Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Chaya Rifkah Blachman OBM

With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chaya Rifkah Blachman OBM of Boro Park, Brooklyn at the age of 63.

Mrs. Blachman is survived by her mother; Miriam Blachman, and siblings; Rabbi Mendel Blachman, Eli Blachman, Chaim Blachman, Sara Patchen and Rochel Binder.

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City Agrees to Revisit Parking Violation Stickers

Today the New York City Council’s Transportation Committee held a hearing on a bill proposed by Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) that would change the city’s approach to punishing drivers for alternate-side parking infractions. Intro No. 546 would end the practice of placing hard-to-remove neon stickers on drivers’ vehicles when a driver parks on the wrong side on alternate-side parking days.

Famed Chabad Writer Guest Teaches as Online School

In preparation for Yom Kippur this year, students of the Yaldei Hashluchim Online School didn’t just learn about the Machzor – they lived it! With Mrs. Malka Touger as a guest speaker, presenting a visual presentation of the Kohen Gadol’s Avodah on Yom Kippur, students took a virtual trip into the Beis Hamikdash and saw the Avoda come alive!

Redeeming the Firstborn… Donkey!… in Kauai, Hawaii!

Richard Seigel is a retired ship captain from Alaska, who now lives on Kauai, Hawaii’s Garden Island. When he is not attending to his Etrog orchard – one of his favorite pastimes – he is busy with his pet baby-donkey.

Op-Ed: The Season of Freedom

by Yochanan Gordon

Left to Right: Ilan Grapel, Gilad Shalit and Jonathan Pollard

Each holiday season ushers in its own particular sentiment or experience of the joyousness of that specific juncture in time. Having just concluded the holiday of Sukkos, we recall numerous recitations of “the season of our joy” spanning eight celebratory days, including Shemini Atzeres (plus another day of Simchas Torah outside of Israel). So it would seem more appropriate to address the joy that we experienced over the holiday and reserve the topic of freedom for a later date, perhaps nearer to Pesach, which deals with the Exodus of the Jews from Egyptian bondage.

Video: Dancing Lubavitchers in Union Square

This video appeared on YouTube on a channel titled “Piano Across America.” The man who uploaded the video (apparently the pianist) wrote, “Definitely one of the highlights of playing at Union Square. I met one of those guys in San Francisco and he came up to me and said hello. I decided to play Hava Nagila and we all came together in celebration of the holiday Sukkot.”