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The Fast of Gedalia

The fast end at 7:26pm (in NYC), for the Zmanim in your area visit Chabad.org

Today is a fast day mourning the assassination of the Jewish royal Gedaliah ben Achikam, governor of the Land of Israel for a short period following the destruction of the First Temple.

Gedaliah’s killing spelled the end of the small remnant of a Jewish community that remained in the Holy Land after the destruction, which fled to Egypt. (According to many opinions, the assassination of Gedaliah actually occurred on Rosh Hashanah, but the commemoration of the event is postponed to the day after the festival; when the day after Rosh Hashanah is a Shabbat the fast is postponed to Tishrei 4.)

Photos: New Year, New Mitzvah Tank

Seen driving around Crown Heights Erev Rosh Hashana was a new Mitzvah Tank, later a few Bochurim along with Rabbi Levi Baumgarten were seen transferring all the stuff from the old ‘tank’ to the new one.

Chabad is Struck by Vandalism Hour Before Rosh Hashana

Cutler Bay, FL -Rabbi Yossi Wolff and members of the Chabad of Cutler Bay and Homestead found themselves scrambling an hour before the start of sundown services to find a new place to worship Friday. “This was on the floor; it’s a cover to the ark,” Rabbi Wolff tells CBS 4’s Gwen Belton. “That thrown on the floor is a desecration right before the high holidays.”

City to Give Crown Heights Family 95G for ‘Hate’ Raid

By Kati Cornell for the NY Post
NYPD ESU – Illustration Photo

CROWN HEIGHTS — The city has agreed to pay $95,000 to a Hasidic family whose Crown Heights home was raided by the NYPD after a racially charged attack on a cop’s son.

Jacob and Leah Ezagui say cops kicked in their door at 1:45 a.m. on April 15, 2008, rousted them and their five kids from bed, and busted one son despite not having a warrant.

Photos: The First Havdalah of 5770!

(L-R) Avrohom Zaklikowski, Mendel Mangel, Shalom Klein, Ari Pinson, Mendel Zaklikovsky, and Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky

Havdala at Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe, directed by Rabbi Eliezer and his wife Chanie Zaklikovsky.

Rosh Hashana Services were held in the gymnasium of the local High School in order to accommodate the more than 400 participants that joined in for the services each of the two days of Rosh Hashana!

G’mar Chasima Tova!

Bris Avrohom’s 24th Mass Wedding!

PARSIPPANY, NJ [CHI] — Bris Avrohom, headquartered in Hillside, NJ, recently celebrated their 30th Anniversary with a dinner, held in the Sheraton Parsippany Hotel. The Guests of Honor were Simon and Lina Garber, of Colts Neck, NJ, who have been involved with the organization for over 28 years.