New Shluchim to Illinois
Rabbi Mendy and Ariella Weg are moving together with their family on Shlichus to Evanston, Illinois, and will be working with the Jewish students studying at Northwestern University.
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MyShliach Hosts Volunteer Appreciation Evening
Representing the parents of yaldei hashluchim around the globe, Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky, shliach to Glastonbury, Connecticut, addressed bochurim at MyShliach’s annual evening of appreciation on Monday, 25 Sivan. Volunteering their time each week to learn and farbreng one-on-one over the phone with a young shliach, these bochurim serve as mentors to these boys, who lack local Chassidishe friends and chavrusas.
Locals Work Together to Build Town’s First Mikvah
It seemed an unlikely prospect that the women of the small suburban Jewish community of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh in Long Island (population 2,500) would one day have their own mikvah.
New Center for Jewish Youth in Siberia
A large, beautiful building was dedicated in an impressive ceremony in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. This new building will be for the city’s Jewish Youth, with a rich variety of programs geared to various age groups from Preschool and all the way to adolescents.
Photo: Kobi Yifrach
Chabad Gives Food to Muslim Families for Ramadan
Chabad of Morocoo (Jeunesse Chabad Maroc) has teamed up with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) and the Mimouna Association, a Muslim student group, to deliver food aid to needy Moroccan families during Ramadan.
Rabbi Nachman Stulman, co-director of Beit Chabad Campinas, reads Megillah for the 63-year-old driver during a car ride this Purim.
Uber Driver Opens the Door for Rabbi After Rabbi
Milton Appelbaum has had a series of unexpected encounters that gladly have him performing the mitzvah of tefillin time and again… right after he drops off Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis at their destinations in Brazil.
Kinus for ‘Lone Shluchim’ Ends in Success
Hundreds of years after great Jewish giants such as the Ramban and Rabeinu Yona walked in these very same alleys and courtyards, the city of Girona was revived for three days. Forty eight “lone shluchim” from twenty five small countries in Europe and Central Africa gathered together to participate in the first ever Regional Kinnus Hashluchim of its kind.
New Shluchim to Ohio
We are pleased to announce that Rabbi Yisroel and Mrs. Chana Bronstein, along with their newborn son Nissan Yaakov, will soon be moving to southern Ohio to begin a new Shlichus.
Israeli Celebrities Star in ‘Modeh Ani’ Ad Campaign
A clever advertising campaign launched by Chabad in Tel Aviv has put oomph and dazzle into a traditional Jewish ritual.
Hyman Millstone and his first grandchild, Aidan, with the tefillin and prayerbook given to him by a “man from Chabad” on the campus of San Diego State University in the 1970s.
Stranger Offered Tefillin, and Family Is Transformed
Rachel Millstone, a congregant at Chabad of East County in San Diego, CA, relates how an unexpected mitzvah performed by her father on a college campus in the mid 1970s transformed their entire family for generations.
Fidget Spinners and Fiesta Highlight Awards Ceremony
Chabad of Orange County, NY’s Hebrew School, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, celebrated student accomplishments at a festive Moving-Up Awards Ceremony. The event was attended by many of the Hebrew School’s 90 students, along with their families.
Wiesenthal Center Founder Delivers Keynote at Chabad Dinner
Chabad of the Valley marked their annual Banquet Gala with a special keynote address by Rabbi Marvin Hier, the found of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. A moving tribute was paid to Rabbi Joshua B. Gordon OBM, founder of Chabad of the Valley.
New Shluchim to Be Long Island’s 50th Couple
Chabad on Long Island is showing rapid growth, with the number of centers more than doubling during a time when many American synagogues are merging, losing members or closing.
‘Lone Shluchim’ Attend Unique Conference
48 Chabad Shluchim from 25 countries in Europe and Central Africa, all of whom serve small and isolated Jewish communities on their own, met on Sunday in the city of Girona, Spain.
New Torah Dedicated to Jewish Soldiers of D-Day
The waves crashing into the spectacular beaches of Normandy do not reveal the historic battles that took place there, 73 years ago, during the “D-Day” invasion of Nazi-occupied France. It was in this setting that a Siyum Sefer Torah was held for the Chabad Center of Caen, with hundreds of local Jewish residents emotionally singing “Ani Maamin” inside a German Army bunker, their thoughts on the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to end WWII and the Holocaust.
Chabad House Vandalized: ‘Nuke Israel’
Colorado Springs Police are calling an act of antisemitic vandalism at the city’s Chabad synagogue a hate crime. The incident was captured on surveillance video.
German Minister and Shliach Discuss Radicalism
German Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel led Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin and the local Chabad Shliach, on a special tour of his birthplace in Goslar, Germany last Friday. On the tour, the dignitaries visited several sites in the town of Jewish interest, most notably the ancient Jewish cemetery where they recited a chapter of Psalms.
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