Thursday, / November 21, 2024
Posts by: R. Wineberg
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Fun and Laughter in a Land of Chaos
Forty yellow school buses make the rounds through Buenos Aires and the surrounding suburbs morning and afternoon, ferrying over 900 children back and forth daily.…
On the Slopes and At Chabad: Peak Season
Most of Rabbi Mendel Mintz’s congregants at Chabad of Aspen are in town now. Which is a nice thing, especially since it’s so unusual. In…
A Different Sort of Magic
On your average Shabbos, a minyan at Chabad of South Orlando is usually made up of several dozen men and women, about half of whom…
Not For Water
The ratings are in and they’ve never been better, says Michael Kigel, producer of Passages and Messages, two religiously themed shows that air weekly on…
Creating Community
When Chabad at Flamingo, named for the obscure little road it sits on in Northern Thornhill, opened the doors of the Ernest Manson Lubavitch Center,…
More Chanukah on Campus
The University of Chicago, a bastion of the American academic elite since its founding in 1890, is displaying its first ever Chanukah menorah in the…
Around Africa in Eight Days
When you live in a remote country in central Africa, foreign residents will tell you, it’s not hard to feel isolated from the rest of…
Kids n’ Olive Oil: The Real Thing
When Rabbi Yisroel Engel of Denver, Colorado hit upon the idea of a hands-on Olive Oil Press workshop in the winter of 1986, he had…
A Menorah on the Slopes
Jason, a 24 year old Australian ski enthusiast was heading down the slopes one day in the winter of ’95 during a season-long ski stint,…
Traditional Torah Training in a Progressive School
Six year old Simon Handmaker of St. Louis, Mo, is getting the best of both worlds, claims his father, Billy Handmaker. A father of two…
A Light At The End of The Tunnel
Commuters passing through the Holland Tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey every day will soon be noticing a new sign of the season at…
The Building on Lacplesa Street
Twice a year, a hunched, old man would make his way over to the Chabad school at 141 Lacplesa Street in Riga, Latvia, and offer…
Healing for the Soul
In a diary entry written only days before her death, M., a 40-year old woman from New York battling cancer, listed several things she was…
A Jewish House of Healing
Nine hundred and fifty dinner guests turned up on October 1 at the Westin Hotel, one of Sydney, Australia’s most prestigious venues, in a broad…
Little People, Big Responsibilities
Thousands of guests at the annual banquet of the Chabad Lubavitch International Conference of Shluchim listened attentively as 12 year-old Motti Shochet of London, England…
A Second Chance
Over the last few decades, a full 80% of Atlanta’s Jewish population of 100,000 migrated to the suburbs. For a while, it seemed as though…
Have Degree, Will Mother
When Rabbi Avraham and Frumi Bekerman arrived in Moscow nine years ago to assume direction of the Machon Chaya Mushka Institute for Jewish Women, a…
The Mitzvah Factory:Taking Fun Seriously
“Will your grandchildren be Jewish?” Rabbi Shraga Sherman of Chabad of the Mainline in suburban Philadelphia believes he has an answer to that question, so…
Torah in the Technology Corridor
Coined the “technology corridor” of Illinois, Naperville and its surrounding areas are home to dozens of hi-tech firms and company headquarters for several large companies.…
Emerging From the Floodwaters
Only several weeks after torrential rains and flooding left half of Prague submerged in water, Chabad here is back in business, and “stronger than ever,”…
A Happy Reunion
The last time Karen Guttman, 28, had contact with her father was 14 years ago. By a series of serendipitous events that brought her to…
“Thank You for Your Salt Lake City Chabad”
Ten years ago, newly arrived Chabad representative to the state of Utah, Rabbi Benny Zippel, received a call from a fellow Chabad Rabbi in California.…
Sukkot in Donetsk
Like dozens of cities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, Donetsk, one of the largest cities in Ukraine, was home to a thriving Jewish…
Eugene, Oregon
With the arrival this week of Rabbi Asi and Aviva Spiegel, the spiritual seekers of this city 100 miles south of Portland have a new…
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