This past Tuesday, four hundred bochurim about to head out on Merkos Shlichus packed into the Jewish Children’s Museum for a “Yom Iyun,” a day of inspiration and learning.

Sometimes G‑d taps you on the shoulder and smiles, and the only thing you can do is smile back.

Yesterday was our first day in Kenosha, WI. Just after we landed, Mendy (both of us are named Mendy) felt his cell phone vibrate. It was an unfamiliar number from Washington State. Now, we had gone roving in Washington together (read about that here), but that was two summers ago.

Sometimes G‑d taps you on the shoulder and smiles, and the only thing you can do is smile back.

Yesterday was our first day in Kenosha, WI. Just after we landed, Mendy (both of us are named Mendy) felt his cell phone vibrate. It was an unfamiliar number from Washington State. Now, we had gone roving in Washington together (read about that here), but that was two summers ago.

Sometimes a bad thing can turn into the catalyst for something good.

The ‘Merkos Shlichus’ summer program is preparing for its 65th year. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky began interviewing over 400 candidate bochurim, Together with Coordinators Rabbi Mendel Kotlarsky and Scheur Najar.

With 650 Bochurim heading out on Merkos Shlichus this Pesach to conduct sedorim across the globe, a state of the art website - RovingRabbis.com has been setup to track the students and inform locals of seder times and locations.

You’ve scrubbed, cleaned and polished the hall; there isn’t a speck of chometz to be found. As the guests begin pouring in for the Seder, one of them happily presents you with an expensive bottle of scotch whiskey as a gift. What to do?

Last week, hundreds of Bochurim found themselves at Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, as they participated in a three day marathon of interviews for Pesach's Merkos Shlichus. The Bochurim met with Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who directs and is responsible for this program, along with project coordinators, Rabbi's Mendel Kotlarsky and Schneur Nejar.

Rabbi Tzvi Rivkin and his wife Noa are Completing their Third year on Shlichus and they had Bochrim Yisroel Karasik and Tzali Wilschanski on Merkos Shlichus to India after arriving in the city of Goa before Rosh Hashana they flew to Bangalore for Yom Kippur.

From Glasgow to Sydney, from Cape town to Vancouver, we meet Jews from across the globe in the historic 350-year-old synagogue of Dubrovnik, “the Pearl of the Adriatic.”