Rabbi Mendel Gurkow of Shaloh House Chabad of the South Area in Stoughton and Rabbi Levi Lezell of Chabad of the South Shore in Hingham joined state officials to receive a proclamation Thursday, March 29 declaring a day of Education and Sharing in honor of the 116th birthday of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of Chabad Lubavitch.

Kathmandu, where the city’s first official seder was led in 1989 by Rabbi Mendel Kastel of Jewish House – then a 20-year-old rabbinical student at yeshivah in Sydney – along with fellow student Mendel Lipskier.
This year, for the event’s 30th iteration Rabbi Kastel returned for a Pesach celebration to ­remember.

Santa Monica’s Chabad House was opened in 1972, and according to Rabbi Eli Levitansky, brother of Rabbi Isaac Levitansky, it is the only “full service Synagogue in Santa Monica.” As Rabbi Isaac spoke about “Pesach,” the Jewish word for Passover, people poured wine, shared matzah, danced and spoke and sang in Hebrew.

“What it means for us here, is what it means for the Jews around the world,” said Rabbi Asher Hecht with the Chabad Rio Grande Valley.
“The Holocaust was a horrific part of our history and one thing it teaches us is that hatred and evil is very real,” he said.

The Jewish Women’s Circle of the Chabad Center of Passaic County hosts the Queen’s Tea, celebrating the “royalty of the Jewish woman.” The tea, set for Sunday, April 15, at noon, benefits the Friendship Circle, which serves children with special needs and their families in the community.

Just before Pesach, Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County, led by Rabbi Ephraim Simon, completed its agreement to acquire Temple Beth El’s synagogue building in Hackensack, located at 280 Summit Avenue. The newly forming Chabad of Hackensack will operate initially under the auspices of Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County, and it will be led by Rabbi Mendy Kaminker, who is moving to Hackensack in June from southern New Jersey to take up the post.

Two local leaders were among 10 rabbis from Chabad Lubavitch welcomed into the White House Oval Office on March 27 by President Donald Trump, who proclaimed it National Education and Sharing Day.

Representatives of the Jewish communities on all four major Hawaiian Islands recently came together at Gov. David Ige’s office for the first time when the governor proclaimed today, “Education and Sharing Day, Hawaii.”
While it’s actually the 40th anniversary of “Education Day, USA,” it’s the first time Hawaii has officially joined it.

Chabad, the center for Jewish student life on campus, hosted a mock wedding in downtown Minneapolis at the Day Block Event Center to teach Jewish and non-Jewish students about the faith’s traditional wedding ceremony.

This Friday night, Jews around the world will be sitting around the table retelling the story of the birth of our nation. This year marks exactly 3,330 years from the first Exodus out of Egypt.

The Chabad of Yorktown held a Community Purim Party on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Vittoria’Z on the Lake in Jefferson Valley. There was a dinner, a Megillah reading, cotton candy, fresh popcorn, hamentashen and a hypnosis show by Denny More.

Celebrating the Jewish Sabbath of Shabbat, Friday, Binghamton University’s Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life (Chabad) invited between 1700-1800 students and faculty for a massive coming-together, one of the nation’s largest gathering of Hebrew students, known as Shabbat 1800 dinner