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MyShliach to Be Largest “Base” at Tzivos Hashem Rally

Finally, young shluchim will not be a minority amongst their peers.

At Chayolei Tzivos Hashem’s upcoming global Yud Shvat rally, MyShliach will be the largest “base” of all the schools set to be in attendance. The MyShliach base is made up of yaldei hashluchim all over the world, who are used to being isolated in their observance of Yiddishe and Chassidishe yomim tovim. But when part of the larger MyShliach group, they are no longer alone.

Vail Chabad Completes First New Torah

by Randy Wyrick – Vail Daily

Aaron Raskin, center left, holds the newly completed Torah while he and members of Chabad Jewish Cener of Vail dance with it, as is customary when a Torah is completed. The ceremony was Sunday in Singletree.
Avi Baram | Special to the Daily

EDWARDS, CO — Maia Fishman and Brielle Quigley, both 7 years old, placed their tiny delicate hands on the same kind of feather quill Moses used and helped inscribe a few letters in a new Torah — letters and life lessons that will outlive their children’s children’s children.

Eighth Grader in Beijing Bakes Cakes To Sponsor Friends

by Laima Barber – Lubavitch.com

One of Devorah Freundlich’s doll cakes

CHINA — When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They are custom cakes—dolls, police trucks, snowmobiles—and the young entrepreneur is working creatively to please her delighted customers. But in less than two weeks, she’ll close shop. That’s when she hopes she’ll have reached her goal: to raise $5000.