Leah Namdar, Chabad representative to Sweden with her husband, Rabbi Alexander Namdar, raised a family of 11 children in Gothenburg. The couple has nurtured a Jewish community, fostered Jewish identity, education and commitment despite Sweden’s hostility towards Israel and religious life.
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of bochurim departing on Merkos Shlichus. Can you identify who is in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photos in the extended article
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Thurday, April 12, and Friday, April 13. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
We’ve all heard stories about the shtetl: a small (Eastern) European village or community where Jews would live, work, and study Torah together.
A flurry of lawsuits over 509 Fifth Ave. may become moot now that sources say Rabbi Joshua Metzger has signed a contract to pay $40 million for the nondescript building partially occupied by his nonprofit Chai Foundation and Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown.
Thousands of Chabadniks from around the Holy Land put aside their jobs and activities to travel to the Town of Chomesh to participate in a mission to show support for the beleagured Jews of Shomron.
Levi and Malkie (nee Kaplan) Lieberman (Redondo Beach, CA)
Adam Khudoznyk (Adelaide, Australia) and Sarah Rubin (Melbourne, Australia)
Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine Reuven Dinel visited the Kiev hospital where 25-year-old yeshiva student Aharon Alexander Gorshonov has been hospitalized in critical condition.
Sruly and Baila Rozmaarin (Montreal, Canada)
A reader sent us this photo of a group of Anash who got together to daven Mincha in the middle of a popular Florida theme park. Can you identify where the photo was taken?
Every Friday morning, carloads of rabbinic students from Chabad of Western Monmouth County hit the shopping plazas along Route 9 in Manalapan, Marlboro, and Freehold. It’s not good deals the young men are in search of — it’s good deeds.
Velvel and Chyena Freedman (Manhattan, NY)
Erez and Mushki Friedman (Crown Heights)
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