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Video: Yom Kippur at the North Pole
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.
Asian Jewish Life
Left: Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Right: Rabbi Bentzion Butman and family.
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.
Playing Jewish Geography in Phnom Penh
Asian Jewish Life
Left: Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Right: Rabbi Bentzion Butman and family.
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.
Russian President Dimitry Medvedev with Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
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.
Russian President Extends High Holiday Greetings
Russian President Dimitry Medvedev with Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
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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Yisroel Amar Releases Debut Single – Gam Zu LeTova
The song can be downloaded for free at Mostlymusic.com
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!
Hendel’s Kapores Price Gouging Idea Vs. Hecht’s $4 Chickens
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.
CHK Releases List of What’s Under its Supervision
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.
Washington Post Highlights Chabad as Trend-Setter
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.
CTeens Reach Out to Inmates’ Children
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!
Photo Gallery: Kapores! Kapores!
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!
New Engagement!
Moishy Lew (London, UK) and Chavee Rosenblum (Montreal, Canada)
NY Times
Steven P. Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 in San Francisco in 2010.
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.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56
NY Times
Steven P. Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 in San Francisco in 2010.
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.
Miami Herald
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’s High Holiday Show-and-Tells Wow Kids
Miami Herald
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.
Video: Rabbi Overlander’s Message to the UN
Rabbi Gershon Overlander, Director of the Hendon Chabad house in London, UK, ‘delivers’ a message to the United Nations.
A tent camp in Tel Aviv, Israel protesting against rising housing prices and social inequalities.
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.
Israel: Out With the Old Tents, In With the New
A tent camp in Tel Aviv, Israel protesting against rising housing prices and social inequalities.
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.
Jewish Telegraph
Rabbi Yossi Jacobs (right) at the Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham.
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.
Dynamic Rabbi is a Boon to Community
Jewish Telegraph
Rabbi Yossi Jacobs (right) at the Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham.
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.
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