News, Info & Resources for the Cleveland Orthodox Jewish Community
(Cleveland.com)
WILLOUGHBY HILLS, Ohio — Bishop Road will remain closed Tuesday as officials continue to investigate a plane crash that killed four young men.
No significant traffic delays were reported, but Bishop Road between White Road and the Curtis Wright Parkway will remain closed throughout the day.
The Cleveland Heights Furniture Gemach is desperately seeking donations of furniture, especially beds in at least fair condition. Many new families have moved into our community this summer and stocks are very much depleted. Please contact (216) 321-9393 for more information. Tax receipt for donations is available.
Dr. Shmuel Cohen who has operated a kosher vitamin business out of his home for many years, is clearing out his entire selection and these are being sold at cost. Freeda
Maxi-Health, Nutri Supreme, Landau, and more. Come join us at his Last Chance Sale at the Appel Residence, 23112 Beachwood Blvd, Beachwood, OH Thursday 12-4 and Sunday 12-3.
Avi Oved – 216 – 280 – 2757 : anytime5886@gmail.com : www.anytimegaragedoorllc.com
We regret to inform you that Chaya Basya Rivka bas Entel Berkovich has passed away. Many thanks to our community who opened their hearts in tefillos. May her precious pure neshama be a meilitza yoshera for her family and for Klal Yisroel.
The funeral service will take place Tuesday, August 26th 3pm at Berkowitz Kumin chapel.
May the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Ha’Makom yenachem eschem b’soch she’ar avay’lay Tzion v’Yerushalayim
House for Sale, Beautifully upgraded 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath home: 14476 East Carroll Blvd, located between Rubyvale Rd and Lafayette Dr.
House for Sale, Beautifully upgraded 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath home: 14476 East Carroll Blvd, located between Rubyvale Rd and Lafayette Dr.
Chaya Basya Rivka bas Entel, a young girl in our community is in desperate need of rachamei shamayim.
Please help as much as you can. Therefore, everyone is asked to take a few minutes every day to say Tehillim, do Mitzvos, learn Torah, or similar in her merit. Also, the Machsom L’Fi has been continued for a 3rd week and information to sign up appears below.
(Jewish Federation of Cleveland)
Volunteers are needed for the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Spring Cemetery Cleanup on Sunday,
September 14 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.. at Lansing Cemetery, 3933 E. 57th Street, Cleveland. All ages are welcome to participate in this community-wide event, rain or shine.
Past Cemetery Cleanup events have attracted hundreds of people across generations and denominations. Preserving cemeteries is considered one of the most righteous acts of chesed (kindness); there is no greater mitzvah than honoring those that came before us.
* Drazin’s in Cleveland Heights – 3559 Severn Road, every Wednesday between 4:30 and 5:30pm.
* Appel’s in Beachwood – Every Wednesday 5-7 pm. Take used clothing as well or stay and help us sort for a bit!!
* SSRIAS
One paper to fill out once a month! Income guidelines below. Contact the above parties to make special arrangements for privacy.
(Cleveland Jewish News) – Research to make sure food situation, activities are okay with your family.
It will be a day of fun and family entertainment when the Lake County Captains host to the Dayton Dragons in the sixth annual Jewish Heritage Day on Aug. 31 at Classic Park in Eastlake.
Activities begin at 12:30 p.m., when some members of the Captains – a Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians – will sign autographs behind home plate. The game starts at 1:30.
Now you can save your sleep schedule and still get to vasikin!
This coming week, the vasikin minyan at the Alexsander Shteibel will begin at 6:20 and get you home in plenty of time to wave at the children as they board the school bus.
(Moshe Block)
The days Of Elul are days of intense love and closeness to HaShem. The very letters that spell the word Elul hint to this idea in the phrase, “Ani lidodi vidodi Li,” “I am to My beloved as My beloved is to Me.” This is Hashem’s expression of His endless love for Klal Yisroel, which is heightened in the month of Elul. How though do we bring about that closeness?
(Rabbi Yitzchok Ehrman, Agudath Israel of Illinois)
The pictures remind one of Superstorm Sandy. On Monday, August 11 the Detroit Jewish community was hit with more than six inches of rain in a span of a few hours. The storm caused significant flooding on city roads and caused the city sewer system to back up into people’s homes. The Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods took the brunt of the sewer backup, devastating the homes of more than 200 families.
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As the world continues to witness ugly incidents of verbal and physical attacks against Jews, Agudath Israel of America has been deeply engaged in encouraging, through various means, our government, and others, to strongly condemn this sharp increase in open and unabashed anti-Semitism. We have been in ongoing communication with the Obama Administration, particularly Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Ira Forman, and we continue to make our concerns known to our elected officials in the House and Senate.
(From a former Clevelander now in Israel: “Cpl David Gordon, z”l, the lone solider who was missing and then found dead near his army base in Israel, spent five years in Cleveland, as a child. His parents, Ruth & Dr. Jake Gordon, lived on Berkeley, from c. 1992 to c. 1997, and his older brother and sister attended the Hebrew Academy.)
The Columbus Jewish community is mourning the death of one of its Lone Soldiers.
The Israel Defense Forces is investigating the death of Cpl. David Menachem Gordon, whose body was found Aug. 19 in central Israel with gunshot wounds.
