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New Engagement!

Berel Grunblatt (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Esther Leah Spalter (Toronto, Canada)

L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave.]

Not Just Jews Eat Kosher Food in Prison

Forward

Rabbi Sholom Lipskar wraps tefillin with a prisoner in a Florida jail in the 1970s

The tiny population of religious Jews in prison has plenty of company when it comes to keeping kosher behind bars. A number of secular Jews, messianic Jews, Black Hebrew Israelites and, in many cases, people with no Jewish background at all eat a traditional Jewish diet.

Chabad Linking Students From Caracas To Beijing

Jewish Week

Rabbi Benyamin Kosofsky teaches from a computer screen in Crown Heights.

Dini Freundlich’s daughter has been admonished for not wearing her uniform to class. Fortunately the girl, who lives in Beijing, didn’t have to go home to change into her uniform: she was already there.

There’s a New Rabbi in Town

Novato Patch

Rabbi Menachem Landa puts tefillin on a Jewish guest at his Chabad House in Novato, northern California.

For the past eight weeks, a young man with a white shirt, sport jacket, wide-brimmed black hat and long beard has been knocking on doors all over Novato. He’s not selling anything. He would just like to be your friend.

Blog: The Painter of Crown Heights

One thing is certain about Robert Feinland – he has shuls on his mind. His career has spanned over 40 years, exploring landscape, cityscape, sculpture and abstraction. For many of those years he has focused on the relentlessly changing urban landscape of New York, feeling the necessity to document and, in some way preserve, the physical fabric of the city he loves. A selection of recent paintings, most concentrating on the Crown Heights community, is currently at the Chassidic Art Institute. Many of the images are of shuls.

Chinuch Expert to Lead Early Childhood Workshop

Left: Rivkah Levitin. Right: DOLCE center in Norwalk, VA.

Rivkah Levitin, director of the Crown Multi Educational Services program, will direct and lead the Early Childhood section at the annual Kinus HaMechanchos to be held at the DOLCE, Norwalk conference center on the 12th and 13th of Tammuz, the 2nd and 3rd of July.