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An elderly Holocaust survivor in a small French town was inspired to put on Tefilin for the first time in his life. Having arrived at the age of Bar-Mitzvah in 1942 – during the height of the Holocaust – he had never before had the opportunity.
Summer at the Jersey Shore ended on a high note with the 8th Annual Jewish Summer Fest in Atlantic City. More than 800 people participated in the event, which was sponsored by Chabad at the Shore.
Rabbi Eliyahu Cowen and his wife Mushkie (nee Stempel) were sent from Crown Heights this week to Humboldt State University in northern California to open a new Chabad Center.
In an effort dubbed “Synagogue Impossible,” a group of community members has launched a grass-roots campaign to renovate the Rohr Chabad House at Arizona State University in three weeks.
The National Jewish Retreat held this past week in Weston, Florida, was a sold-out phenomenon that drew on an international roster of speakers, teachers and outstanding personalities from the business and academic worlds. Some 800 Jews from all over the world gathered for five days of inspiration and learning sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).
Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman has had hardly a moment’s rest since his recent move to Oro Valley. Zimmerman, 26, started receiving phone calls almost immediately after coming to town with his wife Mushkie and two daughters, Devora and Chana, to set up Chabad of Oro Valley – a branch of the international Jewish outreach organization that already had three locations in the Tucson area.
With the school year fast approaching, buying all the necessary school supplies and books can be financially overwhelming for some families. But thanks to the help of Kiryat Malachi resident Ephraim Mor and the Israeli city’s Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruslavsky, Georgian-immigrant families in the southern town received new backpacks filled with notebooks and writing utensils.
The video shows Muslim students on the University of California’s Irvine campus in February 2010 shouting anti-Israel epithets at guest speaker Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
About one thousand visitors and members of the Kiryat Arba community in Israel joined the dedication of the new Beis Chaya Mushka House, Tuesday, August 7. Perched in the Judean Hills overlooking the Cave of the Patriarchs, it will be the center of activities hosted by Rabbi Rafael and Mushka Brod, new emissaries to the Kiryat Arba-Hebron area. The Brods will be the fourth couple to serve the area, and will focus on youth activities as well as Torah classes.
If Max Zwain had to describe his trip to Israel in one word, he would choose “amazing.”
The new Chabad center of Cote St. Luc in Montreal is near completion. The ceramic tiles from China for the lower level are due any day now, and a permanent Aron Kodesh for the main sanctuary upstairs will be ready soon, by Rosh Hashanah, IY”H; but 11 Torahs are in place, and for all intents and purposes, the tiles and the Aron amount to finishing touches.
As Chabad of Nashville, Tennessee has just recently moved onto its beautiful new building on a nine acre campus, filled with trees, birds, deer and the most beautiful outdoor surroundings, it has just concluded the most successful and accomplishing summer sessions of Camp Gan Israel. CGI Nashville is led by Shluchim Rabbi Yitzchok and Esther Tiechtel.
The Jewish community of Poltava in central Ukraine rejoiced today with the dedication of a new Synagogue and community center, under the directorship of Chief Rabbi and Chabad Shliach Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Segal.
A new Chabad House will be dedicated shortly in the Kiryat Arba Neighborhood of Chevron. The new Chabad center is called Beis Chaya Mushka, named after young Chaya Mushka Atiyah, OBM, daughter of Shluchim Rabbi Victor and Devorah Atiyah. Chaya Mushka was killed in a tragic fire on the 20th of Av six years ago.
In an age when the phrase “business ethics” can seem like an oxymoron, a group of rabbis has designed a course to use age-old Jewish teachings to help infuse some morality into economics – from the household budget to the stock market.
In the shadow of a skyline dominated by the General Motors Renaissance Center across the narrow Detroit River, the small, public University of Windsor draws close to 15,000 students from locations throughout Canada to the quiet and unassuming city of Windsor. Located on the border, it occupies a swath of Ontario locals point out is the only part of Canada that lies south of the United States and was once a source of prohibition-busting smugglers and black market liquor.
CGI Bat-Mitzvah Experience (B-ME) campers spent a whirlwind weekend in the Chabad enclave of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY where they toured a slew of local attractions and significant locations including the Rebbe’s home, office and shul.
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