World famous champion Jewish boxer, Dimitry Salita spent the morning davening in 770 along with his beloved rabbi, the Rebbe’s Shliach to Flatbush Rabbi Zalmen Liberow. The pair was accompanied by a television crew who filmed the boxer as he davened and shook the Lulav and Esrog. Chabad.info
The Mayor of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg spent a half hour last Friday, October 17th, with Crown Heights Community Leaders.Rabbi Chanina Sperlin, community activist and member of the Vaad hakahol of Crown Heights bentched lulav and esrog with the Mayor,Yisroel Melamed the son of Moshe Melamed Presented the mayor with a hand-crafted honey dish. Also present at the meeting were Eli […]
Amid all the fallout from the financial turmoil, one group has yet to feel the accusing finger of blame: the analysts who built the computer software that drove the derivatives markets that, in turn, drove the financial collapse. Since the Big Bang of the 1980s, large amounts of stocks and shares - and derivatives of […]
Kosher king Aaron Rubashkin, a man of biblical mien, almost never grants interviews. To find him, you must journey deep into the heart of Brooklyn to 14th Avenue, in a neighborhood called Borough Park. There, amid a sea of bearded men in dark hats and yarmulkes sauntering past synagogues, kosher restaurants, and storefronts lettered in […]
If you sit in the succah under any covering or canopy that is ten tefachim high you are under the canopy and you are not considered to be in a succah. What about if it is very sunny or raining and you open an umbrella? Are you in the succah? The Piskei Teshuvos (627:2) brings […]
1. From the Holy Kabbalists “The Mystical Dimension of Hakhel”“At the end of seven years, at the time of the Sabbatical year, on the festival of Sukkot….” [31, 10]If you will analyze the mystical dimension of the commandment of Hakhel, you will find that just as the Shemittah year itself is an allusion to the 7th millennium during which our universe will […]
Would the current financial crisis have been avoided if traders followed Jewish traditions embodied in the Bible and the Talmud? Two scholars from the Conservative and Orthodox branches of the Judaism are suggesting just that. They also conclude that the tradition prescribes significant regulation to begin to redress the debacle. That may not be so exotic […]
“An activist in an Austrian organization commemorating the Holocaust, who traveled last month with a group of 16-year-olds from his country to visit the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland, found to his horror that the youngsters were planning to vote for the extreme right wing political parties in the Austrian elections. ” more@haAretz.com
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel came to a virtual standstill at sundown Wednesday as Jews across the country began observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day of their calendar.The somber holiday caps the “Days of Awe,” a 10-day period of soul searching that began with the Jewish New Year. more@Associated Press
Rule 48 in Effect on NYSE; SEC Order on Short Selling to Expire on Wednesday Night, 8 Oct. Exchanges.NYSE.com
The Lubavitcher Rebbe blesses the students on the eve of Yom Kippur 1986. This blessing is given customarily by fathers to their children before the Kol Nidrei prayer.
“You may be wondering, for example, if it’s permissible to build your sukkah, the structure used during the week-long holiday for dining, entertaining and sometimes sleeping, out of the carcass of a tethered elephant. Or you may be hoping that you can set it up on the back of a camel. In both cases, the […]
