When you bring together a technology futurist, a reform Rabbi turned Orthodox and a Chabad House director you get some fascinating answers. Here is a taste of some questions that were posed by the audience.
With the growing popularity of the International and regional Shabbatons in the US, coupled with the launching of many European CTeen chapters this year, CTeen is gearing up for its first European Shabbaton!
Shneur and Chaya (nee Wilansky) Gottlieb (Crown Heights)
The Hanhalah meet with with Kevutzah Bochurim, circa 1993. Pictured [L-R] R’ Yaakov Goldberg, R’ Yitzchok Goldberg, R’ YY Wilshansky, R’ Kuti Rapp, R’ Dovid Raskin, R’ Yankel Katz and R’ Shlomo Zarchi.
Mendel Chaikin (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Tzippy Rivkin (Tampa, FL)
On Shabbos Behaaloscha (May 24-25), students of the Rabbinical College of Australia & NZ enjoyed the annual mid-winter Shabbaton, arranged by the Shluchim. The Shabbaton took place at Log Cabin Camp, a rustic bush resort located at scenic Creswick, a two hour drive from Melbourne.
Chaim and Baila (nee Shpigelman) Greisman (Crown Heights)
Shmuely and Devorah (nee DeVries) Levitin (Crown Heights)
A man on his deathbed requested to speak with a Rabbi, and Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shmueli Feldman answered the call. What followed is the truly incredible story of how a cremation was avoided and the first Jewish cemetery in Goulburn, Australia was consecrated since 1943.
Dovid and Racheli Gurovich (Crown Heights)
Eli and Racheli (nee Friedlander) Abayev (Crown Heights)
Over 200 people, including families and singles, enjoyed a special ‘Shabbos in Gan Eden’ Shabbaton with Chevra Ahavas Yisroel in the Berkshire Hills of upstate New York.
BRENARDS TOWNSHIP, NJ — NJ’s Attorney General joined high-ranking governmental and law enforcement officials at the Grand SUmmit Hotel on May 23, in saluting Chabad of Greater Somerset County on its 21st Anniversary.
For Jews in prison, incarceration can keep them isolated from their family and their faith. But thanks to the Aleph Institute, a Florida-based nonprofit, they and their loved ones receive some much-needed help from an organization that has been providing assistance for more than three decades.
Leading candidate for the position of Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Shlomo Stav Shlita landed in New York last night for a short visit and went directly from the airport to the Ohel in Queens.
The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma, which is on the ground organizing relief efforts for the communities hit hard by last week’s devastating tornado, has received $15,000 in disaster-relief funds from the Orthodox Union
Pictures from the wedding of Dovid Liberow (Crown Heights) and Mushky Polter (Oak Park, MI) which took place last week in the Razag Ballroom.
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