It is not every day that you meet someone who stared down a Death Sentence, spent 11 years in the Gulag and kept up his Jewish pride and positive attitude throughout. Thank you Rav Yosef Mendelevich for an incredibly inspiring evening last night and for all your perseverance on behalf of Soviet Jewry and world Jewry in all the years since then.
Another beautiful dimension of last night, was that besides the speaker, we had multiple Jewish Americans who had been very active on behalf of Soviet Jewry back in the 70's at the same time that his trial was going on, and we also Jewish people who were originally from Russia who shared their memories of this incident and the impact that it had on them. One lady told of the tension in th… Read More »
This past Sunday we had a wonderful "Demo for Dads" event which was an amazingly engaging event for the students and their parents. At the "Demo for Dads" program, we enjoyed wonderful presentations from so many dads about what they do or a hobby they have, and what we can all learn from this in life. It was a very entertaining program as well as very interactive and the kids all had a great time!
Hundreds of people attended some of the multiple exciting Purim programs and celebrations at the Chabad Center of Sudbury over the last few days. Just this week lots of ladies had a great night out on Sunday at the Hamantaschen Bake, dozens of adults enjoyed the Mentalist Show & Adult Purim Party and a huge crowd enjoyed the Purim in Hawaii Celebration last night.
In our society, when we are introduced to new people, the conversation usually goes like this, “What is your name?” and then followed by “What do you do?”