
Chabad Completes New Center on Vancouver Island
Chabad of Vancouver Island, Victoria, opened the Verrier Family Chabad Centre for Jewish Life and Learning last Wednesday, August 24th, in a historic ceremony.
Chabad of Vancouver Island, Victoria, opened the Verrier Family Chabad Centre for Jewish Life and Learning last Wednesday, August 24th, in a historic ceremony.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshayohu Groner OBM, a much loved educator and rabbi in London, England. He was 43 years old.
Levi Yitzchok and Chana Mondshine (Smolensk, Russia)
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar (Crown Heights)
Yisrolik Gottlieb (Nikolayev, Ukraine) and Chaya Mushka Wolf (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
A new music video featuring campers and Israeli singing star Nemouel Haroush was produced by Camp Chyolei HaRebbe at the end of the summer session. It is making waves in Israel with its statement of Chabad credo in the context of finishing up summer camp, reports Arutz sheva.
Aliza Bas Menachem bids farewell to Barry Chamish, OBM, an investigative journalist who wrote a book about the 2005 Disengagement from Gush Katif called ‘Bye Bye Gaza.’
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of R’ Moshe Weiss, OBM, of S. Paul, Minnesota, who gained national fame when he appeared on the TV show ‘Shark Tank’ to secure investment for an iPhone attachment he invented. He was 41 years old.
In an unprecedented and crucially positive step forward, 300 Orthodox Rabbis signed a proclamation regarding child safety in the Orthodox Jewish community. Synagogues and schools are called upon to adopt certain preventative measures outlined in the document to deter child abuse and CSA.
Zalman and Mushka (nee Wolowik) Korf (Crown Heights)
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is a struggle faced by most people in the workforce. For Shluchim whose entire lives are dedicated to the Rebbe’s work, this challenge is all the more poignant.
Menachem Klein (Memphis, TN) and Mussie Sasonkin (Akron, OH)
On Thursday, the campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-NY boarded luxuries coach busses and headed to an indoor water park – rented out by Gan Yisroel alone for the grand trip of the summer.
Waves crashed on the shore and palms trees swayed in the wind as the Jamaican sun baked down on two rabbinical students standing in dress pants and starched white shirts. They were fiddling with a portable printer, with neat stacks of paper meant be bound into Tanyas, the slim but significant volume penned by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Rebbe of Chabad.
Inspirer of millions Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, OBM, who passed away last week at the age of 80, delivers a pre-Rosh Hashanah message in this video, courtesy of Torah Café.
The festive banquet that concludes each Kinus Hashluchim is always a highlight, but it seems the banquet that concluded the European Kinnus Hashluchim in Moscow this past Thursday night, was the highlight of all highlights! The special excitement could be felt by all.
Two pedestrian safety islands installed less than a year ago on Eastern Parkway are slated to be removed by the city in order to accommodate ‘floats’ for the upcoming West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights.