East Boca Attracts First Crop of Rabbinical Students
A new rabbinical college opened its doors this month, generating a positive vibe in the trendy area of East Boca Raton, an affluent neighborhood boasting a large, but not particularly religious, Jewish...
View ArticleUniversity Students Receive Free Mezuzahs in Boca Raton
University students gathered at a South Florida Jewish center this week to receive a free case and parchment in keeping with a biblical command to inscribe verses proclaiming the Almighty’s unity “upon...
View ArticleSouth African Émigrés Building an Inclusive Australian Center
An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that...
View ArticleKansas Children Add Names to Israel Torah Project
Efforts to unite Jewish children throughout the world through the writing of a Torah scroll are taking on a uniquely local flavor in the State of Kansas, with day camps, preschools, Hebrew schools and...
View ArticleChabad on Campus Helps Cash-Strapped Students Purchase Tefillin
College students who have considered using the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin on a regular basis but were intimidated by the substantial price of the ritual items are being assisted financially...
View ArticleAfter Three Years Without, Hamburg Jews Appoint Chief Rabbi
Hamburg, Germany’s Jewish community appointed local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Shlomo Bistritzky as the city’s new chief rabbi.
View ArticleAt 77, Israeli Rabbi Becomes Oldest Director of New Chabad House
Young at heart and brimming with enthusiasm, Rabbi Sholom Ber Butman, 77, became the oldest person to open a new Chabad-Lubavitch center with the establishment of the 32nd Chabad House in Tel Aviv.
View ArticleAustralian Parliamentarians Celebrate Chanukah Before Recess
Among their last acts before their scheduled winter break, legislators in the Parliament of New South Wales hosted a public Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony with leaders from the Jewish Board of...
View ArticleFamily Research Identifies 20 Cousins All Studying at Same Israeli Yeshiva
In a world where large families are not unheard of, it’s not uncommon for a student at a Chabad-Lubavitch run yeshiva to find a cousin or two among his peers.
View ArticleSchools Closed, But Classes Go On for Shell-Shocked Israelis
With rockets firing continually into southern Israel from Gaza since last Friday, schools throughout the region are closed as children huddle in bunkers with their families and shell-shocked neighbors.
View ArticleNew Torah Honors Life of Virginia’s First Emissary
Members of Richmond’s Jewish community will be commemorating 20 years since the passing of Virginia’s first Chabad-Lubavitch emissary during a ceremony timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of...
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