Our Big Kitchen, a Sydney soup kitchen directed by Chabad Shliach Rabbi Dovid Slavin, hosted a Friday afternoon ‘Shabbos meal’ on Tamarama Beach, which was attended by 150 friends and supporters of the organization.
Hundreds of community members and guests participated lately in the festive inauguration of a renewed Torah scroll, donated to the historical grand Synagogue of Bobruisk, Belarus, that had just celebrated 200 years to its establishment.
As far as super-parents go, the Friendship Circle parent body tops the list. As part of their ongoing mission to offer respite to their parents, the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn hosted their third annual “Parents Night Out” this past Tuesday.
Thousands turned out over the weekend in support of Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah at their annual auction event in Crown Heights. Winners list in the Extended Article!
Chabad at Wesleyan University, an organization dedicated to allowing students to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of their Jewish heritage, hosted a Challah braiding event on Feb. 6 in Usdan University Center.
Performing together in concert for the very first time, over 1,000 men packed the Oholei Torah ballroom to enjoy the music and signing of Mordechai Ben David and Benny Friedman in an auction event benefiting Keren Simchas Chosson VeKallah.
Over 1,000 Men turned out for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction event, which benefits the vital work they do in helping marry off Chassanim and Kallahs in Crown Heights. Attendees were treated to a lavish buffet and an amazing concert with Mordechai Ben David and Benny Friedman.
Dozens of people gathered together for an evening of support for the 17 Chesed organizations run by Chabad in Moscow.
Hailing from Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kherson, nearly 70 children recently gathered in the idyllic countryside near Zhitomir, Ukraine for an action-packed, inspirational shabbaton, coordinated by CKids and Rabbis Goodman and Glick of Chabad Kiev, together with Shiurei Torah Lubavitch – Dnepropetrovsk. Back in the United States, 20 children from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region took part in their own CKids shabbaton hosted by the Cohens of Mainline, PA that same week, and 25 boys from across the Dallas, Texas area joined the Dubrawskys and Naparsteks of Chabad of Dallas for a unique Shabbos experience just one week later.
Young activists and entrepreneurs from the Jewish community met for the first time with Assemblywoman Diana Richardson, who represents Crown Heights in the New York State Assembly. Among the topics discussed were affordable housing, traffic and the recent stabbing of a young Jewish man.
Close to 2,000 people gathered in Paris last night for an evening of salute and support for the Beis Lubavitch Educational Institute, under the leadership of Rabbi Mendel Azimov.
At the Sheva Brochos of the daughter of Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar Sunday night, it was announced that four new Chabad Synagogues and community centers would be opened in Moscow, bringing the number of Chabad Centers in Russia’s capital city to an unprecedented and historic thirty.
Hundreds of supporters and friends of Chabad of Thailand participated Sunday evening in a gala dinner to benefit the institution, which was held in Ramat Gan, Israel.
As part of the Chayolei Beis Dovid program for grades 7 and 8 of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, every student chose for himself various areas in which he wanted to improve in his Avoda. Every day they marked down their successes on a Duch to the Rebbe. In celebration of their great success, the 8th graders visited Camelback Resort for Mountain Coasting and Snowtubing, and the 7th graders went for an exclusive snowtubing trip on the Alpine Mountains.
On Sunday and Monday, 5 and 6 Adar I, close to 200 Shluchim from across the states of California and Nevada gathered for two days of inspiration, solidarity and camaraderie. The Kinus was held at the beautiful and spacious Chabad of the Beach Cities campus, under the leadership of Rabbi Yossi Mintz.
The CTeen mitzvah booth made its debut at the BBYO International convention this past weekend. Two thousands teens took part in the mitzvah of Tefillin, Neshek, Mezuzah, Tzedakah, and Kashrus throughout the convention.
Life in Stapleton, Colo., is taking off—and so is the Jewish community in this fledgling town in suburban Denver.
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