Author Archives: webmaster9000

New Home for Faith Opens Doors

Barrington, RI — Rabbi Moshe Laufer was just sitting down to dinner one night when a local teenager called his cell phone. The youth was not related to the Rabbi, nor had he known him for a very long time, but he had a question about a discussion he was having with friends, and he knew who to call.

As always, Rabbi Laufer was happy to oblige. Since moving to Barrington in May, he and his wife, Mirel, have offered their ears and shared their faith with East Bay’s Jewish population.

China okays Shanghai Mikvah

Chabad leaders convince authorities mikveh ‘not a spa’

Shanghai, China — Chinese authorities authorized the Jewish community in Shanghai to build a mikveh for the first time since World War Two, this after community leaders convinced them that it ‘is not a spa.’

New Shluchim To Florida

Rabbi & Mrs. Yossi Raichik of Crown Heights will IY”H be moving on Shlichus to Boynton Beach, FL to assume the position of director of The New Greater Boynton Torah Institute, funded in part by a special grant from The Rohr Family Foundation of New York.

The Raichik’s were appointed by Rabbi Sholom Ciment of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton.

Hatzlachah Rabba!

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at yyraichik@yahoo.com

A Primer on Intermarriage for Europe’s Jewish Students

Brussels, Belgium — “Why Marry Jewish?” author Doron Kornbluth had better like planes. And crowds. Over a jam-packed, 14-day tour, the popular writer, lecturer and thinker will be touching down in 12 European cities. The European Center for Jewish Students (ECJS), the whirlwind speak-a-rama’s organizer, has drawn more than 14,000 Jewish students and young adults to its events over the past 24 months. ECJS student leaders – from Austria to Malta to Turkey to the UK – are messaging the organization’s 26,500 Jewish-student strong database to turn out the numbers for the upcoming experience beginning November 23 in Helsinki.

Class to Explore ‘Matters of Life and Death’

Rockville, MD — You are staring down the barrel of a gun. Do you kill the dangerous intruder, or do you let yourself be killed?“ ”Do you intervene to stop the crazed maniac attacking the woman at the street corner, or do you walk on by?“ ”Is there ever a reason to turn a weapon on yourself?“

These are some of the questions that will be brought under the intellectual microscope in a new class, ”Matters of Life and Death.“ The program promises an opportunity to experience ”yeshiva-style” learning, even for those with no background in the study of Talmud, says Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of Potomac’s Friends of Lubavitch, who will teach the class starting next Tuesday at 8 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville.