No Matzah Ball Soup Here

SEATTLE, WA — Chabad on Campus at University of Washington has a new home, room for seventy guests on Shabbat dinner, a library and a joint project with a Jewish fraternity on campus coming up, but no matzah ball soup.

Largest Jewish Welfare and Medical Center in Russia Opens in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia — The Jewish Charity Center ‘Shaarei Tsedek’ held its grand opening. Located in the Marina Roscha neighborhood, not far from the Moscow Jewish Community Center, this new thirteen million dollar institution is the largest Jewish Charity center in Russia.

The new building will serve over 1500 elderly hot meals a day in addition to another 1,000 meals that will be delivered by refrigerated trucks to homebound elderly from its kitchen. The center is also a fully equipped day medical clinic serving over 7,000 patients a month with over thirty doctors on staff. It also is a day center of activities for elderly.

Chabad Links Jewish Worshippers to Roots

Questions of faith (answered by Rabbi Gurary Shliach to Simi Valley, CA)

What is the purpose of life?

The Creator has given every one of us a specific purpose that leads to the universal goal of making the world a perfect and godly place.

What must humankind do to get into heaven?

Rabbi Begins 15th Year of leading Bible Studies at Chabad

CONEJO, CA — Rabbi Moshe Bryski began his 15th year of teaching the Bible this week at the Conejo Jewish Academy, 30345 Canwood St., Agoura Hills.

The academy’s Wednesday study group started with two people and has now grown into several groups with hundreds of participants.

Future Russian Officer Celebrates Bar Mitzva

MYTISCHI, Russia –- The Jewish community of Mytischi celebrated an important occasion – not only in the life of the community, but of all future military persons of Jewish background. This week, two young men underwent their Bar Mitzva to mark their coming of age. Already active in community affairs for a number of years already, this ceremony confirmed Alexander Barkovskiy’s and Oleg Tkacha’s commitment to living a Jewish life.

A Milestone at Chabad

ST LOUIS, MO — Twenty-five years ago, Chabad of Greater St. Louis had a modest beginning — operating out of the apartment of Rabbi Yosef Landa and his wife, Shiffy Landa, the founders of Chabad in St. Louis.

Following a Cultural Bread-Making Tradition

Baking fresh challah is one of the most sacred of Jewish traditions.

It is also an exercise in patience, of which I happen to have very little.