There is a hate crime investigation on the Upper East Side after a community Sukkah was vandalized just one day before the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah.
Dr. Moshe Rothschild, a Jewish physician who immigrated from Switzerland to Israel and settled in Bnei Brak, was called “the doctor of Bnei Brak”.
During one of his travels, he came to the Lubavitcher Rebbe for a meeting at his New York school and told him about his vision. The Rebbe placed an open signed check in his hand and told him to write down whatever amount he decided.
Local Chabad emissaries Rabbi Yitzi and Rochel Loewenthal organized the re-enactment, the first of several events this year marking the rescue of thousands of Danish Jews in October 1943 by local fishermen and other boat operators, on Wednesday, the Hebrew calendar date of the operation.
Rabbi Zalmy Brackman has walked to Leytonstone and Wanstead Synagogue every week for more than a year to stop it from facing closure
Rabbi Yonah Grossman, of the Chabad Jewish Center of North Dakota in Fargo, is traveling across the state in a traveling sukkah hut in the back of a pickup truck in order to enable Jewish people to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.
On the eve of the holiday, an official delegation of Chabad representatives visited the Prime Minister’s sukkah in Jerusalem and gave Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife a set of four species.
Worshippers had all eyes focused on the prayer leader for hours on end, enjoying it so much that they wound up spending the entire holiday sleeping in the shared apartment/synagogue space of the newly married Chabad rabbinical couple in Israel.
Chabad officials explains that in recent years, tens of thousands of Israelis have been participating in Yom Kippur tefilos in hundreds of Chabad minyanim scattered throughout the country and organized under the “Open Shul” project.
Build it and they will come. Family and friends gather in the sukkah and over food, as Jewish people remember the years that the ancient Hebrews spent in the desert on their way to Canaan after being freed from 400 years of slavery in Egypt, and take part in a Thanksgiving-like celebration for the harvest.
After a year of construction and remodeling of the former retail store Gridleys, the Chabad Edelman Jewish Center has opened its doors in Fountain Hills. The center is the new permanent home of Chabad of Fountain Hills, which inaugurated the facility with its first Rosh Hashanah services
Sharon Pulwer was lost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shortly after moving here from Israel to study photography, when she came across the black hats and modest clothes of religious Jews in New York City. A secular Jew, she was momentarily taken aback. “I was very surprised that there was this very vivid part of Jewish life here that I was not aware about.”
Yom Kippur is a time when it’s comforting to be in familiar surroundings, in a synagogue that you like, with family and friends by your side. That’s because you can use all the support you can muster to fulfill the demanding rituals.
But last year, I found myself alone with my thoughts in a room full of strangers in a place I’d never been before. And it turned out to be an especially meaningful holiday.