Voices of Leadership Rachel Wilkes Goffstein has recently been hired as the Director of CTeen in Hallandale, Florida. She spoke with Mussi Sharfstein about her journey. What was your Jewish experience like growing up? I grew up in a conservative household, the kind where we’d eat kosher at home, but not out. My family started […]

They come from public schools, day schools, and yeshivahs, from homeschool and from no school. Fewer than half have diagnosed disabilities. Others are academically gifted, but socially challenged. Many are anxious or discouraged. And Baila Gansburg, principal of South Florida Jewish Academy (SFJA), believes in each of them. “In my interview, the first thing Morah […]

Jewish community celebrates and supports new Chabad Center One hundred and fifty community members gathered to break ground and lay the cornerstone of the new Feldman Campus for Jewish Life and the Tabacinic Chabad Center at Chabad of Clearwater, Florida. Donning personalized hardhats emblazoned with the Chabad of Clearwater logo, lead donors Marvin and Linda […]

Asks Chabad’s Partnership To Encourage Passersby To Engage In The Mitzvah Anthony Fienberg could think of no better way to honor his slain mother, Joyce Fienberg, and the 10 other victims of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh on its one-year anniversary than to invite the public to lay tefillin on the institution’s grounds. […]

The plethora of biographical books and articles about the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, have typically summarized his impact on the Jewish community by emphasizing his love and care for every individual. His voluminous correspondence, the hours he devoted to personal audiences, and his assignment of emissaries to the farthest reaches of the globe, […]

Chabad of Charlotte welcomed dignitaries and locals to the “Grandest Opening” of their stately, six million dollar campus on a balmy Sunday evening in September. At its first official event, the Epstein Family Chabad Jewish Center hosted a chic reception for adults and a concurrent children’s carnival. Over 800 people participated. The outpouring of support […]

Every year before Passover, Jewish communities help each other make ends meet. Every year before Passover, Jewish communities observe the time-honored custom to collect and distribute charity to help the needy obtain holiday provisions. Year ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe urged communities to conduct similar campaigns for the High Holidays. In celebration of its 40th year, […]

Often before key prayers, I offer a thirty-second insight or story about the verse Somewhere in the middle of the cantor’s repetition of the Yom Kippur afternoon Mussaf service, I finally get to concentrate on the prayers for a few minutes. I didn’t really have the chance to do that until now. After all, in […]

Humans have been trying to hide from G-d ever since the days of Adam and Eve. We know it can’t be done, but we try to do it anyway. In my own life, I procrastinate, letting duties of the heart pile up like unopened bills on the kitchen table. Eventually, I realize I’m just fooling […]