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<p>A profile of a multi-cultural family in a predominantly religious section of Brooklyn, N.Y., featured prominently on the Web site of cable news giant CNN.</p> <p>Last month’s look at the Nunez Family of Crown Heights – home to a large community of Chabad-Lubavitch Chasidim and the headquarters of their global movement – tackled the issues of ancestral heritage and historic prejudice, and how Latin-American immigrants adopted the Jewish faith of their forebears.</p> <p>Moshe Nunez was raised in a non-Jewish home in Guadalajara, Mexico, but today keeps Shabbat with his Panama-born wife Chana Leah and their two children. Their menu features elements of Latino culture and cuisine, and while they serve their frequent guests traditional Shabbat dishes, they lean toward their own spiced-up varieties.</p> <p>The couple believes they are descended from Spanish and later Portuguese Marranos – so-called crypto-Jews who converted for fear of ...
<h2>Construction Begins on English Jewish Children’s Center</h2> <p>The Lubavitch Centre of Leeds, England, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to usher in construction of the city’s new Jewish Heritage Centre for Children. Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yeremiyahu Angyalfi, director of Chabad House, laid the first stone with the help of Fiona Spiers, regional manager of the Heritage Lottery Fund. The new building will represent the second round in a series of planned expansion projects.</p> <h2>Montreal Holds First-Ever Special-Needs Walk</h2> <p>Hundreds of family members and friends of children with special needs raised more than $100,000 during a walk-a-thon through Côte S. Luc’s Trudeau Park benefitting the Friendship Circle of Montreal. Rabbi Yosef and Sima Paris began the chapter – part of a worldwide network of Chabad House-based programs that pair teenage volunteers with children with special needs – nine years ago. Since then, more than 650 ...
<p>A new line of wafers named after a popular Chasidic melody was recently certified kosher by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary and director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the Former Soviet Union.</p> <p>Called “7:40,” the candied bars refer to the translated Russian name of “Sem Sorok,” a melody with a disputed genesis that also goes by its Yiddish name, <em>zibn fertsik</em>. Some contend that the numerical title is a reference to the latest train that Jews could catch to leave Odessa by the 8:00 curfew. Others insist, however, that the source of the name really refers to the year 1947, when a train station opened in Kiev, allowing Jews to commute more easily to Odessa.</p> <p>Apparently not weighing in on the controversy, the wafers’ manufacturer chose to adorn the snack’s package with pictures of a train and passengers waiting to board.</p> <co:img index="2" />
<p>Exactly one year after their children perished in the Mumbai terror attacks, Rabbi Nachman and Freida Holtzberg of New York and Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg of Afula, Israel, will participate in a memorial ceremony at the Nariman House, the heavily-damaged structure that once housed the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch center.</p> <p>Taking place alongside memorial events elsewhere in the Indian financial capital, the Nov. 26 ceremony will recall the sacrifice of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, who perished with four of their Jewish guests when terrorists stormed the Nariman House. Beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern Time, members of the public can view a live simulcast of the proceedings at <a href="http://www.chabad.org/live" target="_blank">www.Chabad.org/Live</a>.</p> <p>The agenda for the ceremony includes addresses by Rabbis Yehuda Krinsky and Moshe Kotlarsky of Lubavitch World Headquarters; Avraham Berkowitz, director of the Chabad ...
<h2>Makeshift Bakery Draws Jewish Students Together</h2> <p>More than 50 students at the University of Connecticut gathered at a local fraternity house to learn the art of baking the traditional Shabbat bread known as challah.</p> <p>Led by Shaindel Hecht, co-director of the campus-based Chabad House, the group discussed the weekly Torah portion before distributing their creations to area senior citizens.</p> <h2>Jewish Learning Center Breaks Ground in Winnipeg</h2> <p>After years of planning and fundraising, the Jewish community of Winnipeg, Canada, celebrated the groundbreaking for a multi-use center.</p> <p>Rabbi Avrohom and Brocha Altein moved to the area in 1972 and established the local Lubavitch Centre. Slated to open next fall, the organization’s new home will include a library, classrooms, and recreational facilities.</p>
