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Chabad of Peoria Celebrates Decade of Outreach

It was with warmth and love that the Peoria community came to celebrate with Chabad Jewish Center of Peoria and of Bradley University, as they celebrated 10 years this past Sunday, November 20. The 10 year anniversary was commemorated with a gala dinner that was not only beautiful and elegant, but an uplifting and inspiring experience to all who attended.The ...

Chabad of North Brooklyn Forges Community Ties

On Sunday, February 26, an eclectic mix of 150 guests, among them artists, young professionals and black-hat Hasidic Jews gathered in a Williamsburg art gallery to celebrate the growth and expansion of Chabad of North Brooklyn. As kosher bruschetta made the rounds, the urban crowd admired contemporary art hanging from the white-washed walls as well as joyful photographs of young ...

Chabad of Fox Chapel Holds Gala Dinner

Chabad of Fox Chapel held its 3rd Annual Spark Gala at the Marriot City Center hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, March 17.About 250 people came to salute “inspiration, community and vision” as perpetuated by the dedicated work of Shluchim Rabbi Ely and Shternie Rosenfeld.Since its inception in 2001, Chabad of Fox Chapel has established more then 30 social, ...

Chabad of Fox Chapel Helps CTVP Pack Gifts for Terror Victims

Chabad Terror Victims Project welcomed a group of tourists from the Chabad of Fox Chapel, under the leadership of Rabbi Ely and Shterny Rosenfeld. The group was in israel on a Chabad Israel Mission organized by Shalom Stark of ShalomIsraelTours.com and came to volunteer their time to help CTVP pack hundreds of gifts for victims of terror and wounded IDF ...

Chabad of Central Africa To Open New Centers in Kenya and Nigeria

Chabad of Central Africa will be appointing full-time, permanent representatives to Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria under the auspices of Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chabad’s representative to the region, in conjunction with Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters in New York.The rabbis will work in cooperation with the local Jewish communities of these respective cities.The announcement, greeted by thunderous applause, was made by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman ...

Chabad-Lubavitch Slams Silence of Lithuanian Jews

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has issued a rare condemnation, slamming the Jewish leadership of Lithuania for its silence in the face of media anti-Semitism.The fiery statement came in the wake of a report published by a Lithuanian tabloid newspaper targeting the country’s Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in a misleading attack article on paying one’s taxes.The newspaper, Vakaro Zionios, ran a front page photo of ...

Chabad-Lubavitch Emissary Reaches 4,500 Circumcisions

Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Yaacov Gaissinovitch last week presided over the 4,500th circumcision he has carried out in the Ukraine.In addition to carrying out the mitzvah (commandment) of brit mila (circumcision) as a professional mohel (ritual circumciser), the rabbi is also a medical doctor, according to an announcement released by the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk.Gaissinovitch is a resident of Donetsk, Ukraine, ...

Chabad House Offers Familial Feel for Jewish Students

Seven and a half years ago, Rabbi Mendel Matusof and his wife Rebbetzin Henya Matusof dedicated their lives to providing the Jewish community at the University of Wisconsin a home away from home.To do this, the Matusof family took over operations of the Chabad House, a Jewish community center serving the needs of the Jewish student population by providing them with a healthy social ...

Chabad Group Gives Soldiers 50,000 Matzahs

A Chabad-Lubavitch group has donated 50,000 specially-prepared matzas to the IDF in order to allow every single soldier to fulfill the mitzvah (positive command) of eating matzah in the best possible way.The matzahs donated are what are known as shemurah matzah (matza shemurah in Hebrew). Regular matzahs are made of flour that did not touch water until the baking process, ...

Chabad Finds New Home at Quebec Ski Resort

Mont-Tremblant is known worldwide as a ski centre and après-ski hot spot, but this famous Laurentian Mountain resort is actually a popular holiday destination year-round.The rolling mountains and picturesque lakes and rivers provide an ideal setting for summer activities such as cycling, hiking, golfing and canoeing.About 90 minutes north of Montreal, the resort village, with its many hotels, spas, boutiques ...

Chabad Father-Son Team Looks Toward Expansion

At the start of their careers, young Chabad rabbis and their wives typically set out for a wilderness to be tamed: a Jewish area lacking a Chabad presence. There they drive in their stakes and go to work. As they push back the frontier, other, younger couples arrive to continue the expansion. That’s what Chabad emissaries, or shlichim, do.Then there’s ...

Chabad Couple Honored at Bet-El Gala Dinner

On an extraordinarily warm December evening, more than a thousand supporters of Bet El Yeshiva Center came to the Marriot Marquis Hotel in New York City to celebrate a gathering of the generations, at the Friends of Beit El Yeshiva annual Gala, Sunday, December 4. Honorary Chairman Eugen Gluck, as always charming and embracing, welcomed a packed auditorium of supporters ...