Amid their busy schedules, Jewish students all over Ohio University are getting ready to celebrate one of their holiest holidays, the Jewish New Year known as Rosh Hashanah.

Avi Davidson, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, overcame injuries that left him in a wheelchair and cost him his arm to open his first photo exhibition on campus on Sept. 4. The showing, To Bear Witness, documents his experiences visiting Poland, including the concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz.

Powerful blasts will echo throughout Mercer Island as community Rabbi Nissan Kornfeld blows the shofar, a ram’s horn, across town to celebrate the upcoming Jewish New Year, called Rosh Hashanah.

Chabad of the Conejo will hold its High Holiday services in the grand ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel. Auxiliary services will take place at eight other locations throughout the area.

t the age of 92, Valentina Prilashkevitch and her twin sister, Claudia, need to cautiously negotiate the dirt road leading to their wooden home in this tiny village near the Belarus border.
In winter, frost could easily mean a broken hip for the twins. The risk of falling returns in summer, when the swampy earth turns to soft powder.

The founder of Riverdale Judaica, “Reb Yisroel,” as he likes to be known, was practically born with a sefer in hand. Born and bred in Crown heights, Yisroel is the product of the Lubavitch yeshiva system.

or more than two decades, students at the International School for Chabad Leadership on the Harry & Wanda Zekelman Campus in Oak Park have spent their Friday afternoons traveling throughout Oakland County bringing Jews closer to their faith. They are lamp lighters whose job is to touch souls.

For years Chabad of Forsyth has made a name for themselves in the community as pioneers in uncharted territory, a bastion of Jewish life in a place that had never before had a place for Jews to worship.

Every single day of the year, Colel Chabad feeds widows, orphans and poor elderly. But during the Jewish High Holidays, this work becomes evermore important.

s long shadows fell upon the dirt lot, a rabbi, two wildfire survivors and a smattering of well-wishers lifted plastic wine glasses and toasted each other, “L’chaim,” meaning “to life.”

Close to 10 percent of Chapman’s students are Jewish, and there is an active Chapman Hillel group on campus as well as the nearby Chabad at Chapman, a gathering led by a Hasidic rabbi but open to other Jewish students regardless of their level of observance.

Jewish Beginnings Lubavitch Preschool was re-accredited in August by the National Association for Education of Young Children.
This is the school’s fifth consecutive accreditation with the National Association for Education of Young Children. The school’s first accreditation from the nonprofit was in 1998.