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A joyously received gift to a growing Jewish community
History was made in Iceland as celebrants danced down the streets of Reykjavik on Feb. 16, to mark the first-ever completion and inauguration of a Torah scroll on the European island, following a reception last Thursday at the home of the U.S. Ambassador ...
As police search continues, a meeting to boost spiritual strength
The Jewish community on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, will gather this evening at 7 p.m. for inspiration and prayer for the safe return of two Torah scrolls stolen from the Chabad center. On Sunday morning, a member of the community entered the sanctuary an...
Honoring the multigenerational impact of a thriving campus center
Danielle Druck was parading around the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City with hundreds of celebrants when her 11-year-old son Charlie exclaimed: “We’re going to jail! You can’t block traffic!” After a few minutes, he accepted that the June 18 celebrat...
Community in Vacaville, Calif., celebrates with a new Torah scroll
Founded in 1851 with a population of barely 300 people, the city of Vacaville, Calif., was once a stopping point of the Pony Express. A century-and-a-half later, the northern California city, which today has grown to a population of roughly 95,000, earns ...
It will be sent to another Texas town, where young professionals will use it for minyan
When Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Sunday, Oct. 2, members of Chabad of South Austin/Young Jewish Professionals will hold their first minyan since last Yom Kippur. Together, they will celebrate not only the start of the Jewish New Year, but the welco...
Linking Jewish children around the world in an effort prompted by the Rebbe
1,828,830. That’s the number of Jewish children who have purchased letters in special “children’s Torah scrolls,” the sixth of which was finished last week in Jerusalem. In the spring of 1981, the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—sp...
How a journalist made a priceless personal discovery
When Israeli journalist Yaakov Maor was sent to Vienna 40 years ago to write about the first stirrings of the newly founded European Economic Union, he couldn’t have guessed that the trip would result in a priceless discovery with deep personal significan...
Dedication follows the theft of two scrolls at synagogue’s opening one year ago
LONG BEACH, Long Island, N.Y.—There are few acts of vandalism or theft more traumatic to a Jewish community than the loss or destruction of a Torah scroll, so when two scrolls were stolen on the very same day that Chabad of the Beaches moved into its new ...
On first visit by an Israeli PM, to the Emirates, Bennett begins the first Torah written in the UAE
As Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes history with the first Israeli head-of-state visit to the United Arab Emirates, he’s making history in other ways, too. Bennett was honored by Rabbi Levi Duchman, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary and rabbi to the ...
The Torah will bring healing and comfort to a shattered family and community
The scribe dips his quill into the black ink and brings it to the parchment. With intense focus, he begins to outline a Hebrew letter. This letter, along with 304,805 other handwritten letters, will form a Torah scroll. For four hours daily, scribe Rabbi ...
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