From across North America, from as far away as Australia and South Africa they came to learn, to talk shop, to plan and to prepare for the next school year. They are women who teach, direct schools and guide students in more than 200 early childhood centers, 86 elementary schools and 36 high schools in the English speaking world.
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Unless Rabbi Pinchus Feldman can raise more than $20 million, Chabad’s Yeshiva College in Bondi could collapse. That was the message from Yeshiva’s spiritual leader when he recently approached a major communal philanthropist for desperately-needed funds.
Yesterday, 14 Tamuz (July 4, 2012), the science world went crazy over the [possible] discovery of the Higg’s Boson, also called “the God particle,” which confirms the existence of ‘dark energy.’
Although Canadians celebrate July 1st as Canada day and the 4th of July is a regular working day, Mr. Sidney Spiegel was pleased he took the day off and flew up with his wife Naomi to visit the fledgling new overnight Camp Gan Israel in Haliburton, Ontario.
So you have a great idea. You’ve collected capital and launched your business. Now what?
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“If you put Google, Apple, and Microsoft together, it still doesn’t compare to the miracles of Jewish renaissance I have witnessed in this country,” I said to two reporters from The New York Times and Moscow Times.
A new Mitzvah Tank has been purchased by the Shluchim in Paris, which will – once painted and outfitted with Jewish gear – serve as a mobile Chabad House to Jews throughout France. Rabbi Shmuel Azimov conducted a Farbrengen inside the Tank to ‘break it in.’
A French Jewish teenager, who attends the Toulouse school where Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah shot dead three children in March, has suffered a violent anti-Semitic attack on a train, French media reports said on Thursday.
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In an interview with The Algemeiner, Rabbi Shlomo Koves, the Hungarian Chabad Rabbi who was challenged to a debate this week by Gabor Vona, leader of Jobbik, a Hungarian nationalist party, has outright declined the request.
Illegal fireworks were set off on the roof of 565 Crown St. in celebration of America’s independence last night. A concerned neighbor called the police, who went up on the rooftop searching for the culprits.
After tallying the numbers and sorting through the responses of participants, officials with the Chabad on Campus International Foundation proclaimed its annual conference for campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries an unqualified success.
Many guests came to rejoice with the talmidim of Kollel Tiferes Menachem in Los Angeles as they celebrated a gala Chag HaSmicha on Wednesday 23 Sivan. Hailing from overseas and across the United States, parents and relatives came to radiate with pride as their sons reached this distinguished milestone. The enveloping atmosphere was one of brotherly love, joy and accomplishment.
Just a few days after a far-right Hungarian politician discovered his Jewish roots, the leader of his political party challenged a Chabad rabbi to a debate.
On July 4th, 1976, the United States’ 200th birthday, a daring raid by Israeli commandos in Entebbe, Uganda freed 102 hostages of Palestinian and German terrorists. Rabbi Shimon Posner, director of Chabad of Rancho Mirage, CA, speaks of his childhood memories of that fateful day.
A wandering Jew writes to the Shliach in Cancun about his experiences at a Chabad House elsewhere in Mexico:
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Cheder Chabad of Monsey has welcomed a new Preschool director, Mrs. Yona Lazarus. Mrs. Lazarus comes with almost 30 years of teaching experience, six of which she served as a director of her respective department, including extensive experience in teaching, educational administration, teacher training and community leadership.
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