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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.

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

Building Connection in Barbados

Shabbos comes at nearly the same time every week in Barbados, the furthest southeast island in the Caribbean. Close to the equator, the days barely…

By Leibel Kahan

August 18, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Talia Voskoboynik

“I grew up in California in a traditional conservative family. I always had a strong sense of Jewish identity, but Judaism was never something I…

By Leibel Kahan

August 17, 2026

Podcast

Ep. 67: The Storm That Nearly Swept Away Everything They Built

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 67 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

August 12, 2026

New Youth Center and Mikvah for Thornhill’s Russian Jewish Community

In the 1950s, Chaya Esther Zaltzman traveled 36 hours by train each way — every month — from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to reach a mikvah in…

By Leibel Kahan

August 11, 2026

Innisfil Gets Its First Year-Round Jewish Home

For decades, Jewish families from Toronto have spent their summers on the shores of Lake Simcoe. “This is the Canadian Catskills,” said David Turk, a…

By Leibel Kahan

August 5, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Elie Estrin

“I remember seeing on the news that the army would allow bearded chaplains. I figured—let me go to a recruiter. I thought that being a…

By Leibel Kahan

August 4, 2026

History

Remembering the Rebbe’s Father

Today marks the passing of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson

By Staff Writer

August 2, 2026

Lake Oconee Chabad Pop-Up Builds “New Jewish Family” In Georgia

Lake Oconee is a reservoir in central Georgia that has become a vacation destination. Dozens of towns, resorts, and golf communities dot the 374 miles…

By Tzemach Feller

August 2, 2026

Where the Continent Ends

Newfoundland runs on its own time — literally. The province keeps a half-hour time zone found almost nowhere else in the Western Hemisphere, thirty minutes…

By Leibel Kahan

July 27, 2026