An intriguing monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah erected during Hanukkah by Chabad Jewish Center of the Florida Keys & Key West. Billed as “the nation’s southernmost menorah,” the gimmick is just one way that Rabbi Yaakov Zucker attracts Jews among the 2.5 million tourists who flock to the Keys annually.
Before the Israeli baseball team improbably made the Olympics, they came to Japan for the World Baseball Classic. They left after a meal they would never forget.
For decades, the island nation’s Jewish community, numbering between 500 and 1,000, has come together in small makeshift spaces for services and social events but has lacked a large central meeting place
As part of Friendship Circle of Cleveland’s plan to expand its services, Rabbi Yosef Peysin was named its new director of youth engagement.
“I had just finished my Ph.D. in applied behavior analysis and I was working as a special education teacher as well as conducting field research. I also have experience as a rabbi building Jewish community, so I intended to come here and work in Jewish education.”
Rabbi Shimon Margolin partnered with nearly a dozen of Chabad’s Gan Israel day camps around the Bay Area. The camps contribute 20 percent toward the cost of the grant, which provides one free week of Jewish summer camp to each child.
Sunday, the community held a “siyum Torah” or a completion of the Torah ceremony where the last lines were ceremoniously filled in by a rabbi and then carried under a “chuppah,” or marriage canopy in a parade to the synagogue.
South Dakota has the smallest Jewish population in the country. But the community has temporarily grown as eight rabbinical students tour western South Dakota.
For decades he memorized virtually verbatim the speeches and discourses of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson and meticulously compiled them into about 150 volumes.
Cameron Kholos, a Jewish student at the University of Colorado Boulder, had been taking martial arts for more than 10 years and wanted to teach other Jewish students self-defense.
So When Rabbi Yisroel Wilhem and his wife, Leah, co-directors of the Rohr Chabad Center at the University of Colorado, shared during a student Shabbat dinner that they were starting a new Krav Maga program, including food and discussion, and they needed a volunteer to lead it, the 20-year-old’s hand shot up.
Houston teen Yoel Cin is one of four young adults riding their bicycles cross-country this summer to help raise money and awareness for the Friendship Circle, the Jewish special needs children’s organization.
Director and Co-Founder of Friendship Circle selected as honoree for her efforts to provide friendship and inclusion for individuals with disabilities
18-year-old Elie Kligman became the first Jewish player to be drafted by a major league team with the understanding that he would never play on Shabbat.