A ribbon was cut and a mezuzah was affixed to a doorway Sunday to officially dedicate the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Coral, Florida.
Leading Russian and Moscow rabbis last week dedicated a new mikveh in the Russian capital’s oldest existing Jewish community.
The Solihull Hebrew Congregation’s Thursday Club, run by Rabbi Yehuda and Dinie Pink, has been awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for groups of volunteers who work in their local communities for the benefit of others.
It may not look like it, but about $200,000 worth of work has been completed on Placer County, California’s first Chabad house since its groundbreaking more than two years ago.
The Friendship Circle of West Hempstead celebrated another year of tremendous accomplishment. Over 120 volunteers were recognized and awarded at the West Hempstead Friendship Circle annual evening of recognition and awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 22. The event was hosted at the POSCH club inside Long Island’s prestigious Garden City Hotel.
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Rabbi Yehudah and Batsheva Glick are moving on Shlichus to Germantown, Maryland, where they will be opening a new Chabad center under the auspices of head Shliach to Maryland Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan. Crownheights.info wishes the new Shluchim much success in all their endeavors.
Hundreds of people banded together to pay tribute to a local Jewish girl who perished in a rock-climbing accident by dedicating a new wing at the preschool she served for several years in her memory.
After a two-year legal battle and nearly a year of construction, an Orthodox Jewish group is about to open its $2.4 million synagogue and education building between two houses on Tacoma’s West End.
180 shluchim from the New York-New England region gathered Sunday at Chabad of Port Washington, NY for a day of learning, inspiration, and camaraderie. The program included helpful sessions on halacha, chinuch, and other shlichus concerns, and it concluded with a grand banquet and lively farbrengen.
Some 300 community members and guests turned out for a special Torah dedication ceremony, parade and family fun fair at Chabad in Greensboro, NC.
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Some 200 students gathered recently at the Berman Theater inside of the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield, MI for the “Upstander Unite” event.
The Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield, MI celebrated its 38th annual dinner on Monday night, May 21, at the Novi Sheraton Hotel.
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A lengthy dispute over plans by the Chabad House to build a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in the middle of a Sherman Oaks residential neighborhood continued to generate controversy on Tuesday.
While school children and camps around the world are warming up for summer, in South Africa’s Cape Town they are buttoning up for another winter; the Summer’s December holiday is a distant memory.
Rabbi Avraham Chazan, Shliach in Lod, Israel, arranged for about 20 boys from immigrant and underprivileged homes to celebrate their Bar Mitzvah with much fanfare. The celebration took place on Monday, Erev Rosh Codesh Sivan; it began with a visit to the Knesset, continued with the main event at the Western Wall, and ended with a festive banquet at the Kaliv halls in Jerusalem.
Sunday night, May 20th, was the Gala Bat Mitzvah Celebration and Dinner, marking the Bat Mitzvah of fourteen girls, members of the South Broward Bat Mitzvah Club.
At daybreak last Thursday, 1,300 people were moved at the annual Community Prayer Breakfast at Harborside Event Center.
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