Toledo Blade
Rabbinical students Leibel Kudan, left, and Bentzion Shemtov knock on the door of an apartment on Sylvania Avenue in Toledo to offer religious education and materials.
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by Krystal Mackenzie - The Royal Gazette
Taking a break: Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his
brother Rabbi Levi Margolin enjoy a coffee at Rock
Island during their stay in Bermuda.
brother Rabbi Levi Margolin enjoy a coffee at Rock
Island during their stay in Bermuda.
Such is how Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his brother Rabbi Levi Margolin introduce themselves. They are participants in the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Programme, and have been visiting the Jewish Community of Bermuda since Tuesday.
The aim of the programme is to travel to remote, isolated Jewish communities where they introduce a vibrant Jewish experience to the local population. Through personal encounters with families and individuals, they inspire meaningful exploration and celebration of Jewish life, identity and traditions. You literally see the Jewish heritage accessible to Jewish people worldwide.
By David Jacobs for the Reno Gazette-Journal
Rabbis Yosef Silverstein, left, and Shalom Cunin are part of a traveling rabbi program. Photo/Tim Dunn/RGJ.
With the High Holy Days approaching, two young rabbis are visiting the Reno area to bring Jewish life to residents.
Rabbi Yosef Silverstein, 24, and Rabbi Shalom Cunin, 23, are in town from Brooklyn, N.Y., through the international Roving Rabbi program of Chabad, a movement within Jewish tradition.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Levi Stein (Oak Park, MI) and Rochel Leah Hurwitz (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
by Chana Kroll - Chabad.org
Rabbis Yehuda Kirsch, left, and Levi Pekar, prepare to take another group of volunteers from Manali, India, to search for missing American-Israeli backpacker Amichai Shtainmetz.
After a grueling search of all possible routes between the mountainous villages of Khira Ghanga and Bunbuny in northern India, rescuers have shifted focus in their mission to find Amichai Shtainmetz, the 24-year-old American-Israeli backpacker who disappeared more than two weeks ago.
16-year-old Ethan Berg never imagined he would celebrate his bar mitzvah with two New York rabbis inside the walls of a military chapel on Guam. “It was very meaningful. I've never had that. Interesting experience. It was so beautiful,” he said.
A local chapel was dedicated to members of Jewish faith by the US Navy and the Air Force in 1976. Now the two Rabbis that are here today from Brooklyn, New York are hoping to infuse some fire and a little spark into the Jewish community on base locally.
By Carole Mikita for KSL.com
SALT LAKE CITY — From New York City to San Francisco and back again in a van, the traveling troupe is three young rabbis in training.
These young men came through Salt Lake City because they are members of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, and Rabbi Benny Zippel of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah welcomed them. We found them meeting and greeting downtown.
MANALI, India [CHI] — Yesterday marks three years since Commander Roei Klein with the cry of “Shemah Yisroel” saved his fellow soldiers by leaping on a live grenade, his body taking most of the blast. Seven other courageous soldiers from Golani Brigade 51 died on that tragic day defending the people and land of Israel.
By Susan Olp for the Billings Gazette
JAMES WOODCOCK/Gazette Staff
Leibel Kahanov, left, and Ephraim Zimmerman
are both rabbis and are traveling Montana, talking
with local Jews and encouraging them in their faith.
Leibel Kahanov, left, and Ephraim Zimmerman
are both rabbis and are traveling Montana, talking
with local Jews and encouraging them in their faith.
The two young men are not hard to spot. They wear identical black pants and white dress shirts, yarmulkes - or skullcaps - on their heads and long, curly, dark-brown beards.
Kahanov, 22, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Zimmerman, 23, of Chicago, are members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one branch of Orthodox Judaism, which has its headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Both are rabbis who study at Central Chabad Yeshivah in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Chabad” is a Hebrew acronym for the expression “wisdom, intelligence and knowledge” - words that describe the theology of the movement. Lubavitch is a town in White Russia, now Belarus, where the movement was based for more than a century.
The Spokesman-Review
Rabbis Mendy Singer, top, and Mendel Dalfin are spending time in Spokane, meeting people and educating them about their branch of Orthodox Judaism, as part of their rabbinical studies.
SPOKANE, WA — An hour before the newspaper interview, Rabbi Mendy Singer and Rabbi Mendel Dalfin e-mail the protocol for shaking hands: They do not shake the hand of any woman, even if the woman doing the interview is old enough to be their mother.
They meet for the interview at a Starbucks on Spokane's South Hill. They have been in town for two weeks as part of the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Program, a program designed to introduce “unaffiliated” Jews with the history and rituals of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidic Judaism.
Baila Olidort - Lubavitch.com
There will be seders in Mumbai this Passover.
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students arriving from New York in the days before the holiday, hit the ground running. The city’s streets are hot and stuffy and crowded. People are friendly but trust is tricky. For security reasons, publicity for the seders is by word of mouth only.
As Pesach draws nearer and the streets are abuzz with an entire community preparing for the holiday, 570 Bochurim are leaving the comfort of their homes and families for the Seder nights to fly all over the world and conduct Sedorim for Jews who otherwise wouldn’t be celebrating Pesach at all.
This group left earlier in the afternoon and are all heading to Ukraine to conduct the Sedorim across the country.
The Merkos Shlichus office is pleased to announce that registration is in full gear for Pesach Merkos Shlichus 5769. Bochrim that are interested in Merkos Shlichus can sign up at MerkosShlichus.com
Registration will close on the 16th of Adar, March 12th so please make sure to sign up on time.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehoshua Schreibman (Highland Park, NJ) and Rivka Shaffer (Baltimore, MD) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
By Joshua Runyan
Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students erected a menorah made out of tiki torches at the top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea.
MAUNA KEA, HI — Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students erected a menorah at the summit of the tallest mountain in the world, driving a line of torches into the ground as a couple of tourists walked past.
Denesha Whyte - Antigua SUN
ST JOHNS, Antigua — Two Rabbis; Yosef Chaim Laima Barber and Moshe Katz are visiting Antigua and Barbuda under an annual Jewish outreach programme.
The programme falls under the umbrella of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which is geared at bringing Jews closer to their heritage.
by The Garden Island
Stock photo - Rabbis Pinchas Taylor and Berel Brafman.
KAUAI, HI — Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis will be on Kaua‘i through Aug. 17 as part of a summer-long community outreach training. They will be equipped with books and programming ideas with the intent to reinforce Jewish pride and enhance Jewish education.
Jordan Jurkowitz - Jewish AZ
Shalom Goldberg, left, and Levi Eisenberg
recently spent a week visiting Jewish
inmates at Arizona prisons as part of The
Aleph Institute's National Summer Visitation
Program.
recently spent a week visiting Jewish
inmates at Arizona prisons as part of The
Aleph Institute's National Summer Visitation
Program.
Levi Eisenberg, 22, from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Shalom Goldberg, also 22, from Toronto, met in Arizona on July 6. They rented a car and drove to various prisons around the state, visiting Jewish inmates. After their week in Arizona, they traveled to New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.
Pacific Daily News
Visiting rabbis: Rabbi Shmulie Hecht, left, and Rabbi Dave Loksen at the Pacific Islands Club Resort garden on July 31. (Vuong Duong/For Pacific Daily News)
The Guam Jewish community is receiving a visit from two rabbis.
Rabbi David Loksen and Rabbi Shmulie Hecht, of the Brooklyn, New York-based Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Community Enrichment Program, are currently volunteers with Chabad Hawaii, which sponsored their visit to the island.
As we pulled up to the address on our list we were greeted by a man.
“Hello, Rabbis in Riverside geveld” the man said.
“Hi My name is Chaim and this is Mendy” I said.
“I am Shmuel, Shmuel Kahn” he said with a smile.
By Baruch Davidson and Pinny Raitman – RovingRabbis.com/Chabad.org
Eric is a proud Jew who was raised in South Africa. After living in Israel for eight years, he moved to Ireland where he works as an anesthesiologist. A few years back, he bought a pair of Tefillin from the roving rabbis which he has been putting on every weekday since. Of course, he was excited to meet with us, despite the fact that he had other company scheduled for that evening.
RIVERSIDE, CA [CHI] — Going door to door can get old fast. A list of Riverside residents with Jewish sounding names is probably not the most ideal way to find a Jew in need. It does work though. After putting a route together on the computer we went to visit the Bergs, Khans, Steins and the likes hoping to find someone Jewish and at home. Our knocking paid off this afternoon. We came to a house and knocked on the door. This is where the pitch is. “Hi, my name is...... and we are..... and ...... would you like to do a Mitzvah?!!” Hesitantly Mr. Loeb opens the door and asks “what kind of Mitzvah can I do?” “Well, Tefillin is a great choice, it's quick, easy, and I can guide you through it.” “Tefillin, wow I haven't seen those since I was Bar-Mitzvahed 45 years ago in Anaheim.” So we helped him with the Tefillin and Brochos, but the Shema was a breeze as he remembered his father saying it, it brought tears to his eyes. “I'll never forget these words as long as I live,” he said.
