Ribbon Cut to Pomegranate Suites for Shluchim
On Sunday, Daled Tammuz, The Shluchim Office unveiled its latest in service and support to Shluchim visiting Crown Heights: a brand new hotel for visiting shluchim called ‘the Pomegranate Suites.’
On Sunday, Daled Tammuz, The Shluchim Office unveiled its latest in service and support to Shluchim visiting Crown Heights: a brand new hotel for visiting shluchim called ‘the Pomegranate Suites.’
The following letter was sent to the Shliach in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yoseph Gerlitzky, from a grateful mother who is a member of Rabbi Gerlitzky’s Chabad House. The letter speaks for itself:
Preparations are under way to make this year’s “One Shabbat One World” the biggest yet.
Each year, tens of thousands of spectators gather together in ‘Simcha Monica,’ California for a grand parade in honor of the fourth of July. The parade, which runs for approximately two miles, is filled with many kinds of floats. Since its inception, Chabad in Simcha Monica has played a major role in the parade in order to spread the light of Judaism to the masses in an unprecedented manner.
Rabbi Yehoshua and Yehudis Fuchs, along with their five children, will be moving on Shlichus to Budapest Hungary, where they will join the growing contingency of Shluchim to spread Torah and Judaism in the eastern European city.
“If you put Google, Apple, and Microsoft together, it still doesn’t compare to the miracles of Jewish renaissance I have witnessed in this country,” I said to two reporters from The New York Times and Moscow Times.
A new Mitzvah Tank has been purchased by the Shluchim in Paris, which will – once painted and outfitted with Jewish gear – serve as a mobile Chabad House to Jews throughout France. Rabbi Shmuel Azimov conducted a Farbrengen inside the Tank to ‘break it in.’
After tallying the numbers and sorting through the responses of participants, officials with the Chabad on Campus International Foundation proclaimed its annual conference for campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries an unqualified success.
A wandering Jew writes to the Shliach in Cancun about his experiences at a Chabad House elsewhere in Mexico:
Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe, Merkos Suite 302’s organization that assists shluchim families who have children with special needs, inaugurated its newly formed West Coast chapter with its very first local event on the night of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.
Chabad of the Conejo has announced that Rabbi and Mrs. Yosef and Rivkah (nee Braude) Abramov of Monsey, NY, along with their sons Menachem Mendel and Moshe Tzvi, will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Agoura Hills, California.
Brushing up on dealing with others and finding their way around the kitchen are part of the mission of the Friendship Circle Cafe in Deerfield Beach, FL, where almost two-dozen children with Down syndrome or autism spectrum disorders are learning by doing.
Further expanding on the services available to Jewish students worldwide and those studying abroad, the Chabad on Campus International Foundation announced Wednesday that Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries would soon be opening new European campus operations.
Rabbi Menachem Matusof was in for a big surprise recently. A big bash was held in his honour in Calgary to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries serving college campuses from around the world have gathered at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Connecticut for the 11th annual Chabad on Campus International Emissaries Conference that ends yesterday.
Five hundred friends and supporters of Chabad of the Conejo gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, California, for a gala Banquet event celebrating the organization’s recent momentous opening of its new Center for Jewish Life in Agoura Hills, and its commitment to continued growth in the months and years ahead. The theme of the evening was “From Strength to Strength: Don’t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow!”
Wisdom with understanding,” the motto of Sarah Lawrence College, fits perfectly with the ideals of Chabad, which is opening a center at the Bronxville campus in time for the 2012 fall semester.