“The Lubavitch Center was created for the Jewish community; it was not created as a business. But we started to realize that we are not going to compete with Amazon, and something had to change. So how could we best continue our mission to serve the community? What could we do better? We could be who we are, but better,” he stated.
Seth Fleishman didn’t set out to teach a lecture series when he was giving history lessons to his two oldest children in place of lullabies or bedtime stories. Rabbi Yale New of Chabad of Toco Hills encouraged Fleishman to share his Jewish knowledge, and the rest is history. Now in its second season, the “World History by a Jew” lecture series takes place at CTH, which is housed in Torah Day School.
“A Magical Purim” is Chabad of Arlington Heights’s creative twist to this year’s community celebration of Purim, the holiday commemorating the Jewish people’s salvation in Persia of old.
Each year Chabad of Orange County holds a grand Purim celebration that is open to all. This year‘s theme is “Purim in the Jungle,” which will include face-painting, a drum circle, a jungle feast, Purim baskets for everybody, banana splits, jungle crafts, Megillah reading, and, of course, lots and lots of hamentashen.
Today, March 13, marks twelve years from when my wife Chavie and I landed in Bozeman, making it our home. I’m a Brooklyn boy and Chavie is a San Antonio cowgirl, and while we both visited and loved Big Sky Country, moving here permanently was a very new, and perhaps different, experience for us both.
The combination of Roots as well as the Chabad Bat Mitzvah Club Programme from New York offered at the Chabad of Sandton’s Bat Mitzvah Club makes for a fun and, at the same time, serious programme through which bat mitzvah girls get ready for their big day.
Friendship Circle of Atlanta holds its third annual Walk4Friendship March 24. It’s the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser of the year to celebrate friendship and inclusion while raising awareness about its programs for people with special needs.
Around 200 students gathered in the Student Center Ballroom for dinner and a ceremony hosted by Rowan Chabad last Friday. Chabad hosts Shabbat dinner every Friday at the Chabad, house located at 307 Hamilton Road.
Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Landa, the last Chabad yeshiva student to survive the Holocaust by escaping to Shanghai has died.
Friendly, open and inclusive of all types of Judaism is a familiar refrain when it comes to reviews of the Chabad Jewish Center. It not only offers its congregants daily services, a Hebrew school and religious classes but even has a culinary club.
Over 100 students and community members spent part of Monday night at Binghamton University to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Before the war came, the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk was home to a thriving community of 15,000 Jews. This was a place where organisations like Chabad, Israel’s Jewish Agency and the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), among others, were all active.