Ever since they moved to Vernon Hills nearly seven years ago, Rabbi Shimmy and Rochel Susskind have been renting spaces for the community programs and services they’ve organized. Hebrew school, synagogue services, adult classes and more were conducted in a nearby Montessori school, the Doubletree Hotel, and in the Susskind living room.
Rabbi Meir Rapoport and his wife Shaina are opening a Chabad Jewish Center in Galloway, NJ, to serve the Jewish student community at Stockton University. As part of their new roles as directors of the Jewish center, they will host religious services, educational programs, social programs, Sabbath and holiday meals, and more.
Rabbi Moshe Shomer was the owner of a school bus company in Toronto for 30 years, usually operating a fleet of over 20 buses. Now semi-retired and living in Crown Heights, Rabbi Shomer compiled a list of school bus safety tips for both students and parents, culled from his decades of experience, which he offered to share with the Crown Heights community as the new school year begins.
Guatemalan authorities have swooped in on a compound in Guatemala City housing members of the Lev Tahor Hasidic sect and took all the children living there away from their parents and into custody, local news sources are reporting.
The school year commenced last Monday at Yeshiva Lubavitch Ukraine, beginning the fourth year since its founding with an added measure of excitement. The graduates of Shiur Gimmel, after three years of attaining remarkable achievements, have continued on to top yeshiva gedolas around the globe, making room for a fresh class of new and eager bochurim from all over Ukraine, Europe and Eretz Yisroel. The rented premises that the yeshiva occupied had become cramped as a result of the consistent growth in numbers of talmidim, and it became necessary to seek a more spacious campus.
Students of the seventh grade of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, along with their fathers, joined together for a Hakhel Shofar Factory, training the next generation of Shluchim to lead their own workshops.
Some 200 people joined the Yeshiva LeRabbonus of Pretoria as they celebrated the graduation of the Musmachim this past Sunday.
65 shluchim, shluchos and Chabad House administrators and staff from as close as New York’s Upper West Side and as far away as Hawaii and Thailand gathered at Chabad House Bowery for a new initiative called “Face-to-Face with ChabadOne,” a daylong immersive training conference on the manifold tools and services offered by Chabad.org’s ChabadOne platform.
A lawsuit was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court against several rabbis and the city by a group of animal rights activists who want to stop the Chasidic Jewish ritual called Kapporos, which takes place every year on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Chaim Baruch (ben Mendel) Teitlebaum (Montreal, Canada) and Bassie (bas Gershon) Zirkind (Montreal, Canada)
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In 2010, the Chabad-Lubavitch umbrella organizations in Israel, Agudas Chassidei Chabad and Tzeirei Agudat Chabad, applied to the government for a trademark on the words “Chabad” and “Lubavitch,” in order to prevent its unauthorized use by unaffiliated organizations. Recently, the IPO examiner denied their application, on the grounds that the words are “descriptive” and not “distinctive.”
Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan spent Sunday evening after a day of 9/11 ceremonies explaining Israeli survival skills and resiliency to a gathering of more than 70 residents in the Basil restaurant in Crown Heights.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rochel Leah Katz, OBM, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was 26 years old.
On Sunday evening, the eve of the 9th of Elul, a gathering was held at the Sinai Educational Institute in Paris, France, to commemorate the first Yahrtzeit of Hatomim Shneur Zalman Pevzner, who passed away at the young age of 22 after a yearlong battle with a difficult illness.
In a simple, yet impressive, ceremony last week, a beautiful new shul was dedicated in Moscow’s international airport for the benefit of the many Jewish travelers arriving in Russia or just passing through.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Teitzei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can you keep your spiritual fire alive?
