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Archives for October 2016

Sukkah Competition Winners

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Congratulations to the top submissions in the 2016 Sukkah Contest: The Cleveland Mobile Sukkah and the Ungar Family Sukkah!

Thank you to all the participants. Your sukkahs are each beautiful in their own way.

While some commenters didn’t feel right about the contest, pointing out that the mitzvah and holiness of Sukkos shouldn’t become another aspect of material competition and one-upsmanship, most readers–including myself–were inspired by the amount of thought and effort given to beautifying the mitzva of sukkah. Yasher koach!

Cleveland Mobile Sukkah
Cleveland Mobile Sukkah
Ungar Family Sukkah
Ungar Family Sukkah

Please Share Your Mazal Tovs

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Births, Bar/Bas Mitzvahs, Engagements, Weddings; we’d love to share them all! If you have pictures to share, send them as well!

Also, if you want to publicly share your Shalom Zachar, Bris, or Kiddush, please let us know through an authorized representative of the family.

Please send Mazal Tovs to news@localjewishnews.com.

Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes – Mr. Fred Labrie, OB”M

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The levaya of Mr. Fred Labrie will be at 3:30pm, today, Wednesday, at Berkowitz Kumin. It will proceed to Mt. Olive cemetery.

Shiva will be at the home of the Adlers, 3793 Bendemeer. Hours are:

  • Shacharis at 8am
  • Mincha/maariv at 6:10pm
  • Visiting: 9-11am and 1-3 and 7-9pm
  • Friday visiting hours: 9-11am and 1-3pm
  • Motzei Shabbos visiting hours: 8-9:30pm

Make Shopping on Amazon a Chesed Opportunity!

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Update with Shiva Info: Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes – Eleanor Pickholtz

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Hershell Pickholtz will be sitting Shiva for his mother, Eleanor Pickholtz at the home of Jeffery Pickholtz, 4493 Mackall in South Euclid.

Times are as follows:

  • Wednesday- Thursday- Shacharit at 7:00 a.m., visitation until 11 a.m., mincha at 6:20, visitation until 9 pm.
  • Friday – Shacharit at 7:00 a.m., visitation until 11 a.m.
  • Motzei Shabbat- visitation 8-9:30 pm
  • Sunday- Shacharit at 8:00 a.m., visitation until 11:30 a.m., mincha at 6:20, visitation until 9 pm.
  • Monday- Shacharit at 7:00.

Shiva ends Monday morning.

Original post:

We regret to inform you of the passing of Eleanor Pickholtz, the mother of Dr. Herschel and Sheila Pickholtz.   The funeral will take place tomorrow, October 20th  at 1:00pm at Berkowitz-Kumin.

Shiva details to follow.

May the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Update with Shiva Info: Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes – Carol Cohen, ob”m

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Shiva Update

Hershel Cohen is sitting shiva for his mother at 3802 Bendemeer rd. until Monday morning, October 31.

  • Shachris will be at 7:15 am on Thursday, Friday, and Monday and 8:30 am on Sunday.
  • Mincha will be at 6:20 pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Please no visiting from 5:00 until mincha and after 9:00 pm.

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We regret to inform you about the passing of Carol Cohen, mother of Hershel Cohen. The levaya will take place in Detroit, MI on Sunday at 9:30 am. Hershel will be sitting Shiva at 3802 Bendemeer Rd starting after Yom Tov.

May the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes – Mrs. Esther Silverstein, ob”m

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Mrs. Esther Silverstein of Borough Park, NY passed away early Monday morning, 22 Tishrei – Shemini Atzeres 5777. 
She was 91.

She was the daughter of Basha Freid, cousins to Ansbacher, Borenstein, Hendel, Freid, and the Tennenbaums of Montreal and Crown Heights. 

She is survived by her four children: Ira Silverstein- Manhattan, New York ; Joyce Toub – Albany, New York; Devorah Baila Spadone – Cleveland, Ohio and Neil Silverstein- Los Angeles, California.

The levaya will take place in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday at 11:00 AM starting at the Norman Jeffer Chapel 3803 14th Ave. Brooklyn, NY and continuing to the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY.

Shiva will be held at 838 West End Ave Apt # 2C on Thursday. Devorah Baila Spadone will be sitting shiva Motzei Shabbos thru Wednesday in her home in Cleveland, Ohio.