The idea should not be a novelty, but the event is a first. Chol Hamoed Sukkos will see the ‘Night Owls’ and The Moshe Hecht Band take the stage, along with other homegrown acts in the first ever Keren Simchas Chosson V’kalah Fundraiser Concert right here in Crown Heights.
Among the tens of thousands of Jews who made the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine to spend Rosh Hashanah near the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was a group of Lubavitcher Chassidim. A ‘Chabad House’ with a Nusach Ari minyan was set up for their convenience.
Dovid and Chanie (nee Nachlas) Dinerman (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Crown Heights father’s pleasant Rosh Hashanah evening turned into a nightmare as he returned home from a meal on the second night of Rosh Hashanah. A gun was pointed at him point blank, and no matter how much he tried to explain that a Jew would not have money on a holiday, the mugger was unmoved – he pulled the trigger.
When Joseph Kaltmann blows a ram’s horn called a shofar, the trumpetlike sound is booming, piercing, just “really loud,” according to his son, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann of New Albany, Ohio. The vigor with which the 84-year-old man blows is inspired by the sounds he heard as a teen lying half-dead in a World War II Nazi concentration camp in Halberstadt, Germany.
Moshe and Shira (nee Kaplan) Perelmuter (Jerusalem, Israel)
A world-wide registry of Sukkahs available for public use has been set up, and is listed online at www.localsukkah.org.
The Greenfield neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA is a new hotspot for young, Lubavitch professionals, under the leadership of Rabbi Chonye Friedman.
The Friendship Circle of Crown Heights is just a few votes short of winning $20,000.
A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb Wednesday, wounding at least one person, according to an agency that tracks anti-Semitic attacks in France.
On September 24, 2012, the United States Supreme Court will decide whether they will hear the case of Rubashkin V. United States. You can sign a petition to President Obama here.
Yosef Zev and Hadassah Rivkah Milsztajn (Miami Beach, FL)
Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of Chabad of Uptown in Houston, Texas lets passers-by know of his Yom Kippur plans.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yechezkel Zweibel, OBM, of Jerusalem, at the age of 70. Reb Yechezkel was a well known figure in the Charedi community in the holy city, serving as the Rosh Yeshiva of Tiferes Yaakov for many years. His brother, R’ Elimelech Zweibel, is the senior Mashpia in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim of Morristown, NJ.
Milling around the 400- capacity ballroom as freshly suntanned guests shouted in Hebrew to friends across the floor, I could have been at a wedding hall in Tel Aviv.
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