Sydney’s The Jewish House has launched its annual drive to collect food for the needy with a record 25 Coles Supermarkets participating across Sydney…and has introduced a new parter, the al-Ghazzali Centre.
Price tag attacks on Palestinian sites continue in the West Bank.
Readers of the New York Times magazine were surprised today to find a photo soon-to-be married Chabad couple, Tomer Weingarten and Rochel Wiener, gracing its pages. In a section called ‘What They Were Thinking,’ the magazine posted a Black and white photo of Tomer and Rochel in the Ohel as they were about to be engaged under the title: ‘Seeking a Marital Blessing,’ along with a quote from each.
Mendel (ben Yosef) Spalter (Crown Heights) and Mushky Minsky (Crown Heights)
Yehoshua and Menucha Lavner (Toronto, Canada)
This year, the addition of Chabad representatives, Rabbi Levi Schectman and his wife Chanie, will bring a new aspect of student Jewish life to campus. Chabad, formally called Chabad-Lubavitch, is a Hasidic movement with active representatives on various college campuses and throughout the world.
An 82-year-old Sarasota man will hold his bar mitzvah – the coming-of-age ritual traditionally extended to Jewish boys upon turning 13 – nearly 70 years later.
Police are searching for a man police say raped a teenage girl at knifepoint in Crown Heights earlier this week.
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the tenth class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on the Causes of the Holocaust – Part 2”.
Yitzchok and Shifra Crawford (Jerusalem, Israel)
Getzy Rubashkin (Crown Heights) and Chana Fellig (Miami, FL)
A new section on the Judaism website Chabad.org offers a Jewish perspective on the tragic events of 10 years ago and the efforts of those who continue to respond to the darkness of the Sept. 11 attacks by adding goodness to the world.
Last Wednesday, over 130 preschool educators from 16 schools around the New York area (ranging from Philadelphia to Connecticut) came to Crown Heights for a Joint Orientation & Networking session of the Chabad Early Childhood Education (CECE) Network, a project of The Shluchim Office.
Members of Richmond’s Jewish community will be commemorating 20 years since the passing of Virginia’s first Chabad-Lubavitch emissary during a ceremony timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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