Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe today addresses the opening ceremony for the new home of Chabad of Westport, which serves Westport, Weston, Wilton and Norwalk, at 79 Newtown Turnpike.
Ohad Ben Ishay was categorized as fatally wounded on July 20, 2014 amidst Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. Now, nearly four years later, Ohad, joined by his father Shimon, were among ten wounded IDF veterans who lead hundreds of bike riding enthusiasts, IDF veterans and supporters in a first of its kind NYC bike tour in support of fellow wounded IDF veterans.
May 3, 2018, world Jewry is celebrating Lag B’Omer. Let’s take a moment today to celebrate respect. We don’t need to agree with each other politically, religiously or philosophically, but we must heed the call of Rabbi Akiva, as understood rightfully by his student Rabbi Shimon, to see the best in each other and not judge fellow Montanans by their cover.
On Sunday, May 6, the Friendship Circle of Greater Hartford will be celebrating their 10th year anniversary and will pay tribute to the children, teens and young adults that join together in friendships that lasts forever. Friendship Circle brings together toddlers through young adults with and without special needs for a variety of Judaic and social programming.
Some of Professor Eugen Schoenfeld’s remarkable worldview was shaped by a cup of coffee — delivered under the most unusual of circumstances. Schoenfeld, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau, delivered a message to dozens of students Monday afternoon at his alma mater during a talk that the 92-year-old said would be among his last speaking about the Holocaust, something he’s been doing since he studied here in his early 20s. The event was hosted in cooperation with Chabad on Campus and the Chabad Student Association.
“Kosher dining is a problem in San Diego.” Those were the first words out of the mouth of Chabad Downtown’s Rabbi Zalman Carlebach, as soon as we began our conversation. Established in 2005, Chabad Downtown provides Shabbat dinner for visitors and the local Jewish community and partners with a caterer to prepare kosher meals during the week
The Murphys were honored at the Rabbinical College of America’s (RCA) National Founders Gala on April 16. The RCA, in Morristown, is the N.J. headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Rabbi David Lau, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, along with several European Jewish rabbis, called on German Jews to keep wearing kipahs, or yarmulkes, in public following a recommendation by a German Jewish leader that they find alternative head coverings.
The city’s only synagogue, with a membership that dates back to 1908, was sold and will merge with a Chabad House, an Orthodox Jewish community outreach center.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Samantha Mayor of Parkland joined two South Florida Holocaust survivors in leading the candle lighting ceremony to commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) which took place at the Steen Family Event & Education Center in Fort Lauderdale. She was one of many MSDHS students visited by Rabbi Schneur Kaplan of Downtown Jewish Center Chabad, who organized the Yom HaShoah commemoration.
The seventh graders of TCA enhanced their learning and knowledge on the Industrial Revolution by researching an important invention from that time. Each student was assigned an invention to research and present to the class.
One of Bergen County’s oldest synagogues is becoming its newest Chabad outpost.
Shortly before Passover, Temple Beth El, founded in 1908 as the Hackensack Hebrew Institute and down to barely 45 members, transferred ownership of its building to the newly formed Chabad of Hackensack.