In honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, a few Bochurim took upon themselves, with the kind help and sponsorship of Syncope Records, to release a song portraying the significance of this day.
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Article: Jpost. Photos: Israel Bardugo for CrownHeights.info
Chabad held a memorial dinner on Wednesday in honor of Rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rivka, who were killed when terrorists raided the Chabad house in Mumbai a year ago on the Hebrew calendar.
A crowd of well over 2,000 guests filled a massive tent in Kfar Chabad set up outside the replica of the Rebbe's house in Brooklyn. A service manager said over 100 people worked the event, including at least 80 waiters. Organizers said the demand for tickets was “enormous” and that thousands of people who wanted to attend were turned away.
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Tzivos Hashem has announced an exciting new mission for all Chayolim. Each week 4,000 children from 42 schools, learn a new nigun. They then teach it to their friends and family at their Shabbos table. After completing this mission for five months, all participating chayolim receive the prestigious “Nigun Medal”.
SYDNEY, Australia [CHI] — Boys in Cheder Chabad of Sydney, enjoyed being the first school in the world to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Kislev, being ahead a day from the rest.
Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Sara Blachman, along with their adorable son Yossi, will be joining the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Jewish community in the coming weeks.
Rabbi Mendy will be focusing on enhancing Jewish education for adults, and he will be implementing the world famous JLI courses now being taught around the globe.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Ari Dreilich of Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
For the second year in a row, the JEM staff stayed up all night producing the Kinus Hashluchim 5770/2009 Banquet DVD.
Editing was done in real time at the actual banquet and was continued through the night at JEM’s Production office.
Calgary Herald
CALGARY - Police have released several images of a man who may have information on a vandalism case that may have been a hate crime, officials say.
Today's release comes after an incident overnight between Saturday night and Sunday morning, where someone sprayed anti-Semitic slogans and signs at several locations in southeast Calgary.
The Mangalorean
MUMBAI — “You are never going to stop anybody who steps inside the Chabad House” - those were the oft-repeated words of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, head of the Mumbai headquarters of the Chabad House. And that was the instruction followed on Nov 26, 2008 when terrorists stormed in, brutally killing the rabbi, his pregnant wife Rivka and four others.
SHOCKING: Thursday evening, after sitting through an hour-long recitation of the jury’s verdicts in Sioux Falls, Iowa, Reb Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin was detained pending a bail hearing at the insistence of Peter Deegan. If that were not shocking enough, the ordeal he was subsequently put through is positively offensive, contemptible, and a black mark on the justice system of the United States.
Reb Shalom Mordechai was taken by the US Marshals service to South Dakota State penitentiary in Sioux Falls pending transfer to Iowa. He was not allowed to make a phone call to inform his lawyers or his family of his location. One of the Marshals, upon learning of this, was nice enough to call the family. They would have otherwise not known where he was.
By Paul Vitello for the New York Times
Emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are a hardy lot — part envoys, part pioneers — who agree to settle anywhere in the world where their leaders decide that Jewish communities need bolstering, whether in Anchorage or Bangkok or northern Kyrgyzstan.
Often the only Lubavitchers for miles around, they are used to being gawked at and asked to explain themselves, usually in a nice way, though not always. “How long did it take to grow that beard, dude?” is a pretty common query in the United States, they say.
Ynet
INDIA — US citizen of Pakistani origin arrested in Chicago on suspicion of planning Denmark attack, but investigation reveals David Coleman Headley's involvement in 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Authorities believe he pretended to be Jewish to enter Chabad center which was bombed
As the 25th-annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries draws to a close, the almost 3,000 attendees – who flew in from locations spanning the globe – will meet up with their visiting lay leaders and make their way from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to the New York State National Guard Armory for the conference’s concluding banquet.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today Wednesday the 11th of November, the annual International Conference of Chabad shluchim will begin in New York with the participation of approximately 3,000 shluchim from all corners of the world. During the conference there will be various tributes to the shluchim of Mumbai, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who died al kiddush Hashem just a few days after last year's conference.
Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch, of Johannesburg, South Africa. Has recently added two new staff members to its hanhola. Rabbi Pini Pink has assumed the role of Administrator, and Rabbi Moshe Benshimon, has taken up the position of Mashgiach.
Charles P. Sifton
The cause was complications of sarcoidosis, a lung disease, his son Sam said.
Judge Sifton handled many major cases in more than 30 years on the bench, many of them as chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
One of those cases was the issue of the ownership of the library of Aguch. On January 6 1987 Judge Sifton declared victory in favor of the Chassidim and thus became Didan Notzach.
By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com
Barnstable police respond to a break-in at the Chabad Jewish Center on West Main Street in Hyannis yesterday.
HYANNIS, MA — Three youths will be arraigned Friday morning in connection with Tuesday’s break-in at the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Cod. The local teenagers are accused of vandalizing the synagogue, pulling a charity box off the wall, smashing doors, and throwing phylacteries on the floor. Especially disturbing to the center’s rabbi and the broader community was the overt message the teens left in their wake.
When the break-in was discovered Wednesday, images of Adolf Hitler were displayed on each computer screen. Anti-Semitic literature was strewn around the building.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This past Sunday evening, November 1st, Bais Menachem - Youth Development Program of Wilkes-Barre, PA celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a gala dinner at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The dinner was organized by a group of Bais Menachem alumni to mark this momentous occasion.
Bais Menachem is a yeshiva for young men who have struggled in the mainstream yeshiva system for a variety of reasons. Founded in 1999 with just 7 students, the yeshiva has served hundreds of young men during the past decade.
Times Online
Rabbi Berkowitz stands inside the bullet-scarred Nariman House.
It is a sticky monsoon day in Mumbai, and Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz walks through the shell of Nariman House. Today, the ruined five-storey structure is testament to the ferocity of the terrorists’ incursion and their battle with Indian commandos. It seems impossible that anyone could have come out alive. All its window frames are empty. The lift is slumped at the bottom of its shaft, and giant, jagged chunks of the internal stairway and handrail are missing. At one point, a section of wall many metres high is gone, and the stairs would be open to the sky if not for a plastic draping. Some rooms appear almost untouched; in others, the walls are pulverised, the splatter-marks of gunfire everywhere.
In honor of Yud Tes-Chof Kislev, Rosh Hashana L’Chassidus, and in memory of Levi Yitzchok Wolowik a”h, schools nationwide are teaming up with Levi’s Torah for a massive Tanya Learn-A-Thon.
The Learn-A-Thon is scheduled to start today, Zayin Chesvan, and will run for only four weeks, concluding on Zayin Kislev. A special raffle with exciting prizes will be held on Chof Kislev, Rosh Hashana L’chassidus, which is also Levi’s birthday.
By Josh Nathan-Kazis for the Forward
Who are American Jewry’s heroes?
Mostly, they’re Lubavitchers. Or so it seemed, when the Jewish Federations of North America — the organization that until recently was called United Jewish Communities — announced the semifinalists of its online competition to select the winner of the inaugural Jewish Community Hero Award. Twelve of the 20 semifinalists were members of the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch sect, and Chabad’s dominance among the results has made the competition a target for some critics.
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — At the wedding of Ari and Chana Herzog Tuesday night, a DVD was distributed featuring a preview of Faithful and Fortified, the inside story of the Rebbe’s involvement in Israel’s security, as told by its defense and government leaders.
By Grant Schulte for WCF Courier
SIOUX FALLS, SD — Two kosher meat sellers who regularly bought from Agriprocessors Inc. testified today that they were unaware that the eastern Iowa slaughterhouse allegedly attached their business names to made-up debts which were then used to defraud a bank.
But one of the sellers, Aaron Tzivin, who owns the Crown Heights House of Glatt in Brooklyn, N.Y, told jurors that he still has a good relationship with the plant's former owners, the Rubashkin family.
