A little nagging’s not so bad – if it’s electronic. That’s the idea behind a new email-alert service a group of Crown Heights rabbis devised to prod people to keep their Jewish New Year’s resolutions.
Aaron Yakov Lev (Riga, Latvia) and Chana Segal (Los Angeles, CA)
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May this year be a safe, successful and prosperous year to all, and may we achieve our ultimate goal and report the coming of Moshiach speedily in our days!
For Rabbi Naftoly Hershkovich it was a truly heartwarming experience to see generations come together and celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chabad & FREE of Niles synagogue.
Rosh Hashana celebrations started early for students at Chabad Jewish Academy in Myrtle Beach. The school, which will be closed Monday and Tuesday, celebrated the Jewish New Year Thursday with music streaming from the back deck and playground with booths set up like a mini-carnival.
Sunday, just before sundown, Dinah Miriam Camilleri will stroll into a beachside synagogue, stand among Jewish worshipers and immerse herself in an ancient faith far removed from her Catholic upbringing.
Morah Newfield’s second grade class in Beis Rivkah has a special message for their families, friends and the entire community for the coming new year.
I received a phone call a few months ago from the Jewish Chaplain stationed at Grafenwohr, Germany to aid him with services for the upcoming Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Having aided rabbis, both military and civilian alike, in the past, I decided to take up the Chaplain’s offer and spend part of Tishrei in Germany.
During the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the sounding of the ram’s horn signifies a time of spiritual awakening and is meant to encourage repentance. St. Paul Rabbi Reuven Drori has one of the more unusual horns, called a shofar. While most typically measure a foot long, Drori’s Yemenite shofar is close to 3 feet and produces much louder sound.
Boruch and Chevy (nee Flint) Lazar (Crown Heights)
Danny Saadon, Vice President of El-Al Israel Airlines for North and Central America, the largest branch of the airline outside of Israel, visited the Ohel as a preparation for Rosh Hashanah.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden invited about 75 rabbis and Jewish leaders to his private home in the nation’s capital, where he wished them a blessed new year. Rabbi Avraham Shmtov, head of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and his son Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Shliach to Washington D.C., were among the distinguished guests.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Tens of Montgomery Street residents, along with Shomrim volunteers, took to the street and chased down a burglar who had broken into a number of cars on their block. While attempting to flee, the burglar injured himself.
Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau message for Rosh Hashana disscuss ‘Why the shofar on Rosh Hashanah?’ in a video from TorahCafe.
Famed Lubavitch educator and Chazzan Reb Binyomin Levin of Kfar Chabad (Originally from the town of Nevel in White Russia) sings ‘Haneshomo Loch’ – a portion from Slichos – in 1961.
Rabbi Sholom and Sara Esther Paltiel, Shluchim to Port Washington, NY for the past 22 years, give a tour of their magnificent kindergarten, a small-scale replica of the holy-land which was named “Florence’s Israel” – after the benefactor’s mother.
