High Holiday Services in Suburban Orlando Follow Expansion of Jewish Programs

By Tamar Runyan for Chabad.org

Hebrew school students in Orlando, Fla., get an up close look at the process of making a shofar before the onset of the High Holidays.

As Jewish men, women and children head to synagogue this weekend for the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world will be welcoming people from all walks of life during the High Holidays. For one center in the greater Orlando, Fla., area, the open-doors, seat-for-everyone approach is even preceding the opening of a permanent location.

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FBI Unit Set for More Anti-Terror Raids in Queens

NY Daily News

The elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team is poised to make more anti-terror raids in Queens, sources told the Daily News.

FBI agents with bomb-sniffing dogs Wednesday raided the Colorado apartment of an Afghan national linked to Al Qaeda and a plot to attack the New York City subway system.

Simultaneously, authorities swarmed over a nearby home believed to belong to a relative of Najibullah Zazi, hauling out boxes of evidence.

Women Continue Jewish Holiday Tradition

by Nancy H. McLaughlin – News & Record

Women gather to learn the art of to making challah at the home of Hindy Plotkin.

GREENSBORO, NC — Women are given three special assignments in sacred Jewish texts — and Marianna Mintz is nearly elbow deep in eggs, water, yeast and more than a dozen cups of flour to fulfill one of them.

Woman Dies at 99, Leaves Behind 1,400 Descendents

Ynet

Mrs. Rachel Krishevsky OBM (far right). Photo: Ynet.

JERUSALEM, Israel — The commandment to “be fruitful and multiply” the Krishevsky family follows quite closely. Last Saturday, the great grandmother, Rachel Krishevsky passed away at the age of 99, leaving behind no less than 1,400 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren.

Agunah Crisis Addressed in Crown Heights

By Yonit Tanenbaum

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The Crown Heights Debate Club hosted their kickoff event Thursday at Mimulo Flower Shop, addressing the agunah crisis in a new and innovative fashion. With a shared message of calling the community to action, the panel consisted of Mrs. Bronya Shaffer, resident scholar on AskMoses.com and Ask-the-Rabbi respondent for Chabad.org, and Jeremy Stern, director of case management at the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA).

Picture of the Day! – Largest Esrog Known to Man!

A French Jewish man in Paris pictured with a mammoth Esrog. It is unknown where this citron is from or if it is even Kosher. However the owner of this gigantic Esrog claims it is the largest Esrog known to man.

Video – JabadTube Kids Special Edition: Rosh Hashanah

Rabbi Yosef Slavin of JabadTube, Shliach to Venezuela, produces a weekly 3 minute Dvar Torah in Spanish on YouTube. It is sent throughout Venezuela and Spanish speakers worldwide. For Rosh Hashana he made a special Shana Tova video starring his Kids, Mendel, Dov, Shua and Leibel.

The video is in Spanish and has English subtitles. Enjoy!

Witness Relives Shooting at Mumbai Chabad House

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MUMBAI [AFP] — A man on Wednesday told an Indian court trying a Pakistani national over the 2008 Mumbai attacks how he escaped with his life after confronting two heavily-armed extremists with just a bamboo stick.

Security guard Kamal Singh said he rushed to the Nariman House Jewish cultural centre in the Colaba district of south Mumbai on the night of November 26 last year after hearing shots.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Weisel Family

The Weisel family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their mother, Mildred Weisel OBM (Malka Fraida Bas Boruch Bentzion).

Her children, Yehudis DuBrow, Mimi Weisel-Homburg, Eva Gail Bressler and Bernie Weisel are sitting Shiva at the DuBrow home, 1518 S Durango Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90035 (the pico robertson side). Stop by from 8:00am until 9:30pm.

Shacharis 6:30am
Mincha/Maariv 6:45pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.