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A chance meeting with ‘Roving Rabbis’ leads to an unexpected milestone
Let me tell you a little story. It was a cloudless day on Monday in Telluride, Colo., a small Western town high in the Rocky Mountains filled with forests and rivers. This is my eighth year visiting my son Matthew in Telluride, and I have made many friend...
‘Roving Rabbis’ get a wide-open welcome in the Cowboy State
Edmond Gerald Meyer turned 13 in 1933 in Albuquerque, N.M., where his mother’s German-Jewish family had settled during the Civil War and founded a successful business that spanned the territory (as it was then known). Although the family occasionally atte...
In program’s third decade, 26 rabbis to visit Jewish men and women in 450 prisons
The mattresses had been much thinner and harder in his former prison, which lacked air-conditioning and was full of gang activity. So why did L.S. (who is currently serving time in Kansas) want to transfer back there? Because at that first correctional fa...
A summer searching for Jews on the streets and in the marketplaces of Vietnam’s capital
Forty Jewish people from around the world sat around a table not too long ago in Hanoi, celebrating Shabbat together. “Almost everyone discovered that they had a previous connection to someone else there,” reports Mendy Tubul, a senior student at the Chab...
Every year, Chabad emissaries stationed in 86 countries and 600 “Roving Rabbis” host seders all over the world. Check out the snapshots below, and challenge yourself to guess where they are.
For the few Jews on this Nordic island, seders led by visiting rabbis become even more meaningful
The Jewish community in Iceland is unique in the fact that it almost doesn’t exist. With no synagogue, no community center and no official leadership, the Jews of the “Land of Fire and Ice” have had to work extra hard just to bring their scattered brethre...
Who they met during a coast-to-coast assignment, what they accomplished, how they were inspired
Rabbi Zushi Rivkin, 25, and Rabbi Mendy Wilschanski, 24, just completed a five-week assignment in which they visited Jewish communities and individuals from South Florida to Southern California. As part of Chabad’s Merkos Shlichus “Roving Rabbis” program,...
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The Rebbe turned Chabad into a movement with global reach and impact.
Annual training session in New York serves as time-tested preparation
So much personal attention the Rebbe gave to a small Jew in a small town in Sweden . . .
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