An organization founded in 2009 to provide financial support and specialized programming for Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries raising children with special needs inaugurated its West Coast chapter with an event at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles.
More than 50 Jewish women along with 70 children participated in a unique summer camp in Zhitomir, Western Ukraine. The attendees were needy single parents and their children from 24 remote villages in the region.
Peg Perego recalled hundreds of thousands of strollers Tuesday because children can become trapped and strangled between trays on them. One death has already been reported.
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The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has given $1 million each to the Jewish Agency and Chabad to help them guard against anti-Semitic and terrorist attacks.
Is the Chabad lifestyle sustainable? I believe it is not; here is why.
A Beis Rivka school bus filled with children on their way to school this morning sideswiped a garbage truck as they were traveling alongside each other on Eastern Parkway. Thankfully no one was injured and neither vehicle sustained significant damage. Hatzalah was summoned as a precaution and ensured that all the children were okay.
Bruce Backman (Crown Heights/Manhattan, NY) and Rivka Lenchner (Brooklyn, NY)
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As soon as word was received of the horrific terror attack that took place at the airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, Chabad Terror Victims Project mobilized its staff, volunteers, and resources throughout Israel to provide comfort and assistance to the victims and their families as they returned home.
Avremi and Samantha (nee Panigel) Epstein (Coral Springs, FL)
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In May of 2001, Seth and Sherri Mandel received the worst news that a parent could hear: their eldest son, Koby, had been cruelly murdered.
Campers at Gan Yisroel Parksville had a blast at the water park last week. [Please note: Video has music in the background.]
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In 1943, in the town of Gutschein, Germany, the Luria family welcomed their firstborn son into the world with tremendous joy.
At a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the roundup of the Jews of Vel d’Hiv, France during World War Two, President François Holland spoke to the Jewish community of France by explicitly recognizing the responsibility of France in this roundup, and more generally the active complicity of the Vichy government in the implementation of the “final solution” in France during the Holocaust.
The Chabad center in Johns Creek/Alpharetta, GA has acquired additional land adjacent to their campus on Jones Bridge Road. The acquisition brings the total campus area now to 6.5 acres.
Last Friday night, some 500 Israelis celebrated Shabbat with Chabad in Sunny Beach, Burgas. With Burgas’s airport still closed, and the resort city reeling from Wednesday’s terrorist attack, Chabad expects smaller numbers at this week’s Shabbat dinner, but is determined to host Shabbat as always, said director of Chabad activities in Bulgaria, Rabbi Yosef Solomon.
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