Jewish communities across the globe united to strengthen observance of the Sabbath this weekend, with Chabad-Lubavitch centers experiencing larger-than-normal crowds for what had been dubbed “One Shabbat, One World.”
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After reciting blessings in Hebrew, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, placed a mezuzah, the parchment prayer scroll that marks a Jewish home, at the entrance of the modest but comfortable room where members of the Jewish faith can now find solace at University of Miami Hospital.
“For me, success is reaching the one person I can inspire with my music. The one life I can touch.” Esther Freeman‘s message of connecting with her audience on a one to one basis sometimes collides with the main stream notion in today’s world of trying to appeal to the masses.
College is a time of exploration for most students. New people, new places and new opportunities await those who are open to explore. But the comfort of familiar surroundings and people can also be rewarding. With hundreds of groups on campus, comfort does not lie far for those looking.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed Congress Sunday for not providing federal funding to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Last week, a number of cars were ‘hit’ in the Crown Heights neighborhood, with thieves making off with all four of their tires. One of the incidents was witnessed by a resident, who immidiately contacted the police, but the thieves were too quick and the cops too slow: by the time they arrived the thieves, and all four of the car’s tires, were gone.
Jewish Teens of Cape Town, a Chabad youth club in the South African city, gathered Sunday night for a sushi workshop and ‘jewpardy!’
Friends of Lubavitch of Edgware, UK celebrated their 25th anniversary at St. Johns Wood Synagogue last Monday evening. More than 200 people came together to pay tribute to Rabbi Levi Sudak and all his staff for the sterling work they have done in building a vibrant community in Edgware. Rabbi Sudak encouraged the crowd to become partners in the next twenty five years, Saying “No one person can change the world alone, but together, a few of us might be able to.”
Some 350 prominent guests, partnering politicians, and lay leaders attended the Chabad Russian Center of South Florida’s Inaugural Gala at the Surf Club in January, where plans to build a $7.7 million Jewish Russian Community Center in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida where unveiled.
Nicolo Nourafchan (Los Angeles, CA) and Chaya Barber (Crown Heights)
Parramatta Synagogue’s Rabbi Yossi Wernick will be sorely missed as he heads south to start in a new role at Chabad Frankston and Mornington Peninsula, the shul’s president Motty Tenenboim said this week.
Mendy (ben Peretz) Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Mussy (bas Baruch) Naparstek (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
The Israeli supreme rabbinical court of appeals upheld a life sentence handed down to a “Chabad” man who has refused for ten years to give his wife a bill of divorce.
Yehuda and Shaindy (nee Brownstein) Green (Kingston, PA)
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