‘Mountain Jews’ Celebrate Historic Simchat Torah
FJC
Newly built Synagogue in Baku, Azerbaijan
For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.
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South African Émigrés Build a Home in Australia
A new cultural and spiritual home in Melbourne’s inner south, the innovative Chabad Central Shule will provide a wide range of spiritual and community services for generations to come.
An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that will benefit not only its congregants, but the entire local Jewish community as well.
Schach Pickup Information
The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up. During the next few days, the S’chach will be picked up by the local Sanitation Dept. on the regular garbage pick up days for your block. Please put the S’chach in the area where your regular household garbage is being picked up. If you put your garbage in front of your house, please put your S’chach along the curbside.
Meeting to Reduce Alternate Side Parking for District 8
For those who own a car but not a driveway or garage, Alternate Side Parking regulations can be quite a burden; none more so than in Crown Heights where it happens four times a week (as opposed to the standard two). At last, for those residents living north of Eastern Parkway in NYC District 8, relief may be on its way.
Kingston Ave. is filled with Israelis and others shopping last minute items from peddlers and merchants on the street before they fly back home.
Video of the Day: The Crown Heights Bazaar
Kingston Ave. is filled with Israelis and others shopping last minute items from peddlers and merchants on the street before they fly back home.
Baby Girl!
Nadiv and Toby (nee Ezagui) Kehaty (Crown Heights)
The Malka family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Dovid OBM, at 440 Brooklyn Ave Apt. 2G [between Empire Blvd. and Sterling St.]
Shachris 7:30
Mincha 5:45
Maariv Bizmana.
The family asks that people not come after 10pm. They have also set up an email address for people to send memories and condolences: malkafamily440@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Shachris 7:30
Mincha 5:45
Maariv Bizmana.
The family asks that people not come after 10pm. They have also set up an email address for people to send memories and condolences: malkafamily440@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Info to Be Menachem Avel the Malka Family
The Malka family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Dovid OBM, at 440 Brooklyn Ave Apt. 2G [between Empire Blvd. and Sterling St.]
Shachris 7:30
Mincha 5:45
Maariv Bizmana.
The family asks that people not come after 10pm. They have also set up an email address for people to send memories and condolences: malkafamily440@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Skechers & Foot Locker Team Up for Friendship Circle
Examiner
Skechers is teaming up with Kids Foot Locker to kick off the third annual Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk to raise funds for children with special needs and education on October 30, 2011.
Oprah Winfrey Spotted in Crown Heights
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, in New York as part of a new television series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” that premieres in January, visited the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights for a glimpse into the daily life of Chasidic Jews and how their intense spiritual devotion informs and strengthens their dealings with the outside world.
NY Post
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
The Hate in Zuccotti Park
NY Post
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
Yeshiva World News
Illustration Photo
While the tzibur is just beginning to recover from the bochrim in Japan incident, which all continue davening will end soon and end well, there is now a story of a Yerushalmi bachur involved with drugs and imprisoned in India.
Askanim Take Up Case of Bachur Imprisioned in India
Yeshiva World News
Illustration Photo
While the tzibur is just beginning to recover from the bochrim in Japan incident, which all continue davening will end soon and end well, there is now a story of a Yerushalmi bachur involved with drugs and imprisoned in India.
Baby Boy!
Yossi and Sarah’le (nee Lipsker) Langsam (Crown Heights)
More Victims Come Forward in Melbourne
JTA
Six more people are alleging that they were abused by a security guard at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne, according to police.
3 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!
Menachem Mendel Simon (Crown Heights) and Leah Rochel Rubenstein (London)
1485 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Mendy Abergel (Crown Heights/Kfar Chabad) and Chaya Esther Katz (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Dani Saul (Pittsburgh) and Yael Konsker (Toronto)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Talmidim Hashluchim Spend Day in Preparation
A special full-day Yom Iyun was hosted by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim for Bochurim as they take leave for the upcoming year on Shlichus to Chabad Yeshivos worldwide, held in Congregation B’nei Jacob – Chabad of Park Slope, NY.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Chana Dina (nee Rabinowicz) Slonim (S. Paulo, Brazil)
Op-Ed: What Chabad-Lubavitch and Modern Orthodox Communities Can Teach Each Other
by Rachel Renz – YU Beacon
Oholei Torah bochurim learn Chasidus with students at Yeshiva University on a Thursday night.
I think it’s high time there was some new cultural diffusion. I don’t mean cultural diffusion on a grand scale, where one nation spreads its lifestyles and outlooks to another nation or anything of the sort. Rather, I am proposing a small-scale exchange of ideas, lifestyles, and philosophies within two sectors of the Jewish world: Modern Orthodoxy and Chabad Lubavitch.
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