Poway Rabbi Inspires in Auschwitz
“Am Yisrael Chai!” 800 Jewish students called out after being inspired by Poway’s Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein’s message of Jewish pride and triumph against adversity at the Auschwitz concentration camp. By COLlive reporter Just weeks after the anti-Semitic attack at Chabad of Poway in Southern California, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, with a message […]
Georgia: New Educational Campus to Open in this September
Excitement in Georgia. The country’s small Jewish population, numbering 4,000, most of them living in the capital city of Tbilisi, is anticipating the opening the brand-new ‘Moshe Mirilashvili Education Campus’ that will be open for the upcoming school year in September 2019, thanks to the kindness and generosity of Mr. Mikhail Mirilashvili, President of the […]
Poway Rabbi to Address Jewish Youth Visiting Auschwitz
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein to proclaim Jewish resilience to 800 young Jews in Poland as part of ‘Eurostars’ By Tzemach Feller | Chabad.org | Photo: Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaking on the White House lawn days after he lost his finger in an act of terror in his Chabad center (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour). Just weeks […]
ITALIAN PM: ANTISEMITISM IS A SUICIDE OF THE EUROPEAN MAN
Giuseppe Conte delivered the speech at the Great Synagogue of Rome before several hundred Jewish students and young professionals from the Former Soviet Union. BY ROSSELLA TERCATIN | The Jerusalem Post | Giuseppe Conte speaking at the Great Synagogue of Rome. (photo credit: GOVERNO ITALIANO – PRESIDENZA DEL CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI) Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte […]
First Jewish President of Ukraine Holds ‘Historic’ Meeting With Rabbis
Comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelensky greeted Ukraine’s Chabad rabbis By Dovid Margolin | Chabad.org Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky held what was called a “historic” meeting on May 6 in Kiev with the six leading representatives of the country’s Jewish community. The meeting with the chief rabbis of Ukraine’s six most populous regions—geographically representing the whole country—included Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki of […]
EnerJew ‘Shabbaton Fest’ Rocks the FSU
Hundreds of Jewish teenagers came together for EnerJew youth movement’s “Shabbaton Fest” – 12 Shabbaton seminars that took place from December to April of this year in 51 FSU cities and seven countries overall. With the help of EnerJew’s mentors, coordinators and educators the teen activists planned, hosted, learned, bonded and above all had fun […]
PRESIDENT-ELECT OF UKRAINE MEETS WITH LOCAL CHIEF RABBIS
The delegation of rabbis presented Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a Torah written in Russian. BY ROSSELLA TERCATIN | Jerusalem Post The President-elect of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky met with a delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries serving as chief rabbis in several cities of the country on Monday. When former comedian turned politician Zelensky takes office at the beginning […]
History: First Kosher Restaurant Opens in Baku, Azerbaijan
Eating out at a restaurant is one of the most popular ways of celebrating events, bringing friends or family together, or simply choosing to leave the kitchen and enjoy a meal cooked by someone else. It is a symbol of prosperity and community. While in many locations across the globe Jewish life has become unsafe, […]
Baku, Azerbaijan: EAJC delegation visits Jewish community
FJC’s Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan, headed by Rabbi Shneur Segal, recently hosted a visit by a distinguished delegation of the EAJC [Euro-Asian Jewish Congress]. The delegation was treated to a special reception with the president of Azerbaijan, Mr. Ilham Aliyev, in which they expressed their gratitude for Azerbaijan’s assistance in the revival of the […]
In Donetsk, There Will Be Matzah Once Again
Passover amid eastern Ukraine’s frozen war By Dovid Margolin | Chabad.org News from the frontlines of eastern Ukraine’s five-year-old frozen war has long slipped from Western headlines, but for the people living in the region, daily reminders of the conflict’s existence abound. On the outskirts of Donetsk, a city of just under a million residents, the […]