Chicago supermarket chain Jewel-Osco, which features one of the largest Kosher offerings in the Midwest, held its “A Taste of Kosher Food” fair this past Sunday. The event was a tremendous success, with over 1,000 people attending to sample Kosher foods displayed by over 35 different Kosher companies from around the U.S. and Israel.
This past Sunday Chabad at the Shore welcomed a New Torah Scroll to it’s Chabad House and Shul in Ventnor, NJ.
Shmuel and Shterny Teichman (Crown Heights)
Family, Friends and community members gathered to mark the Shloshim – thirty days since the passing of Reb Yosef Raksin who was gunned down Shabbos morning as he was walking to Shul in N. Miami Beach, FL.
A white tenant recently moved into a mostly black apartment building on President Street in Crown Heights, not long after threatening hate graffiti was found scrawled on a hallway wall.
Thousands of Jewish children from across the former Soviet Union rejoiced this week as the new school year opened successfully on the 1st of September at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish kindergartens and day schools in countries such as: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Young Mendel Minkowicz, whose mother Rashi passed away tragically and suddenly last winter, talks about the 18/18 campaign he initiated for a new Chabad Center in Alpheretta, Georgia, to be named Rashi’s Campus in his mother’s memory.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA opened its doors to more than just a school year. “As we continue to see an increase in enrollment in all departments, LYA staff mobilized over the summer to find space for new students and new classes in time for the opening of school”, commented Rabbi Noach Kosofsky, the school’s principal.
In what has been a hotly contested race, candidates Rubain Dorancy and Jesse Hamilton will face-off at the polls tomorrow, September 9th, for the Democratic Party nomination to represent district 20, which includes Crown Heights, in the New York state Senate.
A special summer camp for Jewish boys who are deaf, the only one of its kind in the world, recently concluded, with campers returning home inspired and exhilarated. The camp was conceived and directed by Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, who is himself deaf, and did not have the opportunity to attend such a camp when he was a child.
A gathering will be held tonight to commemorate the Shloshim of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, HYD, a Crown Heights resident who was brutally murdered on the streets of North Miami Beach while walking to Shul Shabbos morning.
In honor of Chai Elul, all are invited to participate in a learning campaign, with the chance to win big prizes. A project of JNet, the Chavrusa match-making organization, the campaign provides a Sicha of the Rebbe said on Chai Elul to be learned b’chavrusa, followed by a three-question online review.
This Wednesday, the 15th of Elul (September 10), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12 featuring arts and crafts, games and an amazing program. Buses will leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:45pm. Transportation will cost $3.
Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters today released a statement that, in contrast to a banner for Rubain Dorancy with a backdrop of the Kinus Hashluchim group portrait, they do not endorse political candidates and have not authorized use of the photo for his campaign.
Update: Dorancy Apologizes.
In recent years, beachgoers in Tel Aviv had been accustomed to an aerial campaign promoting Shabbos. A paraglider would soar up and down the Mediterranean coast on Friday afternoons announcing that week’s candle lighting time.
Berel and Rikal Pewzner (Grand Cayman, Cayman islands)
Hundreds turned out for a very special and unique occasion, the completion of new Sefer Torah for the Friendship Circle of Crown Heights. The new Torah was dedicated by the Chein family in honor of their son Boruch Shneur.
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