College freshmen have many worries in their first semester: handling their course load, meeting new people and adjusting to life away from home. But Los Angeles resident Natan Bentolila had an additional matter to contend with.
More than 1,200 college and university students from around the world enjoyed an awesome Motzai Shabbos at the Chabad on Campus International JewFest Ultra event.
This week Russian Jewry merited to celebrate an important milestone. The entire six tractates of Mishna have been translated into Russian along with many different commentaries and explanations, which will make it easier to learn for Russian speaking Jews all over the world.
By car, train, bus and plane, Jewish college students arrived in the last 24 hours in New York to attend “JewFest,” the annual International Shabbaton. The weekend of programming, which starts in full force on Friday and lasts through Sunday, includes educational, spiritual and social activities for the 1,200-plus young men and women scheduled to attend.
The rabbinical students hesitated before knocking. The name on the doorbell read David O’Malley-Keyes. Not a very Jewish sounding name. But you never know.
Chabad of Orange County, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, hosted an elegant Thanks-for-Giving comedy night on Sunday, November 6.
The coordinators, leaders and educators of the ‘Stars’ program for Jewish youth in Ukraine gathered in the city of Dnepropetrovsk last week to discuss the program’s development goals for the coming year.
Much has changed in the last three decades for the Jewish community in Kentucky, as the Litvin family has spread their roots in a community they are proud to call home. Even after all this time, new developments are in the works. Take, for instance, a Jewish Learning Center that opens this week, which under its wide umbrella will offer adult-education classes throughout the year for working professionals, parents, retirees—for anyone who wants to further their Jewish knowledge.
Before enrolling at U.C. Santa Cruz, Amanda Botfeld, a Reform Jew from Santa Monica, had never heard of Chabad. “I avoided Jewish spaces in part because I never felt like my level of Jewishness was ‘enough.’ Jewish community events are often intended to reaffirm your standing as an insider; I usually left feeling more like an outsider,” she wrote in an op-ed published by JWeekly. “But Chabad was different.”
A Chabad center in Woodcliff Lake in northern New Jersey is suing the local Zoning Board, mayor and property maintenance officer two months after the board denied its longstanding application to construct a synagogue on its property, calling the rejection “discriminatory.”
Rachel Bicky had jotted down a “girls night out” on her calendar on a recent Thursday night. Her plan: to join other women in Miami for a “Mega Challah Bake” workshop at a Chabad center in the downtown neighborhood of Brickell, where she would learn to properly mix, knead, shape and bake her very own challah while enjoying dips, salads and bread, and learning about the significance of the mitzvah.
A massive youth seminar took place in Moscow this past Shabbos, gathering over 250 teenage activists of the EnerJew youth movement together for 5 days of inspiration and learning.
At a simple, yet impressive affair on Motzei Shabbos of Parshas Noach a new, one-of-a-kind Tzedaka Museum and Visitor’s Center was dedicated. It’s goal is to educate people about the importance of the third pillar on which the world stands; the pillar of Chesed.
On October 30th, Rohr Chabad at Lehigh University celebrated the dedication ceremony of the Joachim Schaufeld Center for Jewish Life, and co-directors Rabbi Zalman and Yehudit Greenberg took time to reflect on their journey since their humble beginnings in 2008.
30 youth and campus Shluchim gathered on Motzei Shabbos in Paris for a Melave Malka and regional Kinus, to recharge their batteries, gain inspiration, take note of their accomplishments thus far and set goals for the coming year.
Rabbi Mendy Traxler drives hours each week from Houston to various regional correctional facilities to spend time with Jewish inmates. He also organized a Chanukah event last year in front of Houston City Hall for more than 2,500 people. When asked about the long drives and impressive events, the program director at Chabad Outreach of Houston responds: “I guess we do everything Texas-sized.”
For the past 18 years, the Minkowicz family has served as a beacon of light to Jews living in the tranquil Atlanta suburbs of Alpharetta, Johns Creek and other nearby areas. It’s also now been more than two years now since Rashi Minkowicz—the wife of Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz and a mother of eight—passed away suddenly at the age of 37.
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