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The last letters of a newly hand-written Torah were inked in Hoboken today to mark the first opening of a synagogue in the Mile Square City in more than 100 years ● Throughout the late morning, Rabbi Moshe Shapiro orchestrated a Torah ceremony at Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center, at 80 Park St., where children and adults contributed to writing the last of the 304,805 Hebrew letters in the sacred text ● Full Story, Pictures
Hundreds gathered at the tip of Hoboken’s Pier A Park on the Hudson River last night for a service to commemorating the 56 people the small city lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ● Chabad Rabbi Moshe Schapiro said “The message of 911 is 19 individuals created such havoc by coming together and bringing the two towers down and about 3000 people lost their lives, just imagine if 19 people come together to do acts of kindness” ● Full Story, Pictures
Yossi Zaltzman — Toronto, Canada, to Chana Rivka Stolik — Crown Heights