New Shluchim to Argentina

Mar del Plata, located in Argentina’s Buenos Aires Province, is a bustling beach city found on the country’s east coast. With a permanent population of 750,000, and nearly eight times that number of annual tourists, Mar del Plata is the seventh-largest city in Argentina and home to an estimated 5,000 Jews, who now have their own Chabad branch.

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Jewish Federation Awards North Carolina Shluchim

Rabbi Zalman Bluming is a man on a mission. For the past 15 years, the energetic rabbi and his wife Yehudis have welcomed students to the Rohr Chabad at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Duke University. They have housed and fed hundreds of patients and their families at Beit Chanoch, the House of Healing at Duke Medical Center. In between semesters filled with classes and rousing Shabbat meals, the rabbi leads Israelinks trips for an international roster of college students. The two also direct a thriving community for the families and researchers who call this small North Carolina city home.

California Shliach Curates Unique Judaica Collection

When Cupertino, California representative Rabbi Reuven Goldstein visited New York’s Morgan Museum in 2010, he saw an original Mishneh Torah, written in Maimonides’s own hand. The rabbi, who has always been interested in Jewish history, was inspired to start a collection of old Jewish books. His first piece was the Soncino Talmud from the year 1515, the first Talmud to be printed.

Where Jews in Copenhagen Feel Right at Home

Walk down the block-long Ole Suhrs Gade Street in Copenhagen—from the Botanical Gardens at one end to Sortedams Lake at the other—and there is a certain old-world charm. Neighbors engage in quiet conversation or sip coffee at corner cafes, with dozens of bicycles parked in racks or leaning against the long rows of similar-appearing, walk-up apartment buildings that line both sides of the street. It is therefore easy to walk right past #10 Ole Suhrs Gade without noticing anything special.

8:00pm: What’s Wrong with a Handshake?

This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 139, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What’s Wrong with a Handshake? Is There a Remedy to Resignation? Are Cartoons OK for Kids? What is the History of the Kinus HaShluchim? Is Anxiety Really a Cry from the Soul? Why Do We Condemn Religious Killing if Torah Commands Us to Do the Same?