Basketball Fans Cared for Over Shabbos in Milan
Chabad-Lubavitch of Milan sprang into action last weekend, when thousands of Israelis poured into their city as spectators of the European basketball championships.
First in 75 Years, New Torah Welcomed in Brisk
On Lag Ba’omer, a new Sefer Torah was completed in Brisk (known today as Brest), Belarus, for the first time in 75 years. The new scroll was welcomed with much celebration to the city’s main synagogue, where the famed Reb Chaim Brisker (soleveichik) once studied and prayed.
Silberbergs Honored for 40 Years of Shlichus
40 years ago, Rabbi Elimelech and Chaya Sarah Silberberg packed up their lives and the first two of their 10 children to, as the rabbi recently put it, “bring light to West Bloomfield, Michigan.” They were a couple on a mission, Shluchim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. And what began in 1974 as a handful of families gathering to pray in rented space has grown into the Sara and Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center (BCTC) of West Bloomfield.
Detroit Jewish News
Siberian Contestants Achieve First Place
Alina and Tatiana, both from the city of Omsk in Siberia, are the grand winners of the first historic annual ‘Darkeinu Olympic’ Jewish Heritage Quiz, which took place earlier this month at the JCC of Moscow and was attended by representatives from 36 different Jewish schools from seven different countries of the former Soviet Union.
New Torahs Mark Chabad House 1st Year of Service
Marking their first year of service to the local Jewish community, Chabad of East Las Vegas – or Chabad in the Desert – welcomed two new Sifrei Torah, along with two beautiful new cases for their older Torah’s. This coincided with their first anniversary dinner attended by over 300.
Left to right: Lia Malka, 7, Ruth Malka, Jacob Malka (helping to write the scroll) and Rabbi Moshe Klein.
New Torah Celebrates 360 Years of Jews in America
There was communal joy and celebration, with a little dancing thrown in for good measure, at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library near Troy, NY Sunday with the completion of the hand-written American Jewish Heritage Torah scroll.
CN Weekly
CU Chabad Breaks Ground for New Home
For years, Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm, wife Leah and their five young children were accustomed to having house guests — a lot of house guests. The couple’s home on 17th Street in Boulder was the home base for Chabad at the University of Colorado, where CU students engaged in Shabbat dinners, social gatherings and study sessions each week.
Daily Camera
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Chabad to Build Eruv in Phoenix Neighborhood
Yaffa Lvova has been confined to her Chandler home one day a week since her twins were born nine months ago. Although the boys are a wonderful blessing, Lvova said, “I was a big part of the community before I had them, and now, since I’ve had them, I’m at home.”
AZ Central
Lag Ba’omer Celebrated at Mitteler Rebbe’s Gravesite
As Ukraine gears up for national elections, tensions run high and military road blocks have become a fact of life. Thoughts of referendums, annexation and war are on everyone’s minds.
New Chabad House Under Construction in Michigan
Schneor and Estie Greenberg met as young people when she lived in Crown Heights in Brooklyn and he was a student visiting from Israel. The two eventually married and came to Oakland County a dozen years ago. Now at the corner of “Commerce and Commerce in Commerce,” the couple is overseeing the construction of the first Jewish synagogue –– Chabad Jewish Center of Commerce –– in the lakes area of greater Detroit, MI.
Daily Tribune
Brooklyn Chabad Center Hosts Lag Ba’omer Festival
Chabad of Georgetown, Brooklyn, directed by Rabbi Avrohom Holtzberg, hosted a grand Lag Ba’omer carnival and fair, which was enjoyed by thousands of local children and adults alike.
Boston Shluchim Host 2000 at Lag Ba’omer Celebrations
On Sunday, Lag Ba’omer, Boston area Shluchim united to produce an unprecedented event, drawing a crowd of nearly 2,000 people from all over Eastern Massachusetts.
European Shluchos Rejuvenated at Kinus
The annual regional Kinus for shluchos in Europe – held this year in Budapest, Hungary – concluded earlier this week. The Shluchos left inspired and rejuvenated after a weekend filled with shiurim, farbrengens, interesting sessions and an enjoyable sailing trip.
Jewish Pride on Display in the Heart of Berlin
On Lag Ba’omer one of the most beautiful and central streets of Berlin – Kurfüstendamm – was occupied by hundreds of marching people, taking part in the Jewish Parade for Peace and Tolerance.
In Russian-Annexed Crimea, Lag Ba’omer in the Caves
This year all public Lag Ba’omer celebrations on the Crimean peninsula, a Ukrainian province which had recently been annexed by Russia, had to be cancelled due to the fact that it coincided with a day of mourning for the local Tatar population. Instead, the Jewish community of Simferopol traveled out to the countryside for a unique Lag Ba’omer celebration.
74-Year-Old Congregant Writes Complete Sefer Torah
To write a Torah, a scribe must pen 304,805 Hebrew letters using a feather quill on sheepskin parchment — without making a single mistake. Forget auto-correct. Even one error would invalidate the whole text, making it unfit for use in a Jewish house of worship, according to custom. So completing a Torah is a cause for celebration. Completing one as an amateur is almost unheard of.
Washington Post
Sydney’s North Shore Comes Together for Bonfire, BBQ
Over 400 members of Sydney’s North Shore Jewish community attended a Lag Ba’omer family event organized by the local Chabad Shluchim.
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