Friday, / April 26, 2024
Posts by: Dvora Lakein
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“Defiance” Survivors Help Send Kids To Camp
(lubavitch.com) Until he was three and a half, Isaac lived with 10,000 other Jews in the Nowogrodek ghetto. His father Zev Wolfe, a successful farmer,…
A Couple of Volunteers
(lubavitch.com) He met Sheva and her husband over a traditional Shabbat dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. By the time dessert was cleared, Sheva had…
The Good Rabbi At Sydney’s Crisis Centre
(lubavitch.com) When 19-year old Jonathan failed at a suicide attempt in 2008 and ended up in the emergency room of a busy Sydney hospital, Rabbi…
Levi’s Torah
(lubavitch.com) Levi Yitzchak Wolowik was nine years old when he passed away suddenly on Shabbat morning, February 28th. The son of Rabbi Zalman and Chanie…
The Graduates: Jewish Alumni To Keep Ties To Chabad
(lubavitch.com) Mortarboards and congratulations will sail across the air at university campuses nationwide throughout May, as students take the big leap from studying the unknown…
Chabad at AIPAC: A Capitol Experience
(lubavitch.com) Chabad representatives from around the nation were among the 6500 guests at this year’s AIPAC Conference, which concluded Wednesday, in Washington D.C. “Lobbying for…
Chabad’s Rohr JLI Offers Retreat to Self
(lubavitch.com) The world’s most comprehensive adult Jewish education program will host the fourth annual National Jewish Retreat this August. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will…
No Cop-Out: Minnesota Police Stand in Solidarity with Israel
(lubavitch.com) A rabbi, a priest, and 15 police officers step off an airplane at Ben Gurion Airport. This sounds like the first line of a…
Diamond in the Rough
South Africa’s Jewish Community  (lubavitch.com) It is early on Monday morning and the bus is rolling into the Chabad House parking lot on Aintree Avenue.…
Amid Swine Flu Panic, Chabad in Mexico Remains Open
(lubavitch.com) A deadly strain of the Swine Flu, originating in Mexico and erupting in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, has caused death,…
Remembering Every Day
(lubavitch.com) “They survived and gave us a future. We are here because of them,” explains Rabbi Tzvi Tauby. “Their sacrifices affect our lives every day.”…
At Pratt University, Students Design Chabad’s Jewish Center
(lubavitch.com) If students build it, students will come. Construction is set to begin on a 2,000 square foot storefront which will serve the 5,000 Jewish…
Expelled From Russia, Chabad Rabbis Lead By Remote
(lubavitch.com) Following their recent expulsion from Russia, several rabbis have been working across phone lines and emails guiding their communities in Passover preparations. Chabad representatives…
SOBER SEDER: Chabad Seders For Recovering Addicts
(lubavitch.com) Next Wednesday, 100 recovering addicts will celebrate the holiday of freedom in Boca Raton, Florida. Like Jews everywhere, they’ll raise their glasses four times…
Passover Kitchen Confessions: Behind the Scenes With Chabad on Campus
(lubavitch.com) The refrigerator truck is winding its way north along the six-hour route from Los Angeles to Berkeley. Inside are 250 pounds of chicken, 100…
Take Two: Chabad at the Movies
(lubavitch.com) When the lights dimmed at Congregation B’nai Avraham Sunday night, the audience settled in with fresh popcorn and coke for a night at the…
Survivor of the Gulag, Reb Mottel the Schochet, 97
Known affectionately as "Reb Mottel the Shochet”, he was the sole ritual slaughterer, or shochet, in Moscow during the last two decades of Communist rule.
Purim Break for Jewish Inmates
(lubavitch.com) Along with the three-cornered hamantashen and heaps of candies, Purim gives children one raucous day during which they can express their alter egos in…
Mezuzah Mystery
(lubavitch.com) According to a new report leaked Friday by London’s Jewish Chronicle, properties bearing mezuzahs on their doorposts are selling for 10,000 pounds more than…
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