Sign Language Video Producer Has New Home

Since moving from California to New York to continue his yeshiva studies, Jewish Deaf Multimedia founder Yehoshua Soudakoff has shifted production to a new location in Crown Heights. Here he is pictured recording his latest Sign Language video in front of a green screen at his studio in the Chabad.org offices at 770 Eastern Parkway.

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Chabad Breaks Ground on New Center in Mexico

An historic event took place in the famous tourist destination of Cancun, Mexico: the laying of the cornerstone for the new 15,000 square foot edifice that will serve the thousands of Jewish visitors and the small local Jewish population of Cancun. The Chabad Welcome Center will serve as a home away from home for all that enters its doors.

Shabbat 1500 Event Breaks National Record

Pipe Dream

More than 1,500 students attended Chabad at Binghamton’s annual Shabbat 1500 on Friday night. The event focused on uniting Jewish students with a night of celebration.

For the first time in history, more than 1,500 people attended the Shabbat 1500 event on Friday night at Binghampton University.

Woman Donates Brand New Mikvah to Chabad House

Cleveland Jewish News

Ruthy Wolfson affixes a mezuzah to the door of the mikvah.

The little, yellow storybook house at 29800 Cannon Road blends in nicely with the Solon residences it neighbors. But the house is not a home.

Chabad UF Expands to Accommodate Growing ‘Family’

Gainesville Sun

Rabbi Berl Goldman and his wife Chanie thank all those in attendance during the Groundbreaking Celebration for the Tabacinic Lubavitch-Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Learning, in Gainesville on Sunday.

Hundreds of members of the local Jewish community gathered on a dirt lot Sunday where soon a 23,000-square-foot Jewish student center will stand.

Long Island Chabad House Marks Decade of Service

A gala banquet dinner celebrating Chabad’s 10 years of service to the greater West Hempstead, NY community took place Sunday night, March 18, at the prestigious Garden City Hotel. Chabad of West Hempstead, under the leadership of Rabbi Yossi and Chaya R. Lieberman, is also responsible for activities at neighboring colleges Hofstra University, Adelphi University and Nassau Community college.

Aspen Chabad House Construction Set to Begin

Aspen Times

Rabbi Mendel Mintz speaks to more than 150 people who gathered for Sunday’s groundbreaking ceremony.

Construction on the long-awaited Chabad Jewish Community Center of Aspen is likely to start in three to four weeks, Rabbi Mendel Mintz said. Mintz, members of the local Jewish community and other well-wishers gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday afternoon at the project site, where the synagogue’s temporary facility now stands.

Couple Honored for Rescuing West Coast Chabad HQ

It was the largest rabbinic gathering in the history of West Coast Chabad. On Sunday, March 4, Chabad’s 260 rabbis — emissaries of The Rebbe from up and down the states of California and Nevada — gathered in Westwood to celebrate the 40th Annual West Coast Kinus HaShluchim and to pay tribute to Shlomo Yehuda and Tamar Rechnitz, pillars of chesed in California and throughout the world, who stepped forward last year and courageously rescued the West Coast Chabad Headquarters from financial distress.