Chabad News Online

Best of Chabad News Online

Italian News Crew Records Special Citron Harvest

TAGS: None

image

Italian television station RAI sent a news crew to the citron orchards supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Moshe Lazar and Shmuel Rodal of Milan to cover operations at the Calabria fields that produce some of the finest fruit, known in Hebrew as the etrog, used by Jewish worshippers during the seven-day fall holiday known as Sukkot.

4 Lubavitch Owned Companies Ranked in Inc. 5000

TAGS: None

image

Growing from last years three, this year four Lubavitch owned companies were ranked in the top 1000 of Inc. Magazines fastest growing private companies of 2011, one of the companies making in to the top 50!

Ohel Chana Sem First to Begin New School Year

TAGS: None

image

Ohel Chana in Melbourne Australia was the first Chabad Seminary to begin its program this year. The students of 5772 began their year down under with the zechus of a farbrengen with Rabbi AL Ceitlin from Tzefas, on Motsei Shabbos Chof Av, following their arrival in Australia before Shabbos.

The Rebbes Lawyer – Jerry Shestack Passes

TAGS: None

image

Chabad-Lubavitch mourns the passing August 18, of Jerry Shestack, a distinguished attorney and outspoken activist for human and civil rights, Israel and Soviet Jewry.

The Rebbe’s Lawyer – Jerry Shestack Passes

TAGS: None

image

Chabad-Lubavitch mourns the passing August 18, of Jerry Shestack, a distinguished attorney and outspoken activist for human and civil rights, Israel and Soviet Jewry.

Chabad Sponsors Jon Voight Visit to Terror Victims

TAGS: None

Ynet
image

Hollywood actor Jon Voight visited Soroka Hospital in Beersheba Sunday in an effort to cheer up victims of the recent violence from Gaza – Thursday's terror attacks as well as the still ongoing rocket attacks that followed.

Over 800 Attend Jewish Retreat in Old Greenwich

TAGS: None

Greenwich Time
image
People listen to David Nesenoff's lecture, “To Catch an Anti-Semite” at the sixth annual National Jewish Retreat, hosted by the Chabad-Lubavitch Rohr Jewish Learning Institute at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich.

As the smell of Kosher cooking wafted from the hallway, a silent audience sat captivated while political pundits Mark Mellman and William Kristol, a frequent commentator on Fox News, joined Rabbi Levei Shemtov at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich to discuss the effect of American news on the Jewish community.

In-Fighting Plagues Gold Coast Shuls

TAGS: None

Australian Jewish News
image
Chabad of the Gold Coast - Beis Menachem, Directed by Rabbi Nir Gurevitch.

A Dispute between two rabbis has erupted in Surfers Paradise over who should represent the Chabad-Lubavitch movement on the Gold Coast.

Power of the Jewish Woman at Neshei Chabad Convention

TAGS: None

by Shoshanna Silcove
image

Almost two hundred women from all over Australia descended upon the Mercure Hotel in the beachside town of Geelong outside Melbourne this past erev Shabbos for the 16th Annual Nshei Chabad convention. There they enjoyed two days of inspiration as well as physical and spiritual regeneration.

Chabad Kidnap Victim Arrives in Israel

TAGS: None

Arutz 7
image

A Chabad rabbi kidnapped by a gang in Ecuador and then released has arrived in Israel with his wife and children. “We said Psalms for his safe return”, said his family.

© 2010 Chabad News Online. All Rights Reserved.