For 12 years, Rabbi Yosef and Dalia Kulek worked day and night to bring Jewish students at Hartford University closer to their roots. This week, after years of legal uncertainty and unexpected help from heaven, they have finally cut the ribbon on a beautiful edifice which they – and the students they so dedicatedly serve – will now call home.
Levi Glitzenshtein (Eilat, Israel) and Chaya Mushka Greenberg (Anchorage, Alaska)
Tzviki Fleishman (Kiryat Malachi, Israel) and Haya Yanni (Brunoy, France)
Crown Heights will become a vacation destination for many hardworking young Jewish professionals on May 18-20. Shluchim across North America are urging their YJP contingencies to take a break from the daily grind to refresh, network, and, most importantly, experience Shabbos.
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.]
Yossi Melamed, a veteran photographer for the Alegemeiner Journal passed away. Yossi Melamed chronicled over 30 years many important events in the New York Jewish community. His pictures were carefully stored and dated.
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.
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