The package arrives in the mail. Children squeal in delight. Their mother gently raises the cardboard box, bringing out of the reach of overeager, grabbing hands. “Relax, relax,” she says, as she begins to open the package. The kids can barely contain their excitement as the contents are revealed: Books.
Benny and Sonia (nee Rodal) Hershcovich (Los Cabos, Mexico)
A freelance photographer traveled across the United States, snapping a photo from his car every five seconds. With those photos, he produced a time lapse video of 12,225 miles in just under five minutes. A sharp eyed reader spotted something interesting at the 3:35 mark, somewhere in Colorado. Can you see what it is?
On Sunday, Nov 6th, Chevra Ahavas Yisroel hosted a unity concert with legendary Israeli Chasidic singer Yosef Karduner. Proceeds of the show went to the writing of a Sefer Torah in honor of Kasriel Benjamin OBM, who passed away at the young age of 25. The concert also debuted 2 new talents: Yudi’s Project (Yudi Simon), and Yellow Red Sky (Shevach Tamir and Moshe Katzen).
Shneur and Sonya (nee Antopolsky) Kamensky (Crown Heights)
This weekend, Shabbos Parshas Vayeira, over 900 students and 100 Shluchim and Shluchos will be coming to Crown Heights for the largest open gathering of Jewish students in America.
Photographer Itsik Roytman captured the sights, sounds — and smells (!) of this year’s Kosherfest, the world’s largest kosher products trade event, which took place across the Hudson River in Secaucus, New Jersey. Among the participants were many Kosher food purveyors from Crown Heights, as well as Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.
Shloimie Ascher (Crown Heights) and Devorah Bard-Wigdor (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Sunday, November 13th at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
US Supreme Court Justices seemed divided during arguments on Monday over whether they should wade into a dispute between Congress and the executive branch over the status of Jerusalem.
Ezriel and Gitty (nee Wolf) Rappoport (Crown Heights)
For her entry in Tzivos Hashem’s Jewish Kids Got Talent II contest, 5 year-old Chana Kahn of Tarzana, California, shows the lines of Tanya she knows by-heart.
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid about the size of an aircraft carrier that on Tuesday will pass by Earth, within the moon’s orbit, in the closest approach of such an object in a generation.
Chabad of SE Morris County will once again be providing Thanksgiving dinners free of charge to individuals throughout Morris County who are alone or home bound during the holiday. Catered dinners will be delivered by volunteers to the homes of those in need on Thanksgiving morning, helping to share the holiday spirit with others.
Sholom and Sarale Lesches (Montreal, Canada)
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