This year, Purim in Ulyanovsk, Russia was especially joyous. For the fourth year in a row, the Jewish community was allowed to use the city’s Tatar Islamic Cultural Center free of charge to host the Purim party, alleviating from them the financial cost of renting a hall.
On Monday, March 10, emotions were at their peak as the ribbon for the new Beth Hillel Educational Center in Paris, France was cut.
Yishai Dinnerman (S. Diego, CA) and Bluma Hyman (Pittsburgh, PA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
Chabad of Orange County, led by Shluchim Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, held a grand community “Purim Under the Sea” event at the Goshen Harness Museum in Goshen, New York.
Yisroel New (Crown Heights) and Vita Zeiler (Jerusalem, Israel)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at 1373 President St.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.] from 5:00pm to 9:00pm
The Russian city of Smolensk, mere miles from which lies the small town of Lubavitch, was the sight of Purim festivities unlike any the local Jews had seen for many years.
Despite the recent tragic loss of a young member of their community, the Jews of Vinnitza, Ukraine were able to put away their sorrows and celebrate Purim with joy and optimism.
Shmuli and Tsipi (nee Eskinazi) Schildkraut (S. Paulo, Brazil)
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Rivka Chaya Hinda bas Nechama Gittel, a Shlucha who is in critical condition.
Shayke and Shani (nee Rosenberg) Posner (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Sehmini. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one be passionately connected to G-d in all areas of one’s life?
Close to 50 members of the Riverdale Jewish community, dressed up Israeli-style, enjoyed delicious Israeli falafel and shwarma and freshly squeezed orange juice against the backdrop of the Kotel at this year’s Purim celebration at Chabad.
Research for a new book on the life of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—has uncovered mid-19th century records in the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg that shed important light on a chapter of Chabad-Lubavitch history long clouded by the mists of time.
Take a moment and think about the precious children in our lives, our own kids, nieces and nephew, siblings, cousins and neighbors. Think about the horrible pain we all feel when we hear about the death of a child in our community.
The students of Beis Rivkah girls’ school of France, located in Yerres, a suburb of Paris, had the honor to greet Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s secretary, during a visit he made to the school while in the country.
Camp Log-N-Twig was founded in 1953 by the Neulight and Tener families, catering to Jewish children from across the northeastern United States. Nestled on 83 acres of wooded hills and lake lands in the Pocono Mountains, the camp flourished for decades and was sold to the New York UJA (United Jewish Appeal) Federation in 1998.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Yosef Yitzchak Fail, OBM, of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was only 16 years old.
