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The Crown Heights JCC has arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up this week starting Wednesday October 10th until the end of the week.

The Parks Dept. vehicles will be going down every block in the community to pick up the S’chach put out in front of your house along the curbside. The vehicles will be going through the community only one time on a route that has not yet been determined. Therefore we do not know which street will be first and which street second, etc.

Please have all s’chach put out at the curb for these days. Please keep the s’chach along the building line until Wednesday.

If you miss this pickup, you may schedule your own pick up by calling 311.

PSA: S’Chach Pickup Information

The Crown Heights JCC has arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up this week starting Wednesday October 10th until the end of the week.

The Parks Dept. vehicles will be going down every block in the community to pick up the S’chach put out in front of your house along the curbside. The vehicles will be going through the community only one time on a route that has not yet been determined. Therefore we do not know which street will be first and which street second, etc.

Please have all s’chach put out at the curb for these days. Please keep the s’chach along the building line until Wednesday.

If you miss this pickup, you may schedule your own pick up by calling 311.

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LITCHFIELD, CT — The town's famous green is surrounded by picture postcard churches of all stripes - Protestant and Catholic, stone, wood and brick - with an abundance of crosses, steeples and stained-glass windows.

But when an orthodox Jewish group went before the Litchfield Historic District Commission last month to informally present its plans to transform a somewhat rundown 1870s Victorian on West Street into the town's first synagogue, the nit-picking immediately began.

Jewish Group’s Proposal To Renovate House In Historic District Results In Nit-Picking

By Elizabeth Hamilton – Hartford Courant

LITCHFIELD, CT — The town’s famous green is surrounded by picture postcard churches of all stripes – Protestant and Catholic, stone, wood and brick – with an abundance of crosses, steeples and stained-glass windows.

But when an orthodox Jewish group went before the Litchfield Historic District Commission last month to informally present its plans to transform a somewhat rundown 1870s Victorian on West Street into the town’s first synagogue, the nit-picking immediately began.

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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.

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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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Mazal Tov! – 5 Sholom Zochors this Week!

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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.

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By Sharon Udasin - Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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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:

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:

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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!

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