CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn {CHI] — Mispalelim of the Empire Shtibel Shul took part in a Farbrengen with Rabbi Kuti Feldman in honor of Chof Daled Teves, the day of the passing of the Alter Rebbe, this past Wednesday.
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BROOKLYN, NY — Eduardo Rothschild I. Caras is grateful he was not among the 300 beachgoers stung by jellyfish in S. Paulo on Sunday.
The 15 year-old Brazilian considered what he would be doing if he weren’t enjoying a Chabad sponsored trip that mixes Judaism, touring New York and skiing in Canada. He and nineteen others in his group drove in a gleaming white bus to a kosher ice cream shop in Brooklyn for a Sundae run minutes to midnight after Shabbat.
STATE COLLEGE, PA — Chabad Penn State recently inaugurated its own, brand new mikveh.
Constructed behind the Chabad house in State College, the ritual bath is located in a freestanding building that includes a waiting room and a spa-like preparation area – including a whirlpool and large shower with glass doors – in addition to the room that houses the mikveh itself. The official dedication was held on Dec. 9.
Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, one of the oldest Rabbis of Chabad in North America, is ill and has been hospitalized in critical condition. Rabbi Sharfstein was sent to Cincinnati over 50 years ago where he served as Rabbi of the City and was a member of the Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch Hakloli.
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BERLIN, Germany — Immigrants from the former Soviet Union are transforming Jewish life in Germany
In 1938 Julius Schoeps’s parents did what many German Jews who were prescient or lucky did at the time: they left. They went to Sweden, where Julius’s father worked as an archivist. Julius was born there in 1942.
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