Thirty five miles north of Charlotte, suburban Lake Norman, named as one of “the best places in North Carolina to bring up a family,” is a fast-growing area that now features a Chabad center for the area’s Jewish families. In late September, as Hurricane Florence made landfall, Rabbi Chaim and Chaya Greenberg with their baby, Rivka, opened the doors of Chabad of Lake Norman.
Sruli and Goldy Edelman
With Shluchim already beginning to arrive for the International Kinus Hashluchim, the final touches are being put in place for the Kinus. Follow the entire Kinus here on crownheights.info through daily photo galleries and live streams.
The Brunoy yeshiva, one of the most prestigious schools in Lubavitch, hosted a Farbrengen for Chof Cheshvan.
Singer Mendi Jerufi has released a new single, “B’shuvi.” He composed the song together with Danny Avidani.
The community is invited to join in the celebration of the completion of a Sefer Torah L’Iluy Nishmas Hachayol Shmuel Sarfati A”H. Shmuel, a young Shliach, was killed in a car accident while doing Mivtzah Daled Minim two years ago on the first day of Sukkos.
Following an unprecedented week of violence in Crown Heights, Shomrim of Crown Heights has put out a Security Safety Alert for the members of the community.
In what is being investigated as a possible hate crime, a Jewish man was assaulted by three teenagers he stopped from vandalizing a construction site. All three teenagers were apprehended by the police.
Levi Biggs (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (Mussie) Baumgarten (Crown Heights)
With sadness we inform of the passing of Mrs. Leba Chana (Eloise) Lubin, a longtime pillar of the Anash Community in Chicago. She passed away on Tuesday, Chof Alef Cheshvan following an illness. Updated with Levaya and Shiva Times.
Following the recent tragedy in Pittsburgh, where 11 members of the Jewish community were murdered while attending a ceremony in a local synagogue, JLI has released a short video of guidance and comfort.
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar
Three days before Yom Kippur, the Chabad Jewish community of Issaquah, WA joined to celebrate the Chanukas Habayis of a beautiful new mikvah.
Eight people were killed and three more injured Tuesday afternoon in a traffic accident near the Dead Sea in southern Israel.
Several days before the Kinus is set to begin, a new and luxurious location was established in Paris as an office to help Shluchim.
In a bizarre scene, a man was detained in Mendy’s restaurant this evening, following an altercation with an employee. Police officers from the command post on Eastern Parkway and Kingston were on hand, and part of it was caught on video.
In the spirit of unity and Jewish pride so prevalent in the city—and honoring the 11 men and women, most of them elderly grandparents, whose lives were so brutally ended by a murderer who proclaimed, “All Jews must die”—the rabbis, rebbetzins and staff of Chabad-Lubavitch of Pittsburgh have launched a campaign calling for 1,100 mezuzot to be affixed in the Pittsburgh region.
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