Chabad Campus Receives San Diego’s OK to Expand

S DIEGO, CA — The San Diego City Council cleared the way yesterday for an expansion of the Chabad Educational Campus in Scripps Miramar Ranch.

Plans for the campus, at 10785 Pomerado Road, include a high school and college that will require new buildings, sports facilities and 280 housing units for students and faculty.

Keeping Kosher Now Possible for Jews in Ulyanovsk

ULYANOVSK, Russia [CHI] — As you know Jews are required to fulfill 613 commandmants.This, of course, is not easy, especially considering the conditions of Russia and, specifically, a city like Ulyanovsk.

Take the commandment of Kosher, for example. There are a myriad of practical questions associated with this commandment. How does one observe the rules of kashrus? Where can kosher products be obtained? Is it necessary to have a kitchen with two counters and kosher tableware? What other kitchen items required to keep all of the rules of kashrus? How does one kasher tableware?

Next Week is ‘One Shabbos One World’!

Next week, February 6th and 7th, hundreds of Shluchim from around the world will gather their communities for ‘One Shabbat One World,’ a Shabbos dedicated to Moshiach. In what they are anticipating as the largest turnout ever, Shluchim are encouraged to invite all to attend. Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz, director of the program says they went “All out this year. Rabbi Sholom Paltiel, Shliach of Port Washington has prepared a special speech for the event. We have mailed out free personalized napkins to the Shluchim, professional flyers and a custom mini site the excitement keeps building.”

One Shabbat One World is a yearly project for the Moshiach Campaign, a division of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch.

iVolunteer – Learning From History, Easing Loneliness

NEW YORK, NY — When Terry Nayman was 14 years old in Poland she saw Nazis burn her father’s beard and knock her mother’s teeth out. She never imagined that 70 years later she would talk to two people about it in her Lower East Side apartment.