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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.

Video – Erev Yom Kippur with the Rebbe


In this week’s JEM Living Torah clip: On his way to Afternoon Prayers on Yom Kippur Eve, the Rebbe places coins in all the charity boxes set out in 770. On his way to Kol Nidrei, the Rebbe blesses the students of Tomchei Temimim.

Sicha of the Rebbe – Yom Kippur

The Rebbe says:

1. There is an argument in the Talmud regarding the atonement for our sins on Yom Kippur:

Opinion one: The Rabanan (Rabbis) say that Yom Kippur only atones for those who do Teshuvah (repent).

Opinion two: Rebbi says that even if one did not do Teshuvah Yom Kippur atones for him, because “the day itself atones for him (Etzoomay Shel Yom Michaper)”.

Video – Heroic Shofar Blowers Video Goes Viral


“Echoes of a Shofar” is the premiere episode in the “Eyewitness 1948” short film series produced by Toldot Yisrael and the History Channel. Since being posted less than two weeks ago, the video has been viewed more than 90,000 times on YouTube and is now available at the chabad.org video site, Jewish.TV.

Brazilian Jewish Org’s Army of Volunteers Fight Hunger

by Ronelle Grier – Chabad.org

Rabbi Dovid and Sonia Weitman attend a volunteer-appreciation dinner benefiting Ten Yad, a soup kitchen they founded in S. Paolo, Brazil, in 1992.

As Jewish households fill their tables with all manner of delicacies during the most festive month of the Hebrew calendar, organizations the world over are striving to make sure that those who might otherwise have gone to bed hungry have what to celebrate.