While most couples establishing Chabad on Campus centers are not much older than the students they serve, Rabbi Shlomo and Matti Banon of Montreal, QC, and their nine children just completed their first year working with the Jewish student body at Université de Montreal (UdeM) and say that they all have been enriched by the experience.
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On a recent episode of The Voice, an Israeli singing competition show, a contestant from the previous year named Shai Dibo Cohen returned to try his luck again. While at his previous performance Shai looked like your typical Israeli from Tel Aviv, this time he came dressed differently – and with an added surprise for the audience and judges.
This Sunday was a big day for Australians as the “City 2 Surf” run took off with 81,000 runners. JEMS (Jewish Education Matters) was there too, manning two tables with water, cookies and Tefilin.
In yet another first, Camp Gan Israel-New York enjoyed a spectacular Benny Friedman Concert this past Sunday.
A mourner attending a memorial service in North Miami Beach, Fla. for Rabbi Yosef Raksin, HYD, had his car defaced with a swastika, reaffirming the prevailing belief that his murder was a hate crime. The local police, however, remain unconvinced.
One month of extreme sports, extreme learning and extreme fun came together for the ninety teens, and twenty staff members who made up this year’s CTeen Xtreme travel camp.
In response to the ‘Tznius signs’ that were posted along Kingston Ave. two weeks ago, a member of the Crown Heights community crafted her own sign in response. (See complete photo in extended article.)
On March 11th, 2014, 10 Adar 5774, Rashi Minkowicz, a 37-year-old mother of eight and Shlucha, passed away suddenly. She was a co-founder and leader of the Jewish community in the northern Atlanta suburbs of Alpharetta and Johns Creek.
The grand opening of the new Chabad Jewish Community Center Aspen Valley reflected a tone similar to Colorado itself: warm, natural, friendly and touched by some of the most well-known mountains in America. And so it was fitting that, early in the event, with the backdrop of those iconic Rocky Mountains, Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton presented Chabad Rabbi Mendel Mintz with a flag that once flew over the nation’s capital.
Even while having fun, the campers of CGI-Simcha Monica don’t forget about their fellow Jews.
The platform along the southern wall of 770, upon which the Rebbe would sit during Farbrengens, got a facelift yesterday. Crown Heights repairman Yitzy Vail sanded and buffed the hardwood floor, restoring the revered ‘Bimah’ to its former glory.
An argument between two women on Crown Street near Kingston Avenue turned violent early this morning, when one of the women pulled a gun and shot the other twice in the leg. Both fled the scene, but the victim later walked into the emergency room at Kings County Hospital.
Rabbi Leibel Groner, veteran secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, visits the Raksin family as they mourn the death of their dear father and brother, Reb Yosef Raksin, HYD, who was brutally murdered in North Miami Beach on his way to Shul Shabbos morning.
The funeral procession of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, HYD, who was brutally murdered Shabbos morning on the streets of North Miami Beach, began at Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Borough Park before making its way to Crown Heights. Dozens of members of the Borough Park Jewish Community joined family and close acquaintances of the deceased for the first leg of the Levaya.
The 16-year-old teenager who police say was caught on surveillance video attempting to rape a woman in the stairwell of a Crown Heights building Friday night was arrested this morning.
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