By Greg David for Crain's New York
By the standards of the Hasidic Chabad community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Ben Nash was a rebel. At yeshiva, he studied the Talmud to the exclusion of all other subjects. When he returned from two years of study in Europe, the 17-year-old dropped out of school, disenchanted with the curriculum.
“I was never good at following the rules,” he says.
By Parker Michels-Boyce for the St Louis Website
The sun shined brightly in S Louis Missouri, as five hundred Jewish people from all over the community gathered together the day before Pesacch to fulfill the once every 28 years Mitzva to bless the sun. Shliach, Rabbi Yosef Landa of Chabad Greater St. Louis officiates and explains the Birchas HaChama ceremony.
By Carey Codd for CBS4 Miami
FT LAUDERDALE, FL — Richard Gold appeared at Chabad Ft. Lauderdale looking for a fresh start.
Gold had recently finished serving a prison sentence and wanted a place to pray. The Chabad Ft. Lauderdale community accepted him quickly.