Family and friends gathered at the Beachwood home of Leonardo and Karen Polonsky on Nov. 24 to add the final otiot, or letter, to a Torah headed to Waxman Chabad Center.
A glimpse of emissaries and the communities they serve in the United States and around the world.
Sunday evening marked the culmination of the annual International Conference of Shluchim, attended by most of the 5,000 Chabad shluchim living in over 100 countries around the world along with some of their baal habatim.
When women come together in their differences to build one another up, that is where positive change occurs. This kind of reality came to light at the Women, Religion, and Empowerment Panel, an interfaith conversation and celebration held by the Common Grounds Club.
Since arriving in 2018, Schneur Raitport and his wife Yehudis have set up a synagogue and Myanmar’s first kosher restaurant.
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is keynote speaker to throngs of rabbis from some 100 countries at annual conference
Jewish emissaries from Rwanda, Slovakia, Turkey and around the world descend on Brooklyn for five-day event which culminated in gala dinner
Chabad Shluchim Gather for Annual Photo Outside 770
Lamar Odom was the main speaker at a benefit held by the non-denominational organization and the Au Contraire Film Festival. And the Cocktail des présidentes et des femmes leaders offered a relaxed networking opportunity.
On Yom Kippur this year, Elliot Cosgrove—rabbi of one of the world’s largest Conservative congregations—began his sermon by speaking of the final two rebbes of the Lubavitcher Ḥasidim, and their unlikely decision to encourage their followers to find secular and unaffiliated Jews and encourage them to do just one mitzvah
Rabbi Berel Lazar’s mother was eager for grandchildren. So she gave her 25-year-old son an ultimatum: He could return to his beloved Jewish outreach work in Russia if — and only if — he got married.
habad Jewish Center of RSF held its Bar Mitzvah Anniversary celebration Nov. 12 with hundreds of guests and honorees in attendance at The Inn at RSF.