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Everyone of us faces the same dilemmas on a constant weekly basis. Whether we're in the kitchen of our home, Shul, Chabad House or summer camp:

May I add water on Shabbos to the food on the blech which is drying?
May I move food from one pot on the blech to another?
The fire went out under my blech. May I move the pot to another blech?
I mistakenly placed my pot on the table. May I replace it back to the blech?

The Blech Book by Rabbi Fishel Jacobs

Everyone of us faces the same dilemmas on a constant weekly basis. Whether we’re in the kitchen of our home, Shul, Chabad House or summer camp:

May I add water on Shabbos to the food on the blech which is drying?
May I move food from one pot on the blech to another?
The fire went out under my blech. May I move the pot to another blech?
I mistakenly placed my pot on the table. May I replace it back to the blech?

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New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
Chabad.org

Brazilian President Luis In ácio, second from left, listens as Rabbi Yosef Schildkraut from Beit Chabad Itaim in S. Paulo blows the shofar.

S PAULO, Brazil — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio joined the Jewish community in ushering in the Jewish New Year with the blowing of the shofar and the distribution of challah dipped in honey .

Brazil’s President Receives Yom Kippur Message and New Year’s Blessings

Chabad.org

Brazilian President Luis In ácio, second from left, listens as Rabbi Yosef Schildkraut from Beit Chabad Itaim in S. Paulo blows the shofar.

S PAULO, Brazil — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio joined the Jewish community in ushering in the Jewish New Year with the blowing of the shofar and the distribution of challah dipped in honey .

Chabad News
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The problem always arises when the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos falls out on a Sunday; where and when do you rent your pickup truck. The most ideal time to rent a pickup truck, to be used as a Sukkah Mobile, would be the first morning of Chol Hamoed, however, on Sunday the rental companies in NYC, are all closed, or at least the ones which rent pickup trucks.

Enterprise to Open Exclusively for Sukkah Mobiles!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The problem always arises when the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos falls out on a Sunday; where and when do you rent your pickup truck. The most ideal time to rent a pickup truck, to be used as a Sukkah Mobile, would be the first morning of Chol Hamoed, however, on Sunday the rental companies in NYC, are all closed, or at least the ones which rent pickup trucks.

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Katherine Dedyna - Times Colonist
Rabbi Meir Kaplan shows his daughter Rivky, 3, the shofar, a goat horn used in Jewish prayer during the high holidays. Kaplan is wearing a white garment that symbolizes purity. Today at sunset marks the start of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

VANCOUVER, Canada — “Every Jew probably celebrates this day in some way,” says Rabbi Meir Kaplan of Chabad Centre of Vancouver Island.

Celebration of Faith

Katherine Dedyna – Times Colonist
Rabbi Meir Kaplan shows his daughter Rivky, 3, the shofar, a goat horn used in Jewish prayer during the high holidays. Kaplan is wearing a white garment that symbolizes purity. Today at sunset marks the start of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

VANCOUVER, Canada — “Every Jew probably celebrates this day in some way,” says Rabbi Meir Kaplan of Chabad Centre of Vancouver Island.

Shlichus
Tonya Root - The Sun News
Shneor Elbaz plays with 2-year-old Annie Chani during refreshments after a service held in preparation for Yom Kippur at the Cabad Lubavitch Jewish Center.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC — Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the year for Jews worldwide - begins at sundown today with Jews looking into themselves and looking to God for forgiveness.

Jewish Communities Gather for Yom Kippur

Tonya Root – The Sun News
Shneor Elbaz plays with 2-year-old Annie Chani during refreshments after a service held in preparation for Yom Kippur at the Cabad Lubavitch Jewish Center.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC — Yom Kippur – the holiest day of the year for Jews worldwide – begins at sundown today with Jews looking into themselves and looking to God for forgiveness.

Shlichus
The Tennessean
Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel
NASHVILLE, TN — Today is the day of Yom Kippur. It is the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar — the day on which we are closest to G-d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement.

Systems exist all around us. The way we live; the way we do business. Each element of our lives from the mundane to the sublime — they always come down to some sort of system. We may not think of most of what takes place in our world as a “system” at work, but everything in our universe can be traced to the functions of one system or another.

Yom Kippur is day to Think About the Ultimate System

The Tennessean
Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel

NASHVILLE, TN — Today is the day of Yom Kippur. It is the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar — the day on which we are closest to G-d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement.

Systems exist all around us. The way we live; the way we do business. Each element of our lives from the mundane to the sublime — they always come down to some sort of system. We may not think of most of what takes place in our world as a “system” at work, but everything in our universe can be traced to the functions of one system or another.

Shlichus
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Fishel Jacobs - Chabad.org
Israelís Ramla Prison, where Rabbi Fishel Jacobs spent a Yom Kippur conducting services for the inmates.

RAMLEH, Israel — The following is an excerpt from Israel Behind Bars, a memoir of Rabbi Fishel Jacobs' experiences as a chaplain in the Israel Prison Service. This tale of spending Yom Kippur with convicted Israeli criminals echoes similar stories shared by Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and rabbinical students who cater to Jewish prisoners not only in Israel, but in the United States as well. This year, for instance, the Chabad of Houston will host the first ever Yom Kippur services at a penitentiary in Houston, Texas.

Discovering a Proud Jew in a Prison’s Iron Cell

Fishel Jacobs – Chabad.org
Israelís Ramla Prison, where Rabbi Fishel Jacobs spent a Yom Kippur conducting services for the inmates.

RAMLEH, Israel — The following is an excerpt from Israel Behind Bars, a memoir of Rabbi Fishel Jacobs’ experiences as a chaplain in the Israel Prison Service. This tale of spending Yom Kippur with convicted Israeli criminals echoes similar stories shared by Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and rabbinical students who cater to Jewish prisoners not only in Israel, but in the United States as well. This year, for instance, the Chabad of Houston will host the first ever Yom Kippur services at a penitentiary in Houston, Texas.

Chabad News
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The suspect (in the white with red striped shirt) talking to police.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish girl, 15, was accosted Thursday evening by a knife wielding black youth on Crown Street. The incident took place as the girl was walking home when the perpetrator approached her on the darkened sidewalk and pulled out a folding knife, upon seeing this she began screaming and called for help.

Lots of residents came pouring out of their houses and managed to apprehend the suspect just a half of a block away on the corner of Crown and Schenectady, where they surrounded him and waited for police, who arrived shortly thereafter.

More in the Extended Article.

Jewish Girl Accosted by Knife Wielding Black Youth

The suspect (in the white with red striped shirt) talking to police.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish girl, 15, was accosted Thursday evening by a knife wielding black youth on Crown Street. The incident took place as the girl was walking home when the perpetrator approached her on the darkened sidewalk and pulled out a folding knife, upon seeing this she began screaming and called for help.

Lots of residents came pouring out of their houses and managed to apprehend the suspect just a half of a block away on the corner of Crown and Schenectady, where they surrounded him and waited for police, who arrived shortly thereafter.

More in the Extended Article.

Crime
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Attempted Theft of a Bike and Assault

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A Bochur on his way home was accosted by a group of Black teen who attempted steal his bike. The incident took place at around 5:30 Thursday afternoon in front of 290 Empire Blvd, between Nostrand and Rogers Ave, there a group of Blacks and Hispanics grabbed him and tried to shove him off his bike.

More in the Extended Article.

Crime
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Hit and Run on Carroll Street

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — At approximately 11:30 Thursday morning a Jaguar with two Black male occupants slammed into a parked car on Carroll Street at the corner of Schenectady Avenue. The car appeared to have been traveling down Schenectady and attempted to make a left turn, and then hit the parked car.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Accidents
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The Rebbe says:

1. There is an argument in the Talmud regarding the atonement for our sins on Yom Kippur:

Opinion #1): The Rabanan (Rabbis) say that Yom Kippur only atones for those who do Teshuvah (repent).

Opinion #2): Rebbi says that even if did not do Teshuvah Yom Kippur atones for him, because “the day itself atones for him – Etzoomay Shel Yom Michaper”.

The Halachah (law) follows the opinion of the Rabbis .

Yom Kippur – The Day of Atonement

The Rebbe says:

1. There is an argument in the Talmud regarding the atonement for our sins on Yom Kippur:

Opinion #1): The Rabanan (Rabbis) say that Yom Kippur only atones for those who do Teshuvah (repent).

Opinion #2): Rebbi says that even if did not do Teshuvah Yom Kippur atones for him, because “the day itself atones for him – Etzoomay Shel Yom Michaper”.

The Halachah (law) follows the opinion of the Rabbis .

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