North Carolinians Join Chabad for Unforgettable Trip to Israel
As school vacation kicked into full gear in the US, twelve families from Charlotte, North Carolina, traveled across the globe and arrived in Israel for an unforgettable 10 day journey.
As school vacation kicked into full gear in the US, twelve families from Charlotte, North Carolina, traveled across the globe and arrived in Israel for an unforgettable 10 day journey.
The South holds fast to its roots and traditions, an ideal practically synonymous with the Jewish people. So it’s not too surprising, then, that a population dwindling in the 1990s has re-emerged in the 2000s—so much so that the Chabad-Lubavitch couple on the ground there had to find more room to accommodate the community’s budding needs.
A broad, barrel-chested man, Gabi Levinsky rose to address 150 fellow parents gathered in the cafeteria of the Wolfsohn-Tabacinic School. It was Friday night, and children ran freely around the room as Shabbat dinner stretched late into the muggy Argentine evening. With tears in his eyes, Levinsky thanked the Wolfsohn community for standing with his family following the sudden passing of their daughter a year earlier. By the time his short speech was over, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.
From its idyllic seaside communities to a score of inland villages, towns and small cities founded during the Colonial era, Massachusetts’ North Shore is a region that’s both proud of its history and poised for future growth.
Just in time for Gimmel Tammuz, Nissan Mindel Publications is pleased to introduce the soon-to be-published book, Chabadin America through the Folders of Nissan MIndel, which will detail the origins of Chabad in America through the archives of Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, a trusted secretary of the Previous Rebbe after his arrival in the U.S., and later of the Rebbe.
Dozens of people gathered in the Chabad Jewish Community Center in Medford, NJ, this past Sunday to celebrate the completion of a brand new Sefer Torah. It was the first time in history that a Torah had been completed in Medford, a suburb of Philadelphia that has never had a large Jewish presence.
Chabad of Orange County’s Hebrew School Awards Ceremony was full of spirit and excitement. Held at the Pavilion of the Chester Commons Park in upstate New York, the nearly 100 students and their families gathered for a memorable June afternoon.
71 years after the allied forces invaded the coast of Normandy in their fight against the Nazis, history was once again made in this northwestern region of France – the first Halachic Bris Milah performed on a Jewish child in as many decades.
Islington Council and Chabad-Lubavitch of Islington marked the unveiling last week of the “Islington People’s Plaque” on the site of the former North London Synagogue on Lofting Road, which was built in 1868 and demolished in 1958. But the day wound up just as focused on the future as it did on the past.
Some 1,800 people turned out for a special concert featuring Dudu Fischer and Tony Orlando which was organized by Chabad of the Conejo.
Roosevelt lsland—the unobtrusive strip of land that sits in the East River between Queens and Manhattan—is a place many New Yorkers might have trouble pointing out on a map.
The southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been on edge for more than a year now, with the thud of Grad rockets falling in the distance a part of daily life.
Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner, Shliach to Krefeld, Germany, has learned for over a decade on the phone and through Skype with Rabbi Hershel Finmann, Shliach in Detroit, Michigan. A few months ago, Rabbi Finmann, who moderates his own radio talk show, The Jewish Hour, came up with the idea to host a lecture on the topic “Jews in Germany 70 Years after the Shoah.”
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he addresses a number of questions on the seeming contradiction between G-d’s omniscience and man’s free will, evolution and Aggadah on medicine. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Earlier this week Cheder Chabad of Monsey held it’s 16th Anniversary Dinner at the Atrium ballroom in Monsey, NY. Close to 350 parents, educators, staff and community members were in attendance.
A groundbreaking was celebrated Wednesday for the new Merrin Chabad Center opening near Stony Brook, New York.
Rabbi Dovid Lau, the chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Israel, was greeted yesterday, Tuesday, by the student of the Chabad Yeshiva of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where he landed for a stopover of several hours.