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Th Gluck family, Chabad representatives to Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

The thirty-first annual International Conference of Shluchim (or simply, the Kinus) is taking place this weekend in Brooklyn, New York. Among the 5,800 directors and lay leaders of Chabad centers in 100 countries who are expected to attend, over 130 of them will be attending the conference for the first time as new emissaries.

The classic Chicago greystones and quirky bars lining stately Logan Boulevard in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood are home these days to young, upwardly mobile professionals. So Mitch Trachtenberg did a double-take when he spotted black-hatted and bearded Rabbi Avremi Raichik strolling the boulevard this summer. Along with his wife, Rivky, and their young children, the rabbi had just moved to the neighborhood to direct the newly formed Chabad of Logan Square. For the past few months, the Raichiks have been knocking on doors, fielding phone calls from neighborhood residents and getting the word out that they are open for business.

This past Shabbat was the Shabbat Project all over the world. Millions of Jewish families participated in celebrating Shabbat and bringing light into the world. Congregation B’nai Avraham and Chabad of Brooklyn Heights participated in the project as well and invited many families and women to join this worldwide initiative.

The cave, beneath in the large building upper left, is the main attraction in Hebron—one of Israel’s four holy cities—housing the sunken tombs of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah. Rachel is buried on the road to Bethlehem.

On the very site where the Jewish patriarch Abraham offered food and drink to wayfarers from an open tent in the hot desert sun— standing as the picture through the ages of unstinting hospitality—Chabad of Hebron will do its best to live up to his example when it hosts a record crowd of 6,000 at its annual Shabbat Chayei Sarah mega-gathering beginning Friday at sundown.

On Saturday night, friends and supporters of Chabad of Orange County people filled the Rushmore Estate Ballroom in Highland Mills for “An Evening of Laughter & L’Chaim” to benefit Chabad, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.

As per annual tradition, Chabad Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Holtzberg of Georgetown in Brooklyn takes the Chatanei Torah from his Chabad House to an inspiring Trip to the Ohel. Every Year the privilege is bought on Simchat Torah by a few members of the Shul and are honored with a celebratory ceremony.

“101 Meditations: Selected From Wisdom to Heal the Earth” by Tzvi Freeman offers a concise collection of transformative insights from the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—first published in Freeman’s “Wisdom to Heal the Earth.”

Freeman is the author of the best-selling Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, and now, a new condensed compilation, 101 Meditations: Selected from Wisdom to Heal the Earth, which offers a concise collection of transformative insights from the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, first published in Freeman’s Wisdom to Heal the Earth.

Rabbi Ari Sollish, director of Intown Jewish Academy, a center of adult Jewish study in Atlanta. will unpack the relevance, origins and contemporary application of the Oral Torah during the course of four weeks (from Nov. 26 to Dec. 17), presenting one class each week

One of the most misunderstood elements of Judaism is the Oral Torah, the companion to Scripture in which the terse laws of the Torah are elucidated, expounded and expanded. Talmud, Midrash and many other bodies of work all fall under this general rubric. To gain clarity on these issues, the public is invited to join a new course on Chabad.org, titled “Two Equals One.”

The Wellington, New Zealand, Jewish community was been established in the mid-19th century, when Jews from the British Empire began trickling into the colony. The first Shabbat services were held in 1843.

Tucked in the far southeastern corner of the globe, the Jewish community of Wellington, New Zealand, is in the process of rebuilding its aging community mikvah. For many, the endeavor is especially meaningful in the light of the special significance that the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn, of righteous memory—attached to its construction as far back as 1944.