UPenn Politicos Break for Bi-Partisan Shabbat With Chabad

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com

Rabbi Haskelevich with Brandon Paroly, Vice President of UPenn College Republicans.

UPENN, PA — Passions are running high as Pennsylvania’s presidential primary nears. Pundits are squabbling. Campaign lackeys are slinging mud. But at Chabad-Lubavitch House at Penn, Penn Democrats and Republicans set aside their differences to share Shabbat meal.

Sharing Shabbat with fifty University of Pennsylvania students in a politics-free zone recently, provided a much-needed break for Joe Gross, vice president of the Penn Democrats.

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Fashion Show Showcases Modern and Modest

By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Jewish women from across Toronto pack The Bay department store in the city’s Yorkdale shopping center for a fashion show highlighting the best in modest apparel.

For the first time in its history, The Bay department store in Toronto’s Yorkdale shopping mall showcased the most modest of fashions as some 400 women packed the retailer for a groundbreaking Jewish fashion show.

Renouncing anti-Israel remarks, Russian Muslims reach out to Jews

By Grant Slater

Chairman of Russia’s Council of Muftis, Ravil Gaynutdin and Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar

MOSCOW, Russia [JTA] — Russia’s chief rabbi and the chairman of the country’s main Islamic council are patching up a relationship severed two weeks ago after an Islamic community leader called Zionism a cancer and Israel a fascist state.

Ravil Gaynutdin, the chairman of Russia’s Councilof Muftis, reached out to Rabbi Berel Lazar during Purim celebrations and asked for a meeting as the Russian media began to report that Lazar’s Chabad-led Federation of Jewish Communities was cutting ties with the council.