The words of the song “Wherever you go there’s always someone Jewish” by Rabbi Larry Milder, have stuck with me since I first heard them as a child. I was reminded of them over winter break when I connected with a Jewish community during my recent trip to Vietnam.
In this 13th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how she and her husband Reb Levik managed to acquire bread for Shabbos at the last moment.
As the nation’s political attention pivots from Iowa to New Hampshire this week, Rabbi Levi Krinsky, the emissary of Chabad Lubavitch in Manchester for the past 22 years, is feeling a little lonely.
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.” (Proverbs 3:17)
King Solomon, the wisest of all men, thus defined and described the ways of Torah. These words are as true today as they were in his day.
As today, 9th of Teves, marks the end of Shiva for Rabbi Hirshel Chitrik, Oholei Torah presents a gallery of pictures spanning over 50 years of Rabbi Chitrik’s involvement with the Mossad.
The Rabbinical College Of America – Chabad Lubavitch HQ of New Jersey, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Herson, has been sending student representatives to Rutgers University to do outreach work with the over 7,000 Jewish students on campus.
Popular web personality Allison Jospeh, who hosts her webshow Jew in the City, was the star in a show that was not her own. Freeda Wigs took Allison and ‘made her over,’ with a new complimentary wig and style. They shot a portion of the show at Basil in Crown Heights.
The Republican presidential candidates propelled out of the Iowa caucuses Wednesday with the race looking dramatically different than it did just one week ago. Mitt Romney won the night, but only by one of the slimmest margins in Iowa election history.
Rabbi Levi Yitzchok and Shoshanah Sarfati and their son Menachem Mendel will be joining the team of Shluchim in New Zealand, together they will iy”h be directing the North Island’s Chabad House for Israeli backpackers in Auckland City, where many thousands of young Israelis travel through each year.
History came to life in Cheder Menachem of New Jersey, a Cheder servicing the Tzeirei HaShluchim of the area, when they enjoyed a visit from Rabbi Avraham Berns, former librarian to the Rebbe’s library, in honor of Hey Teves.
Students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s newly established rabbinical school spread out across central Africa over Chanukah to connect with area Jews and a cluster of communities throughout the continent. Traveling by boat and plane to Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Gabon, Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville in the Congo Republic, and Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, they hosted public menorah lightings and holiday events throughout the region with the backing of Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa.
Pictures from the wedding of Srulie Estrin (Pittsburgh, PA) and Leiba Herman (Raleigh, NC), which took place on December 25, 2011 in the North Raleigh Hilton.
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