After a full day of learning Nigleh and Chassidus, welcoming newly arrived friends and more, the Temimim who arrived to spend Tishrei with the Rebbe farbrenged with Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Sternberg, of New London, Connecticut, at Kollel Menachem.
Thousands turned out for the annual Jewish Music and Cultural Festival in Syracuse, NY. On hand were volunteers with Chabad of Syracuse who set up a Shofar workshop and Rosh Hashanah display.
Hundreds of worshippers gathered last night in the Marina Roscha synagogue in Moscow for the first recital of Selichos, which was preceded by a grand Malave Malka and Farbrengen.
Dozens gathered to recite the first Slichos in the Rebbe’s home on President St. The Slichos were led by the Chazzan Rabbi Zalman Baumgarten.
On Thursday evening, Sept. 18, over a 100 women from Florida’s First Coast gathered at Chabad of Jacksonville’s Mandarin Headquarters to unite, be inspired and most of all learn to make Challah.
Fourth grade teacher Rabbi Chaim Lipsycz brought a miniature ‘Shofar factory’ to Cheder at the Ohel. He demonstrated to all the boys how a shofar is made.
It has already become a tradition in Brussels for hundreds of diplomats, ambassadors, parliamentarians, and public figures to gather each year for cocktails just before Rosh Hashanah.
The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine held a group wedding for 19 Jewish couples.
After weeks of campaigning and spreading the “Rest Is Coming” message, hundreds gathered for a special ‘Shabbat Block Party’ in Brooklyn Heights, hosted by Congregation B’nai Avraham, Chabad of Brooklyn Heights, and Kiddie Korner Preschool.
Yesterday evening John Cahill, the chief of staff to former Governor George Pataki and current Republican candidate for the office of New York State Attorney General, visited Crown Heights.
This past Monday was full of excitement at the JLC-Chabad in Miami Beach, as the annual Shofar Factory was back again. Over 150 people attended this wonderful event.
It was the hottest event in town with tickets completely sold out and community members trying to frantically secure a place last minute, and what an event it was! Mega Challah Bake 2014 was a tremendous, inspiring, life changing experience. One thousand women from all walks of Jewish life from every community in Montreal packed into one room, all there to do the Mitzvah of baking Challah, and hundreds more watching live from their homes.
Hundreds of families turned out for a Kosher Fair on Kingston Avenue. The fair included many kosher food vendors as well as a petting zoo, also a show featuring Uncle Moishe and the Small Wonders Puppet Theater entertained the kids.
A peculiar sight unfolded this Sunday afternoon in front of Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway. A number of Bochurim and volunteers from Chesed Shel Emes decked out in Hazmat suits and masks sifting through the mountains of trash bags in search of a lost pair of Tefillin.
In days gone by this magnificent building in the forests near Paris served as a getaway chateau for the family of King Louis XVI of France. Since the years following WWII, it served as the main building of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, located now in the Parisian suburb of Brunoy.
120 women from across the greater Vancouver area gathered on Wednesday evening, September 10th, for a ‘Community Mega Challah Bake’ at the Lubavitch Centre.
Amid the chaos and panic following the airliners slamming into the two World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, many men and woman answered a higher calling – instead of running away, they turned and ran towards the burning buildings in desperate attempts to rescue those trapped in the burning inferno. Among those brave men was a band of Shomrim volunteers from Crown Heights.
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