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N.J.’s legal community studies intersection of justice and Jewish Law
The first names on Rabbi Shalom Lubin’s invitation list were scribbled on a napkin. Lubin, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Southeast Morris County in New Jersey, was leading a lunch-and-learn with three or four people around the table, and he wanted th...
Gomel, or Homel, was among the first Chabad towns. More than two centuries later, a Chabad couple returns
On the night of Shemini Atzeret, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kot got ready to dance with the Torah, expecting to dance alone. Among most Chassidic groups, including Chabad-Lubavitch, the joyous dancing with the Torah known as hakafot takes place on Shemini Atze...
Reykjavik’s Beit Shvidler Jewish Center is first in country’s history
“We dreamed of this moment for years,” Rabbi Avraham Feldman told the crowd packed into the brand-new center on July 7. “And now, we are sitting in this dream that has become reality.” The dream in question is the Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland, a...
How a dying man’s plea set in motion a plan that was finally completed last month
The man asked Rabbi Shlomi Tabib for one thing as he lay dying of Stage 4 lung cancer: Make sure there was a Jewish cemetery in Taiwan by the time it was going to be needed again. Tabib couldn’t make it happen in time for the patient. The man, a longtime ...
During soccer’s biggest tournament, Chabad centers are hosting hundreds of Jewish fans across North America
Jacobo Ben-Yosef had heard that New York City was exciting and vibrant. He had not expected the Jewish scene to be the same. “It was life-changing for me to look around the room, with Manhattan’s skyline in the background, and see proud Jews from around t...
As Chabad of Central Africa marks 35 years, emissaries from 11 countries gather in Kinshasa
It took some of the conference-goers two flights and a layover in Europe just to get there. One flew from his home in Abuja, Nigeria to Paris and then on to Kinshasa, the capital and largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Another took the A...
The ancient name given to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, long before King Solomon built his Temple there.
Homecoming for Russian-speaking Jews in Sunny Isles Beach
When Evelyn Raynshteyn and her family moved from Brooklyn, N.Y., to South Florida in 2004, she began looking for a community for Jews of Eastern European heritage. She found it at the Chabad Russian Center of Sunny Isles Beach. It wasn’t large. Raynshteyn...
The Aleph Institute ensures Jewish inmates are able to celebrate the Festival of Freedom
Each spring, Rabbi Mendy Katz of Bal Harbour, Fla., spends a few weeks in a northern New Jersey shipping warehouse. As the director of outreach programs for the Aleph Institute, Rabbi Katz oversees the logistics for delivering hundreds of shipments of Pas...
Lev Chabad’s 500 volunteers bring the holiday to bedsides in parking garages
“Israel’s hospitals have gone underground.” That is how Rabbi Levi Mendelsohn, director of Lev Chabad, opened a conversation with Chabad.org this week. All above-ground hospital floors have been evacuated, he explained, with staff converting parking garag...
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