Daily Archives: July 16, 2008

Jewish Music Gaining in Popularity During Summer Festival Season

BRANFORD, CT — Each summer, Americans far and wide pack into the family car and head to one of hundreds of festivals highlighting everything from garlic – Gilroy, California, is the unofficial garlic capital of the United States – to virtually every flavor of pie imaginable. Jewish-themed festivals, in particular, have witnessed an increasing popularity in recent years with rosters featuring the best of Jewish musicians.

Rabbi Joins Police Chaplain Program

SEATLE, WA — Rabbi Elie Estrin, who runs Chabad’s University of Washington organization, has just finished training as a Seattle Community Police Chaplain. He’s the only rabbi of about 30 chaplains, a mix of clergy and lay people, and only one of two Jews.

3rd Annual National Jewish Retreat: A Resounding Success

The National Jewish Retreat concluded last Sunday, leaving a deep impression on the 230 plus participants. The positive vibes from five days of Torah, Yiddishkeit, warmth, community and intellectual motivation will resonate with them for a long time.

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A Dozen Urals Jewish Communities Unite for Seminar

CHELYABINSK, Russia [FJC] — The Jewish community of Chelyabinsk has wrapped up the seminar ‘Shabbat with the Community’. This three-day event, organized by the Educational Department of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, involved Chairmen from Jewish communities in the Urals Region that are without a resident rabbi. Lay leaders came from Magnitogorsk, Novouralsk, Kamensk-Uralskiy, Korkino, Kurgan, Kiyshtiym, Miass, Nizhniy Tagil, Troitsk, Chebarkul’ and Zlatoust.

Princeton Chabad rabbi earns chaplaincy status

PRINCETON, NJ — In a reversal of a 2007 decision, Princeton University has granted chaplaincy status to Rabbi Eitan Webb, director of Chabad on Campus there.

Webb, who has been a presence on the Princeton campus since 2002, will officially join the ranks of the university’s affiliated chaplains when the academic year begins in September. His colleagues include Rabbi Julie Roth, executive director of the Center for Jewish Life/Hillel, and 12 religious leaders from a variety of Christian denominations.

University president Shirley Tilghman denied Webb’s application for chaplaincy status last year, stating that she wanted to see tangible evidence of cooperation between the CJL and Chabad, according to the Chabad rabbi.