Chabadnik News
Chabad of Singer Island, FL, led by Shluchim Rabbi Berel and Tzivia Namdar, has accomplished an enormous amount in their first year. Today they ask you to join their founder’s club as they aim to raise $80K. Dear Friend, Chabad Jewish community of Singer Island, FL, offers a wide array of educational, social and cultural […]
Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge tools that will allow them to teach about the Holocaust and the growing problem of Holocaust denial. Equally important was guidance on how to grapple with and counter increasing instances of antisemitism on college campuses. The emissaries hailed […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A public square in Rio de Janeiro was named for the late Hasidic leader rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson three decades after the first Chabad center was opened in Brazil’s second-largest city. Several political and Jewish community leaders attended the Wednesday ceremony to honor the legacy of Schneerson, who led the […]
On Thursday, February 14, a sculpture immortalizing the story of 3,320 students was unveiled at Chabad of Parkland. “Every student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was affected by the shooting two years ago,” says Rabbi Shuey Biston, the Chabad center’s outreach and program director. Last year, on the first anniversary of the shooting, in […]
History was made in Iceland today as celebrants danced down the streets of Reykjavik Feb. 16, to mark the first-ever completion and inauguration of a Torah scroll on the European island, following a reception last Thursday at the home of the U.S. Ambassador to Iceland. For more than 1,000 years of its recorded history up […]
As more than 3,000 women from across the globe return home from the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchos), some of the women who participated in the conference’s guest program reflected on their experiences at the five-day conference. Martha Schlenger, Santa Fe, N.M. “Thought-provoking, heartwarming, inspiring” are just some of the adjectives that […]
Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded a flight to Shanghai and then on to New York. “Until then, it wasn’t obvious what […]
“As women, we have every ability to be part of the mission and dream of the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson],” said Dini Freundlich, keynote speaker. Over 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch female leaders gathered in Brooklyn, New York for the multi-day Kinus Hashluchos, the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. omen attending come from all across […]
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 […]