Planting the Seed of Knowledge

Michael R. Meredith – Chabad.com
Rabbi Eli Hecht, teachers and students of the Bilowit Learning Center celebrate another successful year of learning and growth

Lomita, CA — A parade of diverse young people proudly marched across the stage at the Bilowit Learning Center recently, finishing the first phase of one of the most important journeys of their lives — their education. Since opening its doors in 1983, the Chabad-sponsored school in Lomita has focused on one key goal: providing a high quality early education for all the children in its Southland community.

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Jewish Boys Choir Performs at Cultural Festival

FJC.ru

Donetsk, Ukraine –- Last week, Donetsk hosted a performance by the ‘Pirchei Donetsk’ Boys Choir. The concert was organized in celebration of Youth Day in Ukraine, for which the Donetsk Municipal Council and the ‘AISEC’ Student Association organized the Festival of Culture.

Participants came from as far away as Jamaica, Columbia, France, Jordan, Turkey and Malaysia. The ‘Pirchei Donetsk’ Choir represented Israel, without ever having actually visited the Holy Land. This remains an unfulfilled dream that the boys and their leaders, Alexandra Mirlakha and Zinaida Zenyuk, eventually hope to realize.

Rabbi Vogel to deliver Keynote at Kinus Banquet

Rabbi Nechemia Vogel

CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi Nechemia Vogel, Shliach to Rochester, NY for 26 years, has been chosen to deliver the keynote address at this years Kinnus HaShluchim banquet that will take place in Manhattan at Pier 94 located in midtown.

As we reported; Gimmul Tammuz a group of Shluchim came together for a meeting to discuss the theme of the Kinus and now two weeks later they are spending two full days brainstorming and developing the workshops general sessions and hachlotos of the Kinus Hashluchim.

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A Camp of Their Own

Kathy Millen – Naperville Sun
Yuval Elkeslasi, 11, center, and Sarah Venen, 9, left, spend time outside while other children take pony rides during Camp Gan Israel, a day camp for Jewish children, held at the Chabad of Naperville in Naperville last week. The two-week camp included many activities centered around learning about the Jewish heritage and a love for the land of Israel. Photo – Jonathan Miano

Naperville, IL — Rabbi Mendy Goldstein counts among his fondest memories the times he spent at Jewish summer camps during his youth.

You’ve Got a Friend Project Pairs Teens with Special Needs Youngsters

Eric Fingerhut – Washington Jewish Week
Stock Photo – Friendship Circle

Germantown, MD — The first couple of times 17-year-old Olessia Rubin visited 6-year-old Moishe this spring, she said the developmentally delayed boy was kind of shy and a little hesitant to hang out with her.

But by the time she went to visit Moishe last week, that had all changed.

Canberra to get first Mikvah

JTA
Illustration Photo – Mikvah

Canberra, Australia — The small Jewish community in the Australian capital of Canberra is building a mikvah.

Aharon Serebryanski, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi from Melbourne, has pledged to fund Canberra’s first Jewish ritual bath. Approximately 600 Jews live in Canberra, whose lay-led community has no rabbi or kosher butcher. Orthodox and liberal Jews share prayer facilities at a Jewish center.

Summer Programs Abet Moscow Jewish Seniors

FJC.ru

Moscow, Russia – The ‘Shaarey Tsedek’ Charity Center in Moscow has arranged for a variety of summer programming for its clients, mainly elderly Jews. “Our activities are broad ranging, designed to complement those permanent programs offered year-round,” explained Chana Shulkina, the Head of the Leisure Program at ‘Shaarey Tsedek’. “Our clients will have the opportunity to attend various lessons, sports and clubs focused on their own specific interests.”

Picture of the Day – Chabad of Simcha Monica

The LookOut News

Several thousand Simcha Monicans lined Main Street Wednesday morning as some 750 residents of the beachside city took part in the biggest Fourth of July celebration in decades.

Local organizations were out in force, with members of the Simcha Monica Chabad advertising “Mitzvahs on the Spot for People on the Go”…

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Pinchas

The Rebbe says:

1. In the beginning of this week’s Torah portion Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) that Pinchas deserves a great reward for “zealously avenging My vengeance” and therefore Pinchas should now become part of the Kohanim (a holy sect within the Jewish people who served Hashem in the Beis Hamikdash). (See chapter 25, Verses 10 through 13).

Urals Jewish Community Inaugurates Summer Camp

FJC.ru

Yekaterinburg, Russia – Summer camp season has commenced for 150 children from the Urals Region of Russia thanks to the initiative and organization of the Jewish community of Yekaterinburg, a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. Together with their parents and family members, the youngsters gathered in the Jewish Community Center for the opening ceremony of the ‘Gan Israel’ Day Camp, the camp is sponsored by the Ohr Avner Foundation headed by Mr. Lev Leviev.