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Peer to peer: Shluchos expand student engagement at Chabad at Rice
As Chabad at Rice University marks a decade of serving Houston’s Jewish student community and prepares for future expansion, its leadership is also looking ahead to new ways of strengthening and broadening student engagement.
Alumni, aliyah and the bonds that endure
My head is still spinning from the whirlwind of emotions we experienced on our journey into the lives of campus alumni in Israel. The diversity of talents, professional experiences, personal challenges, resilient perspectives and aliyah directions were tied together by the bonds we shared at a common Shabbos table, a...
Chassidic Texts Have Long Been Studied in Yeshivah. Now They’re Being Studied at Princeton.
Every summer, students at America’s top universities compete for internships and exclusive fellowships at academic institutions and corporations. Joining these opportunities this summer is the Princeton Institute for Hasidic Thought’s fellowship program, its ten spots having already been taken by scholars from Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton, among other institutions, who...
Chabad of Williamstown: “Like a Startup with Extreme Young Energy”
The recently-opened Chabad of Williamstown is located in one of the most attractive settings in the Berkshires, surrounded in the distance by some of the prettiest hills we have in the region. But its first home in ‘The City Beautiful’ is a little on the rough side, situated in an...
Even After Losing His Legs In Landmine Explosion, Chabad Rabbi Continues To Place Tefillin
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Instagram account “Smiling Soldiers” published a photo of Chabad campus emissary Rabbi Liraz Zeira, who was seriously wounded in Syria, putting tefillin on a man in the street. The special photo was taken by photographer Menachem Geisinsky, who captured the moment near the Chabad House managed...
