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Shimon (ben R’ Yosef) Simpson (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Begun (Cheviot Hills, CA)
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Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, began Sunday evening with services at synagogues throughout Ventura County. Tashlich ceremonies, in which congregations walked to the nearest body of water, took place Monday, along with the blowing of the shofar. “We visit a body of water to symbolically cast our sins into the ocean, free of negativity,” said Rabbi Moshe Bryski of Chabad of the Conejo.
The Valley’s Jews Usher in New Year
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, began Sunday evening with services at synagogues throughout Ventura County. Tashlich ceremonies, in which congregations walked to the nearest body of water, took place Monday, along with the blowing of the shofar. “We visit a body of water to symbolically cast our sins into the ocean, free of negativity,” said Rabbi Moshe Bryski of Chabad of the Conejo.
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Naftoli and Shterna (nee Goldenberg) Rapoport (Montreal, Canada)
Photo Gallery: 1,500 Tishrei Guests Welcomed
The Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami arranged a welcoming event for the Bochurim who arrived in Crown Heights to spend Tishrei in the Rebbe’s courtyard. 1,500 bochurim, Rabbonim, Mashpi’im and Shluchim attended the inspiring event, which began as the fast of Tzom Gedalia ended, and lasted until the early hours of Thursday morning.
Students Welcome New Year at Chabad-Texas A&M
The flame passes from one set of slender fingers to another, each candle blessed with light, as a rough and beautiful tongue bids the new year a welcome.
Night Owls, Moshe Hecht to Raise Funds for KSCVK
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.
Picture of the Day: Chabad House in Uman
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.
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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.
Mugger Attempts to Shoot Father of 12 on Yom Tov
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.
Shofar: The Sound of Freedom
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.
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Moshe and Shira (nee Kaplan) Perelmuter (Jerusalem, Israel)
Video: Wake Up, New York City!
Website Lists Open Sukkahs All Over the World
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.
Video: Slichos at Bnai Emunoh-Chabad in Pittsburgh
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.
Video: An Appeal from Crown Heights Friendship Circle
The Friendship Circle of Crown Heights is just a few votes short of winning $20,000.
4 Injured After Explosion at Kosher Store in Paris
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.
