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Torah dedicated in Lenin’s birthplace
JTA, Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
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A Torah was dedicated in the birthplace of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
More than 500 people gathered Tuesday to celebrate the completion of the first Torah scroll for the city of Ulyanovsk, Russia, according to Chabad.org. |
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Chabad Center Offers Jewish Photo Art Calendars to the Public for Upcoming New Year
The Alternative Press - NJ, Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
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Just in time for the upcoming Jewish New Year, Chabad of SE Morris County has published a new Jewish Photo Art Calendar for the upcoming Jewish year of 5771 (2010-11), and is offering complementary calendars to the general public. |
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Pleasanton community celebrates birth of a new Torah
The Oakland Tribune - CA, Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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PLEASANTON - More than 300 community members on Sunday helped celebrate the completion of a new Torah, the first created specially for the Tri-Valley area.
Commissioned by Chabad of the Tri-Valley, work on the Torah began in February and was done by scribes in Israel and Colorado, said Rabbi Raleigh Resnick. The Torah was returned to Pleasanton, where Rabbi Moshe Liberow, of Colorado, finished the last of the Torah's more than 300,000 letters at the ceremony at the Pleasanton Senior Center. |
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The secret to Chabad’s social media successes
JTA, Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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In recent years, Chabad-run groups have done remarkably well when it comes to online philanthropy contests.
Chabad representatives were well-represented in last year’s Jewish Federations of North America Jewish Community Heroes contest. In January, Chabad’s Michigan-based Friendship Circle, an organization dedicated to helping children with special needs, won $100,000 when it came in third place in the Chase Community Giving Challenge on Facebook. Earlier this summer, 17 Chabad programs across the United States each received $20,000 in the second running of the Chase challenge. |
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New Jersey woman dies in Nepal crash
JTA, Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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(JTA) -- A Jewish woman from New Jersey died in a plane crash in Nepal on her 30th birthday.
Irina Shekhets reportedly traveled to Nepal on a spiritual journey and was heading to a hiking trip to a Mount Everest base camp when the 15-seat, twin-engine plane crashed Aug. 23 about 50 miles south of Kathmandu. Fourteen people were killed, including four Americans. |
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New Mumbai Chabad House under construction
JTA, Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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(JTA) -- Construction has begun on a new Mumbai Chabad House.
The building will include a synagogue, kosher kitchen, mikveh and educational spaces, according to a Chabad-Lubavitch official in New York.
It also will include a memorial to directors Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg and four visitors who were killed in the Nariman House in the November 2008 attacks on several Mumbai sites, including luxury hotels, a train station and a popular cafe. More than 170 people were killed in the attacks. |
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New home for Old Testament
Pleasanton Weekly - CA, Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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"In the beginning..."
These words were written in Hebrew on parchment in February in Pleasanton to inaugurate the new Torah Scroll for the Chabad of the Tri-Valley. After the first three lines were penned by members of the community with a scribe, the scroll was sent to Israel for completion. Now the Torah has been returned and is ready for dedication Sunday. |
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Shofar Factory coming to Blue Ash Kroger
Enquirer Community Press - OH, Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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Chabad Jewish Center’s Shofar Factory will offer two free presentations in the kosher department of the Blue Ash Kroger on Sunday, Sept. 5. |
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Jewish Schools Top the 'Kohl's Cares' Funding Contest
Arutz Sheva, Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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Jewish schools are topping the list in the Kohl’s Cares competition for community funding that is being circulated through the Facebook Internet social networking site.
So far, 12 of the top 20 slots have gone to Jewish schools from around the United States, and eight of those are affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement. |
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Top Ten Celebrity Moments: Chabad Telethon
The Jewish Journal - CA, Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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What do Robin Williams, Adam Sandler, James Caan, Martin Sheen, Adam Lambert, Sammy Davis, Jr., Al Gore, Jerry Lewis and Bob Saget have in common – besides show business? Each has appeared on the Chabad “To Life!” Telethon, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary show on Aug. 29, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on KTLA, with no less than CNN’s Larry King as host. |
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Garden grows to honor researcher’s memory
Red and Black - GA, Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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Situated between Cali ’n’ Tito’s and Barrow Elementary School is Chabad House, a small, neutral-colored stucco building surrounded by newly-planted blueberry bushes, ornamental flowers and a mosaic tile display.
The garden might be small, but it’s full of meaning.
“We recently moved over to this new building, and we had this yard which had some potential, but I’m not much with landscape,” said Rabbi Michoel Refson, a co-director of Chabad of Athens-UGA. |
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Chabad Leverages Social Media Presence for Big Bucks
E-Jewish Philanthropy - NY, Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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Chabad has a long history of harnessing its considerable social media influence to generate results in varied competitions. The latest, the Kohl’s Cares competition, where $10 million will be given to the top 20 schools with the most votes on Facebook. Currently, these top 20 slots are dominated by twelve Jewish schools and led by the Chabad-Lubavitch network (with 8 schools out of the 12 – see list below). The competition runs through September 3rd. |
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Chabad and Lou Gosset JR
KTLA - CA, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
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LOU GOSSET JR, HIS SON AND DONNA MILLER TALK ABOUT CHABAD TREATMENT CENTER |
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New Children’s Center Dedicated in London
E-Jewish Philanthropy - UK, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
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British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks presided over the grand-opening of the Lubavitch Children’s Centre in London’s Stamford Hill section, joining Jewish leaders and residents in hailing the new center’s support of education and child development.
“Standing here today brings back many memories of being here 40 years ago for the opening of Lubavitch House and building such positive connections with Lubavitch for which I am grateful,” Sacks said at the opening. |
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Chabad meets Napa
Jewish Journal - CA, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
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Rabbi Elchonon Tenenbaum, a 30-something Chabad rabbi fresh off the boat from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, moved to Napa Valley four years ago. The rabbi hadn’t seen many vineyards in his life, and he hadn’t drunk much kosher wine outside of the strange, sweet brew made from Concord grapes that gives kosher winemakers a bad name. |
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Jewish Music & Art Festival Planned as Start of Cultural Events at Chabad of Basking Ridge
Basking Ridge Patch - NJ, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
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The first New Jersey Jewish Music & Art Festival recently held at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge was only the first cultural event planned at the center for the upcoming year, said Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, Chabad's program director and co-organizer of the festival. Moully estimated that 600 visitors showed up to enjoy Jewish music and food and to view the work of about 20 artists at the music and art festival on Aug. 15, despite the day's on-and-off rain. |
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