Marking their first year of service to the local Jewish community, Chabad of East Las Vegas – or Chabad in the Desert – welcomed two new Sifrei Torah, along with two beautiful new cases for their older Torah’s. This coincided with their first anniversary dinner attended by over 300.
This weeks edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 18 tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “What Defines a Lubavitcher?.”
There was communal joy and celebration, with a little dancing thrown in for good measure, at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library near Troy, NY Sunday with the completion of the hand-written American Jewish Heritage Torah scroll.
Rabbi Chaim Miller, compiler of the Gutnick Chumash and other popular works, has written a complete biography of the Rebbe, chronicling his entire life in vivid detail from 1902 until 1994 and beyond.
For years, Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm, wife Leah and their five young children were accustomed to having house guests — a lot of house guests. The couple’s home on 17th Street in Boulder was the home base for Chabad at the University of Colorado, where CU students engaged in Shabbat dinners, social gatherings and study sessions each week.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 26, for Memorial Day.
Yaffa Lvova has been confined to her Chandler home one day a week since her twins were born nine months ago. Although the boys are a wonderful blessing, Lvova said, “I was a big part of the community before I had them, and now, since I’ve had them, I’m at home.”
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