For the first time, Sukkos was celebrated at the Pikesville Military Reservation Armory for the soldiers of the Maryland Defense Force. Chaplain Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, who is the only Jewish Chaplain at the Maryland Defense Force, arranged for a Sukka mobile to visit the Armory in Baltimore.
Nuttie and Brochie (nee Barnett) Shpigelman (Crown Heights)
327 Crown St [between Brooklyn and New York Aves]
Meir and Chanie Crayk
430 Sterling St [between New York and Brooklyn Aves]
Moshe and Tzippora Rubinson (Crown Heights)
439 Sterling St, side door [between New York and Brooklyn Aves]
Benny and Mor (nee Binder) Greenberg (Crown Heights)
Yossi and Hinda (nee Gorowitz) Friedman (Crown Heights)
Shmuly and Batsheva (nee Hecht) Levy (Bal Harbour, FL)
Laime and Faigy (nee Ashkenazi) Wilhelm (Detroit, MI)
Shmulik and Chashie (nee Vishedsky) Schneerson (Jerusalem, Israel)
On October 18, 2011, Mr. Robert A. Mandell was officially approved by the Senate as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg, after being appointed by President Barack Obama.
No Jew, and indeed no decent person in whom there beats a human heart, could fail to be moved to tears by the reunion of Gilad Shalit and his family in Israel. Looking pale from years of being held in a cell and deprived of sunlight, and extremely shy due to years of being denied virtually all human contact, Israel welcomed home a hero for whom they had traded one thousand murderers, terrorists, and criminals committed to its destruction to keep true to its promise, that no soldier is ever forgotten or left behind.
On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth. But as the bus began to fill up, the men told her that she had to get up. Move to the back, they insisted.
Benny and Mor (nee Binder) Greenberg (Crown Heights)
Shmulik and Chashie (nee Vishedsky) Schneerson (Jerusalem, Israel)
Zalman and Leah (nee Dubroff) Abraham (Crown Heights)
Nuttie and Brochie (nee Barnett) Shpigelman (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Raizy (nee Galperin) Rubin (Albany, NY)
Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Israel brought holiday cheer to the country’s leading governmental figures, giving leaders from across the political spectrum the chance to make a special blessing on a combination of a palm branch, willow branches, myrtle twigs and a citron – collectively known as the Four Species.
Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County has bought the building that housed the Shalom Center at Western Washington University. The $880,000 purchase closed Wednesday, Oct. 5. The building at 102 Highland Drive had been owned by Campus Christian Ministries.
Egypt didn’t miss an opportunity yesterday snatching a visibly shaken Gilad Shalit, barely released from captivity, with a masked Hamas gunman hovering over him, for a boorish interview.
Hundreds turned out for Simchas Beis Hashueva in Crown Heights with lively music lasting into the night accompanied by Eli Marcus and Benny Friedman.
Crown Heights and Boro Park Shomrim had a really busy day Monday; together, they both successfully handled five missing person incidents. From an intoxicated 15-year-old who vanished in Crown Heights, to a 3-year-old child who wandered away from her parents on a the Coney Island boardwalk.
Lubavitchers in Montreal attended the Kinus Torah of Sukkos with speakers: Rosh Kollel, halachic author, Dayan and Rosh Yeshiva.
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