A reader emailed us a video he took on his cellphone of him walking around in front of 770 on this Erev Yom Kippur.
We are holding right before Yom Kipper and HaShem wants to seal each and every one of us for a year of good health. We don’t know His master plan, but we do know that everything, no matter how tragic, happens for a reason.
During these days when we practice the Kaporos, talmidim in Oholei Torah from fourth through sixth grades received a live hands-on experience in Shechita and Kashering a chicken.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Lipshitz arrived in New York on a Thursday after a long flight from Israel with plans to continue on to Canada immediately. Rabbi Lipshitz, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, headed an organization supporting Jewish educational institutions in the Land of Israel. He was travelling specifically to attend a fundraising event and hoped that spending the Sabbath with the locals would enable him to share his success stories in a more relaxed environment.
Amid the hustle and bustle of Kapores on Eastern Parkway, a man riding a bicycle was run over by an unmarked police car and was injured.
Menachem Mendel and Esthi (nee Rapoport) Yarmush (Crown Heights)
Ari and Sara’le (nee Wilschanski) Edelman (Crown Heights)
Yerachmiel and Aliza (nee Galambus) Galinsky (Montgomery County, PA)
Archive video: The Rebbe bestows the Priestly Blessing following Afternoon Prayers on Erev Yom Kippur. 9 Tishrei, 5751 · September 28, 1990 From the weekly video magazine – ‘Living Torah’.
B’nai Emunoh Congregation in Greenfield has transferred the title to its synagogue to Chabad Lubavitch of Pittsburgh, and has changed its name to B’nai Emunoh Chabad.
One of the customs of erev Yom Kippur, the day before the fast, is the mystical Kaparot ceremony, carried out by prescribing a circular motion three times above a person’s head while saying a prayer that symbolically “exchanges” the object above his head for him.
Laetitia Beck is well on her way to becoming the Sandy Koufax of women’s professional golf.
Approximately 100 congregants marched the streets by singing, dancing and celebrating Chabad of Pembroke Pines’ first owned Torah.
When I was flipping through the table of contents of the most recent issue of the Zman Magazine, it brought me great pleasure (albeit prematurely) to see that they had a feature story on ‘heroic [Russian] Jews who led a spiritual revolt [in the USSR]’. It didn’t take long until I realized that the magazine’s motive wasn’t to convey a portion of history as it had taken place, rather to [re]write history. In this article consisting of a couple of hundred sentences, merely two of them mentioned Chabad (to be quite honest, I wasn’t holding my breath).
No one thought it could happen here. Yet, eighty four years ago today, the Jewish community of Massena, New York was accused of ritually murdering a non-Jewish child.
To the snatch-and-grab robbers who prowl the city’s streets and subways, the iPhone is an attractive target: ubiquitous, expensive and easily recognizable from across the street.
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