AOL — Iran is accusing the United States of a double standard in capital punishment ahead of the planned execution of a Virginia woman convicted of arranging the murder of her husband and stepson.
AP — A new way to cause mischief is spreading through short-messaging service Twitter as mysterious “tweets” of blocked-out text propagate themselves and cause popup windows to open.
Hassidic Comedian Mendy Pellin took a cue from Internet celebrity Matt Harding’s dancing videos and got Chabad Shluchim around the globe to dance to a Lubavitch Niggun. Featuring the Conejo Valley Rabbis!
CrownHeights.info has teamed up with the Super Spectacular Sukkos Fun Fair and we are raffling off family packs of tickets (set of 6) to those who submit family Sukkos photos!
In order to be entered in the raffle you must send in a photo, or two, or three of your family preparing for Sukkos by building your family’s Sukkah, or preparing the Daled Minim, along with creative captions.
Mr Clean will be giving away new and almost new clothes this Tuesday starting at 11:00am. Feel free to come and take as much clothes as you need. In the past, there have been all sorts of clothes (i.e. women’s gowns, baby shoes, men’s suits, baby carriages, boys’ and girls’ clothes, and woman’s dress shoes).
Students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva got an amazing and interactive lesson on Esrogim, from how they are grown and the things that make them kosher. The lesson was presented in a slideshow by Esrog Expert Yehuda Ben Shimon.
In advance of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, the Transportation and Security Administration reminded its airport screeners and the travelling public that Jewish travelers may carry the Four Species – a palm branch, myrtle twigs, willow branches, and a citron fruit known in Hebrew as an etrog – through security checkpoints and onboard planes.
For years, the Waldbaum’s supermarket in West Hartford has supplied the Jewish community with fresh kosher meats, deli products and baked goods.
Mayor Bloomberg is the rare billionaire who can preach penny-pinching without putting his foot in his mouth.
He’s been wearing the same shoes for 10 years.
For its tenth year, the Mitzva Tank Office is back again servicing Shluchim in the Tri State area.
AUSTRALIA — Members of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria met this week with the Premier of Victoria, The Hon. John Brumby.
This Sukkos, turn your Sukkah into a Beis Medrash – and win exciting prizes, too! MyShliach is now launching its annual Sukkos learning adventure, open to all children of Shluchim, not only members of Myshliach.
Noach and Dina (nee Elberg) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Chanale (nee Brafman) Cotlar (Shluchim to Cary, NC)
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