Earlier this month, I and a few other Stoneman Douglas graduates, had a meeting at Chabad at UCF.
On Presidents Day, members of the Chabad of Hunterdon CTeen group launched a partnership with the Hunterdon Helpline. Over a brunch of bagels, lox and cream cheese, the teens heard about the work which Hunterdon Helpline does for the community and the many opportunities to volunteer and help local homeless, veterans and seniors in need of assistance.
To celebrate the opening of the North Shore Jewish Art Co-op, Yitzchok Moully, a pop art artist and Chasidic Rabbi, will display his unique artwork at the launch event on Feb. 27.
As the saying goes, chicken soup is Jewish penicillin–and no one knows that better than Fraidy and Hersh Loschak, co-directors of Chabad at Rowan University, who deliver chicken soup to sick college students.
For the mayor and the governor, the attack on the Chabad of Bushwick — part of a continuing wave of anti-Semitic attacks here in recent weeks — was a chance to pick up the shards, rhetorically speaking, and stress a similar point to New York Jews: We’ve got your backs.
Ambassador Danny Danon, speaking at Chabad Naples, a Jewish community center serving Collier Country, acknowledged that Israel still has a raft of challenges on the international stage, in particular hostility from countries like Iran and Syria and other Middle Eastern and African nations.
The Annual Forum for Shluchim who serve as Rabbis of Chabad Houses throughout the capital city of Moscow, hosted about forty people this year, with each of them representing another one of the Capital City’s regions.
Three years ago, Zaklos and his congregants moved into a building on East Main Street. The transformation is incredible. And, there’s more to come.
Chabad emissaries in Seoul, South Korea, are completing the first mikveh ever built in the country. Jewish women seeking ritual bath services have thus far had to travel to China or Japan to use a mikveh.
“It’s hard for many of us to imagine that people are so poor that they cannot afford the ‘luxury’ of heat,” explained Rabbi Shmuel Lipsker, administrator for Colel Chabad, Israel’s longest running charity.
Shaya Tenenboim, rabbi at Chabad of the Emerald Coast, said his synagogue’s recent addition brought pride to the local Jewish community.
Rabbi Levi Haskelevich and Nechama Haskelevich hosted a Shabbat dinner on Friday at Penn’s Lubavitch House to advocate for inclusion and mental health awareness in conjunction with the month of February being Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month.