Jewish Heritage

Two rabbinical students arrive on Island today as part of the Chabad-Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps, as the summer project of this Hasidic movement in Orthodox Judaism is generally known.

Hauling suitcases of videos, brochures, books, Shabbat candles, mezuzahs (a religious scroll placed on doorways) and kosher food, Yishai Eliefja and Yitzchok Kravitsky will be teaching classes and visiting Jewish residents door to door, reaching out to help Jews rediscover their heritage.

Lightkeepers Inn

The Lightkeepers Inn on Simpson’s Lane in Edgartown has been selected an editor’s choice in the Yankee Magazine’s recommendations for best family accommodations in Massachusetts for 2010. The Lightkeepers Inn is all suites; each two-room suite features a kitchen/living room as well as a separate bedroom.

First Babies: Welcome

Charlie and MacKenna

The first babies were born in the maternity unit at the new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital last week: first a boy and then a girl.

Gretta Gonzalez and Mario Arellano welcomed Charlie into the world at 9:05 p.m. on Wednesday, June 23. Charlie weighed three pounds, six ounces at birth, and joins big brother Mario Jr.

Announcing Míra

MíraCatríona Davis was born to Sarah and Jake Davis on June 7, at home in Chilmark. She is joyously welcomed by big brother Cian and the families of Dave and Karen (Kohlberg) Davis, of Chilmark and Petersham, and Kay and Denis Hegarty of Dublin, Ireland.

On the same weekend the U.S. national team was eliminated from the World Cup by losing to Ghana, a Vineyard soccer team was playing in a big tournament of their own, and very much like the U.S., facing the same team that knocked them out of contention in the last go-around.

The Vineyard Under-13 team (U-13s) traveled to Lancaster to play Ludlow Friday morning in the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions (MTOC).