1,200 Shluchos posed for their annual group photo. Changing it up, this years photo was taken on Motzai Shabbos in the Eden Palace in Williamsburg where the Shluchos enjoyed a Melava Malkah.
Participants of the Kinus Hashluchos gathered Friday morning at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, praying for their families, communities and fellow Shluchos.
A public university set against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, the University of Colorado Boulder holds the number one spot nationally for its atomic/molecular/optical physics program. Twenty two hundred of its 30000 students are Jewish, but CU’s distance from major Jewish centers means that Jewish life is less accessible to them.
Three people were wounded, one critically, in a shooting outside of a synagogue in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark late Saturday night. This incident follows another shooting in a café where one man was left dead.
There is a school of thought that in order to bring close “alienated” Jews we must go to them with an abridged and reformed version of Torah. But others have tried this approach before them.
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