On Monday, Chai Sivan, the 10th Annual Chabad on Campus International Kinus will open at the Hudson Valley Resort in upstate New York. This year the conference will be held for four days and will host over 250 Shluchim and Shluchos, and 300 children. Organizers say their goal is “to involve the entire family in the shared work of Shlichus.”
Setting up a Mivtzoim booth at a fun fair is commonplace among Lubavitch Bochurim. A Mivtzoim booth in Crown Heights, however, is quite unheard of. Yet amid the crowds of children dragging their parents from ride to ride at Sunday’s Lag B’Omer fun fair, bochurim were seen asking fellow Chassidim to take part in Mivtzah Torah.
The list of reasons to never travel to Manhattan seems to keep growing and growing for Brooklyn residents. Now, even getting a U.S. passport is about to get easier.
Over five hundred men women and children gathered outside the Yeshiva Schools in Pittsburgh, on Sunday Lag B’Omer to say the 12 pesukim, to hear words of encouragement from the local three day schools leadership and pray for the coming of Moshiach.
It has become a phenomenon that many woman and girls egarly await each year, the Keren Simchas Choson Vekalah’s Ice Cream Social and Cake Auction. This years even is taking place this Monday, May 30th, the 26th of Iyar at 6:30pm in the Razag Ballroom.
Itche and Nechomie Zalmanov (Crown Heights)
Elimelech and Chayale (nee Halberstam) Evers
Dovid and Rochel (nee Boyarsky) Eleff (Cleveland, OH)
Shmuel Yakov Shifrin (Lakewood, NJ) and Chaya (bas Berel) Epstein (Crown Heights)
Sholom and Nechama (nee Tiechtel) Lapidus (Crown Heights)
Sholom Shaya and Chanale Deitsch (Ridgefield, CT)
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll shows the former New York City mayor atop the slow-forming Republican primary field.
She was not in the public eye. Yet, the Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka’s inspiration is widespread—a result of her quiet ways and nuances of influence.
After opening a mikvah last February, Chabad in Canberra is working at a steady clip, building a strong infrastructure for Canberra’s 2,000 Jewish residents. Last Wednesday, Rabbi Dan and Naomi Avital, directors of Chabad in Canberra secured a disused childcare center just a stone’s throw away from the new mikvah.
The Baal Shem Tov was accustomed to draw out his prayers on Friday evenings. His disciples, who typically finished before him, would wait for their Rebbe to conclude, so as to join him in the Shabbos meal.
It happened, on a given Friday, that one of the participants felt rather hungry. He thought to himself: “There is still plenty of time before the Baal Shem Tov will complete his prayers; I ought to go and eat something. In all likelihood, I will be back before he’s done. Besides, there are plenty of others around; I shall certainly not be missed.”
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