Smolensk Jews Celebrate Purim in Brand New Shul

Approximately 150 Jews of all ages gathered in the newly built Jewish Community Center in Smolensk, Russia to celebrate the most lively purim that the community remembers. Smolensk is about 45 miles from the town of Lubavitch, near the border with Belarus.

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Jewish Cooks Don’t Cut Corners on Kashrus or Flavor

Memphis Commercial Appeal

Rivky Klein, wife of Rabbi Levi Klein of Chabad Lubavitch of Tennessee, cooks in her kosher kitchen. Some shopping options for kosher cooks in the Memphis area are improving.

Unlike larger cities, Memphis, Tennessee has very few kosher options for dining out. To keep kosher in Memphis, one must know where to shop, what to buy, and be willing to cook, a lot.

NYU Students Propel Growth of Chabad House

by Karen Schwartz – Chabad.edu

Samantha Adelsberg graduated from New York University in 2010 and wanted to stay in the area. The Chabad House Serving NYU, directed by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Dov Yona and Sarah Korn, was a big factor in her decision to remain downtown, because she knew she’d have a Jewish community and fabulous place to enjoy the Sabbath.

Celebration of 1st Campus Torah Floods Street

Daily Illini

About 100 members of the Jewish community on University of Illinois campus, including alumni, students, teachers and rabbis danced and marched their way down Green Street around 2 p.m. Sunday in celebration of completing its first Torah.

MyShliach Recognizes Girl Mentors with Special Event

Amidst all the hustle and bustle during the recent women’s convention, the shluchos weren’t the only ones who were recognized for their outstanding service. MyShliach, a division of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch’s Suite 302, held a special girls’ event of appreciation this Chof Gimel Shevat for all the mentors who dedicate their time and effort to being mashpia on young shluchos around the world.

Auction Honors Jewish Community of Upper East Side

Chanie Krasnianski, second from left, co-directs Chabad of the Upper East Side, which held its annual auction and fundraiser earlier this month.

Almost 20 years ago, Rabbi Ben-Tzion and Chanie Krasnianski moved to New York City’s Upper East Side to embark on a major undertaking: the establishment of a Chabad-Lubavitch center to reinvigorate one of the most historically-Jewish neighborhoods of Manhattan. They started out small, but today, seven years into its current 17,000-square-foot educational complex, the Schneerson Center for Jewish Life continues to grow, enhancing the lives of many in the process.

Kids Take Time to Thank Teaneck Police

NJ Record

Rabbi Michoel Goldin helping, from left, Joshua Kohn, 7, Adam Cohen, 8, and Noam Stern, 8, from the Teaneck Chabad House, deliver thank-you drawings to police Sunday at the Teaneck police station.

Visiting a police station is a common rite of childhood. But going to a police department to say thank you is not common, said Yehudah Kohn of Teaneck. Which was why he brought his son Joshua, 7, to an event Sunday sponsored by Chabad of Teaneck in which children made thank you cards and gifts and brought them to Teaneck police officers.