On Sunday, May 15th, more than 500 people came together in West Hempstead, NY, to participate in the 2016 Long Island Walk 4 Friendship. This celebration of communal unity was hosted by the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County and Chabad of West Hempstead.
It was an 18-year journey, but Chabad of Westport, Connecticut, is finally starting to feel at home.
A new café and art studio opened by Chabad’s Friendship Circle in West Bloomfield, Michigan, is offering priceless opportunities to adults with special needs.
Filled with inspiration and relaxation, 150 Shluchos who had gathered at the fifth Chana Seminar in Europe, arranged by Chana Margolin of Brussels, departed with revitalized energies to their homes.
Family, friends and volunteers gathered Thursday afternoon for an event in tribute of Rabbi Kuti Rapp OBM, and an unveiling of a new and more permanent Tefillin Stand, which is operated by Chabad of the Airport at John F. Kennedy’s International Airport, Terminal 4.
Hershel Frankiel survived the horrific events of the Holocaust. Students, faculty and staff at California State University-San Marcos (CSUSM) were lucky enough to hear this incredibly brave man tell his story of survival.
On Sunday, a Sofer began the painstaking process of transcribing a new Torah scroll for the Chabad of the Rivertowns, a growing Jewish congregation in Dobbs Ferry, NY. The day was a festive one, though the new scroll’s origin is one of hardship.
For the first time ever, the Israeli government has sent an official delegation to represent the Jewish State at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in southern France. The delegation was greeted warmly by the Chabad Shluchim in Cannes, led by Rabbi M.M. Matusof.
Close to 30 women recently joined a Challah Baking Workshop led by Mrs. Chana Burston at Chabad of Orange County in Chester, NY.
They meet weekly in A320, an unassuming club room at the iconic Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Students of toy design, fashion, and business, they gather each Tuesday to create something ever more eternal.
It’s been 55 years since Rabbi Moshe and Mindelle Feller set out to found Upper Midwest Merkos–Chabad Lubavitch in Minnesota in the winter of 1961, a mere month after their marriage. Now, for the first time in a career that has spanned 10 U.S. presidencies and countless meaningful interactions, the couple has agreed to be honored at a gala dinner of the Cheder Lubavitch Day School, which the couple founded 39 years ago in St. Paul.
A gala dinner held last night by the European ‘Chana’ Organization hosted 150 Shluchos of the Rebbe, who joined the event from all parts of the continent.
The first crisis the young Chabad rabbi encountered when he arrived at the University of Pennsylvania was a suicide. The victim was the son of a faculty member and Rabbi Menachem Schmidt, the campus’ new Chabad representative, was called in to help the grieving family. Following that tragedy, Schmidt founded a crisis intervention line for students in distress and opened the doors of Lubavitch House at Penn as a safe haven for everyone.
The annual Chidon haTanach, a worldwide teenage competition on knowledge of the 24 books of the Tanach, took place in Israel on its Independence Day, last Thursday. 16 youngsters from 9 countries participated in the final round, one of them Michal Shpilvitz from Belarus, a student of Chabad’s Or Avner schools, which are under the auspices of the Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC).
Shluchim from across California gathered last Monday evening at Chabad West Coast Headquarters in Los Angeles, California for their annual Farbrengen in honor of Bais Iyar.
When participants from 11 Israeli high school robotics teams discovered that they would be competing in St. Louis smack dab in the middle of Passover, they had a feeling that Chabad would be able to help.
The 37 Shluchim families from across Asia that gathered this week in Thailand for the annual regional Kinus Hashluchim enjoyed three inspiration filled days. In accordance with the spirit of Hakhel, this year’s Kinus was expanded to include men, women and children. The participants enjoyed Shiurim, workshops, Farbrengens and more.
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