For most, the pandemic has put a temporary halt to the jet-setting lifestyle. But Israeli travel restrictions caused by the Covid outbreak led to Golders Green mohel Rabbi Yossi Simon racking up air miles as he officiated at four overseas brit milot in as many days.
Throughout the school year, all Jewhawks on campus are given a magnet to put on their fridge. It reads, “Sick?? Oy Vey!! Call The Chicken Soup Express! Free chicken soup delivery right to your door…for you or a friend!”
Chabad of Squirrel Hill hosts its annual Evening of Celebration online, honoring Janie Yahr with the Community Lamplighter Award.
When it was time for his family to be deported, the family fled to the mountains. They dug out an underground shelter and struggled to survive. The family expected to soon be liberated by the advancing Red Army. However, the war continued for another seven months.
Last week, MDA began a unique project in which many teffilin stands were set up in its stations around the country, available to employees and volunteers.
The new center allows Chabad of Waukesha-Brookfield, which first opened to the public in 2012, to move out of its rabbi’s house. The new center, with 8,400 square feet, is twice the size of the prior space.
“Jewish women don’t usually need an excuse to get together,” says Chanshy Majesky co-director of Chabad of North Orlando, “but, if they did, the feminine theme of the new Jewish month offers a perfect opportunity”
“It is new, it’s fun, it’s quick, it will stimulate your mind, and the best part is you won’t have to leave your home,” said Chanshy Majesky of Chabad.
The course invites participants to look deeper and discover the underlying themes and relevant life lessons that stories of the Bible were designed to convey.
Meet Moishy Kalmenson, a local Rabbi who along with his wife Chana is looking to create a warm and vibrant Jewish community center for Rockwall County known as a Chabad House.
It felt wrong to me that discrimination still exists anywhere in the world solely based on the Jewish identity of a country.
Dawn Weiler, who has family members that volunteer with Friendship Circle and LifeTown, both run by Chabad Columbus, came up with the idea to do a virtual challah bake so the community could have an opportunity to learn how to make delicious challah, even during the pandemic, according to an email from Chabad.