Chabad at Rice is getting ready to expand
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life at KU on Sunday will celebrate a huge milestone: a groundbreaking for a facility that will quadruple the center’s space.
Celebrations of the High Holy Days have new meaning this year for a Jewish organization that was, in effect, homeless because of the pandemic.
Chabad of Northeast Portland now owns a building on Northeast Ninth Avenue that allowed the community to hold in-person services earlier this week for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Similar services are planned Tuesday for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
About 200 students gather together on Saturday every week to celebrate Shabbat — the Jewish day of rest. Students enjoy food, sing songs and socialize on this day. Rabbi Shmuli, the mentor of the group, previously hosted Shabbat at his house on Lytton Avenue in Oakland. However, with so many students signing up to attend, Chabad at Pitt has opened a new location for their social events this year.
Marking 25 years since its founding, Harvard Chabad announced last month the establishment of a $5 million dollar gift toward the Harvard Chabad Endowment for Jewish Leadership.
After a recent campaign lasting only six weeks, Chabad at the Shore raised $500,000 to secure a second location in Ventnor. The center will be dedicated to Flo and Bob Ackerman and will be aptly named the Bob and Flo Ackerman Jewish Family Center. It will be located at 300 N. Dudley Ave. in Ventnor Heights and will have a preschool, a small sanctuary, as well as a space for teenagers to use.
One of the latest additions to America’s oldest seaport, the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Ann held its first services on the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah last week at its new permanent home downtown at 37 Main St. in Gloucester. It plans to hold Yom Kippur services starting with Yom Kippur Eve on Tuesday, Oct. 4.
Chabad Jewish Center of Tamarac is collecting supplies and donations for residents of the West Coast of Florida who were affected by Hurricane Ian.
WAYNE, NJ – On Sunday, 9/11, close to 200 friends and supporters of the Chabad Center of Passaic County gathered in Wayne to celebrate a trifecta of occasions: The completion of a new Torah scroll, the dedication of the new Gan Chabad Preschool, and the 30-year anniversary of Chabads presence in Passaic County.
Morning rain ended by the time the Glencoe Torah Celebration took place in downtown Glencoe on Aug. 28 on a banner blue sky Sunday.
The Chabad of Glencoe event celebrated what was a once in a lifetime opportunity for many to witness the completion of an inked Torah scroll.
“If you want to light a candle, if you want to inspire other people, first you need to be a candle yourself,” Rabbi Yossi Mintz is fond of saying, even when he is unabashedly that candle.
Last Wednesday, Rabbi Mintz shared that advice with the more than 1,000 people attending the Friendship Campus groundbreaking last Wednesday. The private school, on Inglewood Avenue in Redondo Beach, will offer vocational training for special needs students.