Chabad student center expands celebration

by Sarah Neff – Kansan.com

Charles Goldberg, Chicago junior, gives directions to Devon Gilinsky, Omaha, Neb. freshman, left, and Jordan LeBoyer, North Brook, Ill. freshman, center, while constructing a Sukkah at the Chabad house in Lawrence Tuesday evening. A Sukkah is a traditional shelter built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity constructed the shelter. (Photo by Anna Faltermeier)

A mobile sukkah hut made of branches and greenery will travel around the University of Kansas and Lawrence for the next week. The traveling hut is part of the Chabad student center’s celebration of Sukkot.

The student center placed the hut atop a truck to travel around campus, to residence halls and the city of Lawrence.

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Simchas Beis Hashoeva at the Sephardic Center of Laval, Canaada

More than 500 men, women, and children attended the Simchas Bais Hashoeva in front of the Sephardic center of Chomedey, Laval to enjoy dancing with lively music, a barbeque, a huge moon bounce, cotton candy and a grand raffle.

The event was organized by Levi and Avram Banon, sons of the Shliach to Laval, Rabbi David R. Banon.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Simchas Beis Hashueva in Boro Park

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn [CHI] — 13th Avenue, one of Borough Parks main streets, was closed to traffic for a gala Simchas Beis Hashoeva event. Thousands of Yiddishe residents all danced and sang together, celebrating Simcahs Bais Hashueva.

This is the third year that the Chabad House in Borough Park, under the directorship of Rabbi Aaron Ginsberg, organized such an event.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: shturem.net)

The Last Night of Simchas Beis Hashueva

For the last night of the Simchas Beis Hashueva the crowd was entertained by Yossi Cohen along R. Yaakov Young and R. Meir Rivkin who had everyone dancing up until the very end.

At 1:30am the band wraped it all up the together the crowd made their way singing and dancing up Kingston to 770.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Mazal Tov! – 5 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Nadiv and Toby (nee Ezagui) Kehaty
IYH at 1229 President St. APT #2C [bet Nostrand and New York Aves]

Adi and Malky Goodman
IYH at 10601 Stirling RD. Cooper City, FL

Yisroel Meir and Nechama Munitz
IYH at 4105 Kent, Montreal, Canada

Yossi and Goldie Grossbaum (Shluchim to Folsom, CA)

Itche and Dini Gordon (Albany, NY)

Please stay tuned as we update this list as 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.

Sukkot in Lubavitch Crown Heights: A Time for Dancing and Singing

By Sharon Udasin – Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Sparkling confetti and children’s plastic glow-toys dazzled the air on Kingston Avenue Sunday night as black-clad men danced in jumbled circles till 6:30 a.m., during their weeklong celebrations that follow the Jewish holiday Sukkot.

Parshas Vezos Haberachah and Simchas Torah

The essence of Torah is not logic and understanding, it is higher then that, it is Hashem’s essence! Therefore even the words of Torah being said by a young child connects to the same level which the greatest Talmudic scholar connects to. And this is why we dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah with its mantle on and do not learn it- because the essence of Torah is above all reason and comprehension, the essence of Torah is Hashem’s essence!

The Rebbe says:

1. The Torah portion which we read on the day of Simchas Torah is Parshas Vezos Haberachah, the very last portion in the Torah.

2. The Rebbe now says that there must be a connection between Simchas Torah and the Parshah of Vezos Haberachah:

Sukkos Mivtzoim – 8th Grade Lubavitcher Yeshivah

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The Chayolei Beis Dovid of the Lubavitcher Yeshivah (Crown Heights) 8th grade put together its very own Sukkah Mobile for Mivtzoim.

Each day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos a group of eighth graders armed with Lulav and Esrog went to shake up the whole New York, one Lulav shake at a time. In all, hundreds bentched Lulav, ate in the Sukkah and learnt more about yiddishkeit.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Picture of the Day! – Davening in the 1970’s!

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The Rebbe Entering Davening in the late 1970’s. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum.

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Satmar and Lubavitch at Special Sukkos Farbrengen

MONROE, NY [CHI] — A spirited and special Simcahs Beis Hashoeivah Farbengen took place in Monroe, NY at the Sukkah of Dr. Zev & Sima Chana Zelenko, on Chai Tishrei. Many Satmar Chasidim and locals from the Chabad community, including the Shliach to the area, Rabbi Pesach Burston, united together at this occasion.

More pictures and a video clip in the Extended Article! (Photos by: Sima Chana Zelenko and Yossi Greenfeld)

Now Live: Simchas Beis Hashoeva in Crown Heights

Once again COL brings to you a live coverage of the Simchas Beis Hashoeva in Crown Heights. This broadcast started at 9:30pm and will carry on until 2:00am EST.

The live broadcast was generated by COL’s technical team in New York: Mendy Lewis (broadcasting technician) Shemarya Yaret (sound) and with the assistance of Reb Shlomie Lehrer of Kingston Pizza and Reb Chaim Mitinsky of SPS-Security Cameras.

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Parents of Infant Killed in Crossover Crash on Route 17

Times Herald Record

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Chaim Avrohom Moskowitz OBM (22), and wife Fraidy (nee Altman) Moskowitz OBM (21) of Borough Park.

GOSHEN, NY — The parents of a 4-month-old infant were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon, police said.