Cape Town is “Connected”
In 2010 Time Magazine chose Mark Zuckerberg as the “man of the year” for his incredible achievement of connecting 1 out of every 12 human beings through the world’s most popular social networking site – Facebook.
In 2010 Time Magazine chose Mark Zuckerberg as the “man of the year” for his incredible achievement of connecting 1 out of every 12 human beings through the world’s most popular social networking site – Facebook.
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger spoke out sharply on Wednesday night against the trend of rabbis’ letters addressing various social or political causes, declaring that such letters led to disparagement of religious leaders.
It was a dark rainy night, just the kind of weather that makes one want to cuddle up in bed. However, like a lantern illuminated in the forest, L’man Achai’s Chinese Auction displayed the tenacity and goodwill of the many hundreds of participants. Though it may have stormed outside, the hall was aglow with light and unity.
Living Torah, the popular weekly video magazine watched around the world, is about to get a new segment.
Despite the rainy weather on Sunday, over 250 people joined the Chabad Jewish Center of Holmdel in a walk along Main Street to commemorate what is being called Holmdel’s first Torah.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Friendship Circle International, the central office of Friendship Circles worldwide, hosted its fifth annual Teen Volunteer Leadership Convention this past March 4-6, 2011 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Close to 60 of the top volunteers attended.
Before flying to Crown Heights, Rabbi Yossi Braun bid farewell to his Tzemach Tzedek shul in Sydney and told congregants why it’s hard for him to return to New York.
On March 4 2011, the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa organized Shabbat 200. As indicated by its name , the goal was to gather 200 Jewish students from both Carleton and Ottawa U. over 240 Jewish students attended this event.
We are pleased to present our Fortieth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
If you have not yet ordered your Achdus Baskets, you can still do so, and together with a hassle-free Purim, partake in this tremendous endeavor that will enable you to both give tzedokah and ease your Purim burden by giving everyone on your list Shalach Monos!
The hallways of Oholei Torah are abuzz. Smiling seventh and eighth graders are bustling with a newfound energy. Cosponsored by the PTA, a two day getaway at the Rocking Horse Ranch in Highland, NY, has revitalized the students in an unprecedented manner.
Chabad of Cape Town follows “Tanya Lerner” on the “Facebook Trail” of five stories reflecting individual experiences “Connected” by the network of Chabad.
The Chabad seminar at the International School for Holocaust studies concluded Tuesday, leaving the participants of the first such undertaking, in high spirits and with a new sense of mission. The group spent nine days in intensive study, in a course designed specifically for them, featuring carefully selected lecturers and strongly religious underpinnings.
Benzion and Faigy (nee Grossbaum) Treitel (Crown Heights)
Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.
Photos of the L’Chaim of Zalmi Futerfas (Crown Heights) and Yehudis Kaminetski (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) at the JCM.
A youth club in the economically distressed southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat received 10 new computers from Intel, a gift that has given more opportunities for 85 children from the surrounding area to relax with their peers at the local Chabad House.