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Award-winning 23,000-square-foot Chabad center signals thriving Jewish future
When an architect has a dream to build a beautiful synagogue and teams up with a Chabad rabbi who has a vision for a dedicated community center, magic happens. That is precisely what the Telyas Chabad Jewish Center of Hunterdon County, N.J., was recognize...
Yitzchok Moully marks public menorahs' Golden Anniversary with bold new design
An hour before Chanukah was set to begin last year, Rabbi Bentzy Stolik received a call that his Chabad center’s public menorah had been vandalized. Stolik and his wife, Devorah, co-direct Chabad-Lubavitch of Olney, Md., a quiet suburb near Washington, D....
Art Basel marked with Shabbat dinners and Jewish art exhibits
At age 82, Richard had never wrapped tefillin in his life. That was until he met a yeshivah student outside Art Basel Miami Beach this December, who invited him to perform the mitzvah. When Richard initially declined, the resourceful yeshivah student offe...
Aleph Institute symposium draws lessons from ‘Pesach Sheni’
Even during quarantine, one often-ignored group has not been forgotten. Despite strict visitation limits, prison inmates throughout North America have remained the focus of the Aleph Institute, according to prison and law-enforcement officials, criminal j...
Kindness abounds from behind closed doors, even though its streets are silent
The streets of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., during the weeks before Passover are usually busy and boisterous—those of a modern-day shtetl preparing for one of the biggest events of the year. Children ride their scooters and bikes afte...
Focus on Mindelle Feller's legacy
As many as 250 women convened from 45 cities in the United States, Canada and Israel for the 56th annual convention of Nshei U’bnos Chabad, which took place last weekend in Minneapolis at the Radisson Blu Mall of America. Despite a heavy snowfall on the E...
Maurice Nseiri finds a safe space at the Jewish Children’s Museum after years of religious persecution
When Sharon Shriqui attended the opening of the featured exhibit on display at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y., she hoped to reconnect to her family’s Syrian heritage. She sought to do this amid glass displays featuring large plates, small ...
Trendy neighborhood near Pratt Institute embraces a Jewish space
Esther Zibell’s colorful and imaginative holiday paintings have left synagogue-goers inspired by Judaism, art and a rather ambitious theme—Jewish unity. Her exhibit, “Jewnity”—currently showing at the Hadas Gallery at the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center serving...
Artist Yitzchok Moully aims to “recapture that spirit and energy” of the Rebbe’s gatherings
As Jewish communities worldwide commemorate two decades since the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—a new art gallery is hoping to inspire visitors as only artists can. The show, titled “This Is My Rebbe,” ...
CTeen program brings young Jews together for a weekend of learning, socializing, sightseeing and more
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