The fiesta will include a Mexican dinner, child and adult masquerade in Mexican attire, a mariachi band, children’s show, kosher piñata and the reading of the megillah (scroll of Esther).

The Chabad of Orange County CTeen (Chabad Teen) chapter, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, did extra acts of kindness to honor the victims of the Feb. 14 Parkland, Fla., massacre.

In keeping with the spirit of Purim, perhaps the most irreverent of Jewish holidays, the Chabad of the East Valley’s CTeen program is going to bake what it is dubbing “America’s Largest Hamantash” on Feb. 27. Though Jewish News was unable to confirm if the hamantashen will be the largest in the U.S., with an estimated cooked weight of at least 11 pounds, it’s safe to say it will be one huge pastry.

The kitchen opened earlier this month in a university dining hall, the Lawrence Journal-World reported, in a partnership between the K.U. Dining Services and the campus Chabad. Kosher dinners will be served each Tuesday for now. Students can use their meal plan or pay as they go.

In a private, no-press meeting, Florida governor Rick Scott sat down with Chabad rabbis Monday morning to discuss practical measures in response to the February 14 shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

She shared the traditions of baking and creating hamantash, begun with her family in Israel, for the Jewish holiday of Purim, with a group at Quarry Ridge Apartments.

A Chabad center in Coral Springs, Florida, may have evidence that can help police bring the Parkland high school shooter to justice.

The kitchen operates under the supervision of Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel of KU Chabad to serve kosher food, meaning it has been produced or prepared according to Jewish dietary laws.

Chabad of Orange County, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, invites the community to a grand Superhero Purim Party. The event, geared for characters of all ages, will be held Wednesday, Feb. 28, 5:45 p.m., at the American Legion Hall, 532 Lakes Road, in Monroe.

The event, sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Circle of Palm Beach, was in honor of the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shvat, or the new year of the trees — the season in which the earliest blooming trees emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.

At a gala banquet on Sunday — marking the 30th anniversary of Schneerson’s passing, and the closing event of the annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchos) — it was revealed that a young couple will soon be moving to Reykjavik to open the Chabad of Iceland. This means that every major capital in Europe will now have a Chabad center.

Shmuley Bifton, rabbi of the largest synagogue in Parkland, a city where Jews have a strong presence, rushed to the campus, two minutes away, as soon as he received a text.
Ever since, the Chabad rabbi has been comforting frightened youngsters and rattled families almost without relief.