On Tuesday, September 20, more than 65 people filled the shul at Chabad of Orange County, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, for a special evening with IDF Commando Mr. Sassy Reuven commemorating 40 years since Operation Thunderbolt – the Raid on Entebbe.
Chabad ties to the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk are deep, dating well back to the beginning of the previous century. The Rebbe’s father, Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneersohn, served as the city’s chief Rabbi for more than 20 years, and it was in this Ukrainian metropolis that the Rebbe and his brothers were raised.
Jewish community leaders and police liaisons from all over New York City gathered at One Police Plaza in Manhattan for the annual High Holiday briefing, which was delivered this year by newly-appointed NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill.
The Algemeiner honored masters of journalism at its fifth annual Summer Benefit on Thursday in New York City. Former editor-in-chief of The New York Sun Seth Lipsky and renowned CBS News correspondent Lara Logan accepted the paper’s Journalist of the Year awards, presented by editor-in-chief Dovid Efune.
On his first visit to Belgrade, Rabbi Yehoshua Kaminetsky was stranded. The room he booked was taken, and no area hotel had any availability. With nowhere to go, he spent the night in a hotel lobby, and told himself that he’d never move to Belgrade.
This past Motzei Shabbos, over 160 young men and women from Melbourne’s Young-Yeshivah community gathered for a Hakhel Melava-Malka – a third-anniversary celebration of gratitude and support.
No Hurricane winds were felt in South Florida on Sunday and Monday, Rosh Chodesh and 2 Elul 5776 (September 4-5, 2016). Rather, the winds of Elul were felt, especially with the power and energy generated by the annual 2 day Southern Regional Kinus Hashluchim, held this year at the newly renovated Chabad of South Broward Headquarters, with its charming Old City of Jerusalem stone decor.
In 2008, Rabbi Mendel and Rachel Zarchi started planning and fundraising for a new facility to house Chabad’s activities on the island of Puerto Rico. Since then, the Puerto Rican government has slipped into a debt crisis.
Chicago supermarket chain Jewel-Osco, which features one of the largest Kosher offerings in the Midwest, held their third annual “Taste of Kosher Food Fair” this past Sunday.
Pulling off a kosher Jewish wedding in the heart of South Korea may seem like a logistical nightmare. But Rabbi Osher Litzman, who directs the Chabad Jewish Community of Korea in Seoul with his wife, Mussy Litzman, jokes that “there are no logistical challenges here.”
The Lubavitch community of greater Paris gathered together in Sarchelles to mourn the loss of one of their own, beloved husband, father, teacher and Ba’al Chessed Rabbi Amram Yosef Fraenkel, OBM, who passed away yesterday evening after succumbing to a prolonged and difficult illness.
On Sunday, Ches Elul (Sept 11), the Lubavitch community of Manchester, UK, celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah in honor of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Avrohom Jaffe. Rabbi Jaffe serves as Head of Lubavitch Manchester and Rov of the Kahal Chassidim Lubavitch shul for the past 52 years.
The school year commenced last Monday at Yeshiva Lubavitch Ukraine, beginning the fourth year since its founding with an added measure of excitement. The graduates of Shiur Gimmel, after three years of attaining remarkable achievements, have continued on to top yeshiva gedolas around the globe, making room for a fresh class of new and eager bochurim from all over Ukraine, Europe and Eretz Yisroel. The rented premises that the yeshiva occupied had become cramped as a result of the consistent growth in numbers of talmidim, and it became necessary to seek a more spacious campus.
Students of the seventh grade of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, along with their fathers, joined together for a Hakhel Shofar Factory, training the next generation of Shluchim to lead their own workshops.
Some 200 people joined the Yeshiva LeRabbonus of Pretoria as they celebrated the graduation of the Musmachim this past Sunday.
65 shluchim, shluchos and Chabad House administrators and staff from as close as New York’s Upper West Side and as far away as Hawaii and Thailand gathered at Chabad House Bowery for a new initiative called “Face-to-Face with ChabadOne,” a daylong immersive training conference on the manifold tools and services offered by Chabad.org’s ChabadOne platform.
Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan spent Sunday evening after a day of 9/11 ceremonies explaining Israeli survival skills and resiliency to a gathering of more than 70 residents in the Basil restaurant in Crown Heights.
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