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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

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

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)”.