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With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Hilda Brafman of Miami Beach, Florida.

She is survived by sons Chaim (Morristown, NJ), R. Yaakov (Miami Beach, FL) and R. Leibish (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place today, Sunday, 1:00 pm at Mount Sinai Cemetery in Miami Beach.

The Brafman family will be sitting Shiva today only.

For nichum aveilim email: namfarb@aol.com

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

Baruch Dayan Hoemes – Hilda Brafman OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Hilda Brafman of Miami Beach, Florida.

She is survived by sons Chaim (Morristown, NJ), R. Yaakov (Miami Beach, FL) and R. Leibish (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place today, Sunday, 1:00 pm at Mount Sinai Cemetery in Miami Beach.

The Brafman family will be sitting Shiva today only.

For nichum aveilim email: namfarb@aol.com

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

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Following the Israeli Prime Ministers powerful speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the subsequent interviews to the Israeli media, in which Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly referred to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and to the advice he gave him, did so once again before a crowd of 1500 in the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.

Video: Netanyahu Recalls 770 Visit to the 92nd Y

Following the Israeli Prime Ministers powerful speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the subsequent interviews to the Israeli media, in which Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly referred to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and to the advice he gave him, did so once again before a crowd of 1500 in the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.

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by Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away
at the age of 65.
(File photo: Tina Fineberg)
A father figure to thousands of Jews in the southern Israeli city of Arad, Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away Wednesday at the age of 65. The sudden loss of one of the city’s two chief rabbis comes just a year before the slated completion of a massive complex to house institutions Lipsker personally founded over a career spanning more than three decades.

A member of Israel’s Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical Court, Lipsker and his wife Sarah opened the desert town’s central Chabad House 31 years ago after moving to the city at the suggestion of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Since then, he presided over the opening of two religious schools, a synagogue, soup kitchen, numerous Jewish ritual baths, and several learning institutes for immigrants and elderly citizens.

But after his burial Thursday, the rabbi – who in addition to his wife, leaves behind four daughters and dozens of grandchildren – was most remembered by locals as a spiritual guide and benevolent mentor to generations of Arad’s children and adults of all ages.

Desert Population Grieves After Passing of Beloved Chief Rabbi

by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away
at the age of 65.
(File photo: Tina Fineberg)

A father figure to thousands of Jews in the southern Israeli city of Arad, Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away Wednesday at the age of 65. The sudden loss of one of the city’s two chief rabbis comes just a year before the slated completion of a massive complex to house institutions Lipsker personally founded over a career spanning more than three decades.

A member of Israel’s Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical Court, Lipsker and his wife Sarah opened the desert town’s central Chabad House 31 years ago after moving to the city at the suggestion of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Since then, he presided over the opening of two religious schools, a synagogue, soup kitchen, numerous Jewish ritual baths, and several learning institutes for immigrants and elderly citizens.

But after his burial Thursday, the rabbi – who in addition to his wife, leaves behind four daughters and dozens of grandchildren – was most remembered by locals as a spiritual guide and benevolent mentor to generations of Arad’s children and adults of all ages.

Chabad News

Hospital’s Sabbath House Aids Observant Visitors

By Linda Saslow Special To The Jewish Week

Soon after Lisa Wadler’s 1-year-old granddaughter Chana was rushed to the emergency room with a raging fever, she learned that an overnight hospital stay would be necessary.

As the Sabbath was approaching, the family, gathered at the hospital, became more anxious over what they would do. That’s when Chana’s pediatrician told Wadler about the Sabbath House, recently opened adjacent to the hospital in Mineola.

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Rabbi Shea Hecht in Brooklyn, N.Y., demonstrates how Orthodox Jews wave a chicken three times over their heads and say the prayer of Kapparot (or Kapparos, depending on heritage) in the days leading up to Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Shea Hecht plucks a chicken off a truck parked behind a synagogue in Queens, N.Y., and demonstrates how to swing a chicken.

“You take it by the wing,” says the white-haired Hecht, careful not to get the chicken's feathers or anything else on his black suit and tall black hat. “You put one wing over the other wing. See? It's very relaxed. And you swing it very softly over your head like this.”

Swinging Chicken Ritual Divides Orthodox Jews

Rabbi Shea Hecht in Brooklyn, N.Y., demonstrates how Orthodox Jews wave a chicken three times over their heads and say the prayer of Kapparot (or Kapparos, depending on heritage) in the days leading up to Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Shea Hecht plucks a chicken off a truck parked behind a synagogue in Queens, N.Y., and demonstrates how to swing a chicken.

“You take it by the wing,” says the white-haired Hecht, careful not to get the chicken’s feathers or anything else on his black suit and tall black hat. “You put one wing over the other wing. See? It’s very relaxed. And you swing it very softly over your head like this.”

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Over Shabbos there was lots of talk regarding the quote from Rabbi Elyashiv, in the Israeli media, regarding his recommendation of not wearing Crocs because “they are too comfortable.” Others wouldn’t wear them simply because they look silly, but CrownHeights.info spoke with Crown Heights Rabbonim to see what they think, and the majority contested.

“Is it Ok to Wear Crocs on Yom Kippur?”

Over Shabbos there was lots of talk regarding the quote from Rabbi Elyashiv, in the Israeli media, regarding his recommendation of not wearing Crocs because “they are too comfortable.” Others wouldn’t wear them simply because they look silly, but CrownHeights.info spoke with Crown Heights Rabbonim to see what they think, and the majority contested.

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NY Post

A Westboro Baptist Church member carring signs with anti-Jewish slogans. Illustration Photo.

Nearly two dozen members of the Jewish Defense Organization came out today and protested an anti-Semitic group from Kansas that spewed hate outside a Long Island synagogue just days before Yom Kippur.

The Jewish group and members of Westboro Baptist Church got into a shouting match outside Chabad of Great Neck as cops looked on.

LI anti-Jewish rally Leads to Counter-Protest

NY Post

A Westboro Baptist Church member carring signs with anti-Jewish slogans. Illustration Photo.

Nearly two dozen members of the Jewish Defense Organization came out today and protested an anti-Semitic group from Kansas that spewed hate outside a Long Island synagogue just days before Yom Kippur.

The Jewish group and members of Westboro Baptist Church got into a shouting match outside Chabad of Great Neck as cops looked on.

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Kapores Parking Regulations

Over Shabbos motorists are asked not to park on the following two streets:

* Kingston between Carroll and President
* Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany [Service Lane]

Starting at 4:00pm on Shabbos day police will be relocating cars to enable the prompt beginning of Kapores after Shabbos.

PSA
The Rebbe says:

1. The Torah says, “Seek Hashem when He is found”. The Talmud tells us that this verse specifically refers to the first ten days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, beginning with Rosh Hashanah (the first of Tishrei), and concluding with Yom Kippur (the tenth of Tishrei). These ten days are “Days of Repentance”.

2. During these ten days of repentance our Rabbis implemented the addition of Psalm 130 into the daily morning prayers. After the “Verses of Praise” and before the blessings preceding the Shema we say:

“A song of ascents, from the depths I call out to you Hashem. My L-rd, hearken to my voice; let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas. G-d, if You were to preserve iniquities, my L-rd, who could survive? But forgiveness is with You, that You may be feared. I hope in the L-rd; my soul hopes, and I long for His word. My soul yearns for the L-rd more than night watchmen waiting for the morning, wait for the morning. Israel, put your hope in the L-rd, for with the L-rd there is kindness; with Him there is abounding deliverance. And He will redeem Israel from all its iniquities”.

Aseres Yemei Teshuva – “The Ten Days of Repentance”

The Rebbe says:

1. The Torah says, “Seek Hashem when He is found”. The Talmud tells us that this verse specifically refers to the first ten days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, beginning with Rosh Hashanah (the first of Tishrei), and concluding with Yom Kippur (the tenth of Tishrei). These ten days are “Days of Repentance”.

2. During these ten days of repentance our Rabbis implemented the addition of Psalm 130 into the daily morning prayers. After the “Verses of Praise” and before the blessings preceding the Shema we say:

“A song of ascents, from the depths I call out to you Hashem. My L-rd, hearken to my voice; let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas. G-d, if You were to preserve iniquities, my L-rd, who could survive? But forgiveness is with You, that You may be feared. I hope in the L-rd; my soul hopes, and I long for His word. My soul yearns for the L-rd more than night watchmen waiting for the morning, wait for the morning. Israel, put your hope in the L-rd, for with the L-rd there is kindness; with Him there is abounding deliverance. And He will redeem Israel from all its iniquities”.

Something Jewish

Eighty years and Eight Days – Rabbi Shmuel Fogelman Celebrates his 80th

Rabbi Shmuel Fogelman holds the outfit he wore to his bris in which the Frierdiker Rebbe was his sandik.

Eighty years ago, a little boy of eight days old wore a lace trimmed white outfit to a grand Bris and was named Shmuel Eliyahu after his grandfather who was the gabbai of Collel Chabad. The Rebbe Rayatz was visiting America at that time. Reb Chaim Elchonon, the father of the baby asked the Rebbe Rayats to be the sandik and the Rebbe accepted and came to the Bris with a few Chassidim.

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by Miriam Davids - Lubavitch.com

In his official speech Thursday at the UN, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu minced no words decrying the “perversion of truth” and the “perversion of justice” emanating from the UN’s Goldstone report accusing Israel of war crimes during the Gaza strike.

Video: Israeli PM Recalls Rebbes Advice in 1984

by Miriam Davids – Lubavitch.com

In his official speech Thursday at the UN, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu minced no words decrying the “perversion of truth” and the “perversion of justice” emanating from the UN’s Goldstone report accusing Israel of war crimes during the Gaza strike.

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Holding aloft evidence of Hitler's Final Solution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday railed against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his denial of the Holocaust and scolded the United Nations for allowing Ahmadinejad to speak during its opening session of the 64th U.N. General Assembly.

Video: Israeli PMs Speech to the UN General Assembly

Holding aloft evidence of Hitler’s Final Solution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday railed against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his denial of the Holocaust and scolded the United Nations for allowing Ahmadinejad to speak during its opening session of the 64th U.N. General Assembly.

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Mazal Tov! – 6 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Zalmy and Chani (nee Schectman) Simon.
IYH at 770 Empire Blvd, Apt 2J [between Troy and Schenectady Ave].

Aryeh and Sasha Henya (nee Nerenberg) Kay.
IYH at 770 Leffers Ave, Apt B3L [between Troy and Schenectady Ave].

Eli and Dinie (nee Hildeshaim) Perman.
IYH at 485 Brooklyn Ave [between Sterling St and Lefferts Ave].

Menachem and Chani Namdar.
IYH at 1365 Carroll St, Apt 1C [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Gavriel and Bracha Siklos.
IYH at 15 Green Hill Ln, Spring Valley, NY 10977.

Yossi and Devory Rosenberg (Thousand Oaks, CA)

Please stay tuned as we update this list when information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info. Thank You!!

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