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Largest ever Jewish gathering on Old Campus held for Shabbat dinner
Chabad at Yale, a Jewish cultural organization on campus, hosted about 700 attendees for Shabbat under a big tent on Old Campus on Friday. In its second run, the event, dubbed “Lux et Shabbat,” is an annual celebration of Jewish life for students at Yale and New Haven residents. The Thursday...
Meet Rabbi Levi Schectman: The Man Who Opens His Door to All, at Chabad Wesleyan
Though Rabbi Levi Schectman only has four children of his own, he often adopts anywhere from 15 to 175 into his home on certain evenings. On Friday, Sept. 11, at Chabad’s Rosh Hashanah dinner, Schectman and his wife Chanie hosted 70 hungry students over the two nights of the holiday....
At Wilfred Laurier University, Mezuzah Vandalism Meets Its Waterloo
More than 40 Jewish students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, will be placing mezuzahs on the doors to their rooms after a vandal destroyed two mezuzahs on campus on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. The destroyed mezuzahs were on the doors of two different apartments, on two different...
Despite Doxxing and Threats, Elon’s Jewish Students Answer With a Packed House
When Rabbi Mendy and Rivka Minkowitz shared a flyer for their Shabbat program at Chabad-Lubavitch at Elon University in North Carolina on their Instagram story, they were unprepared for the antisemitic hate and threats that would follow.
Binghamton University Marks 25th Anniversary of 9/11 With Mitzvah Marathon
Binghamton University students are turning remembrance into service ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life hosted its annual Mitzvah Marathon Wednesday, giving students, faculty and staff opportunities to perform good deeds in memory of the victims.
