Youngsters and students from the Jewish community of Kherson, Ukraine, set out last week to show their respect for the deceased members of the community by cleaning up and renovating the local Jewish cemetery where they are buried.
Worcester businessman Barry Krock and his wife, Janet, have donated their $1.5 million mansion to Chabad of Central Massachusetts, directed by Rabbi Mendel Fogelman. The grand home will be converted into a Jewish community center and offices, to be called the “The Krock Family Chabad Center for Jewish Life.”
After losing an appeal to Michigan’s Supreme Court last May, which dismissed his lawsuit against the Bais Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, Rabbi Berel Shemtov has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to gain possession of the deed to the recalcitrant Chabad center.
The Tzeirei HaShluchos West Coast Winter Girls Camp has concluded an amazing eight, fun-packed days of chayus, chassidishkeit and excitement! This brings to a close an incredible 16 days of the West Coast Tzeirei HaShluchim/os Winter Camp.
Children naturally want to learn and grow, and CKids’ new GROW enrichment programs are designed to inspire kids to become the best people they can be. The first course, a curriculum about the mitzvah of hachnossas orchim, recently launched in over forty locations worldwide and was a resounding success.
Like many young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Jacobs grew up watching and learning how to serve a Jewish community directly from his parents, who have run a Jewish pre-school in Cleveland for many years.
Three young Jewish men approached Reb Getche Vilensky’s Moscow apartment, hoping to join him that evening in celebrating the Chassidic holiday of 19 Kislev. It was the late 1950s; times were dangerous. In the building’s dark entryway lurked a Soviet policeman, waiting for them.
Some people like a challenge. For example, people like Rabbi Shlame and Miriam Landa, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Fairfield, Conn.
Over 100 boys, children of Shluchim from the Western United States, gathered for eight days of chayus, inspiration, chassidishkeit warmth and fun.
The governor of a Jewish Territory established by Stalin YM”S in Russia’s Far East recently celebrated a ‘Bar Mitzvah’ following a visit from the local Chabad Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Russia, and pledged to assist in building the regions first Mikva.
Thousands of Jewish pupils across the former Soviet Union, students at the Federation of Jewish Communities’ (FJC) ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish schools, participated last week in the first stage of the 3rd annual ‘Darkeinu’ Olympic Jewish heritage quiz for 2015.
Chabad of Hanoi, Vietnam, made history as they welcomed their very own brand new Torah Scroll. The Torah is one of seven newly written Sifrei Torah generously donated by Chilean businessman and philanthropist Leonardo Farkas, honoring Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and his family.
It’s hot in the rice fields of Sakon Nakhon. At 104 degrees, planting season is in full swing. Up since 4:30, the farmer carefully sows seeds across 34 acres of wetland. Though combines and tractors have replaced water buffalo, the going is still slow and largely manual. The goal? Fifteen tons of bagged Jasmine rice that will fill his barn come harvest-time.
The winning photos of MyShliach’s annual Mivtzah Chanukah Photo Contest have just been released, following three grand raffle drawings of the more than 350 photos that were submitted.
Yehuda Pinson is not your typical 9-year-old. Living in Brussels, Belgium, he is one of the few Jewish males (and among the only children) in the city to openly identify as a Jew, proudly sporting a kippah on his head at all times. As the child of Chabad emissaries, he knows that he is different than his neighbors.
Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, visited to Kotel as part of a trip to Israel on the 25th anniversary since establishing normalized relations by his country and Israel. He was accompanied by Shliach Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, who also serves as the Chief Rabbi of Albania.
A crowd of over 500 Jewish women from all across Fairfield County, Connecticut, gathered this past Thursday evening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Greenwich for a Mega Challah Bake.
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