On Friday, April 20, Chabad of Hunterdon will host “The Origins of Jewish Life in Hunterdon County,” featuring historian Stephanie Stephens. Stephens will present the stories of the early Jewish settlers up until the modern era of Jewish life in Hunterdon

The Russian city of Smolensk is located in a region that has historically been contested between Russia and Lithuania, which later became part of Poland. Smolensk became part of Russia following the Russian-Polish wars in the 17th century, but its Lithuanian roots left a clear imprint on the Smolensk Jewish community. It was the birthplace of Chabad Chassidus, much more closely linked to Russia than the other Chassidic sects in the Ukraine, Galicia, and Poland.

The memory of late Gants Hill Rabbi was honoured by an almost 400-strong procession bearing a handwritten Torah scroll. Hundreds from Redbridge’s Jewish community gathered at the home of the late Rabbi Moshe Muller, in The Crescent, and walked to the Chabad Lubavitch Centre, in Eastern Avenue, via Cranbrook on Sunday April 15.

A Kansas City Jewish group donated blankets for people recovering from abusive relationships.
Chana Itkin runs Chabad Young KC, which is a monthly girls get-together to have discussions, learning, and hands-on crafts. And they love giving back to the community. For “Do Good” Sunday this past week, they made blankets for Safehome.

The Chabad House will host a Holocaust Memorial Evening at 7 p.m. April 23 with special guest speaker Marthe Cohn. Her 2002 memoir, Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany, recounts her adventures.

In separate events four days apart last week at two residential colleges on the Coral Gables campus, someone drew Swastikas on a board outside the dorm rooms of two female students. Rabbi Mendy Fellig, who runs Chabad at the University of Miami, called it an unusual event at a school where he’s counseled students and staff for decades.

“I find that many people, particularly in Tallahassee, are looking to deepen their experience of life. This JLI course invites participants to live more deeply, by deepening their thinking, insight, and awareness of the fundamentals of life and of our universe,” said Rabbi Oirechman.
What Is? explores six of the most intruiging questions that have ever challenged mankind: Is the world real? Is time travel possible? Why does evil exist? Who is G-d? What is consciousness? Are we bound by fate?

Local Jews will have a new place to worship in Gwinnett County if a proposed 12,000-square-foot Chabad of Gwinnett enrichment center comes to fruition.

The Torah scroll, signifying a tradition dating back three millennia, is scheduled to take a year to complete, about the same time as the $7.5 million Spiegel Family Chabad Jewish Center at 430 University Boulevard.

“Canada is at its best and all of society benefits when everyone is included. The Enabling Accessibility Fund is one of the measures that exist to ensure people with disabilities have opportunities to participate on an equal basis,” Duncan said in a press release. “Through this funding and partnerships with organizations like Chimo Community Services and Chabad of Richmond, we are working to build a more inclusive and accessible Canada.”

Rabbi Mendel Gurkow of Shaloh House Chabad of the South Area in Stoughton and Rabbi Levi Lezell of Chabad of the South Shore in Hingham joined state officials to receive a proclamation Thursday, March 29 declaring a day of Education and Sharing in honor of the 116th birthday of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of Chabad Lubavitch.

Kathmandu, where the city’s first official seder was led in 1989 by Rabbi Mendel Kastel of Jewish House – then a 20-year-old rabbinical student at yeshivah in Sydney – along with fellow student Mendel Lipskier.
This year, for the event’s 30th iteration Rabbi Kastel returned for a Pesach celebration to ­remember.