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Hakhel Year: (lit. "Assemble!") The year following the Sabbatical year, at the beginning of which all Jews would gather in the Temple to hear the king read selections from Deuteronomy.
Focus on Hakhel year and opportunities for ongoing worldwide growth of Jewish life
Arriving in New York from the four corners of the earth in a Hakhel year devoted to gatherings large and small, 6,500 Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim (“emissaries”), and their guests from all 50 states and more than 100 nations and territories around the world ...
6,500 at extraordinary Hakhel-year celebration at international gathering
Thirty-six expertly trained scribes, most of them Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries themselves, each armed with a feather quill and a small pot of ink, will simultaneously complete a record 36 new Torah scrolls being written for Jewish communities around the wo...
Preparing for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah as Sukkot festivities abound
Hakhel celebrations are underway around the world with the onset of the joyous holiday of Sukkot, and Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are finding new ways to engage Jewish people of every age and background in every corner of the world to inspire them to part...
A 15 percent increase in High Holiday attendance expected in Hakhel year
When Rabbi Mendy Mentz moved to California last year with his wife, Dobbie, to establish Chabad of West Bel Air in the Los Angeles area, it was four weeks before Rosh Hashanah, and the Delta variant of the coronavirus was on everyone’s mind. Even though t...
Building on last year’s Hakhel success, rabbis see a positive trend
In some places in the world with large Jewish populations, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries can attract thousands to mega-events like challah bakes, public menorah-lightings and massive Shabbat dinners. But in Belo Horizonte, Brazil—where more than 130 men con...
Chabad couple packs up the kosher food and meets 20 people in a sylvan spot called Nelson
Nestled within Canada’s Selkirk Mountains, the city of Nelson, British Columbia, has neither synagogue nor rabbi. But there are Jews there, according to Judy Banfield, a resident since 1990. With a long history of counterculture and individualism—tied to ...
Dinner, amity and spirituality on campus, with a new goal in the Hakhel year
An annual program at Binghamton University in Upstate New York called “Shabbat 1800” brought together nearly that many students on a recent Friday evening to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath. It marked the 22nd year since the inception of the concept at Bingh...
Celebrating the freedom, customs and traditions of the Jewish people
Jews the world over are counting down the hours before the start of Passover. Chabad centers are opening their doors to locals and travelers alike in nearly 85 countries, with seders being held in some 600 cities that span the globe. Over the course of th...
Hundreds probe Jewish issues and identity as part of year-long Hakhel project
Like most pilot projects, there was no guarantee that it would get off the ground. But not only did it take off, the Jewish unity project and its results have lingered with participants long after the actual experiences. To celebrate the Hakhel year—occur...
Regional Shabbaton brings together 300 students from universities around the country
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered warm greetings to the largest intercollegiate gathering of Jewish students in Canada—nearly 300 students from more than a dozen universities—that took place over the weekend in Ottawa. He offered his apprecia...
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