The “roving rabbis” are making their way through Oklahoma. Moshe Sasonkin, of Akron, Ohio, and Levi Misholovin, of West Bloomfield, Mich., are spending their summer vacation traveling the country to provide for the needs of Jewish people throughout remote areas or towns with small Jewish populations.
Noach and Chani (nee Baitch) Weinstein (Crown Heights)
Nine bicyclists riding across the United States stopped in New Albany, Ohio last week to help raise awareness of the Friendship Circle, a Jewish program that pairs teens with special-needs children and adults.
Lubavitcher herbalist Sara Chana Silverstein discusses ways to integrate edible flowers into your diet on CBS Los Angeles.
The official representatives of the Chabad/Lubavitch community in Israel have joined calls by other leading religious and political figures against the surrender of Israeli territory to the Palestinian Authority.
After publishing a video last week of the Rebbe’s visit to Camp Gan Israel in Swan Lake, NY in 1960, we obtained more footage of the Rebbe’s visit that summer – and life around camp in general.
What do you get when three rabbis and a self-described “Chassidic feminist” share the stage? Some pretty frank and entertaining discussions.
Yosef and Sarah (nee Frisch) Shidler (Crown Heights)
Chabad activists have taken three synagogues on wheels on a journey into Siberia and central Russia.
Newly elected Knesset Member Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Rebbe: “I had much satisfaction from your first speech in the Knesset. Continue along this approach, for it is the best path to avoid war. You will have to struggle with 119 others in the Knesset, but surely you won’t be intimidated, because G-d is on this side.”
A letter was released by an anonymous group (purportedly) comprised of Chabad Rabbonim in Eretz Yisroel, urging Lubavitchers not to purchase Gemaras or other Seforim from the popular Oz Vehadar Publications.
A unique rabbi has turned Tuesdays in Santa Monica’s Ocean Park into something special for the homeless and needy. For the past three years, Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin of Chabad House in West Lost Angeles has walked the park, giving food to those in need, and offering encouragement.
A tradition which began in the summer of 5736 (1976) took on new heights this past Shabbos at the Rebbe’s Ohel.
Yehuda and Sarah (nee Spangenth
Avrami Cohen (Pittsburgh, PA) and Kayla Elshevich (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday (Aug. 4th) at Chevras Ahavas Yisroel
306 Albany Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
“When my classmates asked me what religion I am, I made them guess,” Luca Koo, 15 from Budapest, Hungary says. “They went through the whole list before I told them I’m Jewish.”
New York City’s crackdown on big, sugary sodas is staying on ice. An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the city’s Board of Health exceeded its legal authority and acted unconstitutionally when it tried to put a size limit on soft drinks served in city restaurants.
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