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.
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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.
Getting a jump-start on the age old pre-Yom Kippur custom of ‘shlugging kapores‘ many families took advantage of the daylight and relatively warm weather, and to the sounds of shrill delight and shrieks of terror chickens went swinging!
Moishy Lew (London, UK) and Chavee Rosenblum (Montreal, Canada)
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.
Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick travels around to South Florida schools and temples, teaching children about the Jewish holidays in interactive and quirky workshops that feature bees and traditional animal-horn shofars.
Rabbi Gershon Overlander, Director of the Hendon Chabad house in London, UK, ‘delivers’ a message to the United Nations.
The tents pitched by Israeli demonstrators protesting this summer’s high housing are all but gone, but Chabad-Lubavitch centers all over the country are erecting their own, all in preparation for the holiday of Yom Kippur that begins Friday night.
Rabbi Yossi Jacobs has shown dynamic leadership in a six-year association at Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham. Shul membership has escalated fourfold to 550 with members across the Midlands. Attendances on Shabbat, morning minyanim and children’s services have improved.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In today’s climate, which sees terror behind every corner and inside every unattended package, police urged guests not to leave their suitcases unattended in 770. One such guest, however, decided to leave his suitcase right near the steps leading to the woman’s section.
Hirshy and Leah Sheina (nee Lewis) Raskin (Crown Heights)
After stepping down last December from the throne that he held for 25 years and 60,000 interviews on Larry King Live, the broadcasting icon stepped back up on the air with “Larry King To Life” hosting the 31st Chabad Lechaim To Life Telethon, with celebrity guests Howie Mandel, Oscar winners John Voight and Elliot Gould, Brad Garrett, Tom Arnold and Paula Abdul, among others. It was broadcast live from Hollywood Sunday Sept 25 and reached over 45 million households worldwide, breaking the record as the most viewed Jewish holiday program of all time!
Last month, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek hosted a reception in honor of the Jewish New Year at the Parliament building in Brussels.
A diligent delegation of women and children were busy baking challah the Sunday before the holiday of Rosh Hashanah at Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale.
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