Pamela Kandil and David Danciger’s “Meet Cute” is a jet-setting tale of Jewish dating with a uniquely European flair. Seated next to each other at a Jewish networking conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, the couple began a whirlwind courtship in the UK followed by a romantic proposal on a gondola in Venice, Italy.
Summer is a good time for many Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, especially those based on college campuses, to get outside of their immediate surroundings—spending time with family, working with kids at camp, visiting friends or alumni. While the students are away, they also immerse themselves in planning and preparing for the upcoming year’s Jewish holidays, events and programs.
Rachael Eisenson is eager to go back to school. The graduate school-student from Smithtown, N.Y., is just one class shy of getting her master’s degree in web and multimedia design.
Six IDF soldiers who were injured during last summer’s incursion into Gaza experienced Canada as part of an eight-day trip co-sponsored and organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
When Kata Nádas, 31, a Hungarian Jew, first began attending Chabad programs at sixteen, her parents were concerned. Their associations with Judaism were all dark: more than a half a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis with the assistance of local Hungarians, and anti-Semitism was on the rise in the country.
A warm night in Brooklyn, a bunch of guys, some beer and a delicious BBQ. Sounds like a perfect night, and it was. Not only was Yaldei’s BBQ in Brooklyn the event of the summer, it was also an event with meaning.
As residents of Chattanooga, Tenn., continue to grapple with the killing of five members of the U.S. military last week, about three-dozen members of the Jewish community gathered for Shabbat services at the Chabad-Jewish Center of Chattanooga. Then, on Sunday morning, about 50 people came together for a vigil that included the reading of Psalms, Mishnah study, prayer and candle-lighting.
School may not be in session, but summertime is busy at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA. LYA organizes a Sizzlin’ Summer Barbecue for the community that grows bigger and better each summer. At the barbecue, people of all ages and from different segments of the community attend, and LYA staff take advantage of the opportunity to shmooze with them.
The looks on their faces—on the kids’ faces—reflected in their parents’ eyes, that’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s always about.
Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, His Excellency Rafael Barak, thanked Chabad Shliach to Ottawa, Rabbi Sender Gordon and the coordinators and volunteers of Israel Connect for their contribution to Israel. In a touching letter, the ambassador explains how a nation is built of many individual contributions, and how the Israel Connect program is providing the building blocks to build a better country.
Robby Rajber is president of the Maccabi Games in Munich and the owner of a film production company. He is also the son of Holocaust survivors who “got stuck” in Germany after the war. Twenty five years ago, he says speaking perfect English, the attitude was that “Jewish life should be kept in the backyard,” and he didn’t see a need for Chabad in Germany.
Good things are worth waiting for, and the new home of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Learning in Wilmette, Ill., certainly fits that category. After spending more than 20 years in temporary spaces that included, of all places, a funeral home, the 8,500-square-foot building on Chicago’s North Shore is a dream come true for the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and the community they serve.
The scent of a freshly mowed lawn that comes with being the only Grand Slam played on a grass tennis court. The pristine white tennis outfits required of all players, to the exclusion of off-white or cream. Bowing or curtsying towards the Queen or the Prince of Wales if they are watching from the Royal Box.
About 100 guests gathered recently to celebrate Chabad of Gloucester County’s amazing work and its recent purchase of 9.5 acres of land in the heart of Mullica Hill, NJ. The land will be used to build a new Jewish Center to accommodate the growing needs of the Jewish community in Gloucester County.
There are 117 families of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim in the UK. Last week, 84 of those Shluchim gathered for the annual Chabad Lubavitch UK Kinus Hashluchim that was held in the magnificent setting of Bosworth Hall Hotel (part of the Britannia Group) in the picturesque village of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.
A massive blaze broke out in a Thornhill home that was under construction, sending plumes of thick black smoke that was visible for miles. The fire was in close proximity to the Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad, which was not damaged in the blaze.
Forty-five Jewish heritage teachers at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ Jewish school network in the Former Soviet Union participated last month in ‘Darkeinu’s’ annual teachers’ seminar that took place in the heart of Jerusalem, Israel.
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