The Rebbe’s army of Shluchim have ‘conquered’ the United States, with a new couple moving out on Shlichus to the final state in the union which has not yet had a permanent Shliach – Rabbi Mendel and Mussie (nee Shemtov) Alperowitz and their children will be moving on Shlichus to the state of South Dakota.
Like many retired businessmen who now live abroad, Gerald Teldon, 92, makes a few trips back to the United States each year to visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren—the 18th of which is due to be born this winter.
Shluchim gathered this week at the Finder Family Jewish Leadership Institute, under the auspices of Chabad of the Valley, California, for a Rabbinical Conference entitled “Chuppah and Kiddushin Halacha Lema’aseh.”
For children from small Jewish neighborhoods, it can be hard to imagine there are other Jewish kids like them. They are often the only Jewish person in their grade, and feel as if they are the exception rather than the norm. CKids is working to change this.
Earlier this week Chabad @ the Beaches welcomed a brand new Sefer Torah, at the Aaron and Blanche Scharf Chabad Center in Ponte Vedra, Florida.
Chabad House Bowery, which serves Jewish students at NYU, hosted Israel’s Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs, Naftali Bennett, this Monday evening. “My mission in life is to strengthen Jewish identity in Israel, and abroad,” he told the gathered crowd.
Hundreds of people in communities across Russia and the former Soviet Union took part in the 3rd annual Shabbat Project, celebrating Shabbat worldwide on the weekend of November 11th.
Eighty-eight year-old Holocaust survivor Ben Midler celebrated his Bar Mitzvah this past Shabbat at Chabad of Poway in San Diego, CA.
Thousands of teens from across the globe gathered this past week for a Shabbos of inspiration, learning, and unity organized by CTeen international.
Here’s the secret recipe that was used to make the Great Boston Challah Bake: Take 1,000 women and 100 table captains. Add 2,000 pounds of flour, assorted ingredients, an inspirational program, and some spirited dancing. Mix all together and let rise.
Traci Jacob is looking forward to Thanksgiving, even though she grapples with two autoimmune diseases and has neck surgery scheduled for right after the holiday. Fortunately, the 47-year-old will be able to host a meal with her parents and a friend on Thursday because of Chabad of Hunterdon County in Clinton, N.J. Rabbi Eli Kornfeld, his wife Rachel and volunteers will prepare and deliver a cooked kosher turkey—along with the usual sides of stuffing, mashed potatoes and green beans—to Jacob and others who are homebound.
Leaders of Lithuania’s small and fractious Jewish community hired security guards to prevent a local Chabad rabbi and his supporters from attending synagogue in Vilnius (Vilna).
A Florida homeowner’s association reversed its earlier decision to cancel an annual Chanukah event organized by the local Chabad Shliach, after a public outcry claiming unfair discrimination – being that they would be erecting an X-mas tree.
Exactly 24 hours after the Florida polls closed on the most divisive presidential election our generation has witnessed, the doors of the Coral Springs La Quinta Inn ballroom opened on a vastly different scene.
Over a hundred Jewish women came together for a festive challah baking workshop in Uzhgorod, Ukraine last Thursday. The workshop was organized in honor of the Bas Mitzvah of the city rabbi’s oldest daughter, as the family wanted to use the opportunity to reach out to as many local women as possible by bringing them an evening of joy and learning.
A small but strong K-8 educational institution founded by Rabbi Yitzchok and Nechamie Minkowicz, co-directors of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, is a cornerstone for the area’s Jewish community.
As 1,200 college students checked out of Crown Heights, and the invigorating ‘JewFest’ Shabbaton experience, their last stop was the Ohel.
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