The Rebbe buying Arbaas Haminim

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: We are presenting a short video clip from the 14 Tishrei 5749, in which you see The Rebbe choosing Lulav, Arovos and Hadasim for his set of Arbaas Haminim for Sukkos.

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Have You Seen This Sign Before?

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.

Bank Seeks Synagogue’s Torahs to Pay Loan

Wall Street Journal

Morton Ben carries one of four torahs in a lively walk around a table during the dedication ceremony at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch in 2001.

Jews will gather Friday evening at a South Florida synagogue that’s in bankruptcy for the start of Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, but they’ll also have something to kvetch about. Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Beach Inc.’s lender is seeking to seize some of its property and assets, including five Torahs.

In Mezuzas, a Custom Inherited by Gentiles

The New York Times

Connie Peirce, a Catholic, was delighted when a Jewish neighbor affixed a mezuza on the doorway of her home in Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan.

The doorways inside 30 Ocean Parkway, an Art Deco building in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, are studded with mezuzas of all sizes and styles: plastic, pewter, simple, gaudy, elegant.

Baruch Dayan Hoemes – Reb Avrohom Tauber OBM

It is with great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the very untimely passing of Avraham Yitczak Tauber Hakoen of Bnei Brak Israel. He passed on Yom Kippur morning.

The family can be reached in Israel at 972-722-129-494 and by email at 88.7fmny@gmail.com

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Yom Kippur in Bangalore

Rabbi Tzvi Rivkin and his wife Noa are Completing their Third year on Shlichus and they had Bochrim Yisroel Karasik and Tzali Wilschanski on Merkos Shlichus to India after arriving in the city of Goa before Rosh Hashana they flew to Bangalore for Yom Kippur.

Plot to Attack CH Shul Uncovered

NY Post

A police car sits outside the intended target – Beis Beinyomin.

An unhinged man was nabbed for hatching a plot to rob a Brooklyn synagogue and then fight off cops with pipe bombs and guns, authorities said.