Video: Israeli Bochurim Cut Across Eastern Parkway

Despite barriers erected by the Police Department to deter such activities, many Israeli Bochurim visiting Crown Heights for Tishrei continue to cut across Eastern Parkway, dodging speeding traffic and crating a major hazard.

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Jewish Center Bombed in Sweden

Arutz 7

Rabbi Shneur Kesselman, Chabad Shliach in Malmo, Sweden, has the distinction of being the Shliach who suffers more anti-Semitic incidents than any other in the world.

An explosive device was set off outside a Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden late on Thursday night. Nobody was hurt in the blast, but the building sustained damage.

Video: Tishrei Guests Evicted from Basement

Dozens of Hasidic Jews visiting from Israel were forced to vacate what officials say is an illegal transient hotel in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday. NY1’s Michael Herzenberg filed the following report.

Community Board Rejects Ohel Bus Stop

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Community Board 13 in Cambria Heights, Queens voted down a proposal by Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch for a charter bus stop near Montefire Cemetery. The unanimous vote comes two weeks after residents rejected, also unanimously, the charter bus stop at a public hearing. The final decision rests with the City’s Department of Transportation.

Op-Ed: The Triumph of Chabad

by Ashley Rindsberg – Jerusalem Post

It was another year’s chagim spent abroad, away from Israel where Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur (and Simcha Torah and Shemini Atzeret and Succot…) are a matter of course; where in a spiritual analog of the Soviet agents who once visited America and pointing in any direction were astonished to be taken to a supermarket stuffed with food, so in Israel in any direction that can be pointed to a synagogue lies; where the Days of Awe do not require instructions on the packaging: It was another year for me away from those kinds of comfort.

A Slow, Steady Hassidic Rebirth in Russia

NPR

Dovid Karpov has been the rabbi at the Darkei Shalom synagogue since it was built 15 years ago. Like many people in his congregation, Karpov grew up in a Soviet-era family that was not religious. He says he had to learn his faith for himself.

About a dozen men prayed recently at Darkei Shalom, a Hasidic Jewish synagogue in the working-class neighborhood of Otradnoye in north Moscow.

Video: Oholei Torah Alumni to Gather

Oholei Torah Alumni will be gathering once again on the onset of the Annual Kinnus Hashluchim. The reunion will be held on Wednesday, November 7th / 22nd Cheshvan at 8:00 pm in the Gutnick Ballroom of the Oholei Torah Center.