When South Africa’s Rabbi David Masinter called on Stan Gordon, CEO of Cold Rock Ice Creamery, to launch his Tehillim initiative in Melbourne, the Spiritgrow stalwart was quick to get started.
More than a year ago, local Rabbi Chaim Bruk heard a fellow rabbi in Gainesville, Fla., talked about spearheading the publication of a special edition of the Psalms, or Sefer Tehillim, to be mailed to every Jewish home in Florida.
“I thought to myself, “We’re going to do that, for Montana,’” he told the Belgrade News.
Starting in 2017 with a handful of interested participants in the synagogue’s CTeen program who texted their own questions about Judaism to each other, more than 300 of them now receive twice-weekly questions through the JText trivia game.
Rabbi Yosef Konikov said people in his synagogue reached out to him asking how they can help. Now, the Chabad is sending over care packages to spread some kindness to those suffering.
The 13-year-old student at Chabad of the Main Line in Merion Station won the JEWQ International Torah Competition’s seventh-grade division on June 6. More than 2,500 contestants worldwide spread over third- through-seventh-grade divisions competed in the event.
Rabbi Eliezer Tunk, along with his wife Chana Tunk and their three children, has been appointed as the first Shluchim for the Chabad representatives of Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire.
A scribe was commissioned to begin writing a new Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) for the physical and spiritual benefit of the community, a Chabad Jewish Center of RSF news release stated.
Two young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis will be visiting Tallahassee from June 23 until July 13 as part of their summer-long community outreach training. They will be equipped with books, programming ideas, and optimistic Jewish cheer to reinforce Jewish pride and enhance Jewish education.
Out of hundreds of CTeen applicants, Shayna Solkowitz, an active member, and leader of CTeen Woodcliff Lake, a division of the Valley Chabad Teen Leadership Initiative, has been recognized in the international “8 Under 18: Yisroel Fund Leadership Awards,” which spotlights teens making a difference in their communities.
Chabad of Baka feted 13 years of service and outreach with a dinner program on June 13 (Gimmel Tamuz, the date marking the 27th anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s passing).
Called Sour on Dallas, bread enthusiasts can score olive loaves and sourdough chocolate chip cookies and towering pastrami sandwiches, all for a good cause