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With great sadness we inform you of the untimely of a dear friend and long time Crown Heights resident Dr. Aviva Palgi.

Her Levaya will take place today, Tuesday at Shomrei Hadas Chapel (3803 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218) at 3:00pm and pass 770 at about 3:45pm en route to Eretz Yisroel for the Kvura.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Boruch Dayan Haemes – Dr. Aviva Palgi OBM

With great sadness we inform you of the untimely of a dear friend and long time Crown Heights resident Dr. Aviva Palgi.

Her Levaya will take place today, Tuesday at Shomrei Hadas Chapel (3803 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218) at 3:00pm and pass 770 at about 3:45pm en route to Eretz Yisroel for the Kvura.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

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www.chabad.org.uk

LONDON, UK — Over 1000 people climbed on board four mobile sukkahs which made their way around the capital during the Sukkot festival this week.

The sukkahs, which were mounted on the back trucks, visited locations in the City, West End, North and East London, as well as going as far afield as Oxford, to allow people to eat in a sukkah, shake the Lulav and Etrog and learn more about the festival.

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By Yonit Tanenbaum for Chabad.edu

Jewish students at S. Diego State University enjoy a game of volleyball at a welcome back event coordinated by Jewish Student Life, a Chabad-Lubavitch organization serving colleges in the area.

Returning university students and incoming freshmen alike have jumped into a semester of Jewish promise at schools across North America.

Pointing to activities ranging from the current crop of High Holiday programs to weekly Shabbat dinners, and 2009 calendars that kicked off with back-to-school barbeques and other massive offerings of food, Jewish collegians say their local Chabad Houses have provided an interesting counterpoint to the decidedly secular atmosphere of university life.

Fall Semester Full of Spiritually Uplifting Jewish Programs

By Yonit Tanenbaum for Chabad.edu
Jewish students at S. Diego State University enjoy a game of volleyball at a welcome back event coordinated by Jewish Student Life, a Chabad-Lubavitch organization serving colleges in the area.

Returning university students and incoming freshmen alike have jumped into a semester of Jewish promise at schools across North America.

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By Itamar Eichner for Y Net News

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the World Economic Forum in 2006

An anti-Semitic remark or a compliment? Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on students in his country to learn from the Jews how to make money through scientific achievements and wise real estate investments.

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Hatzalah Handles an “Unprecedented Amount of Calls”

The crowd in front of 770 on Motzai Simchas Torah.

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An elevator rider at Cooperative Village in Manhattan.

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Tuesday night Beis Menachem in Manchester, UK held their annual Simchas Beis Hasho'eva. The program began with a supper for the children, followed by a children's rally which was run by Rabbi Yisroel Cohen.

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Unloading food at Chabad in Nepal - col.org.il

ISRAEL [CHI] — Nine Israelis were diagnosed with the virus typhoid after eating at two Chabad Houses in Nepal. Eight are hospitalized at Sheba hospital near Tel Aviv and another patient is being treated for symptoms at a hotpital in Tiberias.

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Nine Israelis Get Typhoid After Eating at Chabad of Nepal

Unloading food at Chabad in Nepal – col.org.il

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