PEORIA IL – Shay Adler moved from Israel to the United States, but his Jewish traditions during Rosh Hashanah have not changed.
The 9-year-old, his brother Barak Adler and mother Sigalit Adler attended a beekeepers demonstration and arts and crafts event at the Agudas Achim Jewish Synagogue in Peoria on Sunday.
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OKEECHOBEE, FL — The Okeechobee Correctional Institution is certainly no place for a nice Jewish boy. But that didn’t stop ten young Chabad Rabbis from spending three days there this week, teaching Torah, singing, dancing, and sharing their love of Judaism with eighteen Jewish inmates incarcerated there.
OMSK, Russia –- Omsk celebrated the grand opening of the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School and ‘Chaya Mushka’ Kindergarten. After a five-year effort, Chief Rabbi Osher Krichevsky and his wife can finally see the fruits of their labor. Located in a newly-constructed building – perhaps the best to ever host a local school – this institution will offer education from kindergarten through to the secondary school level. It is the first school to offer an ethno-cultural component as part of its educational program.
Two Chabad-Lubavitch educators won the 2007 Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education, which recognizes outstanding classroom-based teachers from preschool through Grade 12 in North American communities.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chaim Schneider (Crown Heights) to Dina Flood (Johannesburg, South Africa) on their engagement!
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
This evening, Monday, iy”h, a ‘Bruchim Ha’boim’ evening will welcome all the guests from the world over, that came to spend Tishrei in the Rebbe’s court. Hosted by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim.
A full and beautiful program is planned, including speakers Rabbi Leibel Schapiro, Rosh Yeshivah in Miami Beach. Rabbi Yoel Kahn, the Rebbe’s Choizer. There will be welcoming greetings from a member of the Badatz of Crown Heights and of the International Agudas Chasidei Chabad. Guest Speaker will be Rabbi Mendel Groner from Yeshivah Tomchei Tmimim in Kiryat Gat, Israel.
We would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to Shmuely and his wife Devorah (nee DeVries) Levitin on the birth of their first born baby girl!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
MOSCOW, Russia — During World War II, Simon Zokhorovich’s father was a general in the Red Army before his untimely death. So as an orphan to a Soviet general, the young Zokhorovich was adopted by the army and sent to a dormitory where he was trained to join the ranks of his comrades as an officer.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shloimy and Carolena Herz (Bal Harbour, FL) on the birth of their baby boy!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
PORTLAND, OR — Chabad of Oregon is growing again.
A new Chabad Center serving Jewish students on all Portland-area campuses joins existing Chabad Centers in Portland, Ashland, Hillsboro and Salem, as well as a Chabad House serving the University of Oregon campus in Eugene.
WESTON, FL — A study revealing that Jewish teens–even those who think it important to raise their chldren Jewish–do not see intermarriage as an impediment, underscores the importance of Chabad’s extra-curricular educational programs.
BONIRA SPRINGS, FL — Rabbi Mendy Greenberg has a lot to celebrate this week for Rosh Hashana.
Last year, the Chabad Jewish Center of Bonita Springs that he oversees celebrated the Jewish New Year in rented hotel space. This year, the services are to be in a more permanent location, 2,000 square feet of rented space in the Bernwood business center, 24850 Old 41 Road Unit 20, where services have been held this year.
ORLANDO, FL — Rabbi Chaim Lipskier and his wife Rivkie seem to conquer the impossible week after week for Jewish college students around the University of Central Florida’s campus. Rivkie cooks on Fridays to host a fun-filled Shabbat evening at the Lipskier home. The rabbi welcomes visitors of all ages. He invites students using the online networking site facebook.com. He can frequently be seen introducing himself outside the student union, ignoring the brutal Florida heat. And he insists that guests bring their family members staying in Orlando from out of town.
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine -– Like thousands of schools across the Former Soviet Union, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk also marked the ‘Day of Knowledge’ at the ‘Ohr Avner-Levi yischak’ Day School. Traditionally held on September 1st, the celebration was postponed by two days so that it would not fall on Shabbat. This year’s count of first-graders was twice more than last year, at 45 pupils.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – It was a turbulent opening for the Bais Rivka Elementary Division this school year, but as it seems that now some of those issues are behind us and parents can breath easier for school begins its normal course starting tomorrow, Monday.
English studies will resume and school will go on until normal dismissal times, with regular bus services, CrownHeights.info has learned.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A new Safer Torah was dedicated to the Shul in the Jewish Childrens Museum in loving memory of R. Shmuel Eliezer OBM ben Alter Peretz Chaim OBM and his wife Rochel bas Faiga Liba Shaoulson and Shmuel ben Eliyahu and his wife Chana bas Binyamin Harris OBM.
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