Merkos Shlichus: Cooking Croation-Style
By Yisroel Karasik & Rafi Andrusier
From Glasgow to Sydney, from Cape town to Vancouver, we meet Jews from across the globe in the historic 350-year-old synagogue of Dubrovnik, “the Pearl of the Adriatic.”
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Roving Rabbis in Montreal
Rabbinical students Ephraim Oster and Yisroel Sternbach just completed an intense 2 week visit to Town of Mont Royal, Montreal. Under the guidance of Chabad TMR director Rabbi Moshe Krasnanski they divided their day between appointments with local Jewish businessman and family visitations.
Merkos Shlichus: Chess, Cows and Some Chocolate
By Dovber Grunblatt & Levi Shemtov
Meet Gabi, champion of “chess sub-18” in South America. He's only 11 years old, and he has beaten professional chess players 7 years his senior. He's a bright boy. And he's Jewish too.
Merkos Shlichus in Surrey Comes to an End
Roving Rabbis Yosef Schtroks and Yaakov Kotlarsky, are coming to the end of there two weeks of Roving out in Surrey, BC, Canada. Over the last two weeks they have encountered Jews of all stripes and colors.
Roving Rabbis Pay Visit to Marquette
Following the commandment to visit and share their faith with other Jewish people, rabbis in training Aharon Kupfer, left, and Boruch Gancz, both of New York City, visited Marquette this week as part of the outreach required by their religious training. They will also be visiting Mackinac City and Traverse City before returning to school.
Many students in high school or college might consider studying abroad, using that period of travel to explore the world and enhance their educations.
The Prime Minister Wants Tefillin
by Dovid Kotlarsky & Shua Greenspan
We were in Aruba, a small Caribbean island that is home to about 35 Jewish people. Sunday morning, we started with calling the “Jew of the island.” Tony is his name. He knows everyone and everything and waits a whole year for the Roving Rabbis to come.
Roving Rabbis Spread Jewish Awareness
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Rabbis Zalmon Popack (left) and Shimon Sabol visited with members of the city’s Jewish community last week.
Washington — The Moscow-Pullman area had a special visit by two young roving rabbis last month.
Stu Laying Tefillin for the First Time Ever
Surrey, Canada — After a long, tiring day of searching for Jewish people on the White Rock coast, we met a Jewish man named Stu, who was delighted to meet us!
A Special Story on the Merkos Shlichus Trail
Roving Rabbis Yosef Schtroks and Yaakov Kotlarsky, are on Merkos Shlichus in Surrey BC, Canada, and have spent the last few days reaching out to Jewish people all around the Surrey/White Rock/Delta/Langley areas, and are dedicated to kindling a flame of Jewish pride and Jewish Life within each and every Jew they meet.
A Double Bar Mitzvah...
By Mayer Gurkov and Mendel Jacobs. Merkos Shluchim to Vernon Hills, IL
A most extraordinary and moving encounter awaited us earlier this afternoon as we entered the seemingly regular law firm in Libertyville, Illinois, where we’ve been spending the past week and a half, searching for Jewish homeowners and business people, seeking to awaken their Jewishness a bit.
Traveling Rabbinical Students Reach Kenai Peninsula
Peninsula Clarion
Black suitcoats, dress slacks and white collared shirts are normally reserved for funerals on the Peninsula, but not for traveling rabbi Yoshi Bendet.
Summer Merkos Shlichus in Sweden
Two Bochurim, Berel Namdar and Itchy Glassner emailed CrownHeights.info some pictures with subtitles from their Merkos Shlichus in Sweden.
How the Tanya Was Printed in Egypt
by Moshe Frank & Berri Spitezki
It seems like we have something going with the ambassadors. As you may have read a few days ago, we met with the Swiss Ambassador to S. Korea. And now we met the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. Tuvia Israeli.
Picture of the Day - Merkos Shlichus
During Merkos Shlichus summer program the roving Rabbis, Moshe Frank and Berri spitezki, who are in South Korea, met this week with Mr. Thomas Kupfer the Swiss ambassador to South Korea who happens to be Jewish. The rabbis were invited to the Ambassadors home and during their visit handed him a Mezuzah.
Deaf Rabbis-in-Training Outreach to Deaf Population
by Ronelle Grier - Chabad.org
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students Joshua Soudakoff and Isser Lubecki, right, are travelling through Rochester, N.Y., to provide Jewish programming for the city’s deaf residents.
Helping Jews the world over feel connected as opposed to isolated has long been the mission of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and the corps of rabbinical students who annually fan out to disparate communities across the globe.
Printing Tanyas and a Special Meeting
In addition to visiting Jewish people in Northern Germany, we also printed the Tanya—the most fundamental book of Chabad Chassidic thought—in several of the cities throughout the region. (In 1984, the Rebbe, of righteous memory, began a worldwide campaign to print Tanyas wherever there are Jews.)
The Last Jews on the Island
By Yossi Klein & Sholom Bluming
So much has been written about the beauty and importance of finding the one Jew, lifting up the one soul, the value of one mitzvah, and how it's our responsibility to travel far distances and remote locations just to find that one Jew.
Notes from Roving Rabbis
Jacksonville was among 2500 cities worldwide visited by rabbinical students who spent part of their summer canvassing small, isolated communities. While not as exotic and remote as Vietnam, Ireland or Peru, our pair of roving Rabbis had quite some stories to tell.
Rabbis of the Outback Down Under
Two Chabad rabbis, Izzy Rudolph and Berel Fine, understand that sometimes a person has to go far to bring others close. The Rabbis are part of Chabad of RARA, a Melbourne-based organization that sends out tens of pairs of Rabbis every year to the furthest points of Australia, places that don’t have enough Jews to support a full time Rabbi.
Merkos Shlichus: Shabbos in Zhmerynka
ZHMERYNKA, Ukrain — In every place on Merkos Shlichus, one of the best things to do, is to make a get-together of all the local Jews. This we did, in Zhmerynka, Ukraine. It was last Friday, where we stood for hours in a tiny kitchen in the local Shule cooking food, with the meager kosher ingredients available in this part of the world. We were told to cook for, “Fertzig menschen” (“Forty people”), and thus we pealed 10lbs of potatoes (and did much more).
Rabbis Make Annual Trip Across State
Rabbis Yossi Bendet and Mendel Kesselman travel around the state during the summer, reaching out to fellow Jews one-on-one to offer socialization, informational literature, answer questions and even hold traditional Jewish occasions like Bar Mitzvahs.
Sidney Herald
SIDNEY, MT — Seemingly out of place but nevertheless on a mission of sorts, you may have seen two men pass through Sidney Wednesday dressed in traditional Jewish garb.
Bochurim Prepare for the 64th Merkos Shlichus
This summer over 400 bochurim will be travelling across six continents to reach hundreds of communities as part of Chabad – Lubavitch’s annual summer “Merkos Shlichus”.
“Post Pesach” Shlichus in New Zealand
A historic gathering of Bochurim and Shluchim took place after Pesach in the New Zealand Chabad Headquarters in Canterbury.
After a most successful nationwide Pesach campaign, a number of the fourteen bochurim who gave up their vacation to assist communities around New Zealand for Pesach, have stayed on after the eight day holiday, to continue their outreach work in cities across the South Island.
