Can you have a summer camp with only seven kids? Should you? The objective of the “Thirteen-Day Farbrengen Camp” was to amplify and set in motion a series of events to return young, holy Jews to a place of divine inspiration. With the help from Rabbi Yosef Moscowitz, Executive Director of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois and the acclaimed Living Room Chabad House, that’s exactly what we happened.
On Monday, Chai Elul, Released Time kicked off the school year of 5784, gathering the teachers with a conference filled with insightful workshops and engaging discussions.
Nearly 150 supporters and friends participated last night in a prestigious event to salute the participants of the ‘Yishshachar and Zebulun’ program, which has been operated in recent years in 770, organized by the Igud Talmidei Hakvutza. The evening provided the supporters with an exciting glimpse of the great work being done.
Chabad rabbis and emissaries joined the first-ever mission of American Jewish leaders to Ukraine to explore the dynamics of the crisis facing Ukrainian Jewry. Rabbi Shlomo Peles of JRNU Chabad relief agency and JRNU advisor Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie joined the mission.
The Crown Heights community was visited this week by Harav Hagaon Chacham Nissim Ben-Shimon, Rosh Av Bet Din of Tel Aviv – Yafo in honor of Chai Elul and as a preparation for Tishrei 5784.
The famous Brunoy Yeshiva has begun the new school year in the suburbs of Paris with hundreds of students crowding the halls and rooms.
It has been many decades since the town of Lubavitch has seen a celebration the likes of the one held there this past week to mark two important days on the Chabad calendar: Tes Vov Elul, anniversary of the founding of Tomchei Tmimim, and Chai Elul, birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and Alter Rebbe.
As summer comes to an end, Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Ocean Parkway is buzzing with activity as students, both new and returning, kick off another school year.
For the Jewish teens from South America who recently returned from an emotionally charged tour of Eastern Europe and Israel, the trip provided daily experiences of tragedy and hope that left them more committed to Judaism, more proud to be Jewish and thankful for the opportunities to freely practice Judaism.
15,000 people packed Madison Square Garden for an energetic and historic concert with Ishay Ribo, Akiva Turgemon, Avraham Fried, and others.
These photos, shared with CrownHeights.info by Pesach Laufer, show some of the unique moments from the Oholei Torah Day Camp of 1978. The photographs include a visit to an unknown amusement park and a trip to West point Military Academy.
In recognition of the Teen Leadership Initiative, Chabad honored more than fifty teens from Orange County at a recent Teen Gala evening. Over 200 people attended the summer award ceremony held at the new Chabad Center in Monroe.
R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin Farbrenged at Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch/Chabad of South Broward Headquarters in Hallandale Beach for Chai Elul.
Azerbaijan, the country with the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world, has a flourishing Jewish community and recently marked an impressive 10% increase in the student body at the Jewish schools in Baku and the large Jewish university campus, Or Avner, operated by Chabad.
Chabad photographer Mordechai Lubecki captured the exiting faces of the Jewish children of Flandres, Paris as they began the new school year.
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Limited options are readily available for students looking to fuse action and adventure with meaning and purpose during the summer. That all changed this summer when JewishU students were given a chance of a lifetime, with exclusive JewishU summer experiences in North Africa and the Middle East.
