‘Shabbat House’ Welcomes 1,000 in First Year
For more than 10 years, the property near a busy intersection sat dormant. Deeded to Lubavitch Center of Essex County, it had potential. At least, that’s what Rabbi Baruch and Devorah Klar thought.
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Moscow Machon Opens Doors to New Students
Machon Chomesh in Moscow, the FJC’s Jewish Institute for women, hosted an open house seminar last week, welcoming potential students from all over Russia, from Birobidjan to Yekaterinburg. The Institute holds a unique place among the country’s higher education institutions offering high-quality professional education together with a homey Jewish atmosphere of spiritual growth and personal attention.
Early Start for Chanukah at Sydney Parliament
The Chanukah season has begun in Sydney with the first major pre-Chanukah event of the year held yesterday at NSW Parliament.
Rabbi Mendy Harlig with Cindy Rosen, center, and Wendy Rosen. granddaughters of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, the charming and notorious Jewish mob figure widely recognized as the visionary behind modern Las Vegas.
Bugsy Siegel’s Daughter Gets a Jewish Burial
The rabbi thought nothing of the Flamingo Hotel as he passed it on his way to a Las Vegas area hospice. Despite the glitz and glimmer that draws people to the desert city—and the grimy edge that sometimes keeps them there for good—Las Vegas is a big place, home to real people with real (and regular) lives, and Rabbi Mendy Harlig was on his way last week to do what rabbis often do: meet with a Jewish woman breathing her last.
Meet the Newest Shluchim at Syracuse University
The Chabad House at Syracuse University in upstate New York, led by Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, has welcomed on board Rabbi Zalman and Sarah Ives as its new associate rabbi and program directors. The couple’s sole focus will be on supporting Jewish undergraduate students with their spiritual needs.
Young Jews Trained to Be Leaders in Russia
Almost 100 young Jewish adults, aged 18 to 30, came together in Moscow to learn informal education and leadership skills from the leading regional professionals.
Chabad of Puerto Rico Balances Taking Care of the Needy and Itself
Eight weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Rabbi Mendel Zarchi, Chabad’s emissary in San Juan, still faces a daily challenge: balancing his organization’s needs with those of the community it supports.
Jews of Curaçao Welcome First Permanent Shluchim
366 years old, the Jewish community of the Caribbean island of Curaçao welcomed a permanent Chabad presence for the first time, with the arrival of Rabbi Refoel and Chani Silver.
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Picture of the Day: Ambassador Greets Shluchim
This morning in Manhattan, the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Dani Dannon, welcomed two visiting Shluchim from Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Peles and Rabbi Zalman Wolf, who gave him a copy of a special edition of the Kfar Chabad magazine printed for the Kinus Hashluchim.
Uganda Becomes the 100th Country With Chabad
The landlocked East African country of Uganda is making Jewish history this year: It is the 100th country to welcome a permanent Chabad-Lubavitch presence in its midst.
Moscow Jewish Museum Marks 5 Years
From FJC.ru: The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow celebrated its 5th birthday this week. Opening in 2012 with the initiative of FJC of Russia’s leadership, today the museum is an important part of cultural life in the Russian […]
New Tech Lab Modernizes Illini Chabad
Furnished with wooden, custom-made tables, a Macbook, two PCs, laptop stations and magnetic walls, a new tech lab is bringing Chabad at the University of Illinois into the 21st century.
International Tefillin Bank Expands to 10 Countries
Jewish men in a group of countries around the world, including Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Hungary, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal and Puerto Rico, will now have access to an affordable pair of tefillin, timed to the 50th anniversary of the Rebbe’s Tefillin Campaign.
Watched by Rabbi Sendy Dubrawsky, Mayor of Hertsmere Charles Goldstein affixes the first mezuzah.
New Chabad Center Opens Doors in Radlett
Radlett, a suburb of London, UK, celebrated the opening of a new, state-of-the-art Chabad community center, under the directorship of Rabbi Sendy Dubrawsky.
During a recent trade mission, Rabbi Benny Zippel (right), his wife Sharonne (left), Utah Governer Gary Herbert and his wife, Jeannette, visit the Kotel.
An Unlikely Friendship: The Rabbi Among the Mormons
The Jerusalem Post profiled Rabbi Benny Zippel, a Chabad rabbi who brings Jewish life to Utah, and forges an unlikely friendship with the local Mormon population.
10,000 Clothing Items Given to Poor Hurricane Victims
More than 1,000 residents of the Virgin Islands had the chance to get new clothing to replace some of what was lost as a result of multiple hurricanes this fall that destroyed homes and property. The drive was sponsored by the company Privé Revaux and organized by Chabad.
90-Year-Old Circumcised in Ukraine
Not long after we read in the Parsha about Avraham Avinu undergoing circumcision at age 99, a 90-year-old Jewish man was circumcised at the Chabad Menorah Center’s clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
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