Chabad Completes New Center on Vancouver Island
Chabad of Vancouver Island, Victoria, opened the Verrier Family Chabad Centre for Jewish Life and Learning last Wednesday, August 24th, in a historic ceremony.
Printing Tanyas in Jamaica, and Everywhere Else Jews Live
Waves crashed on the shore and palms trees swayed in the wind as the Jamaican sun baked down on two rabbinical students standing in dress pants and starched white shirts. They were fiddling with a portable printer, with neat stacks of paper meant be bound into Tanyas, the slim but significant volume penned by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Rebbe of Chabad.
Texans Get Authentic Yeshiva Experience for 7th Year Running
Fifth-generation Texan Adam Kaman has long toyed with the idea of studying in yeshivah. But with a growing family and full-time job in the corporate offices of an Austin-based food retailer, he has not been able to actualize that dream.
‘Our Big Kitchen’ Founder Awarded in Sydney
It was a perfect day to enjoy the winter sun at Sydney’s Bondi Beach as politicians, past and present, business leaders and representatives from a wide cross-section of the community including Dame Marie Bashir, former Governor of NSW and Phillip Ruddock, ex Federal MP, gathered to honour Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin of Our Big Kitchen.
Children of Prison Inmates Go Camping
Anna Katz was at a loss. June was fast approaching and the mother of three from northern California didn’t know what she would do with her kids all summer. After a bad business decision that landed her husband in prison in February 2014, life as she knew it came to an abrupt end. Her meager income was barely enough to pay for the basics, and financing summer camp for her kids was out of the question.
Chabad in Italy Assists Earthquake Victims
Neighbors, friends and rescuers spent the day Wednesday digging through rubble in the desperate hopes of finding people alive after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy at about 3:30 a.m., killing more than 120 people. The epicenter was centered near the town of Norcia, Italy, about 100 miles from Rome, where buildings also reportedly swayed from the resulting tremors.
Flight Turns Into Hours Long Farbrengen
500 Shluchim participating in the European Kinus Hashluchim packed into a 747 jumbo jet for a return flight to Russia, the 5 hour long trip turned into one big Farbregnen.
Long Island Chabad School Implements ‘Waronker Model’
The Jewish Academy of Suffolk County is creating an exciting and innovative new chapter in education for the local Jewish Community, under the guidance of renowned Crown Heights educator Shimon Waronker, which was featured in Newsday today.
A Dream Come True: Yeka Summer Camp Begins
25 Yeshiva students from across United States, Canada, England, Israel and Australia flew to Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine to run a summer camps for 140 Jewish children.
Israel’s Ambassador to U.S. Inspires ‘Olim’ in Jerusalem
New immigrants in Jerusalem had something to celebrate: a center that for the past eight years has provided them with an ongoing minyan, in addition to a wide range of classes and outreach activities. To fete the work of Chabad of Baka, co-directed by Rabbi Avraham and Nechama Dina Hendel, nearly 200 people came together on Aug. 12 for a Shabbat unity dinner, representing a thriving community of English-speaking olim from the United States and around the world.
Long Island Shluchim Gather in Great Neck
Chabad Lubavitch of Long Island recently held a kinus for the shluchim and shluchos who staff the 32 Chabad Centers across Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
European Kinus Getting Underway in Moscow
Hundreds of Shluchim have begun arriving in Moscow for a historical European Kinus Hashluchim. The Kinus will begin with a trip to Lubavitch, Liadi and Liozna.
New Shluchim to Arizona
Rabbi Bentzion and Chaya Shemtov have joined the international family of the Rebbe’s Shluchim as they open a Chabad outpost for the first time in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Chabad Hebrew Academy students help spread the mulch for the new playground.
Tampa Bay Chabad Wins Contest, Gets Playground
Kids can learn a lot on a playground. They learn about cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, independence and to try new things. Conveying that message in a video, as well as a concerted voting campaign, helped Chabad of Tampa Bay, FL, win a national contest to receive a $20,000 grant for a new playground.
Former Campers Return to Inspire Next Generation in Kharkov
Communists forbade them to study Torah and now their children are teaching Torah to a new generation.
500 Shluchim to Gather for Historic Kinus in Russia
Tractors are smoothing out the ground for the many tents that will be set up to host the davening and farbrengens. Hotel rooms were booked, two airplanes chartered, and the catering service is working around the clock cooking up a storm to feed thousands of meals. The printing press is churning out programs, signs, and learning materials. All are getting ready for the historical Kinus that will take place IY”H next week in Moscow, Lubavitch, Liozna and Kazakhstan with over 500 European Rabbis and Shluchim in attendance.
Baton Rouge Chabad Mobilizes Aid for Flood Victims
Baton Rouge’s newly-opened Chabad House launched an emergency fundraising campaign for thousands of people affected by the massive floods that swept across Louisiana.
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