After a trip to the Ohel last night, Rabbi Boruch and Rivkah Greenberg informed family and friends that they will be moving on Shlichus to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where they will establish a campus Chabad House at Muhlenberg College.
This summer, Yaldei hosted its 8th Regional Parent Respite Program. West Coast Shluchim gathered in sunny San Diego for three days of educational seminars, recreational activities and time to bond with other shluchim raising children with special needs.
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Dodgers held a Jewish Community Day at Dodgers Stadium. Before the first pitch Shliach Rabbi Yossi Mintz blew Shofar in front of the gathering crowd.
Hundreds of Yaldey Hashluchim from all over Europe and Ukraine enjoyed min camps throughout the summer with help from MyShliach and Merkos Suite 302.
Allan Sheff “will never forget” when Rabbi Leibel Fine came to his doorstep with a shofar in hand. “It was the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and I wasn’t feeling well and hadn’t been able to attend synagogue. That afternoon there was a knock at the door, and there was Leibel, who’d recently arrived with his wife, Chana, to establish a Chabad House.
The team of Chabad Shluchim operating in the Eastern European nation of Ukraine, which is currently embroiled in a war with Russian-backed separatists in the east, gathered in the city of Dnepropetrovsk for a regional Kinus to share ideas and inspiration. The kinus was hosted by Shliach and chief rabbi of the city Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky, and was attended by Merkos vice-chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.
It’s impossible to know how many bar mitzvahs have been celebrated in this most ancient of Jewish cities in the last 3,700 years since the patriarch Abraham purchased his family’s burial plot here. It’s just as difficult to determine how many Chassidic celebrations and milestones have been marked since the second Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe—Rabbi Dov Ber, known as the Mittler Rebbe—purchased property in this holy city more than 200 years ago.
With the recent scourge of Police personnel being attacked around the country, Chabad of Mineola, NY, has launched a new ‘Thank You Police Officer’ project.
For many young adults, college is a time to find themselves, making decisions on everything from their academic majors to their peer groups, social lives and daily schedules. For some, it’s also the first time they have been in charge of one of their most basic necessities: what to eat.
Just in time to celebrate its 100th anniversary, renovations were completed on the central synagogue of Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Muslim-majority autonomous republic of Tatarstan.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA), located in Longmeadow, MA, opened its doors on August 27, 2015 for the 2015-16 school year and was proud to welcome its student body for its 70th year of offering excellence in Judaic and secular education to families of the greater Springfield area.
Several hundred people, including a U.S. congressman and local city council members, braved a sultry summer rain in South Florida earlier this month to attend a ribbon-cutting for the Chai Center/Chabad of Coral Springs.
The hall in which the recently founded Chabad of Colorado University held its first Shabbos meal accidentally caught on fire after the event’s conclusion. B”h the building’s fire suppression system put out the blaze, and no one was harmed in the incident.
While sports players and other celebrities often visit children in hospitals, it’s rare that the two end up putting tefillin on together. It’s rarer still that the experience becomes the start of a long-term plan to spread awareness and raise money for other sick kids.
The 20-year-old Parkland College student who was allegedly caught on camera vandalizing a menorah outside the University of Illinois Chabad Jewish Center didn’t do it out of hatred, police say.
North ranch, CA will never quite be the same. An upper class picturesque neighborhood, located in the north of the Conejo valley, North ranch is home of thousands of Jews who were never serviced by a synagogue. Now, not only do they have a beautiful Chabad house, but they were treated to a summer yeshiva in their very backyard.
Rabbi and Mrs. Moishe and Mattie Schurder have moved with their son Mendel on Shlichus to Markham, Ontario, to work on Shiurei Torah, coordinating youth activities and developing the young family demographic within the community.
