Roving Rabbis Spread Kosher Message in Montana
Keeping Montana kosher is the name of the game for two rabbis spending their summer traveling throughout the state.
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Between visits with Jewish shopkeepers and others, rabbinic students Mendel Wolowik, left, and Mendel Tubul took time for prayer (and a photo) in the synagogue that serves the ancient Jewish community of Larissa.
In Economically Battered Greece, Rabbinic Students Offer Comfort to Jewish Community
As Greece faces closed banks, looming bankruptcy and possible expulsion from the Eurozone, Chabad has dispatched a pair of “Roving Rabbis” to bring hope, comfort and support to Jewish communities large and small.
Photos by Itsik Roytman
Bringing Judaism to a 1000 Cities and Towns
This summer Merkos shlichus Bochurim will travel to over 1000 cities and towns. Their goal: Meet Jewish people and help bring them closer to their creator.
by Merkos 302 News Blog
180 Attend Pesach Seder in the Shangri-La Hotel
Some 180 guests gathered to mark the holiday of Pesach in The Republic of China (Taiwan)’s luxurious Shangri-La hotel.
Photos by Bentzi Sasson
Bochurim Prepare to Cover Globe
540 Bochurim have boarded flights this week from New York headed to 260 cities worldwide to bring matzah, wine and to run sedorim for the local Jewish.
by Merkos 302 News Blog
Hundreds Attend Merkos Shlichus Test
A few weeks after registration opened for Pesach ‘Merkos Shlichus,’ the Bochurim who signed up were called to Merkos’ offices at Chabad HQ where they displayed their expertise at leading a public Seder and their knowledge of the necessary Halachos.
Foli Paris, left, a student at Yeshiva Gedola Rabbinical College of Sydney, recently spent a week in Tasmania, where he met resident Dirk Evenhuis on the far northwest coast, otherwise known as “The Edge of the World.”
At ‘The Edge of the World,’ a Man Discovers a Hidden Identity
Dirk Evenhuis had come to northwestern Tasmania as a 5-year-old in 1951. His family was among 35 Dutch families who had emigrated together. It wasnt until a pair of Bochurim on Merkos Shlichus ‘found’ him that he redicovered his Jewish roots, literally at ‘the edge of the world’.
NPR Profiles ‘Roving Rabbis’ in Rural West
On Sunday, NPR radio ran a feature broadcast on two Chabad Yeshiva students traveling through rural Arizona this summer as part of the ‘roving rabbis’ program. The two Bochurim, Zalman Refson and Yaakov Kaplan, were interviewed for the program, along with a couple of isolated Jews they encountered on their travels.
Volunteers to Spend Their High Holidays in Prison
Anna Koozmin, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Maryland, loves the popular Netflix series about a woman’s prison for the way it delves into the back stories and lives of inmates at a federal women’s prison. Now she is about to find out for herself what the place is like—at least for a day.
Inspiring Encounters on the Texas Trail
Young rabbinical students Mendel Schmukler and Sholom Ber Charitonow have been spending their summer vacation traveling through the U.S. state of Texas, bringing the light of Judaism to the few isolated Jews in the state’s rural areas. The following two stories were told by them, both of which occurred while visiting the city of Houston.
An Impromptu Russian Bar Mitzvah – in Michigan
Young rabbinical students Yossi Rubashkin and Mendel Polter have been spending their summer vacation traveling through the U.S. state of Michigan, bringing the light of Judaism to the few isolated Jews in the state’s rural areas. The following story was told by them, which occurred while they were in the small city of Midland.
Roving Rabbis Visit Jews of Northern Idaho
Rabbis Berel Bendet and Levi Dubov say they’re having a delightful time traveling North Idaho and meeting its residents. And, no doubt, those who get to meet the two from the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Program during their tour of Idaho are enjoying Bendet and Dubov as well.
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Roving Rabbis Find a New Jew in Peru
Young rabbinical students Dovid Leib Lepkivker and Saadia Liberow have been spending their summer vacation traveling through the South American country of Peru, bringing the light of Judaism to the country’s native Jews and Israeli backpackers. The following story was told by them, which occurred while they were in the capital city of Lima.
"Roving Rabbis" Yosef Sharfstein, left, and Shmuel Lefkowitz, both 24 and from New York, are headed to South Dakota as they did last August, seen here hanging a mezuzah on a Jewish home.
Dynamic Duo Heads Back to South Dakota
Yosef Sharfstein likes to joke that there are more Jewish people living on his block in Brooklyn, N.Y., than there are in the entire state of South Dakota—and that’s probably true.
Roving Rabbis Print Tanya in Trinidad
Young rabbinical students Naftali Spielman and Michoel Mishulovin have been spending their summer vacation hopping from one Caribbean island to another, bringing the light of Judaism to the few isolated Jews in the region. The following story was told by them about their visit to the island of Trinidad.
270 Cities to Host Merkos Shluchim this Pesach
Hundreds of Bochurim, en route to locations around the world to lead Pesach Seders, gathered in Crown Heights last Motzai Shabbos Yom Iyun for the bochurim traveling to some 270 cities, many without any existing Jewish infrastructure.
‘Merkos Shlichus’ Pesach Preparations Enter High Gear
Less than a month after registration opened for Pesach ‘Merkos Shlichus,’ the Bochurim who signed up were called to Merkos’ offices at Chabad HQ, where they displayed their expertise at leading a public Seder and their knowledge of the necessary Halachos.
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