Chabadnik News
Holocaust Survivors, Both in Their 90’s Get Married in Israel An elderly Jewish Russian couple got married at the Chabad synagogue for Soviet immigrants located on Herzl Street in Haifa. The groom is 96 years old and the bride is 91. They are both Holocaust survivors. Both became widows during the Holocaust. The groom was […]
Tuesday Chabad‘s weekly Bagels Lox and Teffilin starting at 8:00 am. Chabad’s weekly class featuring teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe starts at 12:00 pm. Wednesday Hillel‘s Bagel Table offers bagels, schmear, lox and fixings every week from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm between the VAC and Atlas buildings. Chabad is hosting a text-based Talmud study […]
On Thursday, 99-year-old Marthe Cohn told the story of how she changed history. Cohn’s talk, organized by the Scharf Family Chabad House, was held in a crowded McCosh Hall 50 on Feb. 27. Pointing to medals displayed in front of her, she described how she survived the Holocaust, spied for the French Army, and obtained […]
Miriam Popack, an educator, a warm advocate for Torah Judaism and a force behind the annual midwinter convention of the Lubavitch Women’s Organization (N’shei uBnos Chabad) since the gathering’s inception in 1962, passed away on Jan. 31. She was 95 years old. She was born Miriam Altein, the fourth child of immigrants in New York, […]
“We cannot be disconnected from the history of anti-Semitism, and we should be very careful of hate speech,” said Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who recognized that “there is a new form of anti-Semitism, which is anti-Zionism.” (February 26, 2020 / JNS) Some 250 participants and European leaders gathered in Paris at the European Jewish […]
Chef Ricardo Diaz will host a discussion about becoming restaurateur 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27 at the Whittwood Branch Library in Whittier. Diaz is the owner of three Whittier businesses: Colonia Publica, Bizarra Capital and Poet Gardens. Diaz’s restaurant Colonia Publica was rated as one of the top 100 restaurants in the Los Angeles area […]
One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, Accidental Talmudist There I will meet with you, and I will impart to you — from above the cover, from between the two cherubim that are on top of the Ark of the Pact — all that I will command you concerning the Israelite people. -Exodus 25:22 Rabbi […]
Yisrael Katzover, a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels was interviewed by Chabad many years ago about his many encounters throughout the years with the Lubavitcher Rebbe to receive advice and instructions about his work. One of the stories he told was a fascinating encounter […]
Before becoming the president of the Ithaca College chapter of Chabad on Campus, Elias Elliot grew up in an untraditional Jewish household. His family celebrated Christmas and Easter. The only true connection Elliot had to Judaism was the knowledge of his Jewish ancestors and his great grandfather’s tefillin, which are a set of small black […]
The translation from Hebrew to English took world renowned Rabbi Steinsaltz 8 years to complete. For the first time ever, a book of Talmud will be accepted into the US’s National Library of Congress, the largest library in the world. The book of Talmud, translated by world renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz, will be […]