Chabad of Naperville Opens New Center
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Abrams Center for Jewish Life this week, the new home for Chabad of Naperville, Illinois.
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Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon was recently appointed a judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia. (Photo: Donnay Zulberg Photography - Perth Australia)
Meet Australia’s Newest Supreme Court Justice, Rabbi Marcus Solomon
Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon is a graduate of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivahs in Australia, Israel and America. He was ordained as a rabbi before going on to study law in his native Australia.
Manhole Fire Temporarily Shuts Down Kingston Ave Thursday Night
A manhole on Kingston Ave with a troubling history of fires flared up again Thursday night, sending flames and smoke billowing into the air.
SHOMRIM: Marketplace Shoplifter Stopped and Arrested
A shoplifter who attempted to get away “clean” from the marketplace was caught and arrested Tuesday just blocks away, with none other than laundry supplies.
Swerdlov Summer Program Visit Ukrainian Cities, Farbrengs With Shluchim
A group of 25 Jewish girls from New York visited the Beit Baruch Charity Center and the Beit Reuven synagogue in Kamenskoye on the first day of Elul, 9 August 2021. The trip is a part of the famous YTT (Swerdlov Summer Program) 8-day touring camp for Jewish girls in Ukraine.
Another Large Lot of Questionable Historic Chabad Items Placed Up For Auction
Just two months after a lot of questionable Chabad memorabilia was auctioned off at an Israeli Auction House, another large lot has surfaced, and is even more likely to be fakes.
Inside Ukrainian Mitzvah Tank: Rabbi Mendel Wolf on Pandemic, Jewish Pride and Setting Records
“Shalom! What are you doing here? I thought I’m the only Jew in town!” Along with three yeshiva friends, Rabbi Wolf has been travelling all over Ukraine in a colorful Mitzvah Mobile since 2017.
60 Year-Old Dream Realized as CGI Detroit Simply Doubles
Recently discovered answer from the Rebbe sheds new light on why CGI Detroit alternated sessions for boys and girls and why they are finally set to purchase a second campground.
For the First Time in Many Years, A New Torah Scroll Is Completed in Crimea
The renaissance of Yiddishkeit in Crimea was impressively expressed at the Hachnasat Sefer Torah ceremony for a new Torah Scroll, which was joyfully carried into the synagogue of Simferopol.
Kaliningrad Community Honors WWI Jewish Soldiers
A touching memorial ceremony was held at the Old Jewish Cemetery of the Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) Synagogue, honoring the Jewish soldiers of WWI.
Parksville: Grand Gan Yisrael All-Star Game
Sunday night was the grand Gan Yisrael all-star game!! (quite literally) The campers who were voted all-stars joined forces to play the most hyped basketball game in Gan Yisroel history
Chabad at the Forefront of Vaccine Distribution Effort in Ukraine
When the Ukrainian ministry of health was devising the logistics of a massive vaccine distribution for the Dnepropetrovsk region, Healthcare Minister Viktor Liashko and Governor of the Region Valentin Reznichenko turned to the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
Newborn Zev Mordechai Mandler, center, flanked by his father, Michael Handler, and grandfather Raul Mandler took part in pidyon haben ceremonies conducted by Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein, left, a kohen, and Rabbi Yitzchak Goldenberg, right, spiritual leader of the Young Israel of Lawrenceville, N.J., and co-director of Chabad of Lawrenceville.
In New Jersey, Three Generations of Firstborns “Redeemed”
Michael and Hannah Mandler, proud first-time parents, had another less common mitzvah to do after circumcising their bundle of joy, whom they had named Zev Mordechai. They had to redeem their firstborn son from a Kohen, in a ceremony known as pidyon haben, or the redemption of the firstborn.
Historic Nationalized ‘Jewish House’ to be Returned to Chernivtsi Jewish Community
A series of historic events commemorating ‘Eighty Years of Tragedy’ and in memory of the Holocaust victims of the Bukovina region, took place last week in the ‘Jewish Shtetel’ of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and included a surprise announcement.
Shazak Parsha Post – Parshas Matos
Court Discourages Vows, Settled- Jordan Bank, Obituary, and Ads. Shazak has released their weekly “Parsha Post For Parshas Matos”, and has made it available for all here on CrownHeights.info.
Yartzeit of Rabbi Dovid Wichnin z”l Commemorated
Thousands of us remember a truly great man whom we lost on the 26th of Tammuz, 5755 (1995). His name; Rabbi Dovid Wichnin Z”L.
Chabad of Duke Has Moved Inn
Chabad at Duke University Undergrad’s new building is the perfect place to create a home away from home for Jewish students. Being the former location of the popular King’s Daughters Inn, it has a long history of hospitality.
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