz and his generous partners and donors to lavish breakfasts each morning of Sukkos.
Damp weather did not deter the regulars and guests at the Crown Heights Simchas Beis Hashoeva. Along with lively music, they danced on Kingston Avenue deep into the night.
Laiby and Chaya Mushka (nee Nemtzov) Lewis (Crown Heights)
As the Crown Heights community gears up for Sukkos, young entrepreneurs can be seen selling esrogim, rings and other Sukkos necessities on Kingston Avenue.
Chabad Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn strolled the streets here in one of the West’s most picturesque tourist towns, looking for Jewish travelers. “Shalom! Shalom!” he shouted, approaching a family lingering near Jackson’s town square. “Are you, by any chance, Jewish?”
With great sadness and pain we bring you the shocking news of the sudden passing of Rabbi Aharon Peretz Stawky, Shliach in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rabbi Stawsky was building a Sukkah on the balcony of his apartment, when he tragically fell to his death from the height of two stories.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Moshe Teleshevsky, OBM, of Crown Heights. Reb Moshe, affectionately known as the Rebbe’s Chazzan, passed away this morning, on the second day of the Yomtov of Sukkos.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a 27-year prison term issued to a former kosher slaughterhouse executive convicted of financial fraud following a huge immigration raid at the Iowa plant.
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The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released a pamphlet – in both English and Hebrew – which contains instructions for many customs and Halachos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming Yomim Tovim of Sukkos, Shmini Atzeres and Simchas Torah.
This PSA video will teach you how to make a Lulav ring in just 25 seconds.
In the merit of a speedy recovery for Emanuel ben Yenta and L.E.C. student Miriam bas Chana Tova, LEC students have pledged a Sukkos holiday of ahavas Yisroel—love for their fellow Jews. No stranger to projects of this sort, the students of Lubavitch Elementary School are taking their goal this year to the next level. Their pledge is to help at least 6,000 local residents fulfill the mitzvah of lulav and esrog and eating in a sukkah.
Menachem Mendel and Batsheva (nee Zilbershtrom) Katz (Chulon, Israel)
In honor of Sukkos, CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique, newly-released collection of photos taken during the month of Tishrei in the years 5742 and 5743 (1981 and 1982). With special thanks to Rabbi Pinny Lew.
As part of their comprehensive social skills program, this past week, boys from Cheder Darchai Limud put up a team effort and learned how to build a Sukkah.