Chabadnik News
Until just a few weeks ago, Ira and Karen Smith and their family were looking forward to a Passover adventure. Ira’s younger sister was getting married in Las Vegas the weekend before the Jewish holiday, so the Smiths planned to fly there from their hometown of Evanston, Ill., outside of Chicago, to celebrate the nuptials, […]
Men and boys linked arms, danced in frenzied circles and kicked up their heels as a newly completed Torah was accompanied under a chuppah from Hebrew Academy of Cleveland to Congregation Zemach Zedek in Cleveland Heights March 1. The new Torah scroll was commissioned in memory of the shul’s 57-year leaders, Rabbi Zalman Kazen and […]
The most seriously injured victim of the stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey in late December has died. Josef Neumann, 72, died on Sunday afternoon. Though he remained in a coma from the time of the attack to his death, he had begun to open his eyes in February, leading to calls to […]
A special flight with 200 Israelis who were stranded in Hungary departed on Thursday from the Hungarian capital of Budapest and arrived back to Israel. The Israelis had been unable to leave Hungary since the country has closed its borders, responding to the ever-increasing coronavirus pandemic. Taking initiative in making the necessary arrangements for the flight were […]
COVID-19 has stopped people from going out, but it couldn’t stop Shmueli Goldman from having his bar mitzvah. The 13-year-old Gainesville resident celebrated his coming-of-age Thursday from the safety of his own home at the UF Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center of Gainesville. His ceremony was streamed live on Zoom Video Communications to a […]
n this multimedia mini-series, we look at Chabad’s response to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Jewish life events. In this, part two, we look at how wedding celebrations continue while adhering to social distancing policies. Shevi Katzman and Yaacov Behrman were ready to take the plunge. Yet even as they announced their engagement to […]
Rabbi Mordechai Gurary, a prominent Torah scholar who served as the rabbi of the Chevra Shas synagogue in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., for many decades, passed away on March 28 after being infected with the coronavirus. He was 84 years old. Gurary was born in Russia. His father, Mordechai, passed away before […]
A Florida campaign office for Bernie Sanders was vandalized with swastikas. A tweet Saturday from the Florida for Bernie account showed two large swastikas painted in black and the words “voting didn’t stop us last time.” It did not say where in Florida the office is located. “Didn’t know if we should share, but one […]
A New Jersey man sent Facebook messages to Gov. Phil Murphy and others threatening harm Orthodox Jews for violating state coronavirus restrictions. Anthony Lodespoto, 43, of Howell, was charged Friday with making terroristic threats during a state of emergency, law enforcement officials said in a statement. Lodespoto allegedly used Facebook’s direct messaging feature to threaten […]