Purim @ McGill: Beyond Standard Joy

With Purim fast approaching, the hardworking staff at Chabad of McGill were planning their trademark ‘best in town’ Purim event. Decorations were ordered. Flights for the performer – up and coming Chassidic hip-hop artist, DeScribe – were booked. Menu was drafted. Volunteers were set to go.

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Building Jewish Identity @SXSW Festival With Chabad

by Yanky Nemon – Lubavitch.com

For the social media and digital crowd, the annual South By Southwest Interactive (SXSW) festival held in Austin, Texas, has become a hot destination. Part trade-show, part gathering of the geeks and part social experiment, the annual week-long event enables the who’s-who in technology and the web to rub shoulders with the who’s-up-and-coming. It is also an opportunity for online personalities known best by their @names to meet one another face to face.

3 Tuesday Night Lechaims

Yosef Shaul Robson (Jacksonville, FL) and Chani Grossman (Chicago, IL)
935 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Avrohom (Ama) Drimmer (Crown Heights) and Nechama Zalmanov (Montreal, Canada)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]

Mendy Weg
(Tulsa, OK) and Aryelah Paim (Sobral, Brazil)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]

OK Kosher Releases New iPhone App

Have you ever stood in the supermarket and wondered if a certain food was OK kosher certified? Did you ever see a new product and want to make sure it was really kosher? Were you at a loss as to where to find out this information? Then look no further…the OK has just released its popular Kosher Food Guide as a free iPhone app.