It was a chocolate-filled Shabbat for over dozens of families across Orange County. “Chocolate lifts everyone’s spirits,” says Chana Burston, who baked more than 60 chocolate crumb challahs for the Chocolate-themed Shabbat care packages.

So far, there are three Chabad distribution sites for fresh produce: in Berkeley, at the Schneerson Center that serves San Francisco’s Russian-speaking Jewish community, and at Chabad of S.F. in Pacific Heights. Several other Chabad houses are waiting to be approved.

If there was a year to host a popular Jewish camp program in the metro, 2020 was the year. “I know there’s families that choose not to come. They wanted to play it safe. I also had families tell me that this camp was the only thing they were going to do this summer,” she said.

The Knezevick family drove eight hours north from their home in the North East Queensland town of  Bowen to Cairns where their three sons celebrated their Barmitzvahs yesterday under the guidance of Rabbi Ari Ruben.

Chabad, known for its hyper-local Jewish outreach efforts, is sending a young New York City-bred rabbi and his family to the northwestern Pennsylvanian city to establish the group’s presence in the coming months.

Six-year-old Samson Cramer, who attends Hebrew School of the Arts at Chabad of Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch, sat captivated in the back of his mother Ashley Cramer’s SUV July 6.

Chabad Intown offers a community space for people suffering from addiction so they don’t have to struggle alone and discusses The Twelve Steps through a Jewish lens.

The first big white tent went up early in June, just southeast of where the Big Dry Creek Trail crosses under 112th Avenue.

Rabbi Benjy Brackman said he was unsure of how Chabad of NW Metro Denver was going to handle its camps for the summer of 2020, with the added burdens of COVID-19 and social distancing in place.

And, as if to confirm his suspicions, the Broomfield elementary school where he planned to host his signature summer camp, Camp Kind, announced that the space would be unavailable.

While official celebrations for the 20-year anniversary have been postponed due to the pandemic, a celebratory dinner in Melbourne is on the cards for a couple of months’ time.

This, then, might be known as the year Rabbi Yossi Feller blossomed. He is preparing to move up Route 79 to Pittsburgh’s North Hills with his wife, Leah, to launch a new Chabad location in Cranberry Township, Butler County.

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