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.
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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.
It is well known the importance of saying Tehillim in during every free moment over Rosh Hashona. As has been done in previous years the boys in Lubavitch Boys School London had a massive Chayos in saying Tehillim.
Thousands of protesters continued to flood the streets of Manhattan’s Financial District in what has become the 20th day – which reached the largest numbers to date — of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Pictures from the Lechaim of Avi Meer (Morristown, NJ) and Chayke Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) which took place in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva hall in Crown Heights.
Ever wanted to be part of the frenzy and frolic of simchas beis hashoeva, but could barely drag your feet off the yom tov table long enough to put the kugel away? Well here’s your chance to relax and, at the same time know you’re fueling the very force that makes simchas beis hashoeva the off-the-ground experience it is today.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Sima Lokshin OBM a longtime resident in Crown Heights.
She is survived by her husband R. Zalman Lokshin, and her children Shaina Lipsker (Crown Heights), Modche (Crown Heights), Rivky Markowitz (Crown Heights), Mireleh Fischer (Crown Heights), Dovid, Peretz, Yonatan, Shmulik, and Menachem as well as her brothers and sisters.
In 1964, Rabbi Shmuel Lew was sent on a “Special Ops” mission to Greenland involving the highest echelons of the US government and a whole lot of Divine Providence. Hear him recount firsthand his amazing Yom Kippur at the North Pole.
Phnom Penh is a small town, especially when you are an expat. It’s common to run into people you know at the coffee shop, the grocery store, the local pub… it seems once you are around long enough, you get to know most of the people worth knowing, despite the transient nature of the population. This is even truer of the Jewish community in Cambodia; it’s like an easy game of Jewish Geography. “Oh, do you know Sol who works at Save the Children?” “Yes, of course I know Sol, his children go to preschool with mine.” The game is almost impossible to lose. It’s fast paced and only concludes when everyone in the community is named.
Continuing a tradition going back several years, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dispatched an official letter to the office of Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar to wish his country’s Jewish community blessings on occasion of Rosh Hashanah.
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Businessmen and landlords pitched in to help alleviate some of the burden of the cost of Kapores, allowing NCFJE to offer chickens at $4 a pop instead of the normal $10, but Mendy Hendel had a different idea – reaching out to Shea Hecht and suggesting that together they raise the prices and make more money!
The kosher supervision of the Beis Din of Crown Heights (“CHK”), headed by Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, released a list of products and food establishments under its Hechsher for this coming year.
The Washington Post ran a story highlighting a growing trend of synagogues across the country who are offering free services as a way of making people feel welcome during the High Holidays.
While gearing up for Rosh Hoshanah, CTeen chapters across the country took this month’s theme, “Labels are for Clothing, Not People” to heart, and pledged to reach out to those who are judged and labeled by society through no fault of their own. They found a way to do this through joining up with Aleph Institute, an organization that gives aid to families of incarcerated individuals.
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