5 Shluchim Consecrate a New Jewish Cemetery for the Southwest Florida Jewish Community.

Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida under the leadership of Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz consecrated a new Jewish cemetery for the Southwest Florida Jewish Community. The Cemetery is being dedicated by Dr. James & Betty Rubenstein in Memory of Betty’s mother Chava Rabinowitz & will be named Chava’s Garden. To concentrate the Garden 5 Shluchim, Rabbi […]

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Black Fire, White Fire

Although it’s a staple of the synagogue service, the reading of the Torah remains something of a mystery to many. The Torah portion is recited in a language that few congregants know well. Fewer still are familiar with what it takes to perform a proper leining, the intricate origins of the practice, or, for that […]

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Today in Jewish History: Asarah (10) B’Tevet

On the 10th of Tevet in the Hebrew year 3336 (425 BCE), the army of Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar surrounded Jerusalem’s stone walls and laid siege on the city. This was the beginning of the end of the first Beit Hamikdash; on the 17th of Tammuz, 3338, the city walls were breached, and three weeks later, […]

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Chabad of S.I. to host courses on ‘Judaism’s gifts to the world’

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Chabad of Staten Island plans to host a series of courses later this month on Judaism’s contributions to the Western world. Amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks, the Meiers Corners congregation will host the weekly, six-session course titled “Judaism’s Gifts of the World” starting Sunday, Jan. 26 at 10:30 a.m. For […]

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