The full moon shone over Barnacle State Park as thousands of people gathered on Sunday night for the annual Avenue J Music Festival, an event created and organized by Chabad at the Grove and Rabbi Getzy Fellig.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has cleared Chabad of Tampa Bay following a Tuesday morning bomb threat.
As predictions of the mammoth snowstorm that dumped more than two feet of snow on New York City over the weekend gusted through the news earlier in the week, Sandra Justin brought her three children—Ethan, 9; Zoe, 12; and Talia, 14—to help pack boxes kosher food staples for those in need.
In a city where tie-dye and Birkenstocks are the garb of choice, environmentalism is a like a religion, Rabbi Berel and Rivkah (Rivky) Gurevitch — and their year-old twin daughters — have planted themselves to run a campus Chabad House at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
As the winter break comes to an end, the Jewish community of Orel in western Russia, led by Rabbi Aleksandr Grishin, announced the opening of a new kindergarten to serve the Jewish families of the city and surrounding region.
During their week off from school for winter break, the students of Moscow’s Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim traveled to the country’s far east – a nine hour flight from the capital – in order to bring the warmth of Judaism to the Jews living there.
When a community leader in the southern French city of Marseille recently suggested that Jewish men and boys should stop wearing their kipahs in public for fear of anti-Semitic attacks, he inadvertently launched a healthy dialogue on just how important it is for Jews to be able to practice their faith openly, say leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch in France.
“Do you want your child to love being Jewish?” The postcard arrived at the right moment for the Mazers. Recently settled in Chandler, Arizona (Jewish pop. 4,000), the couple was looking for a Jewish education for their five-year-old. Rabbi Mendy and Shternie Deitsch, also new arrivals, sent the mailing in search of students for their new hebrew school. It was 1997.
Some 1,128 children gathered on Tuesday afternoon for a “Kids Mega Challah Bake” event, which took place at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan. There, they broke an existing record in Hong Kong held by 426 students, who learned how to knead and bake dough, in 2013. The Guinness World Records is currently tallying up the results for a final announcement.
A group of second graders sit in a circle in a colorful New York City classroom as their teacher leads them in a guided meditation of the Adon Olam prayer. Weaving in Hebrew words from the prayer as she describes trees, animals and people, the teacher asks the children to imagine a world stripped of these basic earthly elements.
The famed Kibbutz Degania Alef on the shores of the Kinneret in northern Israel has received a noteworthy new gift. The kibbutz, Israel’s very first, established in 1909 under Ottoman rule, now has a kosher Torah scroll for use for services, holidays, religious ceremonies and more.
When Jody and Steve Stein’s son Aaron approached the end of eighth grade at his local Jewish day school, they began to research Jewish high schools. Living in Chandler, Ariz., they were within driving distance of two Jewish elementary schools, but no mainstream Jewish high school that caters to students wishing to remain on course to enter college four years later.
Rabbi Levi Matusof, Chabad Shliach in Paris, dismissed a call by the leader of Marseilles’s Jewish community for Jews in the city to stop wearing yarmulkes to avoid being the victim of anti-Semitic attacks.
Calev (Eric) Taylor, 39, and Malkah Esther (Michelle) Glass, 32, remember when Rabbi Uri Gelman showed up at the front door toting a blow torch, giant tongs, a large metal pot and industrial-strength gloves. He boiled their kitchenware, ironed their counters and advised them on how to make sure everything was just as it should be. He was there to make their kitchen kosher.
EnerJew, the FJC’s Jewish youth movement across the Former Soviet Union, announced the opening of a new branch in the city of Briansk, Russia.
When Starbucks on South Ashland’s busy Siskiyou street—just off Southern Oregon University’s campus—chose not to renew its lease last April, students, faculty and local residents were left with one less dig for hanging out and getting a late night caffeine boost.
Chabad at the University of Central Florida has purchased 2 acres of real estate, planning to build a Chabad House with about 15,000 square feet for student outreach near the campus.
