CONGO — Chabad of Central Africa will be sending full-time, permanent representatives to Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria under the auspices of Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chabad’s representative to the region.
After a hugely successful whirlwind trip in Montreal, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team is back on its feet and has already conducted some crucial interviews in NY. In addition, My Encounter also has a team in Israel conducting interviews, averaging four interviews every week.
Leibel Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Esty Wineberg (Detroit MI)
L’Chaim Wednesday Night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Uri Shinsky spends his weekends counseling at-risk youth at a rural campsite in Colorado, but that doesn’t mean he’s deprived of a home-cooked Shabbat meal each week.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A fire which burned for over 2 hours completely decimated a Laundromat, sending plumes of smoke covering Crown Heights with the acrid smell.
Shmuel Chitrik (Tzfat, Israel) and Batya Margolin (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
For the past month Lubavitch Boys school in London have been involved in a special project in connection with Inyanei Geulah Moshiach.
We are pleased to present our thirty – ninth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Uri Laber of Optima Ventures and Ben Federman of 1SaleADay, both donors to Chabad causes, announced its new partnership after praying at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
Over the last year, representatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg quietly reached out to a handful of the country’s top journalists with an intriguing job offer: Divine and distill his unique brand of political philosophy and disseminate it around the globe for an annual salary of close to $500,000.
Yisroel and Ashirah (nee Welton) King (Crown Heights)
New York State law declares that private school students who live outside the city limits are entitled to busing to their private school. Transportation is paid for by the school district within a 15 mile radius from a student’s home. The deadline for registering for busing for the 2011-12 school year is April 1, 2011. Those who do not register by this time forfeit their right to busing.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A delegation from EL AL, headed by CEO, Eliezer Shkedi, visited Crown Heights yesterday where they began the writing of a specially commissioned unity Sefer Torah.
ISRAEL – Three months after their rescue in October from the very bowels of the earth, more than two dozen Chilean miners traveled on Sunday to a mountaintop to view one of Judaism’s sources of inspiration: the windswept Judean desert fortress of Masada.
S.PETERSBURG [FJC] — A new synagogue has been opened in the “Bourgeois” Shopping Center in S. Petersburg, enabling many Jews who live nearby to come on Friday night for Shabbat services.
Ever tried making a shopping list for your kids for Purim? It starts with candies, chips and baskets. Somewhere over the course of time grape juice, bags, stickers and ribbon get added to the list. Oh wait! The costumes! There are hats, masks, spray and more. There’s also Graggers and party snappers. The list goes on. Your kids are excited! Purim is coming and they’re going to get a box full of junk completely for themselves. They prepare fancy ones for special friends, regular ones for their classmates and even extra bags just in case a kid they didn’t plan on giving comes to the house.
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