Lubavitch shluchim move to all sorts of exotic places in their effort to ignite Jewish souls around the globe. But there’s exotic, and then there’s very exotic. Shanghai, China, can safely be said to fall into the latter category.
Almost 100 Chabad rabbis from across the UK came together in the picturesque village of Market Bosworth for a two-day conference last week.
The record 92 delegates attended the UK National Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Rabbis, where they took part in 22 lectures and workshops about modern Jewish life.
A few days into their visit to Montana, Mendel Weiss and Tzemach Shemtov said they’ve met with 15 families in Bozeman and Billings.
Over the next few weeks, the rabbinical students hope to check names off of a list of hundreds as they criss-cross the state sharing the Jewish tradition with others.
Rabbi Nochum Kurinsky of Ponte Vedra Beach recently embarked on a 600-mile bicycle ride down Florida’s east coast to share the message of “Health Body, Health Soul” more than a year after receiving a health scare. The ride included stops in South Florida.
Rabbinical students Shmuly Butler and Mendel Mintz traveled from New York City to spend four weeks in 26 different cities in Utah to encourage the community and print hundreds of copies of the Jewish book, “The Tanya.”
More than 350 guests celebrated at Valley Chabad’s gala, “Celebrate 18. Celebrate Life,” on June 5 at the Rockleigh Country Club. The party marked the 18th year of Valley Chabad’s community-based services to the Pascack Valley and Saddle River communities, and it honored key members for their support of its educational and outreach programs.
Rabbi Michoel Goldin, the youth director at Chabad of Teaneck, has created a new project he has named “The Young Jewish Professionals of Teaneck” to address a need in the community for targeted programming for this in-between age group.
Dressed in their finest clothing and surrounded by family and close friends, 36 orphaned girls celebrated their Bat Mitzvahs together in an emotional and festive event hosted by Colel Chabad charity organization.
Most rock music lovers know Perry Farrell as the charismatic frontman of the band Jane’s Addiction. Others know him as the guy who started the popular Lollapalooza music festival.
These days, Farrell is really into the writings of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late influential leader of the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Obsession might be the correct term here, since he told Rolling Stone in an interview earlier this month that he studies Schneerson’s teachings through most of the night.
Chabad of S. Barbara will host Sassy Reuven, a veteran of the Israel Defense Special Operation Forces (IDF), 7 p.m. Wednesday, June, 27, in Santa Barbara Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St.
The Russian city of Arkhangelsk saw the opening of a synagogue inside what may be the world’s northernmost Jewish community center.
As children head to Jewish day camps in the coming weeks and parents pack bags with swimsuits, sunscreen, and bottles of water, moms and dads might be concerned about terrorism, especially since Jewish community centers received numerous bomb threats last year.