Esther Hoffer and her husband, Rabbi Amram Hoffer, are co-directors of the organization’s kids program, and the two helped teach the excitable batch of youngsters at Chabad’s campus in Maitland off Lake Howell Road how to form the dough, as well as its importance to their heritage.
Avi Feldman, all of 27 years old, and a Brooklyn, New York born Jew, and by profession a rabbi, is being sent to Iceland by the Chabad authorities.
If you had stopped in to TCA on a recent Friday, you would certainly have seen some magic happening. Along with backpacks and jackets, students were carrying in sleeping bags, blankets, stuffed animals and extra books.
Schloss, the 88-year-old step-sister of Anne Frank and Holocaust survivor, discussed her wartime experiences, stories of loss, and her hope for future generations and the World. The presentation, put on by the Chabad Lubavitch Centers of Northern Virginia, also included a video presentation and a musical tribute of Ani Maamin by oboist and conductor Eugene Sidorov.
Judge Rachel Freier came to speak to Penn students at the Chabad House on Wednesday through a coordinated effort between The Jewish Women’s Resource Center and the Perelman Center for Jewish Life.
Every year, in a massive hall at a New York hotel, 3,000 women from 100 countries around the world gather for the annual conference for Chabad-Lubavitch’s female emissaries the Chabad Kinus Hashluchos banquet dinner.
The Chabad movement is sending a rabbi and his wife to Iceland, an island nation with 250 Jews where ritual slaughter of animals is illegal and circumcision is likely to be outlawed as well.
Of course, Rabbi Avi and Mushky Feldman don’t see it that way—Iceland’s first ever Chabad shluchim, who are preparing to set up shop this spring, are delighted at the chance to create an institutional Jewish presence in Iceland.
West Chandler’s Chabad Jewish community center will team up with local youth groups and the Aleph Art Room project to give Jews of all ages an opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop to build their own Gragger. Graggers are a type of noisemaker often used during the observance of Purim.
At a gala banquet Sunday marking the 30th anniversary of her 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 Chabad of Iceland—meaning every major capital in Europe now has a Chabad center.
The Feldmans’ arrival in the northern island country will herald a new era for Iceland’s tiny Jewish community, entering a number of firsts in Iceland’s sparse Jewish history.
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, known for sending rabbis around the world to engage in outreach with Jewish communities, announced Sunday that it will soon plant a flag in the last remaining European capital without a rabbi — Reykjavik, Iceland
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