On Sunday night, May 23, Chabad at University of Illinois had its Celebration event. Celebrating Jewish life at University of Illinois, this special event was put together by parents alumni and friends. close to 200 people came together to celebrate the work and recognise the parents of the year Brian and Andrea Birkan, and recognize the 24 student leaders that dedicate their time on the Chabad Leadership Board.
N. MIAMI BEACH, FL [WSVN] — A rabbi, his wife and their eight children are looking for a new home after their house was destroyed by flames.
From the inbox: When a local business provides exceptional customer service, I think it should be publicized. I was in a Kingston shop yesterday and bought some things totaling a little over $100.00, the owner, called me to say there was a mistake in the charge.
In today’s day and age a four-digit figure is not very impressive. However the four digit goal just announced by Jewish Educational Media is indeed ambitious.
JEM has rolled out a new campaign to save 1,000 interviews on videotape – attempting to capture firsthand, previously undocumented accounts of the Rebbe’s life and his impact on lives and communities.
This is the first installment of the new weekly Parasha feature from Kol Mechanem and CrownHeights.info
Chesky Thaler (Los Angeles, CA) and Dobie Rosenblum (Pittsburgh, PA)
About Me: I love Crown Heights because of its colors, and it being a very hamish place!! at a recent visit to Israel I discovered its beauty to.
A Kinus was held today, Tuesday in honor of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. Men and women came out in support of Sholom Mordechai at the event in Oholei Torah.
Court is adjourned until tomorrow morning, when the defense is schedule to present its case to the jury.
Sholom Rubashkin’s defense team argued this afternoon that the judge should throw out all 83 misdemeanor child labor charges because the state did not prove the former plant executive wanted to hire or actually hired any minors.
“The case is underwhelming and ill-conceived and should be put to a stop right now,” said defense attorney Mark Weinhardt. “The evidence in this case is that Mr. Rubashkin did absolutely nothing.”
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A man was surprised when he walked into his house and found a man, who definitely did not belong there, roaming around. When asked what he was doing there he bolted, and fled.
Ho-chi-minh City, Vietnam [CHI] — Two days before the festival of Shavous, a Hachnosas Sefer Torah was held at the Chabad House in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
SUMY, Ukraine [CHI] — Just before Shavuos the Jewish community in Sumy Ukraine celebrated the arival of their newly restored Sefer Torah. The restoration of the Sefer Torah was carried out by the National Sofer Center in Dnepropetrovsk and was made possible by a donation from the Rier family, who are actively involved in the revitalization of Jewish life in Dnepropetrovsk.
The Rebbe had a dream to reach every person on the face of the earth and inspire them to turn to the Torah as the guiding light by which to achieve personal and global redemption. To attain this goal, the Rebbe invented the shaliach. The Rebbe’s dream began “from the time that He was a child in cheder, and even earlier than that” The Rebbes goal “a vision of Moshiach”.
Mendy Goldstein (Dnepr, Ukraine/CH) and Gilit Pichnasova (Boulder, CO)
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Germany’s kosher consumers can now enjoy a full line of locally produced boutique cheeses and milk that come from a small dairy farm near the major Northern city of Hamburg.
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