It was a Power Trip like no other. Members of 10 Atlanta Chabad centers met at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport for a six a.m. flight last Wednesday. The 83 travelers, ranging in age from four months to their mid-70s, took off into the sunrise for 12 hours of Soul travel. Destination: Crown Heights. First Stop: Queens and […]
Hot Meals and Warm Jewish Spirit Uplift Stranded Passengers in Barcelona
After technical delays forced a Norwegian airline traveling from Israel to New York to land in After technical delays forced a Norwegian airline traveling from Israel to New York to land in Barcelona, Spain, more than 100 passengers found themselves stranded with nothing to eat. The passengers, returning from the Sukkot holiday in the Holy […]
Dear G-d, An Open Letter From a Jew in Pittsburgh
On Shabbat morning, October 27, 2018, Pittsburgh’s peaceful Jewish enclave of Squirrel Hill was shattered by gunshots as a crazed anti-Semite attacked worshippers at the Tree of Life congregation, killing eleven and injuring six. Reeling from the pain, Pittsburghers struggled to make sense of the tragedy that had befallen their city, and people around the […]
Talmud Completion In A San Francisco Area Sukkah Transforms Grief To Joy
Professional opportunities in the high-tech and housing industries have made the burgeoning suburban San Francisco area a magnet for many young Jews from around the world, and as such, Inon Cohen, an Israeli in his 20s, has been attending programs and events at Chabad of Contra Costa, Calif., for a number of years. Raised in […]
‘Tishrei in the Moment’: JEM’s Interactive Social-Media Season With the Rebbe
WhatsApp and Instagram add a contemporary touch to a timeless experience JFK Airport, 1988. The noise and bustle of the crowded airport would be overwhelming for some. Not so for 18-year-old Sholom, for whom the chaos seems to beckon, inviting him into a new and enchanting journey. Hours of traveling and exhaustion don’t hold him […]
Meet Hallandale’s New CTeen Directors
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 […]
Learning Leadership, Life Skills, Love At South Florida Jewish Academy
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 […]
Breaking Ground In Clearwater
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 […]
In Israel’s Holy City of Tiberias, a New Couple Arrives in Time for a New Year
Rosh Hashanah meal draws 50 people; 2,000 residents and visitors hear shofar Tiberias, one of Israel’s four holy cities and a destination for visitors from around the world, has welcomed a new Chabad couple, who began 5780 with a resounding start. Rabbi Yona Elimelech and Esther Malka Zilbershtrom, who arrived only a month ago with […]
Son of a Tree of Life Victim Says Tefillin the Best Memorial to His Mother
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. […]