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Today: Raitport Family Dedicating Sefer Torah

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The community is invited to join in a Hachnosas Sefer Torah celebration, today, Sunday, Vov Tishrei, Sept. 12.2021. The Sefer Torah was written by HaRav Yitzchok and Rebbetzin Raitport, in the zechus of Klal Yisroel. Rabbi Raitport began the sefer torah during the most difficult times of the corona virus, for a refuah shlaima and a yeshuah for all those affected • Full Details
Chabad of Greensboro Ends Year With Torah Celebration

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The Sefer Torah was commissioned in the memory of Idan Greenstein, a Binghamton University junior from Greensboro, North Carolina. Greenstein came home from New York at the start of the pandemic to quarantine with his parents in Greensboro. He died in Chapel Hill as the result of a motorcycle accident. “Out of something so tragic, something really special” • Full Story, Photos
Cleveland Chabad Center Celebrates New Torah

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Hundreds gathered to Fromovitz Chabad Center in Beachwood to attend the completion of its new Torah Aug. 29. Along with witnessing the final lines of the Torah, those present enjoyed food, music and games to celebrate the Torah’s finishing. The new scroll was dedicated to Chabad by Sharona Grunspan and her family in memory of her late parents, Shlomo Yitzchok and Ida Fromovitz, and her late husband, Will Grunspan • Full Story, Photos
CA Chabad House Celebrates 6 Years

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Argus Courier From across Petaluma[, California]’s Penry Park, the large and festive assembly strongly resembled a Jewish wedding. But no couple stood beneath the flower-bedecked canopy, waiting to be joined in marriage. As about 125 people — most from the Chabad Jewish Center of Petaluma — all warmly socialized in the sunshine and enjoyed ornate […]
Cleveland Chabad House to Dedicate First Torah

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“The writing of a new Torah scroll is a monumental undertaking,” Rabbi Moshe Gancz said. “Requiring that each of its 304,805 letters be meticulously hand-scribed by a qualified Sofer, or scribe, in accordance with an age-old tradition and hundreds of applicable laws, it is a project requiring many months of arduous and precise labor and its celebration is an opportunity that does not come around too often” • Full Story
Torah Dedicated Beneath Pristine Chicago Skyline

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Chabad Lincoln Park, located near Downtown Chicago, dedicated a new Sefer Torah this week beneath the beautiful Chicago skyline. Rabbi Mendy and Mrs. Brocha Benhiyoun, directors of the vibrant center, celebrated with tens on community members in a posh ceremony. Those in attendance were able to write a letter in the Torah, as well as participate in the dancing and celebratory meal that followed. Moments of the event were captured by Shaina Benhiyoun • Photos
CH Family Celebrates New Sefer Torah

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The Lasker family of Crown Heights celebrated Sunday evening the completion of a new Sefer Torah written in honor of the members of the family. Following the completion of the writing, the Sefer Torah was escorted down Kingston Avenue to Beis Chayenu – 770 with singing and dancing • Photos
New Torah for Scenic Arizona Town

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The magnificent Chabad center in Flagstaff, Arizona, a well known destination in Northern Arizona, celebrated the inauguration of a new Sefer Torah on Sunday, August 8. The Torah was gifted to the Chabad house, directed by Rabbi Dovie and Mrs. Chaya Shapiro, in honor of the 70th birthday of Mr. Bruce Goldberg, a beloved longtime member of the local community • Photos
Houston Chabad House Welcomes New Torah

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Dozens of Jewish community members joyfully marched with a police escort near The Galleria on Sunday, Aug. 15, welcoming a new special member to Chabad of Uptown. A brand-new Torah – commissioned in Houston, written in Israel and dedicated in memory of a dear friend in South Africa – made its way down to the Chabad house. “With great pomp and fanfare we completed the Torah and welcomed it to our shul,” said Chabad of Uptown’s Director, Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff • Full Story, Photos
Tulum’s First Torah: Gellery #2

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Hundreds participated last Sunday in the inauguration of the first-ever Torah scroll in the beloved and popular Chabad House in the magical city of Tulum, situated on the Caribbean coast of Mexico’s Yukatan Peninsula. The scroll was written by community members and hundreds of tourists and travelers from across the globe • Photos
Mexican Chabad House Receives First Sefer Torah

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The Chabad of Tulum, located along the Carribean coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, received its first Torah scroll on Sunday at an event attended by hundreds of Jewish tourists, celebrities, business people and local community members • Full Story, Photos
Sunday: Torah Dedication in Honor of Levi Heintz OBM

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Levi Yitzchak Heintz OBM was the son of Shluchim Rabbi Aryeh Leib and Bracha Heintz of Utrecht, Netherlands. He always brought joy and laughter around him. He always surrounded himself with friends and reflected good back into the world with a smile, a kind word, or a helping hand. To best honor him and his legacy friends and family wrote a Sefer Torah. As friends, family, and neighbors we can unite in the spirit of achdus, with much joy and celebration • Full Details
Buenos Aires: Torah Dedicated for Beloved Rov

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A Siyum Sefer Torah was held in the the Levi Yitzchok Chabad Center in Argentina’s capital city this week in memory of beloved Rosh Kollel and Rov of the ‘Ohel Yosef Moshe’ community Rabbi Chananya Yosef Eisenbach OBM, who fell victim to COVID-19 less than a year ago. The Torah was inaugurated with great pomp, as community members from around the city joined for the festivities • Full Story
Children’s Torah: 100 Defining Moments

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Thousands celebrated the inauguration of the seventh Sefer Torah for Jewish children this past Thursday in the Old City of Yerushalayim. During the festivities ChabadInfo.com photographer Mendy Kurant set out to capture the 100 most defining moments of the historic event • Photos
Seventh Children’s Sefer Torah Completed

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The completion of the Seventh Sefer Torah for children was marked this past Thursday, Chof Av at the Kotel in Jerusalem, with much pomp and a musical performance by Chabad singers Nemouel Harroch and Avi Avidani. The Rebbe MH”M initiated the campaign to write Sifrei Torah in the merit of Jewish children worldwide in 5741 (1981), with the first of such Sifrei Torah being completed at the Kosel on Chof Av of that year. Images of the event were captured by photographer Chaim Tuito • Full Story, Photos
Diverse Crowd of Rabbonim at Torah Inauguration

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A broad spectrum of Rabbonim from various communities, Lubavitch and Non-Lubavitch, from across Eretz Yisroel came to make history yesterday in the Old City of Yerushalayim at the completion of the seventh Sefer Torah for Jewish children. The event was attended by thousands who gathered in the Kosel Plaza, making a huge Kiddush Hashem and Kiddush Lubavitch. Images captured by photographer Chaim Tuito • Photos
First Glance: 7th Children’s Sefer Torah Inaugurated at the Kosel

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The Kosel Plaza was filled today at 1:30 PM Israel time for the inauguration of the seventh ‘Children’s Sefer Torah’ and Anash, Temimim, Mashpiim, Rabbonim, and public figures from across Israeli society joined for the festivities • Photos
Sefer Torah in Memory of Levi Heintz OBM

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Levi Yitzchak Heintz OBM always brought joy and laughter around him. He always surrounded himself with friends and reflected good back into the world with a smile, a kind word, or a helping hand. To best honor him and his legacy his friends and family have undertakin writing a Sefer Torah in his memory • Full Story, Donate
Crimea’s New Sefer Torah Inaugurated With Pomp

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The development of Judaism in the Crimea was impressively shown off during the inauguration of a new Sefer Torah, brought to the synagogue in the city of Simferopol. Shliach Rabbi Yechezkel Lazar has brought about a Jewish renaissance to the Black Sea enclave since arriving with his family four years ago • Full Story, Photos
Nimni Family Plans Siyum Sefer Torah

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The Nimni family of Crown Heights invites the entire community for a special Siyum Sefer Torah in memory of their father Rabbi Michoel Nimni, this Sunday, 10 Tammuz • Full Story
CH: The Unstoppable Siyum Sefer Torah

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Neither a downpour nor a fierce battle could stop this meaningful celebration. As a special zechus for a relative, community member Ouriel Corcos wished to dedicate a new Sefer Torah to Shain Shul, the Kingston Avenue hub of Torah and Tefilah led by famed Mohel Rabbi Eliyahu Shain. The Torah and accompanying Sofer were scheduled to be flown in from Eretz Yisrael and the celebration was planned, but there was a slight change of plans • Full Story, Photos
Kosel Rov Hosts Children’s Sefer Torah Team

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Rov of the Western Wall and the nearby holy sites, Horav Shmuel Rabinowitz, hosted the production team behind the celebration of the completion of the seventh Sefer Torah Shel Yaldei Yisroel for a special meeting, as they are preparing a grand siyum event • Full Story, Photos
Special Salute, New Torah For Israeli Mitzvah Tanks

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Hundreds of attendees came to celebrate the inauguration of a new Sefer Torah for the Chabad Mitzvah Tank Organization in Israel. The organization is headed be dedicated shliach, Rabbi Dovid Nachshon, who welcomed many respected guests, among them rabbonim, Knesset members, and mayors. The crowd was moved by several renowned musicians, such as Dudu Fisher and Haim Israel • Photos
Crown Heights Dances with Bruchshtat Torah

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The Bruchshtat family, together with hundreds of community members celebrated the finishing of a Sefer Torah in honor of their son, Hatomim Menachem Mendel Bruchshtat A”H. After completing the Sefer Torah, the large crown proceeded with a festive parade down Crown Height’s main thoroughfares to 770 Beis Chayenu, where hakafos were done and the Torah was placed in the Aron Kodesh. Images captured by ChabadInfo.com photographer Maor Mimon • Photos
Hachnosas Sefer Torah Today in CH

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The Bruchshtat family invites the entire community to celebrate the finishing of a Sefer Torah in honor of their son, Hatomim Menachem Mendel Bruchshtat A”H. The writing of the final letters will take place at 313 Crown St. at 5:00, followed by a festive procession with Menachem’s Tank to 770 Beis Chayenu • More Info