Chabadnik News
The Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia awarded a former yeshivah student who was sexually assaulted by his karate teacher $804,170 in a civil case against his perpetrator and serial abuser. Manny Waks was 13 when the abuse by his former karate teacher, David Cyprys, then 20, started in 1988 while he was a student at the Yeshivah […]
The European Jewish Association is scheduled to unveil a wide-ranging action plan to fight anti-Semitism in Europe at its annual conference in Paris today (Tuesday). The plan was compiled in recent months by chairman of the EJA Rabbi Menachem Margolin and a team from the EJA, who consulted with experts, heads of Jewish communities throughout […]
Chumash Pardes with Peshat, Remez, Derush and Sod. Yeshivat HaChen together with some prominent Rabbis from Sharei Shamaim and Targum Publishers had produced a new set of Chumash Mikros Gdolos style that include 18 Meforshim from Kabbalistic/ Chassidic commentaries. ( Ari”ZL, Zohar, Besht, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Chabad – Sichos, R.NAchman of Breslov, Baal HaTania, Ben […]
A new Jewish cemetery was consecrated in Fort Myers last week under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida. Named Chava’s Garden by donors Dr. James and Betty Rubenstein in memory of Betty’s mother, Chava Rabinowitz, the cemetery has space for 200 plots. Mrs. Rubenstein, an activist in the Jewish […]
For most girls, bat mitzvah is a time to look forward to. But for 42 Israeli girls who have lost a parent – for most, a father, killed in war or from terror – coming of age could have been a miserable time. But on Feb. 17, Colel Chabad welcomed the girls to a gala […]
Grand opening held for Chabad at Ramon airport in Eilat Last Sunday Chabad of Eilat held a grand opening at the new Ramon airport in Eilat, in Southern Israel. Discussions to install a Chabad Center at the new airport began in 2017 as airport construction was underway. “The Chabad stand at Ben-Gurion is very popular […]
Giant tents unite thousands at annual gathering at the Cave of the Patriarchs On the very site where the Jewish patriarch Abraham offered food and drink to wayfarers from an open tent in the hot desert sun—standing through the ages as the picture of unstinting hospitality—Chabad of Hebron will do its best to live up […]
Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries out in force with spiritual artillery Schools and shopping centers throughout southern and central Israel, including in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, were ordered closed by the Israel Defense Forces as terror groups in the Gaza Strip fired barrages of rockets at cities and towns throughout the country following the assassination of a […]
Rosh Hashanah meal draws 50 people; 2,000 residents and visitors hear shofar Tiberias, one of Israel’s four holy cities and a destination for visitors from around the world, has welcomed a new Chabad couple, who began 5780 with a resounding start. Rabbi Yona Elimelech and Esther Malka Zilbershtrom, who arrived only a month ago with […]
Members of the Israeli Knesset and other high-ranking Israeli officials took time from their busy legislative schedules to hail the legacy of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and the work of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries as a unifying and caring force across Israel and the world. “They serve for the Jewish people and for Israel, […]