New Engagement!
Michoel Aron (Mikey) Yaron (Los Angeles, CA) and Baila Shpigelman (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim tonight, Sunday 418 Crown Street at 8:00pm
Security was stepped up at synagogues across New York on Saturday and the Jewish community was on alert after authorities intercepted explosives bound for Chicago houses of worship.
Terrror Bomb Scare: NYPD Keeps Closer Eye on Jewish Community
Security was stepped up at synagogues across New York on Saturday and the Jewish community was on alert after authorities intercepted explosives bound for Chicago houses of worship.
In a short video message to Chabad, Kotel activist, Gutman Locks praises Shluchim and Shluchos around the world. Saying that, “When you do what the Rebbe said to do, you are the Rebbe in the world today, you are his hand.”
Video – Kotel Activist Praises Shluchim
In a short video message to Chabad, Kotel activist, Gutman Locks praises Shluchim and Shluchos around the world. Saying that, “When you do what the Rebbe said to do, you are the Rebbe in the world today, you are his hand.”

Tea Party Butcher vs Democratic Minister for State Assembly
CROWN HEIGHTS — It’s butcher against minister in a Crown Heights state Assembly race that will test the Tea Party’s ties to the district’s Hasidic Jewish community.

Rebbe Video – Regards to the Shluchim
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe,” in honor of Kinus Hashluchim, we are presenting a video collection from various times at ‘Sunday Dollars’ which the Rebbe sends his blessings to different Shluchim around the world.

Six Brisos in Honor of the Rashab
The Jewish community of Rostov celebrated the 150th birthday of the Rebbe Rashab by visiting the Ohel and holding a community wide prayer ceremony. Members of the community wrote panim and requested blessings for themselves and the community.
Artist drawing of Sholom Rubashkin taking the witness stand during his financial-fraud trial in federal court in Sioux Falls, S.D. November 5, 2009. By Mark Marturello for the Des Moines Register.
U.S. District Judge Linda Reade issued a ruling on October 27, 2010 denying a motion for new trial for Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin – a former meatpacking executive who was convicted in 2009 of financial fraud following an immigration raid on his family’s Postville, Iowa company, known then as Agriprocessors.
Rubashkin Judge Rules on Her Own Conflict of Interest—Draws Rebuke as “Arrogant”
U.S. District Judge Linda Reade issued a ruling on October 27, 2010 denying a motion for new trial for Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin – a former meatpacking executive who was convicted in 2009 of financial fraud following an immigration raid on his family’s Postville, Iowa company, known then as Agriprocessors.
New Engagement!
Luzy Goldberger (Boro Park, NY) and Ruthie Kolt (Monsey, NY)
L’Chaim Monday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Baby Girl!
Menachem and Yocheved Freeman (Crown Heights)

Tuv Taam’s ‘Nova Lox Salad’ Recalled
Kosher First LLC is recalling Tuv Taam Salads Nova Lox Salad due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Understanding the past is critical to understanding the present. Attention to history slows the racings of contemporary life. It lends context to confusion and provides the lens which sharpens our perspective.
So let us survey the plains of the past. Let us gather ourselves about the hearth of lore and legend and perhaps be enlightened.
Ancient Lions and the Modern Man
Understanding the past is critical to understanding the present. Attention to history slows the racings of contemporary life. It lends context to confusion and provides the lens which sharpens our perspective.
So let us survey the plains of the past. Let us gather ourselves about the hearth of lore and legend and perhaps be enlightened.
Yesterday was a beautiful day in the city. The sun was shining bright, the leaves were whirling in the street corners, and the birds were chirping. Everyone was doing their errands, be it on Kingston Ave. or Fulton Street in Manhattan. I even talked to a very friendly officer as I was going into the subway.
So why does everyone feel and think that there is so much bad in the world? Why today did I not feel or see any of it? Well the reason is because there is lots of good in the world, but there are a bunch of problems too. Just like people, a person is mostly good but they can have a couple of problems which can make a relationship not work. The same applies to a job, for example being a police officer. For the most part they are doing their job, but there are some glaring issues as well.
Op-Ed: “I Never Imagined It Would Happen To Me”
Yesterday was a beautiful day in the city. The sun was shining bright, the leaves were whirling in the street corners, and the birds were chirping. Everyone was doing their errands, be it on Kingston Ave. or Fulton Street in Manhattan. I even talked to a very friendly officer as I was going into the subway.
So why does everyone feel and think that there is so much bad in the world? Why today did I not feel or see any of it? Well the reason is because there is lots of good in the world, but there are a bunch of problems too. Just like people, a person is mostly good but they can have a couple of problems which can make a relationship not work. The same applies to a job, for example being a police officer. For the most part they are doing their job, but there are some glaring issues as well.

GOP Gains May Cloud Mideast Picture
WASHINGTON, DC — A big Republican victory on Nov. 2 could bring the Obama administration’s troubled domestic agenda to a dead stop — but it is unlikely to do the same for its faltering Middle East peace efforts, which some Israelis argue favor the Palestinians.

Yagdil Torah in Cheshvan’s Mishpacha
The Cheshvan issue of Mishpacha Magazine had something different in its “In Novation” section.

Cape Town Chabad Night at the Stadium to Remember
SOUTH AFRICA — Move over Ronaldo, Wayne and Pele… Cape Town’s West Coast Jewish Community is here! On Thursday 21 October close to 250 Capetonians took to the pitch of the World Cup Stadium in Cape Town to show off their soccer prowess and enjoy a night of fine cuisine, amazing prizes and great entertainment in support of the West Coast Jewish Community, its preschool and junior primary school – the Sinai Academy, and community centre – The Shul of Blouberg – West Coast under the auspices of Chabad of the West Coast directed by Rabbi Asher and Zeesy Deren.

Gargantuan Logistical Effort Required for Annual Kinus
An army of staffers, electricians, chefs and delivery crews are making final preparations to a Brooklyn, N.Y., museum, dozens of classrooms, and a cruise terminal in anticipation of the fast-approaching 13th-annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.