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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…

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

Immersive Summer Fellowship Brings Jewish Confidence to Students

This summer, more than 40 Jewish college students applied for one of the 15 spots in the Jewish Summer Fellowship, a program under the auspices…

By Tzemach Feller

July 22, 2026

Judaism

Tisha B’Av: Remembering for a Better Future

This evening, Jews around the world will remove their shoes, begin a 25-hour fast, and sit low on the floor in the manner of mourners.

By Staff Writer

July 22, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Judy Lazar

“My childhood was quite picturesque until I was three. That was when the Nazis invaded Hungary. We had to leave our hometown and hide in…

By Tzemach Feller

July 21, 2026

A Mikvah in Mat-Su, Alaska

More than 350 residents of Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley contributed to the construction of a local mikvah. The first to be built in the state outside…

By Leibel Kahan

July 15, 2026

Iceland Gets Its First Jewish Center in History

The sign went up on one of Reykjavik’s main streets, and people stopped to stare. For a community that had spent decades gathering in living…

By Leibel Kahan

July 14, 2026

From Florida to Hawaii, Chabad Rabbis Fight for the Right to Gather

A Legal Battle in Boca Raton For fifteen years, Rabbi Naftaly and Henya Hertzel ran the Chabad Israel Center in Boca Raton. For fifteen years,…

By Leibel Kahan

July 14, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Dovid Gurevich

“I had a pretty typical Soviet upbringing—just being aware of my Jewishness without really knowing what it entailed. There was little access to anything Jewish…

By Leibel Kahan

July 8, 2026

Podcast

Ep. 66: Kosher Corned Beef On The Emerald Isle

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 66 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

July 7, 2026

On the Eve of 250: Jews and the American Experiment

As the United States nears its 250th birthday, a once-settled confidence has given way to uneasy questions. What does Jewish belonging mean when the promise…

By Boruch Werdiger

July 2, 2026

History

Today in Jewish History: 12-13 Tammuz

The twelfth of Tammuz (this year: July 6) is the birthday of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of blessed memory. It is…

By Staff Writer

June 26, 2026

Going to Yeshiva for Johnny

Johnny Ellis had a plan. He’d wrapped up his old job, had a new one starting in June, and was going to spend the time…

By Leibel Kahan

June 24, 2026

Faces of Chabad: Amanda Spiro

“I grew up in a very well-to-do home. From a young age, I was searching—I just didn’t know what I was looking for. When I…

By Leibel Kahan

June 24, 2026

From Ellenville to Everywhere: Camp Gan Israel Turns 70

This summer in Bangkok, a group of Jewish children will sing the same Hebrew songs being sung in Tucson, and wear t-shirts with the same…

By Leibel Kahan

June 23, 2026

The Jewish State You’ve Never Heard Of

Eight hours by plane from Moscow, wedged between Siberia and the Chinese border, sits the only place on earth besides Israel with the word “Jewish”…

By Leibel Kahan

June 23, 2026

Chabad Set to Welcome World Cup Visitors Across North America

More than a million fans will attend the games of the FIFA World Cup across North America in the coming weeks. Jewish fans will be…

By Tzemach Feller

June 22, 2026

After Centuries of Jewish Life, Pensacola Gets Its First Mikvah

Jews have lived in Pensacola a while — they built Florida’s first synagogue here in 1876. But in all that time, the city never had…

By Leibel Kahan

June 21, 2026

3 Tammuz

The Rebbe’s Yahrzeit

The life of a tzaddik is not a life of the flesh, but a spiritual life consisting wholly of faith, awe, and love of G‑d.

By Staff Writer

June 17, 2026

Rebbe

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, A Master of the Spirit

What was it about the Rebbe, I am often asked, that set him apart as the Jewish leader par excellence of our generation?

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

June 17, 2026

Editorial

Any Given Sunday

Sunday Dollars became an institution in itself. In order to maintain an ample supply of newly minted dollar bills, I arranged with the Federal Reserve…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

June 17, 2026