Pass the Cookies for Purim

Saratoga Springs, NY — You’ve got to like a holiday that’s symbolized by a cookie.

Rabbi Abba Rubin of Saratoga Chabad uses his car as a mobile billboard for Jewish culture, attaching cutout symbols of the holidays to the roof. While most people with a passing knowledge of Judaism recognize that the menorah symbolizes Hanukkah, the triangle currently sticking up from his burgundy sedan like a shark fin might be a little less recognizable.

120 Chabad Houses on Campus and Counting…

Merkos Linyonai Chinuch is pleased to announce the addtion of one more Chabad House on campus, bringing the total number of Chabad at university campuses to 120. This marks the 65th Chabad House to be established over the past five years on campus, which had literally doubled Chabad’s presence on universities around the world.

Mikvah Ritual finds new Adherents

Livingston, NJ — They used to be everywhere there were Jews. Mikvahs, ritual purification pools used by observant Jewish women, have been considered so important to Jewish communities that even a sacred Torah could be sold to build one.

New Student Center To Be Dedicated at Florida International University

Miami, FL — The Chabad Jewish Student Center at Florida International University, known to students as ChabadFIU, will be celebrating the dedication of their new student center near the FIU University Park campus, on Sunday, March 11, beginning at 11:00 am.

A Chassidic Birthday with Sushi, Vodka and Neshama

Brooklyn, NY — The Chabad Neshama Center was overflowing with young Russian American professionals who came to celebrate with their beloved Rabbi for his 30th Birthday. It was a real Chassidic Farbrengen with the warmth of Yiddishkeit and Chassidishkeit.

Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities packs Shalach Manos

Twin Cities, MN — The Purim season has begun, and the bochurim at My Yeshiva jumped right in! The bochurim have been going to the Lubavitch House in West S. Paul to help with one of the biggest and oldest Shalach Manos operations in the country. Lubavitch of Minnesota, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Feller, sends out more than 10,000 shalach manos packages to Jewish people all across the state of Minnesota.

Rabbi Mayer Rubinfeld, the program director for Lubavitch in Minnesota, ran the project and directed the bochurim. The boys packed brochures, cookies, candies, and tzedaka into the packages, and then sealed them, addressed them and mailed them.

More pictures and a Video clip in the Extended Article!