Lubavitcher Featured at Event Promoting Canadian Kosher Trade NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — The Canadian Consul General Daniel Sullivan hosted an event this week promoting trade between Canada based kosher vendors and potential New York customers.The event featured kashrus organizations, catarers, bakers, gourmet food makers, and the special guest of...
Mendy Sacho – Designing Fashionable Kapotes By Tova Ross - 3 Heshvan 5770 – October 21, 2009 When one thinks of kapotes, the traditional long suit jackets worn by married Lubavitcher chassidim, one doesn’t automatically think of the cutting edge of fashion. Yet Mendy Sacho, a 25-year-old Lubavitch tailor in Toronto, Canada,...
Lustrous Linings: Ultra-Orthodox Jews who insist on dark colors on the outside can let their inner selves sing out loudly. Image by COURTESY MENDY SACHO By Rebecca Dube September 30, 2009 To outsiders, the long black coats worn by Haredi men might all look the same. Lustrous Linings: Ultra-Orthodox Jews who insist on dark...
By Sarah Kleinberg Sept. 11, 2009 Mendy Sacho is a young Lubavitcher tailor determined to give a contemporary twist to the kapote, the black knee-length coat worn by married Hasidic men. Sacho, who owns Sartoria Sacho in Toronto, trims the kapote in bright hues and lines it in everything from wild...
Click Here to See Our 100% Pure Silk Kapotas On Shabbos Bereishis 5711 (1950), the Rebbe said to Rabbi Greenglass of Montreal: It should become standard for married chassidim to wear silk kapotes on Shabbos and Yom Tov, and I wish to thank in advance those who will do so. The idea that one’s garments...
