29 years ago, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, director of Chabad of Mineola, Long Island, made a promise to a dying Jewish woman that he would make a Bar Mitzvah for her 2-year-old son, Mathew. 11 years later, when the time came to fulfill his promise, Rabbi Perl discovered that Mathew had been baptized, and no Bar Mitzvah would be forthcoming.
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Hundreds of men, women and children joined the Grand Lag BaOmer Parade at the Ecopark Feldman Zoo in Kharkov, Ukraine. Despite it falling in the middle of the week, a large crowd came to enjoy an amazing day with Jewish pride on full display.
Veteran Shliach in Tzfat, Israel, Rabbi Aaron Eliezer Ceitlin is in dire need of our prayers as well as donations to help facilitate treatment that is only available in the United States.
With monsoon season fast approaching, Chabad of Nepal is working feverishly to supply thousands of Nepali people with sturdy tents that will be able to withstand the annual gush of rain and pounding winds that are expected to hit the country, which is still recovering from a massive 7.8 earthquake less than two weeks ago.
Schools from across South Florida united and joined together in a Lag BaOmer Unity Day organized by the Chabad Youth Network of Florida.
Rabbi Yisroel Labkowski and his wife Tzipora (nee Feldman) have been appointed as the new Shluchim to Lafayette, California, servicing Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda – collectively known as Lamorinda – to establish a Chabad House and serve the needs of the local Jewish community.
Rabbi Yisroel Bernath is from Chicago, but after moving to Montreal to open Chabad of NDG he was “converted” into a Montreal Canadiens fan. Congregants taught him the rules of hockey and took him to games. When Hal Gill played for the Canadiens, he lived just off Monkland and Rabbi Bernath developed a friendship with the large defenseman.
With the body of 22-year-old hiker Or Asraf in the airport en route to Israel, Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, co-director of Chabad of Nepal, says the grisly work of searching for Jewish remains continues in the wake of the April 25 earthquake that crippled the South Asian nation.
After a hiatus last summer, when it closed for the first time in 40 years due to insurmountable budget constraints, Camp Gan Israel (Gan Izzy) of Morristown, NJ, is set to reopen this summer under new leadership.
There is a special hum that begins to vibrate throughout the Land of Israel in the days preceding Lag BaOmer. In each big city and small village, in every neighborhood and street, boys can be seen toting wood to gather into piles for the bonfires they will be lighting, while girls get their outfits ready for the big parade.
A brand new state-of-the-art event hall was dedicated Sunday in the Or Avner educational campus, located on the outskirts of Zhitomir in western Ukraine.
Chabad at La Costa in Carlsbad, Calif., has hosted plenty of activities in its 25 years of existence. The past, though, is nothing compared to what the future holds, thanks to a major construction project that took the center from a small, old wooden building to a modern, two-story structure with room to grow.
The following heart-warming letter was sent to Rabbi Yaakov T. Rapoport, Shliach to the University of Syracuse, by a former irreligious student who briefly attended a Shabbos meal at his home back in 1996. The young student thought the customs were strange, and barely made it past the soup course, but that brief encounter had an everlasting effect.
Corned beef, pickled just right, on thick slices of rye, with pumpernickel seeds embedded in the chewy thick crust. A juicy, firm garlicky pickle. The kosher deli stirs up warm memories, nostalgia for the old world.
A 75-year-old man put on Tefillin for the first time yesterday, Pesach Sheini. The man came to the Chesed Center Shaarei Chesed in Moscow, Russia asking for assistance.
“There are times when life on shlichus is tough but I’d never want to switch it with anything else,” declared nine-year-old Sender Ouiezerat, shliach to Shanghai, China, during his speech at the gala banquet of the Asian Regional Kinus HaShluchim. “After all, it is we who are on the front lines bringing Moshiach.”
When the Baltimore unrest broke out this week, Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland (JUSA) director and Chabad Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum went straight to work.
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