For 12 years, Rabbi Yosef and Dalia Kulek worked day and night to bring Jewish students at Hartford University closer to their roots. This week, after years of legal uncertainty and unexpected help from heaven, they have finally cut the ribbon on a beautiful edifice which they – and the students they so dedicatedly serve – will now call home.
Dini Freundlich’s daughter has been admonished for not wearing her uniform to class. Fortunately the girl, who lives in Beijing, didn’t have to go home to change into her uniform: she was already there.
For the past eight weeks, a young man with a white shirt, sport jacket, wide-brimmed black hat and long beard has been knocking on doors all over Novato. He’s not selling anything. He would just like to be your friend.
Some 230 members of the Montreal community celebrated the dedication of a new home for Chabad Lifeline, a counseling and crisis center under the auspices of Rabbi Ronnie Fine, Director of Chabad of Queen Mary in Montreal. Chabad Lifeline is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to helping individuals and families affected by addiction.
Hannah Rosenthal, Barack Obama‘s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, has travelled to Malmö, Sweden, for a closed-doors meeting with the city’s mayor who has been accused of fomenting hatred of Jews.
NEW JERSEY — Around 45 people listened to the inspiring story of a Holocaust survivor, who, as a teenager, participated in a successful mass escape from the Nazi death camp Sobibór. The Chabad Jewish Center–Upper Passaic County invited Philip Bialowitz to tell his story of survival at the Wanaque Golden Age Club.
At the conclusion of last week, Rabbi Berel Zaklikofsky, Director of Chabad of Goodyear, AZ was invited by Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Ted Wilson to be honored with delivering the “Jewish prayer” at the National Prayer Breakfast at Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base, located in West Phoenix.
Marking 57 years since the establishment of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad in 5715, New York area Shluchim and the Vaad gathered for Kinus Hisorrerus and Farbrengen, which took place on 2 Iyar – ‘Tiferesh SheBitiferes’ – and was dedicated in memory of R. Dovid Raskin, OBM.
At first glance one sees no connection between Judaism and hockey. However, if you’ve been following the NHL’s Florida Panthers incredible run to the playoffs this season, you’ve come to realize that the two can get along just fine.
Keeping kosher at Arizona State University has been a struggle for graduate student Sivan Markowitz. Until the recent improvements to kosher offerings on campus, which were instituted about a month ago, she had limited options.
It all began in a bar’s basement, but now the Chabad Jewish Center is a state of the art facility. “We would joke, you go upstairs for the bar and come downstairs for the Mitzvah,” Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel said.
Chabad in Palm Beach Gardens plans to spend about $400,000 to turn an abandoned fire station into a 100-person traditional synagogue and cultural center.
South Florida recently welcomed 22 shluchim and shluchos for an all-expense paid retreat courtesy of Merkos Suite 302’s Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe, an organization dedicated to providing for the needs of shluchim with children with special needs.
Monday’s inauguration of the Feldinger Chabad Jewish Center in Basel gives this historic Jewish city a new lease on the future. It is the first time in 80 years that a synagogue has been dedicated in Switzerland’s second-largest Jewish community.
Under the leadership of Shluchim to Tasmania Rabbi Yossi and Rochel Gordon, the Pesach Seder was celebrated in two cities on the Australian island – Hobart and Launceston – with about 80 in attendance for both nights. The Hobart Sedarim were hosted by David and Penina Clark. The Sedarim in Launceston were held in the Chabad House, and enjoyed by both locals and tourists.
Meet the Jewish Youth Network (JYN). Formerly the Chabad Youth Network (CYN), the five-year-old non-profit organization has changed its name to reflect its mandate and broader clientele as it attracts teens from across the Jewish community.
Growing up, South Euclid, Ohio resident Matthew Palevsky spent almost every summer and winter break at the Friendship Circle of Cleveland’s day camp.
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