Zachary Ruttenberg first connected with Chabad last year in Mumbai, India, where he was living at the time. Two young rabbinical students from the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., showed up at the synagogue where he was praying—Magen David in Colaba—and said if he was ever in Brooklyn, he should look them up. A year and several countries later, Ruttenberg did just that; he reconnected with one of them.
Chabad on the ‘First Coast’ is rolling out the red carpet for Rabbi Mendel and Dini Sharfstein, along with their two children – the newest recruits to the growing Chabad faculty in the greater Jacksonville area.
It was a bittersweet moment for campers and staff at CGI Parksville, as they posed together for a portrait before bidding farewell to the camp where they spent the summer of their lives.
On a piece of land that stood vacant for about seven years after a groundbreaking ceremony, hundreds gathered Aug. 18 to dedicate the new Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Chandler, Arizona.
A 32-year-old African-American man was found dead in Crown Heights Wednesday morning. He was shot near the corner of Sterling Pl. and Rochester Ave.
In time for the upcoming school year an exciting new website has been launched.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A frantic mother called the Shomrim hotline after her six-year-old boy, who has down syndrome, had vanished after she took her eyes off him for just a minute.
One day, not too long ago, I got an email from a Rabbi Werde, requesting a meeting. Eager to make a new friend, I spent three hours with him in my office. We began working together on establishing the Chabad Chasidic Entrepreneurs Program of Crown Heights. Chabad means wisdom, understanding, knowledge. Chasidic means pious, kind. So, a person of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge is also pious and kind — this concept really resonated with me because of my great admiration for educators.
A rear-end collision occurred at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. at about 6:00pm last evening, in almost exactly the same spot and at almost exactly the same time as the accident which occurred there one day earlier.
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