After a successful pilot program this year, Twinsburg Chabad will open a Sunday/Hebrew School this coming 2018-19 school year, for grades 1-4.
Both the Twinsburg Chabad congregation and the school meet in the Gary Drive home of Rabbi Mendy Greenberg and his wife. For larger worship or High Holy Days services, the congregation meets in the Twinsburg Community Center.
eeping kids healthy and happy during the long summer months can be a challenge. Having a sick child in the hospital over the summer can multiply that challenge manyfold.
Recognizing these obstacles, Colel Chabad, Israel’s longest continuously running charity, organizes summer camps in two of Israel’s hospitals, Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot and Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. Yes, summer camp!
On Thursday, June 14, Tenafly Chabad Academy (TCA) recognized a significant milestone with the graduation of its first eighth grade class. The eight girls who comprised the graduating class each delivered her own personal speech to the proud families, friends, rabbis, teachers, administrators and board members.
If Charlotte Guedalia, a product design sophomore at Drexel University, wants to go to the Chabad serving Drexel on Shabbat, she has to figure out a way to finagle a key necklace.
“The eruv as it was, as it is now, doesn’t reach Chabad, which creates this awkward dynamic [that] students, especially Orthodox ones who are conscious of the need of an eruv, didn’t have a way to carry their key to Chabad on Shabbat or carry their IDs or anything like that,” said Guedalia, who considers herself modern Orthodox.
Lubavitch shluchim move to all sorts of exotic places in their effort to ignite Jewish souls around the globe. But there’s exotic, and then there’s very exotic. Shanghai, China, can safely be said to fall into the latter category.
Almost 100 Chabad rabbis from across the UK came together in the picturesque village of Market Bosworth for a two-day conference last week.
The record 92 delegates attended the UK National Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Rabbis, where they took part in 22 lectures and workshops about modern Jewish life.
A few days into their visit to Montana, Mendel Weiss and Tzemach Shemtov said they’ve met with 15 families in Bozeman and Billings.
Over the next few weeks, the rabbinical students hope to check names off of a list of hundreds as they criss-cross the state sharing the Jewish tradition with others.
Rabbi Nochum Kurinsky of Ponte Vedra Beach recently embarked on a 600-mile bicycle ride down Florida’s east coast to share the message of “Health Body, Health Soul” more than a year after receiving a health scare. The ride included stops in South Florida.
Rabbinical students Shmuly Butler and Mendel Mintz traveled from New York City to spend four weeks in 26 different cities in Utah to encourage the community and print hundreds of copies of the Jewish book, “The Tanya.”
More than 350 guests celebrated at Valley Chabad’s gala, “Celebrate 18. Celebrate Life,” on June 5 at the Rockleigh Country Club. The party marked the 18th year of Valley Chabad’s community-based services to the Pascack Valley and Saddle River communities, and it honored key members for their support of its educational and outreach programs.
Rabbi Michoel Goldin, the youth director at Chabad of Teaneck, has created a new project he has named “The Young Jewish Professionals of Teaneck” to address a need in the community for targeted programming for this in-between age group.
Dressed in their finest clothing and surrounded by family and close friends, 36 orphaned girls celebrated their Bat Mitzvahs together in an emotional and festive event hosted by Colel Chabad charity organization.