This year’s Kosherfest Expo marks its 25th anniversary, with tens of thousands flocking to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey to check out the latest and greatest in the Kosher industry.
After lying in ruins through seven decades of the Soviet regime, the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Berdichev is being slowly and meticulously repaired under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Thaler, Shliach to Berdichev, and Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, director of Chabad of Western Ukraine.
Thirty years ago a group of 45 Shluchim got together for the first time since being sent on Shlichus. Today, 30 years later, the number of Shluchim has grown to over 4,500! This year marks 30 years since the first formal Kinus, which came to be thanks to the encouragement of the Rebbe.
Eitan and Bluma (nee Dukesz) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Berlin’s Chabad center opened a new student program, billing it as the city’s first Jewish student house.
More than two thousand South African Jewish women converged on a street in Johannesburg’s Glenhazel neighborhood two weeks ago to learn the intricacies of preparing challah.
Hatzalah of Crown Heights took delivery of a brand new ambulance, and another is set to be delivered later next week. The new ambulances will replace their 7-year-old counterparts and enable Hatzalah to reliably continue to administer emergency care.
The president of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, prayed at the Western Wall amid his official state visit to Israel. Accompanying the president was Rabbi Yisroel Uzan, Shliach to Nigeria, along with a hundred or so Nigerian ministers and regional governors.
I’m sure many of you have heard or read about the recent Pew statistics on American Jewry and the depressing findings. Approximately 22 percent of Jewish Americans don’t identify with any religion and in responding to the Pew poll categorized themselves as Jews of No Religion.
Yesterday in the evening Shomrim were alerted to two crimes involving young Crown Heights women. In the first – a girl’s phone was mugged. In the second – a young teenager was groped.
Sixteen-year-old Lola Flomen spent Sunday afternoon with friends at Trudeau Park in Montreal’s Cote S. Luc neighborhood. Yes, many of were high school classmates, but dozens of her playmates were children with special needs.
The streets of Central Harlem were filled with music and dancing Sunday as, for the first time in almost a century, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the neighborhood’s Chabad Shul. The last time a similar event occurred was during the Great Depression.
This year’s Kinus Hashluchim will begin in a unique and grand fashion with the completion of four Sifrei Torah, along with the beginning of a fifth Torah, which are being dedicated to the Rebbe “who sent Shluchim worldwide to care for all Jews.”
South Africa was privy to two special shows, titled ‘Voices,’ which featured Benny Friedman and Gad Elbaz at the Teatro at Montecasion. Both shows were sold-out successes.
Crown Heights women gathered for an evening titled “Working it OUT with the IN-Laws” hosted by Rabbi Mendel Samuels, Shliach to Simsbury, CT. Laced with witty humor, the crowd was offered practical tips on respectfully avoiding problems with their in-laws.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos.
In honor of the 90th birthday of Rabbi J.J. Hecht, we present a collection of photos of him cheering up children at a Chanukah rally in 770, circa early 1970’s.
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