Summer is conference season for Chabad emissaries. Whether they serve college students, teenagers, the elderly, the ill, or the professionals, a tailor-made conference provides them with tools to hone their skills, network with colleagues, and swap ideas.
This may not be the first group of Yeshiva students to receive Rabbinical ordination in Moscow, but the excitement of it is no less than the first time. Most of these students did not receive a Jewish education as children, yet they worked hard and persevered at Torah learning until they reached this milestone.
At a wedding that took place last night in Lakewood, New Jersey, Rabbi Levy, the head of the OK Kosher Organization, met his Rosh Yeshiva from 53 years ago. A member of Moetzet Gedolah HaTorah in America a Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, the Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia. At the brief meeting, Rabbi Kamenetzky praised the work of the OK.
Fifteen fires broke out from morning until this hour (Monday) in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip – all of them from incendiary balloons launched into Israel.
Continuing the 37 year annual tradition for Rabbi Borenstein’s Eighth grade class, they all got together in the backyard of his Balfore Place home for a Siyum and barbeque.
Haitian-born Gabriel Pierre is gentle, kind, thoughtful and eager to help others—the perfect candidate to serve as an aide for an elderly person with dementia. It also made him the perfect candidate for smooth-talking scammers who robbed him of his life savings of $18,500.
It’s Firefighting Day at the Lev Chabad day camp at Meir Hospital, and four-year-old Shira Maatuf is impatient for activities to begin. She has been in the hospital for a few days with a lung infection and while it interrupted her carefree summer vacation, for Shira, the Lev Chabad activities at Meir Hospital are more than an acceptable substitute. The organization’s day camps offer a fun and meaningful alternative to what would otherwise be long, tedious and lonely days spent in a hospital ward.
Hundreds of men, women and children gathered together to welcome in a very special Sefer Torah, the first of its kind in the rapidly growing community of Pico-Robertson. Rabbi Eli Hecht, Shliach of the Rebbe In Lomita California and family donated the brand new Sefer Torah to be used exclusively for Kol Avrohom, the exciting children’s program and youth Minyan, run at Bais Bezalel Chabad by Rabbi Zalmy Hecht.
Family and friends of Mrs. Shulamis Bush OBM are invited to a community event marking the Shloshim since her passing.
In preparation for the summer, Catskills Hatzalah has announced the completion of a new ambulance garage in Swan Lake near Leisure Lake Estates.
“Hanachos,” the new weekly Magazine released by the Vaad Talmidei Hatemimim, has released its Fourth Edition. This weeks magazine includes “An Insider’s Perspective: Reb Yoel Kahn and Recollections from Hanhalah: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kalmenson.
Hundreds of JNet volunteers gathered this Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum for their 6th annual volunteer appreciation event, which honors the volunteers who dedicate time weekly to learn with Jews all over the world.
Two people were injured, including an 11 year old child in a Crown Height shooting around 7:00pm Thursday evening, leaving the child in critical condition.
During his 40-plus years of leadership, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spoke publicly for thousands of hours. In preparation for the 25th anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing on 3 Tammuz, to be observed this year on Shabbat, July 6th, Chassidic communities around the world are joining forces to allocate the study of the maamarim.
Over the past two weeks, Living Archive posted 7,000 newly scanned and uploaded pictures, and the feedback was incredible. The photos were sent from hand to hand, and many people found themselves and their family members.
We preset a photo gallery submitted by Morde’hai Lubecki on his visit to Kfar Chabad in Israel.
It’s a little over thirty years in the making, but Chabad of Wimbledon now has its very own center. London is divided into North and South by the River Thames. North London is home to numerous thriving Jewish communities, but the South’s five thousand Jews are spread over an area of about 240 miles.
