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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.
The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up starting Wednesday, October 14th until the end of the week.
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.
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.
In a speech delivered during a ceremony opening the new academic school year at the Yildiz Technical University, Erdogan spoke about his close friend, late Jewish businessman Üzeyir Garih, who was stabbed to death in 2001.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Levi and Sheini (nee Saks) Laine (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Yisroel ben Rivkah, a 16-month old who is scheduled for heart surgery today.
Tuvye Elimelech ben Chava
Yehoushua Mordechai ben Bentzion
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmully Kazen (Crown Heights) and Rivky Kleinman (Boro Park) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Wednesday night at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
ROSTOV, Russia [CHI] — As puzzled non-Jewish residents observed the commotion all week long, Rostov’s only Sukkah was packed with guests. The whole community shared in the Sukkah through special programs and activities geared towards every age group.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Abundance of joy and Simcha was not a rare sight of the days of Shmini Atzeres and Simchas Torah, but what was were the Hatzalah ambulances which seemed to never get a chance to stay put in front of 770 for too long.
Marking the end to the highest point in the year the Rebbe punctuated it with the verse of “VeYa’akov holach leDarko” where we end the spiritual high and go out to the world.
BROOKLYN [CBS] — There hate crime fears in Brooklyn following a string of suspected bias crimes targeting Jews, CBS 2 has learned.
On Sept. 22 at the Chai Tots Preschool in Windsor Terrace, somebody spray painted message so hateful on the Jewish daycare center CBS 2 chose not to reprint them. Then, last Tuesday, somebody else – or perhaps the same people – threw eggs and rocks at somebody’s home and yelled anti-Semitic slurs.
NEW YORK — Tangible things occupy the days of most building managers in New York City. Hot water, floods, bugs, rent checks and so on.
But last week, newly added to the tenant issues facing building managers like Harold M. Jacob, who runs a co-op on the Lower East Side where Orthodox Jews inhabit a substantial portion of the 2,500 apartments, was this almost ontological question:
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.
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.
The Israeli Health Department reports that all of the them had eaten at two Chabad centers in Nepal, including meals during the recent holiday period. The possibility that that the disease was transferred to their food by one of the local employees is being considered.
PEORIA, IL — Under a makeshift wooden hut, members of the Jewish faith gathered Monday to celebrate the third day of the Feast of Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot.
For eight days of the Biblical holiday, Jews eat under a four-sided structure covered by bamboo or palm branches to remember the 40-year period when the children of Israel wandered the desert and lived in temporary shelters, said Rabbi Eli Langsam, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Peoria.
A Humorous look at ….There are no Obstcles to do a Mitzvah – filmed and story line by Mendy Mentz brught to you by the YOEC Shluchim ’09- 10. Actor Chaim Plotkin and Host Mendy Mentz
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