A historic gathering of Bochurim and Shluchim took place after Pesach in the New Zealand Chabad Headquarters in Canterbury.
After a most successful nationwide Pesach campaign, a number of the fourteen bochurim who gave up their vacation to assist communities around New Zealand for Pesach, have stayed on after the eight day holiday, to continue their outreach work in cities across the South Island.
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Canterbury, New Zealand [CHI] — Fourteen Rabbinical Students returned to the Chabad headquarters in Canterbury, after spending their Pesach in various cities throughout the island, organizing sedorim, distributing Matzah, Kosher wine, and other Pesach essentials. “It was a success far beyond all our expectations!” says Rabbi Shmuel Kopel; director of Chabad of Otago, who helped coordinate the island wide Shlichus.
CUSCO, Peru [CHI] — It’s not for no reason that Cusco, Peru is known as the ‘Tel Aviv’ of South America. With tens of thousands of Israeli tourists visiting the city each year, almost every street corner is decorated with a sign in Hebrew – the city’s second language.
Last week the city played host to an event that will not be forgotten by tourists and locals alike, an event only Chabad of Cusco could provide; a Pesach Seder for close to a thousand people.
A group of Bochurim who have come to Warsaw, Poland on Merkos Shlichus for Pesach, traveled to Otwock (a half hour from Warsaw) where Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim once was before the Second World War.
BARILOCHE, Argentina [CHI] — Close to a thousand Israeli backpackers are expected to attend the largest Seder at the Chabad Israeli Center in Bariloche, headed by Rabbi Boaz Klein along with his wife Fradi.
In honor of the sixtieth year of the Rebbe’s neshius and inspired by the Rebbe’s call to reach the “fifth son”, six hundred bochurim will be going out on Merkos Shlichus to over two hundred and eighty cities this Pesach in the largest group ever sent.
Two weeks after registration opened up for the upcoming annual Pesach “Merkos Shlichus”, the Merkos Shlichus office in Crown Heights closed registration this week, due to the overwhelming number of applications received from around the world. To date more than 600 applicants have applied.
They call themselves the roving rabbis, and travel the four of corners of the world helping millions of Jews by offering their services at synagogues, conducting Torah classes, and so on. They are associated with the Chabad Trust, which has centres in over 50 countries.
Rabbinical students Leibel Kudan, left, and Bentzion Shemtov knock on the door of an apartment on Sylvania Avenue in Toledo to offer religious education and materials.
“Rabbis with kosher food will travel.”
Such is how Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his brother Rabbi Levi Margolin introduce themselves. They are participants in the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Programme, and have been visiting the Jewish Community of Bermuda since Tuesday.
The aim of the programme is to travel to remote, isolated Jewish communities where they introduce a vibrant Jewish experience to the local population. Through personal encounters with families and individuals, they inspire meaningful exploration and celebration of Jewish life, identity and traditions. You literally see the Jewish heritage accessible to Jewish people worldwide.
With the High Holy Days approaching, two young rabbis are visiting the Reno area to bring Jewish life to residents.
Rabbi Yosef Silverstein, 24, and Rabbi Shalom Cunin, 23, are in town from Brooklyn, N.Y., through the international Roving Rabbi program of Chabad, a movement within Jewish tradition.
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After a grueling search of all possible routes between the mountainous villages of Khira Ghanga and Bunbuny in northern India, rescuers have shifted focus in their mission to find Amichai Shtainmetz, the 24-year-old American-Israeli backpacker who disappeared more than two weeks ago.
16-year-old Ethan Berg never imagined he would celebrate his bar mitzvah with two New York rabbis inside the walls of a military chapel on Guam. “It was very meaningful. I’ve never had that. Interesting experience. It was so beautiful,” he said.
A local chapel was dedicated to members of Jewish faith by the US Navy and the Air Force in 1976. Now the two Rabbis that are here today from Brooklyn, New York are hoping to infuse some fire and a little spark into the Jewish community on base locally.
SALT LAKE CITY — From New York City to San Francisco and back again in a van, the traveling troupe is three young rabbis in training.
These young men came through Salt Lake City because they are members of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, and Rabbi Benny Zippel of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah welcomed them. We found them meeting and greeting downtown.
MANALI, India [CHI] — Yesterday marks three years since Commander Roei Klein with the cry of “Shemah Yisroel” saved his fellow soldiers by leaping on a live grenade, his body taking most of the blast. Seven other courageous soldiers from Golani Brigade 51 died on that tragic day defending the people and land of Israel.
For the past three weeks, Leibel Kahanov and Ephraim Zimmerman have traveled throughout Montana, encouraging other Jews in their faith.
The two young men are not hard to spot. They wear identical black pants and white dress shirts, yarmulkes – or skullcaps – on their heads and long, curly, dark-brown beards.
Kahanov, 22, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Zimmerman, 23, of Chicago, are members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one branch of Orthodox Judaism, which has its headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Both are rabbis who study at Central Chabad Yeshivah in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Chabad” is a Hebrew acronym for the expression “wisdom, intelligence and knowledge” – words that describe the theology of the movement. Lubavitch is a town in White Russia, now Belarus, where the movement was based for more than a century.
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