Chabad translating Jewish texts into Russian

Moscow, Russia — The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia announced a five-year project to translate 50 Jewish religious texts into Russian.

According to federation spokesman Baruch Gorin, the project, called The Library of Jewish Texts, is aimed at Russian-speaking Jews worldwide and non-Jewish Russian speakers interested in getting acquainted with Judaism.

Chabad Couple Named To New Virginia Tech Librescu Chabad House

Blacksburg, VA — In an exclusive interview with Lubavitch.com, Rabbi Yossel Kranz, executive director of Chabad of the Virginias, named the young couple who formally accepted the offer to head the new Chabad House opening next month at Virginia Tech.

Rabbi Elazar and Rivkah Bloom, both with advanced science degrees and Chabad outreach experience, tied up loose ends with Rabbi Kranz late on Sunday. Earlier in the week, an innkeeper chose Chabad’s bid for her bed and breakfast that stands a block from campus, to become the home of the new Chabad House, named for Liviu Librescu. The inkeeper gave V Tech Chabad six months to secure the funds to complete the purchase.

Belarus Jewish Camp Witnesses Record Turnout

Minsk, Belarus –- The Association of Jewish Communities of Belarus, one of the largest Jewish organizations in the country, will soon be hosting a summer camp for Jewish children. The event gets underway in July in a scenic place on a lakeshore near Pinsk, a city located in the Brest Region.

Sholom Malinkin, the Chair of the Association, explained. “This is the first time ever that we have been able to organize the camp for about 300 children,” explained Sholom Malinkin. “They come from 20 different towns across Belarus, including firstly those cities with a Chabad Lubavitch emissary.”

On the Road with RARA

In the summer of 1977, three Monash University students, barely a year out of Yeshivah, hired an old campervan and embarked on a journey that would inspire a revolution in Chabad’s outreach philosophy.

Led by Saul Spigler, the boys spent two months shlepping through the Outback, finding Jews in remote corners of the country and helping them reconnect with their Judaism.

Antwerp’s New Rabbis Tutor Diamond Giants

Antwerpen, Belgium — At a ceremony marking the recent ordination of 10 new rabbis who have studied for the past year at the Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Antwerp, Belgium, the festivities placed a inadvertent spotlight on the city’s business leaders.

Fraternity Brothers Reach Out to Less Fortunate

State College, PA — In town for the Zeta Beta Tau national convention, more than 100 of the fraternity’s members partnered with the Lubavitch House at the University of Pennsylvania last week to deliver food packages to needy Philadelphians.

According to Noel Johnson, a ZBT brother who hails from New York, the Friday distribution in advance of Shabbat was a huge success. He said that the idea of taking packages of food, grape juice and challah to Russian Jews dove-tailed with the visions of both ZBT and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.