Israelis Divided Over Possible Tishrei Lockdown

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A plurality of Israelis say the government should impose a fourth lockdown during the upcoming holiday season if the surge in new cases continues – though a majority say such a step would prove the present government has failed in its handling of the crisis, a new poll shows • Full Story

It’s Harvest Time in Calabria

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“I recall the difficulties we had when it came to delivering esrogim to the Soviet Union before its fall”, says Rabbi Reuven Matusof, venerated Shliach who has provided many thousands of mehudar esrogim from Italy’s Calabria region to the Lubavitch community the world around for over 40 years, “we had the blessings of the Rebbe MH”M and we were successful. Now, despite all the hardships regarding world commerce and travel, we have the Rebbe’s brocho, which means we will not fail to deliver” • Full Story, Photos

Lubavitcher Rabbonim Meet With Gerer Rebbe

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A delegation of Lubavitcher rabbonim, mashpiim and activists from the Tri-state area visited the Gerrer Rebbe, who is currently visiting Monsey for a wedding of a grandchild. The group discussed the month of Elul through the perspective of the Alter Rebbe, as well as presented to him the now well known sefer ‘Dvar Malchus’ written by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Ezagui. Images captured by Eliyahu Shlomo Ezagui • Photos

Fire Ravages Chabad Yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel

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A fire broke out this evening on the second floor of the Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva building in the Hadar neighborhood of Haifa. Firefighters and rescue forces were called to the scene of the incident and took control of the fire. The reason for the fire has not yet been determined • Full Story, Video

UCF Chabad To Build New Student Center

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UCF is the largest university in the United States, and is home to more than 6,000 Jewish students. Within a few months, the Chabad Center quickly outgrew its first home and moved into a second home. The new location allowed for exponential growth, with regular activities and dinners, but soon they were once again bursting at the seams • Full Story, Photos

Live Now: The Shloshim of Reb Yoel

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This Shabbos marks the Shloshim of Reb Yoel Kahn OBM. Chassidim, Shluchim, Anash and Temimim worldwide will all be joining together tonight to commemorate and remember the Rebbe’s Choizer. A global event, in the form of a 10 Hour livestream farbrengen, will feature dozens of Rabbanim, Mashpiim and Chozrim, who will be joining together to remember their teacher, mashpia, and colleague R’ Yoel • Full Story, Watch

150 Rabbis Meet at Unprecedented Conference

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About 150 Rabbanim, including municipal Rabbanim and dayanim, gathered on Wednesday with the Moetzet HaRabbanut and Chief Rabbanim HaRav Yitzchak Yosef and HaRav Dovid Lau for an emergency meeting about the kashrus and giyur reforms being formulated by Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana • Full Story, Photos

French Mesivta Kicks Off a New Learning Year

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The mesivta in Cergy Pontoise, just outside of Paris, kicked off a new zman this week with the start of the month of Elul. The bochurim were excited to return to an expanded and renovated zal to learn niglehand Chassidus with greater chayus than ever before. Images captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki • Photos

Missing Boy Found After Search Op

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After a frightening six hours, Bichasdei Hashem, missing Yosef Shapiro was found by search volunteers – just 25 feet away from the Atlantic Ocean, in a marsh, unable to walk. A Hatzolah member searching near the beach heard a child saying “Tatty” • Full Story

Buenos Aires: Torah Dedicated for Beloved Rov

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A Siyum Sefer Torah was held in the the Levi Yitzchok Chabad Center in Argentina’s capital city this week in memory of beloved Rosh Kollel and Rov of the ‘Ohel Yosef Moshe’ community Rabbi Chananya Yosef Eisenbach OBM, who fell victim to COVID-19 less than a year ago. The Torah was inaugurated with great pomp, as community members from around the city joined for the festivities • Full Story

Please Stop and Say Tehillim

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Please Stop and Say Tehillim for the refuah shleimah of Yehuda HaLevi Ben Masha • Tehillim

Welcome Aboard the Bonus Round!

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Chabad Air is currently in the midst of a campaign to continue and grow this special mission. Thanks to all our generous donors, we are pleased to announce we have reached our initial goal of $75,000 and have activated a bonus round to raise an additional $25,000 over the next nine hours • Full Story, Donate

1,300 Kg of Chicken Shechted in Uganda

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In preparation for the festive month of Tishrei, Rabbi Moshe and Yocheved Raskin, Shluchim of the Rebbe MH”M in the city of Kampala, Uganda held a strictly kosher slaughter in which 1,300 kg of poultry was slaughtered to be used by the Jewish community in the near future. Following the shechita the chickens were frozen and stored for future use • Photos

Ukrainian Chabad Schools Get Makeover

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As a part of the FJC’s large-scale renovation project, many Jewish schools and kindergartens across Ukraine are upgrading facilities and infrastructure, transforming worn out classrooms into ‘smart classes’. During Elul, the final month of the Jewish calendar, the schools are keen to show the results of their hard work • Full Story, Photos

Israeli Town Copes With Scars from Rocket Fire

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Just three months after Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at Jerusalem, spurring Operation Guardian of the Walls, the border town of Sderot appears to be on the road to recovery. The streets are bustling, and the town is filled with well-kept parks and playgrounds. The local real-estate market is booming. But underneath the veneer of normalcy, the scars of years of rocket fire run deep • Full Story

Disgraced Missionary Relocated to New Territory

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Just a year after Andrew Lewis, an Australian missionary, left Moshav Otzem in the South of Eretz Yisroel, due to pressure from local residents, he has now surfaced in the country’s North. Yad L’Achim suspects that Lewis, one of the country’s senior missionaries, is living in a small yishuv whose residents do not understand what he is up to • Full Story, Video

Build a Mikvah in Saskatchewan

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A couple hundred Jews live in Regina, the capital city of Saskatchewan, as well as the surrounding prairies known as the Land of the Living Skies. Every element of observant life can be a struggle in this Jewish wilderness – Kosher food travels 3000 km to get to Regina and a full minyan and proper Mikvah is either 600 km east or 700 km west • Full Story, Donate

$1.3 Million Expansion for North Fulton Chabad

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When Chabad of North Fulton completed its building two years ago, it knew it would need more space for its Camp Gan Israel. So when a Chabad neighbor announced his intent to sell 3 acres, the philanthropic Bunzl family came forward. The family previously donated money for the synagogue’s education wing in memory of Frances Bunzl, who died in 2019, several months after the building was finished • Full Story

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Moshe Gordon – Crown Heights to Chayale Movsikov – Crown Heights L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) 571 Albany Ave.

Shmuly Golomb – Crown Heights to Mushky Steinmetz – Briarwood, NY L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in F.R.E.E. 1383 President St.

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Koby Berkowitz – Sydney Australia to Chana Weiss Sherman Oaks, CA.

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in The Garden House 1386 S. Johns PL

Moshe Gordon – Crown Heights to Chayale Movsikov – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) 571 Albany Ave.

Shmuly Golomb – Crown Heights to Mushky Steinmetz – Briarwood, NY

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in F.R.E.E. 1383 President St.