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Video: Man’s Large Hoshanos Cause a Stir on Hoshanah Rabbah
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Photos: Rav Yaakov Meir Schechter On Har Hatzofim On Chol Hamoed Sukkos 5777 (JDN)
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Watch: Ohad Sings “Madua,” Composed by SY Rechnitz
Ohad Moskowitz is seen in the following video singing “Madua,” composed by Mr. Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, at the Tower of David in Yerushalayim this Chol Hamoed at an event to benefit the Sulam organization for special needs children.
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Watch: Simchas Chol Hamoed Sukkos at Kever Dovid Hamelech
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Photos: Sukkos 5777 at the Ponovezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak (JDN)
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Photos: Sukkos 5777 in Melbourne, Australia (JDN)
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Photos: Sukkos 5777 with the Premishlaner Rebbe (JDN)
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Photos: Hakafos Shniyos 5777 with Rav Avner Efgin (JDN)
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Photos: Sukkos with Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum of Satmar (JDN)
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Photos: Sukkos with the Toldos Tzvi Spinka Rebbe (JDN)
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Photos: Sukkos 5777 with the Bobover Rebbe (JDN)
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Watch: WPIX 11 Reports On Theft of Sifrei Torah from Flatbush Shul
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Listen: Local Bed-Stuy Residents Livid Over Shul’s Loud Siren
A Bed-Stuy shul has been blasting a siren every Friday to signal the beginning of Shabbos, and neighbors say their ears can’t take it anymore, reports Reuven Fenton for the New York Post.
60-year-old Robert Prichard lives about 100 feet from the Congregation Bais Yaakov Nechemia D’Satmar at 144 Spencer Street and told Fenton that he has to wear earmuffs he bought from a gun store at the hour the alarm is sounded.
Prichard said the shul installed the new, blasting alarm this summer after building an additional wing to accommodate more people.
Aaron Graubart, 48, a food photographer said the sound registered 106 – which is close to a chain saw – from his window.
In response, Fenton reports that Rabbi Moshe Dovid Niederman, president of Satmar’s United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, said the neighbors should calm down.
“The sounds of houses of worship, whether it be a church bell, Islamic call to prayer or Shabbos bell make up the tones that are the anthem of the City of New York,” Niederman said, adding that the city’s noise code gives religious organizations an exemption. The congregation offered the city – and still look forward – to sit down with the city and the neighbors to deal with this issue, and I hope that this will be resolved amicably.”
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Watch: Reb Bentzion Shenker’s “Hatov” Being Sung at the Alexander Rebbe’s Hakafos Shniyos 5777
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Watch: Hoshanah Rabbah 5777 at the Churvah Shul
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Photos: Sukkos 5777 with the Bobov-45 Rebbe (JDN)
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Photos: Hundreds Mark the Yahrtzeit of the Ribnitzer Rebbe zt”l at His Kever (JDN)
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Rav Akiva Grunblatt Visits Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov/Ohr Eliyahu in Los Angeles
Yeshiva Ahron Yaakov/Ohr Eliyahu recently had the honor to have the Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, HaRav Akiva Grunblatt, visit the Yeshiva.
Rav Grunblatt spoke to with the middle school talmidim and delivered a shmuess to the boys.
Rav Grunblatt elaborated on the idea that each and every step in the right direction towards avodas Hashem and teshuva is of the utmost importance and greatness.
Rav Grunblatt quoted a midrash rabbah in Parshas Balak that says, that after the donkey spoke to Billam and was made aware that a malach was standing in the path blocking the way, Billam said the words “I have sinned”. The Midrash says that those words had great significance. Billam was an evil person, but was also very smart and cunning. Billam knew that one who does teshuva, a malach cannot inflict harm upon him. He therefore said “I have sinned”.
The Rosh hayeshiva pointed out that if we take Billam’s words into context, his ‘Teshuva’ should not really have been a real teshuva at all. Billam was still intent on cursing the Jews, just as he was intent on cursing them before it was revealed to him that the malacha was there. Apparently, we see a great lesson from this Midrash. A step, even a tiny and possibly insincere step, has great impact upon a person and can have great outcomes.
Rav Grunblatt ended by giving a bracha to all the boys, rabbeim and yeshiva.
After Rav Grunblatt finished, the middle school talmidim then went to say shalom aleichem to the Rosh HaYeshiva.
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First Report: Four Sifrei Torah Stolen from Flatbush Shul Recovered (Video)
First report: Four Sifrei Torah stolen from a shul on Avenue O in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Simchas Torah morning have been recovered this morning, Matzav.com has learned.
The Sifrei Torah were stolen on Tuesday at 1 a.m., just hours after they were used for Hakafos by the mispallelim of the Syrian/Sefardic shul, known as the Avenue O Synagogue or Ohel Yeshua V’Sarah and led by its rov, Rav Shmuel Beyda.
The thief himself, or an accomplice, returned the Sifrei Torah, and a man learning at the shul early this morning found them in bags outside the building as he exited the shul at about 1:30 a.m.
Video surveillance shows a man pulling an unmarked van up to the front of the shul this morning at about 1 a.m. and unloading the Sifrei Torah, which were in black garbage bags. After depositing them in front of the bet knesset, the man drove off.
The theft of the Sifrei Torah, valued at about $240,000, was first reported by Matzav.com on Motzoei Yom Tov.
“Thanks to the coordinated community efforts working in tandem with the NYPD and Flatbush Shomrim, it seems that the enormous pressure has thank G-d forced the late night return of the Torahs,” stated Josh Mehlman, Chairman of the FJCC.
While the Sefardic-style Sifrei Torah have been found, as pictured above, the thief, a white man in his 20s who may or may not be Jewish but was wearing a yarmulka during the burglary, remains at large.
Councilman David G. Greenfield hailed the work of the NYPD and community members after the safe return of the Sifrei Torah.
Greenfield says that a monetary reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the burglar, along with the release of surveillance camera images of the criminal, may have contributed to the pressure the thief felt to return the Sifrei Torah. “I am thrilled that these Torah scrolls, stolen by a shameful coward in the dead of night on Simchat Torah, were returned last night,” Greenfield said.
“I want to thank the officers of the 66th Precinct, the Major Case Squad, Brooklyn South Chief Powers and all those in the NYPD and volunteers who worked so tirelessly to achieve the return of these Torah scrolls,” Greenfield said. “I look forward to continuing to work with them as they seek out the person who committed this crime.”
“I want to thank the officers of the 66th Precinct, the Major Case Squad, Brooklyn South Chief Powers and all those in the NYPD and volunteers who worked so tirelessly to achieve the return of these Torah scrolls,” Greenfield said. “I look forward to continuing to work with them as they seek out the person who committed this crime.”
Greenfield is offering an award of $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the capture and conviction of the criminal who committed this crime, while the FJCC announced a $10,000 reward to help find the thief.
Anyone with information that could help in solving this crime is encouraged to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers tip line at 1.800.577.TIPS. The NYPD’s 66th Precinct and Major Case Squad are actively investigating.
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Rav Uri Zohar: Tell Your Off the Derech Child, “I Love You”
Legendary teshuvah activist Rav Uri Zohar recently spoke about a fundamental question facing parents whose children tragically leave the derech: whether to reject them or whether to maintain a warm bond. Rav Zohar was emphatically in favor of the second option, even in extreme circumstances.
“When a child comes home at four in the morning from the disco, give him some cake with a cup of coffee and a note saying, ‘We love you,'” he said.
“This will reassure him that you love him not because he is a tzaddik or because he davens or says brachos, but just because he exists. After he grows up and understands that everything around him is a bluff, he’ll return. Slowly at first, but he’ll be inside, at home, within the community.”
“If we throw a child out of the house chalilah, we deprive him of the chance to return,” he said. “Our job as parents is not to know when he’ll do teshuvah and return to the way of the Avos. Rather, the mitzvah of this generation is to accept with love and mercy those children who will return in the end. For deep within they know the truth. Therefore, in the end, they’ll return to their heavenly Father.”
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