Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick travels around to South Florida schools and temples, teaching children about the Jewish holidays in interactive and quirky workshops that feature bees and traditional animal-horn shofars.
Rabbi Gershon Overlander, Director of the Hendon Chabad house in London, UK, ‘delivers’ a message to the United Nations.
The tents pitched by Israeli demonstrators protesting this summer’s high housing are all but gone, but Chabad-Lubavitch centers all over the country are erecting their own, all in preparation for the holiday of Yom Kippur that begins Friday night.
Rabbi Yossi Jacobs has shown dynamic leadership in a six-year association at Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham. Shul membership has escalated fourfold to 550 with members across the Midlands. Attendances on Shabbat, morning minyanim and children’s services have improved.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In today’s climate, which sees terror behind every corner and inside every unattended package, police urged guests not to leave their suitcases unattended in 770. One such guest, however, decided to leave his suitcase right near the steps leading to the woman’s section.
Hirshy and Leah Sheina (nee Lewis) Raskin (Crown Heights)
After stepping down last December from the throne that he held for 25 years and 60,000 interviews on Larry King Live, the broadcasting icon stepped back up on the air with “Larry King To Life” hosting the 31st Chabad Lechaim To Life Telethon, with celebrity guests Howie Mandel, Oscar winners John Voight and Elliot Gould, Brad Garrett, Tom Arnold and Paula Abdul, among others. It was broadcast live from Hollywood Sunday Sept 25 and reached over 45 million households worldwide, breaking the record as the most viewed Jewish holiday program of all time!
Last month, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek hosted a reception in honor of the Jewish New Year at the Parliament building in Brussels.
A diligent delegation of women and children were busy baking challah the Sunday before the holiday of Rosh Hashanah at Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale.
Yossi Cohen (Birmingham, England) and Leah Hein (Morristown, NJ)
L’Chaim Wednesday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased for the first time since 2004, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit.
As Jewish music legend Mordechai Ben David retires from his long and illustrious career, the ‘King of Jewish Music’ released his very last album titled ‘Kisufim’ (Yearning). The album contains 14 songs, 3 of which are Chabad niggunim: Track 6 – A Song of the Talmidim of the Tzemach Tzedek, Track 7 – An’im Zmiros, and Track 8 – Niggun Rikud.
It’s a brisk fall evening on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a thoroughfare lined with kosher bakeries and restaurants. Tough it is almost midnight, many stores are still open and several blocks have been cordoned off by the police. I am in a crowd of hundreds of women angling for a glimpse of the revelers before us: A sea of men in black and white, most wearing wide-brimmed hats, spinning, beads of sweat dripping from their beards as they match the frenetic pace of the music pumping from a stage in the street. I can’t help but cheer a little. The joy is infectious.
Was Vladimir Putin’s carefully choreographed plan to return to Russia’s presidency in 2012 a big blow to democracy or a victory for stability?
Each week, about 200,000 people around the world sit down to watch the “Living Torah,” a 15 to 20 minute video magazine program built around the teachings and impact of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Organized to showcase encounters with the Rebbe and his teachings, the unique program draws on archives and the recollections of individuals scattered across the globe to give viewers – many of whom never personally met the Rebbe – a glimpse into the Jewish leader’s scholarship, his deep personal care of human beings from all walks of life, and the revolution in Jewish life he spearheaded.
