Fresh home baked challah, gourmet Shabbat food, words of inspiration, and a feeling of community warmth await you on Friday night, January 23, 2026 as Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) presents One Shabbat One World.

The festivities will begin with Shabbat services at 4:45 p.m. at LYA, 1148 Converse Street in Longmeadow. Dinner will follow at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will include a gourmet Shabbat dinner complete with Shabbat delicacies. A special children’s program is being planned.

Guest speaker for the evening will be Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman, co-director of curriculum at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI). Rabbi Dinerman participated in the creation of more than thirty JLI courses spanning many areas of Jewish scholarship.

Rabbi Dinerman enriches minds through his podcast exploring Jewish history and halachah. He is an educator at Beth Rivkah Division of Higher Learning in Brooklyn and spiritual leader of Unzer Shul in Crown Heights. He resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and five children.

The fee for the dinner is $25 for an adult, $7 for children under 11 and a family price (two parents and all their children) of $60.

Please R.S.V.P. by Monday, January 19, 2026. Call LYA at 413-567-8665 or email: info@LYA.org. or you may register on-line at www.LYA.org. Checks should be made payable to LYA and may be mailed to 1148 Converse Street, Longmeadow, MA 01106. Your check is your reservation.