The Big Apple’s major airports — JFK, La Guardia and Newark — are among the worst in the nation for on-time arrivals.
You could hear the music pounding at least three blocks away, insistent, leibedik, pulling passersby towards the synagogue as if with silver laughter.
Rain did not deter Solon Chabad Hebrew School students from enjoying a Succah Parade on Sunday, October 16 as they visited Succahs in the neighborhood in celebration of the Succot holiday.
Montreal Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Bernath built an eco-friendly sukkah on the corner of Monkland Boulevard. He made the walls from recyclable pieces of cardboard and each and single piece of packaging material contains a peace slogan.
Hundreds turned out for Simchas Beis Hashueva in Crown Heights with lively music lasting into the night.
Tzivos Hashem is excited to announce the launch of this year’s ‘Jewish Kids Got Talent’ competition. Once again, Tzivos Hashem – Jewish Children International, is looking for children with talent to share their chesed achievements and greatest accomplishments to be entered into the contest to win cash for a non-profit organization of their choice and amazing prizes for themselves.
In its first of a kind show, a gallery of contemporary Jewish art went on display in Crown Heights, featuring the work of a slew of Chassidic artists who use their spiritual convictions to influence and guide their art.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Lubavitcher Yeshiva hosted a father and son Simchas Beis Hashoeva Sunday evening on the roof of the Yeshiva building on Crown St. Building on success of previous years the students danced into the night in a way befitting for a student of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva.
I am not looking to cause a stir, but I was wondering: does anyone else feel the way I do about Simchas Bais Hashoeiva running so late.
Dani Saul (Pittsburgh, PA) and Yael Konsiker (Markham, Ontario)
Shmuel Aryeh and Bracha Malka Hackner (London, UK)
Chabad of Southern Colorado held Sukkos activities and did Mivtzoim at the worlds tallest suspension bridge with the help of a group of volunteers who came in from New York.
Rachel Kershaw stood beneath the large, thatched sukkah, or tabernacle, Sunday and sampled freshly prepared sushi, enjoying the taste and the chance to celebrate the spiritual journeys of her forefathers.
“The government lied to all the bereaved families. They promised the bereaved parents that the terrorists would never get out. Ehud Barak made a personal promise to me that this terrorist would never see the light of day. I knew that day that he had lied to me. I told everyone that it was only a matter of time before the next deal. I saw the Goldwasser and Regev deal and I knew that it was only a matter of time before the murderers of my brother are released.”
Chabad youth have installed traditional temporary huts on dozens of off-road vehicles which will travel across Israel throughout the holiday of Sukkot and serve hikers and IDF soldiers in places where there are no permanent sukkot.
A ‘Pop Up’ Sukkah was erected in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.
In a volume published in 1930, Rabbi Hayim Elazar Shapiro of Munkacs (Minhas Eluzar, 1871-1937) commented that he had seen and heard it said in the name of greats that there was a practice to only hold the lulav during the Hallel service. Presumably the Munkatcher Rebbe meant that the three species that were bound together – lulav, hadasim and aravot – were held during the service and the etrog was not. The Minhas Eluzar decried this practice, calling it a “mistaken custom” and adding that it had no basis.
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