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Jewish Runners Make a Pit Stop at Chabad Sukkah

More than 100 members of the Nice Jewish Runners club made a nice Jewish stop this week as they made their way through Manhattan, New…

Tzemach Feller | October 2, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Yehuda Ferris

“My father was a cantor at a Conservative synagogue—that’s how we grew up. Reform, conservative, wherever my father worked, that was our level of observance.…

By Leibel Kahan

October 5, 2026

Editorial

Memories of Sukkot 1991

Sukkot 1991 was different. The crowds were enormous. But this time, the Rebbe remained standing in the sukkah for the next six and a half…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

September 24, 2026

Sukkot

Celebrating this Year: Sukkot

This week marks Sukkot, the holiday of booths (or huts). The seven-day Festival of Joy comes begins tonight, October 13, at sunset, commemorating the Clouds…

By Shaindle Fogelman

September 24, 2026

Sukkot

Judaism Unadorned

Style, Substance, and Sukkah Decorations

By Boruch Werdiger

September 24, 2026

High Holidays

Yom Kippur With The Rebbe

The highest moment, for me, came at the end of Yom Kippur, when—after fasting for twenty-five hours—we affirmed loudly in unison, with all our energy,…

By Mariashi Groner

September 20, 2026

The Day Jewish Pride Won

Every baseball journalist knows that you don’t talk to a starting pitcher on the day he is scheduled to make his start. Pitchers typically have…

By Tzemach Feller

September 20, 2026

Flashback: Lubavitcher Rebbe Sends Emissary to Conduct Yom Kippur Services in Greenland

NEW YORK (LNS) – Jewish personnel stationed at the United States Air Force base in Thule, Greenland, will – to their pleasant surprise – have…

By Staff Writer

September 17, 2026

Podcast

Ep. 68: The Jewish Awakening of Vancouver Island

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 68 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

September 16, 2026

High Holidays

Have We Become Too Sophisticated For Yom Kippur?

Something has changed. In our minds, Yom Kippur has become complicated. The service doesn’t speak to us—the idea of sin no longer resonates. Praying all…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

September 16, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Sorella Abrahams

“When I was a child, I was walking with a friend on a Friday afternoon in London and we met these 2 Israelis schlepping suitcases.…

By Leibel Kahan

September 16, 2026

History

Remembering Rebbetzin Chana: Jewish Feminine Role Model

A feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, is being remembered today, on her yahrzeit.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 16, 2026

High Holidays

Rosh Hashanah, Not Only a Jewish Celebration

This week, Jewish people the world over will be marking Rosh Hashanah, a holiday commemorating the beginning of creation.

By Shaindle Fogelman

September 10, 2026

The Shofar’s Blast Beyond the Synagogue

On a Rosh Hashanah morning in 2011, a curious crowd gathered by the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. When the blast of the shofar cut…

By Leibel Kahan

September 9, 2026

High Holidays

Return: Reclaim, Relate, Reconnect

Research is showing that people spend less time socializing than they did twenty years ago

By Rabbi Yakov Danishevsky

September 8, 2026

High Holidays

Counted & Blessed

As soon as we got into the car, the Rebbe expressed concern. Might the photographer have been offended by his blessing? After all, the Rebbe…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

September 7, 2026

Machne Israel Development Fund Relaunches With New Generation of Supporters

Chabad reps and supporters renew the Rebbe’s model of collective responsibility for Jewish communities worldwide Some 100 guests met over an intimate lunch at the…

By Tzemach Feller

September 3, 2026

An Address in the Amazon

Guests at the Raichmans’ Shabbat table in Manaus, Brazil think they’re eating chicken schnitzel. It’s pirarucu — a massive Amazonian fish, served kosher in a…

By Leibel Kahan

September 2, 2026

Chabad at USC Opens New Center With Campus’s First Kosher Restaurant

“A proud Jew rather than a fearful one.” That, student Noah Razak told some 400 people gathered on Severance Street Sunday night, is what Chabad…

By Leibel Kahan

September 1, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Shmuli Nachlas

“My parents gave us a home where Judaism, the Rebbe, and education weren’t just talked about—they were lived. Going to the Rebbe in New York…

By Leibel Kahan

September 1, 2026

History

Chabad Marks Birthday of Movement’s Founder

On 18 Elul, we celebrate the birthday of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

By Staff Writer

August 30, 2026

Fourth Chabad Center Opens on the Island of Corsica

A storefront on the main road in Calvi, on Corsica’s northwest coast, is now home to the island’s fourth Chabad center. Walk out of the…

By Leibel Kahan

August 19, 2026

Chabad Rabbi Menachem Mendel Axelrod Inaugurated as Chief Rabbi of Moldova

Chabad Rabbi Menachem Mendel Axelrod was installed Wednesday as the new Chief Rabbi of Moldova in the historic Glazers’ Synagogue in Chișinău. Rabbi Axelrod has…

By Tzemach Feller

August 18, 2026