Going Kosher Doubles Sales at Basketball Arena
Summer represents an accounting of sorts for academic institutions, and at the University of Maryland, the numbers are up in one particular field.
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Campus Chabad House Burglarized
Jewish students and alumni at the University of Southern California (USC) expressed shock and rallied around the Chabad Jewish center after an overnight burglary earlier this week. Dozens of supportive messages were posted on social media, while benefactors immediately contributed several thousand dollars to help recoup the damage.
Chabad House in Nice, France
Chabad in Nice Won’t Cancel Shabbos Services
“We will not let this affect us, we will not let fear affect or damage the life of our community, just as France will not let fear of terrorism change it,” Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Pinson, Chabad Emissary to Nice, told the JTA on Friday. He reiterated that Shabbos services will proceed as planned.
Israeli Ambassador to Russia Visits Hometown
The Israeli Ambassador to Russia, Mr. Zvi Heifetz, returned to his childhood city of Tomsk, where he was welcomed by the local Jewish community, led by Chief Rabbi and Chabad Shliach Rabbi Levi Kaminetzky, with a lavish reception dinner.
Stunning Mikvah Dedicated in Moscow
At an impressive, well-attended ceremony, the Chabad House of Zhukovka, a posh suburb of Moscow, opened its doors to a new, modern, top-notch mikvah, which combines the best in terms of Halacha as well as beauty.
New Torah Welcomed to Chabad in Mequon
A new Torah scroll was welcomed with music, dancing and joy at the Chabad Peltz Center for Jewish Life in Mequon, Wisconsin.
(L-R) Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Rep. Scott Peters and Rabbi Mendel Goldstein. Photo: Chabadpoway.com
Congressman Attends S. Diego Chabad’s 30th
Chabad of Poway, California, a suburb of S. Diego, marked its 30th anniversary with a gala dinner and auction which drew several hundred guests, including congressman Scott Peters (D).
Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super will be moving to Nairobi, Kenya, this fall to lead the Nairobi Hebrew Congregation and establish Chabad-Lubavitch of Kenya. They are seen here at an elephant orphanage in Nairobi's National Park.
Chabad Opens First Center in Kenya
After leading a Passover service earlier this year, Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super have been appointed as the first permanent Chabad Shluchim to the East African country where they will lead the 112-year-old Nairobi Hebrew Congregation in Kenya.
Chabad Opens Doors to GOP Convention Visitors
Rabbi Yossi Freedman, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Cleveland, said the Chabad will offer a space downtown for prayers, services and food during the Republican National Convention, which begins next Monday, July 18.
Russian Talmud Translation ‘Unprecedented Project’
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia’s publishing house “Knizhniki” showcased the first results of its massive Talmudic translation project last Sunday: tractate Brachot, published in two volumes, was presented to the general public at a press conference during the Yahad youth forum.
Generations of Goodness Celebrated at LYA
“LYA provides a sense of community while instilling self-respect and respect for others”, remarked Carol Engelson, one of the honorees at the recent Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) Scholarship Reception “Generations of Goodness” in Longmeadow, MA.
Shliach’s 40th Birthday Gift Is Community Farbrengen
Orange County, New York, Shliach Rabbi Pesach Burston was treated to a community farbrengen with world-famous author and lecturer Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson as a gift from his wife, Chana, in honor of his 40th birthday.
Chabad School Graduate Honored by Mayor
Tatiana Chaya Nekrasova, a graduate of Chabad’s Jewish day school in Khabarovsk, Russia, received a medal from the city mayor last week as part of the year’s “Outstanding Graduates” ceremony.
Desecrated by Nazis, Abandoned Yeshivah Is Reborn
For almost 150 years, the hum of Torah study was constant in the three-story complex that housed the rabbi’s home and yeshivah in Mád, a village in northeastern Hungary in the heart of the Tokaj wine-making region.
Video: No Need to Wait Until I Am Grown
At the CTeen kinus last week, a music video was released in an effort to boost the Chayus of the tzeiri hashluchim and help them stay strong despite the things the challenges they face on Shlichus.
Soldier in Raid on Entebbe Shares Story at Chabad
One of the Israeli special forces who descended upon an airport in Entebbe, Uganda, to rescue more than 100 hostages 40 years ago visited Vacaville, California, where he shared his story at Chabad of Solano County.
Campus Kinus Concludes with Focus on Unity
Nearly 400 Shluchim and Shluchos who serve on college and university campuses around the globe – along with their more than 600 children – particpated in the Chabad on Campus Kinus International Conference 5776 in Stamford, Connecticut.
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