Chabad News

Melbourne Anash celebrated Chai Elul with a Beis Midrash L’Chassidus. Over 140 members of Anash came together to learn the Rebbe’s Maamarim on Chai Elul and Rosh Hashana. The hall was packed with Bochurim, Kollel Yungeleit, Shluchim and Balabatim from across the community.

Supervisor Vallie Brown, Mayor London Breed, Chaya Potash and Rabbi Nosson Potash cut the ribbon at the opening of Chabad of Cole Valley's new center.

It is known as the birthplace of the Hippie Movement (and counts some well-known Jewish hippies in its history), and on Sunday, the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco celebrated the opening of its first permanent Chabad center. Chabad of Cole Valley is a $2.2 million project in its first phase, with more to come.

Kids around the world experience Rosh Hashanah at Ckids club events. Going from booth to booth, kids explored the holiday’s culinary themes with unique recipes—round shofar challah, apple mocktails, carrot cake pops, and a holiday fruit salad.

Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, left, with Rabbi Yisroel and Deborah Melamed, and their children, in front of the new mikvah in Astrakhan, Russia.

The Jewish community of Astrakhan has roots that go back to the dawn of recorded history in Eastern Europe. Situated near the salt mines of Lake Baskunchak, northwest of the Caspian Sea in the southernmost reaches of Russia, Astrakhan has experienced the historical ebbs and flows of Jewish trade and settlement. But for the last century, Astrakhan has been without one of the most central and important features of any Jewish community: a mikvah.

The Regional Kinus for Shluchim to the Caribbean is currently being held in S. Maarten, in the Caribbean Islands.

Yeshivas Bais Shalom Postville held a grand Seder sichos last night לע”נ האישה החשובה ברכה רחל בת ר’ משה, who just recently passed away. The night was sponsored by her family and the Holtzman family.

In preparation for the upcoming holidays, about thirty Shluchim gathered together for two days of intense learning. Nigleh, chassidus, halacha and minhagim, with chavrusas, and through formal lectures – these two days charged their spiritual batteries.

This past Sunday, 15 Elul, saw the Yeshiva LeRabbonus Pretoria celebrating the granting of Semicha to 19 Bochrim, כן ירבו, some of whom had been in the Yeshiva for two consecutive years.

The newly-arrived Talmidei Hashluchim of Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, directed by Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, prepared a special program for the Talmidim in honor of Tes-Vav Elul.

The Southern Regional Kinus Hashluchim was held this Sunday in the brand new Chabad building in Parkland Florida. The Southern Regional Kinus brings shluchim together from across the southern US.

In an announcement made in honor of the anniversary of the opening of Tomchei Temimim, Shliach to Tzfas Rabbi Chaim Kaplan announced the planned opening of a new Yeshiva Ketana in Tzas.

Each time the Rebbe distributed dollars, individuals were touched and lives were impacted. Presented here are photos of several highlights and encounters from Sunday Dollars of 15 Elul 1991 (5751).