By Leslie Hart for the New York Pulse
As he plummets toward earth at 300 miles per hour after jumping out of a plane, Rabbi Infinity serenely irons a sock in freefall while expressing confidence that his parachute will open in time. “When life sends you spiraling downward, stay calm and rely on the creator of life for a smooth landing,” he says.
Whether skydiving or sifting for gold, Infinity teaches adults and children Jewish mysticism as the two-dimensional narrator of “Kabbala Toons.” He promises a limitless return for a small investment of time. “Give me one minute,’’ he says, “I’ll give you cosmic consciousness.”
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by Dvora Lakein - Lubavitch.com
Construction Workers Preparing the Armory
The non-descript building occupying a square block on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, draws little attention of passersby and local residents. But this Sunday evening, thousands will file into the Troop C Armory for the banquet session, concluding the International Conference of Shluchim.
When Lieutenant Paul Grout petitioned the Ways and Means Committee for $150,000 to house his cavalrymen, he can hardly have pictured the troops who would dine in his drill hall 109 years later.
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Without a doubt one the climaxes of each years Kinus is when all the Shluchim gather in front of 770 for the group photo, as the thousands sing in unison. This event is set to take place on Sunday morning, in less then 12 hours.
We are happy to present a special collection of the group photos spanning from the years 1984 through 2008 [less 1989 and 1990 which are missing] marking the significant growth each year!
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Hand in hand with the concurrent Kinus HaShluchim and Kinus Tzeirei Hashluchim, dozens of young Shluchim who attend The Shluchim Office’s Online School converged on Chovevei Torah's social hall on Thursday for a grand luncheon and class reunion, with many meeting their virtual classmates and teachers in person for the first time in real life.
Alongside the thousands of articles about the happenings in the Lubavitcher communities around the world, the staff at CrownHeights.info follows diligently after the new Shluchim the join the army of Shluchim around the world.
With the opening of the worldwide conference of Shluchim in New York we gathered into one article the full list of all the new Shluchim that we reported about in the last year.
At the Itamaraty Palace in Brazil Shluchim Rabbi Yosef Schildkraut and Rabbi Y. Dovid Weitman both Shluchim to Sao Palo, Brazil met with the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva and Israeli president Shimon Peres.
by Yonit Tanenbaum - Chabad.edu
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Representing 108 campuses worldwide, hundreds of university students descended on the Jewish community of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., for several days of what one participant succinctly described as a dose of spiritual “rejuvenation.”
by Daniel Lowe, Chabaduk.com
Entitled “Moving In,” Frederic Aranda’s photograph of Rabbi Yonah and Keren Blum, and their son Schneur Zalman, captures the young family in their early days at the Chabad Resource Center serving Columbia University. (Photo: Frederic Aranda)
He has won multiple awards for a portfolio that includes politicians, royalty, fashion models and film stars. He has photographed the likes as Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Ben Stiller, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is regarded by some as one of the world’s most exciting fashion and portrait photographers.
But it is the world of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and their families that forms the unlikely subject for Frederic Aranda’s first solo exhibition, “Kosherface,” which begins this week in London.
FLORIDA [CHI] — Chabad Youth Network of Florida introduced a new and exciting workshop this year. The traveling Birthday Workshop explains the importance of a Jewish name, Jewish birthday and Jewish pride. The traveling workshop was presented to many schools in South Florida and was enjoyed by hundreds of students.
MORGANTOWN, WV [CHI] — In what is believed to be an unprecedented ceremony for the federal prison system, Jewish leaders flocked to this West Virginia city Tuesday for the dedication of a Torah to be used by the detainees.
Last Wednesday, Chabad, AEPhi and AEPi joined for the Loaves of Love program at UConn. Close to 60 sorority and fraternity members crowded into the small common room of the AEPi house. They rolled out the Challah dough, braided them and added some toppings. Everyone was invited to make “one to give away, and one to keep,” said Shaindel Hecht, director of Chabad at UConn. For many it was a first in Challah baking as Elana Quiroga of UConn puts it, “I had fun making challah for the first time!”
By Michael C. Duke for the Jewish Herald-Voice
The Chai Learning Center of West Houston, located at 14133 Memorial Dr., one block west of Kirkwood Dr., is the product of a growing and spiritually hungry Jewish community on the city’s west side, explained the center’s founder and director, Rabbi Dovid Goldstein.
By Yonit Tanenbaum for Chabad.edu
The Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton, which kicks off Nov. 6 in Brooklyn, N.Y., grows with each passing year.
CROWN HEIGHTS — Hundreds of Jewish college students representing campuses around the world are making their way to New York City for the Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton, an annual weekend known both for its inspirational and educational content, and its ability to foster student connections transcending national borders.
WATERBURY, CT [CHI] — It is human nature to seek the good in even the blackest of tragedies. One would be hard pressed to find the light in the four-day terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, which killed 164 civilians and security personnel last November, including Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, a young couple running the Chabad Nariman House that is now thought to have been the target of the city-wide attack.
BEIJING, China [CHI] — Hundreds of Beijing residents and guests from South East Asia, the U.S., South America, and Europe celebrated the completion of China's third Kamhin family Sefer Torah this past Sunday. The Torah which was dedicated by the Kamhin families of Hong Kong, New York, Mexico, and France was welcomed in a lavish and joyous celebration at the new Marriot Northeast hotel in Beijing's Chaoyang District.
For more than 40,000 runners, the day was fit for running 26.2 miles in New York City: Gray skies and temperatures in the low 50s - warm enough to skip long sleeves, but cool enough that heat wasn't a factor, and Chabad of Long Island City was there to greet them.
Chabad of Safed’s Young Shluchim Yeshiva hosted a grand farbrengen to welcome its team of six shluchim for 5770 and launch the new year of learning.
By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com
NEW YORK — It’s a sophisticated group.
Roughly 93% of teenagers use the internet today, with 70% regularly accessing social networking sites such as facebook and myspace. Three out of four teens carry their own cell phones, and even more communicate via email and instant messaging.
By Chana Kroll for Chabad.org
Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, a semi-finalist in the contest, assists Consul General of Israel to the Southwest Asher Yarden in blessing the Lulav & Esrog.
When the umbrella organization of North American Jewish communities launched its new campaign to shine a spotlight on local leaders and activists, few people thought the Internet-based Jewish Community Heroes contest would have quite the impact or buzz it’s garnered for several months, least of all the 20 top vote-getters announced this month.
The JEM (Jewish Educa-tional Movement) charity basketball league's third season came to a close at The JEM Community Center (former Beverly Hills YMCA) Thursday night, where the crown was taken from the two-time reigning champion “White” team by the “Purple” team in front of more than 300 fans.
By Daniel Lowe for Chabaduk.com
ENGLAND — Six years after their arrival to serve the Jewish student population at England’s Cambridge University and provide additional services to the wider community, an independent synagogue in the college town has formally appointed Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven and Rochel Leigh as the institution’s resident rabbi and rebbetzin.
By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky for Chabad.edu
Attendees of the first-ever Northeastern Intercollegiate Shabbaton light Shabbat candles at the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life at Binghamton University. (Photo: T. Pace/Chabad of Binghamton)
Gathering together for the first-ever Northeastern Intercollegiate Shabbaton – a weekend program stressing Jewish pride and unity sponsored by area Chabad-Lubavitch centers and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation – some 500 college students bonded and shared stories of maintaining Jewish life in bastions of academia.
