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.
Chaim and Chani (nee Angyalfi) Miller (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.
Levi and Tzippy (nee Marosov) Israel (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 810 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Menachem Mendel Ginsberg (Haifa, Israel) and Chaya Rivkin (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
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.
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.
Rabbi Hersh Epstein, Shliach in Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina, appeared on the local WLTX news program to deliver a few words on the Channel’s ‘Inspirational Minute’ segment.
Shauli and Chaya Sara (nee Zirkind) Ben Shachar (Jerusalem, Israel)
Beis Chana in Tzfat is one of the most sought after seminaries in the Lubavitch “system.” Each year as graduation day looms, hundreds of high school girls who dream of spending a year at this prestigious institution file an application and go in for an interview, but only a lucky few are accepted.
Students in Yeshiva Beis Menachem of Willks Barre, PA compiled this short video about the moisad they love.
In this 28th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how her husband Reb Levik was very meticulous in the Mitzvos he performed.
Some 230 members of the Montreal community celebrated the dedication of a new home for Chabad Lifeline, a counseling and crisis center under the auspices of Rabbi Ronnie Fine, Director of Chabad of Queen Mary in Montreal. Chabad Lifeline is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to helping individuals and families affected by addiction.
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.
Hundreds of people gathered this past Sunday to pay tribute to South Florida Shliach, Rabbi Dovid Bryn, as they launched the writing of a new Sefer Torah in honor of his 10th Yohrtzeit in Highland Lakes.
Police say a woman riding a mobility scooter has been fatally struck by a car in Brooklyn. The accident happened at around 1:00am on Wednesday at Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue.
Four teenage girls, all new immigrants from the Caribbean, arrive at a high school in the heart of what was the epicenter of the Crown Heights riots 20 years ago. As newcomers they know nothing of the long history of tension between the Black and Lubavitch Jewish communities in the neighborhood. They set out to try to educate themselves about a culture so different from their own, in the midst of stereotypes and misinformation about Jewish people.
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