Gallery: The Ruins of The City of Koumran

Chabad photographer Mordechai Lubecki visited the ruins of the 2,000-year-old city of Koumran, an archaeological site in the West Bank overlooking the west bank of the Dead Sea. The city sits on the historic boundary of Judea, Idumea, and Perea, and in the territory of the Roman province of Judea at the time the site was attacked and destroyed by the Romans.

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Kazan Chief Rabbi Receives Prestigious Award

Over a hundred and fifty members of the Jewish community in Kazan, Russia, gathered to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the city’s Chief Rabbi and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Yitzchak Gorelik. The city’s mayor, Mr. Ilsur Metshin, presented the rabbi with a prestigious token of honor in recognition of his many years of dedication to the city of Kazan and its residents.