The Avner Institute would like to present a dramatic photograph dated 1938 of the Previous Rebbe, who is seated pensively in a hotel, in a suburb in Poland, while immersed in his customary learning and writing.
VIEDO, FL — At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, a crowd of people in UCF’s Fairwinds Alumni ballroom watched as the last remaining lines of Hebrew script were inscribed into UCF Chabad’s very own Sefer Torah (Torah scroll). The finishing of this scroll marks not only the first Torah that this Chabad chapter has ever had, but also the first in the entire UCF community.
Beginning this January, college students looking to delve into Torah study will have the opportunity to study in the relaxing atmosphere of North Miami Beach, Florida at Yeshiva Torah Ohr. The Yeshiva specializes in providing a comfortable and friendly surrounding for the typical American college student wishing to grow in their commitment to Yiddishkeit and develop the skills in learning while being immersed in a Chassidishe atmosphere.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy awarded $625,000 grants to two Chabad-Lubavitch run grassroots initiatives to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse.
Boys in Cheder Chabad Monsey’s second grade enjoyed a trip to a local farm where they picked apples.
15-year-old Sasha Matusevich grew up on Boston’s North Shore. In many ways, the public school sophomore is your typical American teenager whose love for dancing made her drop out of Hebrew school at age 11.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – Not even a full month later another two people were shot on Utica Avenue. 28 days ago two people were shot, one of them killed in a similar shooting.
Rabbinical ordination online?
Some might say no, but Rabbi Nachman Wilhelm, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, says yes. Wilhelm is founder and dean of onlinesmicha.com which offers “the committed student a rigorous online study program with the goal of earning smicha [rabbinic ordination].”
It won’t come as news that closet space is at a premium in New York City, especially if your family includes five kids. So when Avi and Michal Schick’s two teenage daughters outgrew their old clothes, the Schicks did what a lot of people do: They placed them in bins in their Flatbush, Brooklyn, basement and invited less-fortunate locals to help themselves.
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