‘My Big Fat Jewish Wedding Expo’ – the first of its kind interactive Jewish wedding expo – is coming to Brooklyn, the home of precisely such world-famous ethnic blockbusters.
On November 10, in the town of Lubavitch in the Rudnya district of the Smolensk Region, a Holocaust memorial was dedicated. The memorial and accompanying ceremony commemorated 483 Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices in November 1941.
The annual gathering of Chabad’s global emissaries, the Kinus Hashluchim, elicits a paradox. Here is an organization that is truly international, operating even more outposts than the United States government. Chabad is not only the world’s largest Jewish educational network, it is quite simply one of the world’s largest networks period. Perhaps only the Catholic Church has a more extensive grid of schools and educational outposts. Yet, for all its internationalism Chabad continues to evince a largely parochial mentality. It is global in scope but not in outlook.
Noach and Dini Heber (Manhattan)
Sholom Zochor will be at 476 Malbone St.
[between New York Ave. and Clove Rd.]
As part of its Holocaust reparations effort, the Hungarian government gifted a large school building in Budapest to the local Jewish community. The move will allow Chabad-Lubavitch of Hungary to greatly expand its educational options.
On Election Day – November 8, over 80 teachers and directors from schools all around the New York area joined together to learn and network at the Joint Inservice Day, organized by Devora Krasnianski of the Chabad Early Childhood Education (CECE) Network, a project of The Shluchim Office.
Rabbi Yehoshua Chincholker, director of the Chabad House Jewish Student Center, said he is tired.
The world’s largest known yellow diamond has been sold at auction for almost $11 million.
Tens of thousands of second grade students from all over Israel are participating these days in Chabad’s Chumash Celebrations.
Yossi Matusof (Calgary, Alberta) and Rochel Harlig (Upland, California)
L’Chaim Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Boruch and Raizy Kaplan (Wallingford, CT)
College students who have considered using the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin on a regular basis but were intimidated by the substantial price of the ritual items are being assisted financially through a new campaign launched by Chabad on Campus International Foundation.
In this 6th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chanah describes her perilous travels to, and reunion with, her husband Reb Levik in the wretched little village he was exiled to. The joy of reunion was dampened only by the heartbreak she felt over the morbid conditions her husband was forced to endure. The total change in her husband’s dress, face and even personality ‘bore a hole’ in her heart:
The folks at Ohel took a huge gamble when they decided to stage a concert and keep the lineup top secret. Were people really going to spend big bucks to come to a show without knowing who the performers would be? The answer, apparently, was yes, as Mason Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center was completely sold out for the annual benefit concert.
This past Shabbos, the Crown Heights community were privileged to host over 850 college students who came together for a Shabbaton filled with achdus, ruach and pride in being Jewish. Arranged and facilitated by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation, the Shabbaton brings together students from the over 165 Chabad Student Centers around the United States, Canada, Europe and the UK for a weekend of speeches, lectures, Shabbos meals and fun activities.
With more than 1000 new cars on the road every day, Brazil ranks among the worst traffic cities in the world. It’s so bad, many will do whatever they can to avoid spinning their wheels on Sao Paulo’s congested roads.
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