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Remote Jewish Communities Welcome Their Own Mikvahs

Mobile, Alabama’s Jewish community marked a milestone recently, as the thousand-plus Jews who call the southern port town home welcomed the opening of the Mobile…

By Tzemach Feller

February 20, 2025

Shluchim

Walnut Creek Welcomes New Shluchim

Community Welcomes Shluchim With Flowers And Gifts

By Staff Writer

August 25, 2020

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Statement By Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters

Every day that Jews are barred from entering the synagogue by armed guards is an unforgivable violation of the Jewish people!

July 5, 2019

IL Governor Rauner Joins Chabad Emissaries in Prayer at Western Wall

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner was joined by Rabbi Avraham Kagan of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois on a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem Tuesday…

By Staff Writer

November 2, 2017

Kathmandu Emissary Organizes Rescue on Yom Kippur

It was the night of Yom Kippur, and Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz was not in shul.

By Staff Writer

October 2, 2017

Puerto Rico Chabad Coordinates Private Relief Planes

With Puerto Rico reeling from Hurricane Maria and island residents struggling to find basic items such as fresh water, food, and fuel, Chabad of Puerto…

By Staff Writer

September 28, 2017

Puerto Rico Chabad Rabbi Appeals For Help

It was the morning of Rosh Hashana, and the folks over at Chabad of Puerto Rico were preparing for the holiday as a category four…

By Staff Writer

September 25, 2017

Battered by Irma, Chabad of Florida Organizes Relief Efforts

It was Friday morning as Floridians were bracing for Hurricane Irma, when Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski, director of Tampa’s Chabad Young Professionals chapter, received a call…

By Staff Writer

September 11, 2017

Emerging From the Flood Waters: True Kindness

The Jewish community is pulling its weight, and Sunday saw a relief effort mobilized by Chabad on Campus made up of hundreds of college students…

By Chava Leiba Sneiderman

September 3, 2017

German Foreign Minister Meets With Chabad Community Leaders

The Menorah Jewish Center, the world’s largest Jewish community center, received Germany’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier when he visited Ukraine, late last month.…

By Rosie Jacobs

June 11, 2015

Official Goverment Reception in Germany Serves Kosher

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and some 2500 guests participated at the official gala event hosted by Germany’s President Joachim Gauck, commemorating 50 years of diplomatic…

By Staff Writer

May 13, 2015

New Chaplaincy Program to Train Rabbinical Students

In the coming year, the yeshiva will be offering students enrolled in its four year program training them for a career in the field of…

By Mushkie Junik

April 27, 2015

Children of Chabad Reps Deliver Winning Speeches in Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Contest

Taking lessons from contemporary life, the children of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives to Downtown Vancouver won top spots in the Public Speaking Contest Award of the Jewish…

By Rosie Jacobs

March 25, 2015

A Measure of Jewish Pride: Germany’s Largest Mezuzah Gets Notice

“The reaction to anti-Semitism may be to hide our identity. But we need to wear our Judaism proudly,” says Rabbi Yehudah Tiechtel, executive director of…

By Rosie Jacobs

March 10, 2015

A Help Line for Holocaust Survivors in Moscow

There are some 5000 Holocaust survivors in the city, many of them ailing and alone. Voice of Kindness, the new call center located at the…

By Staff Writer

February 3, 2015

Ottawa Government Grant Supports Chabad’s Initiative for Seniors

For its work teaching seniors to navigate the rapidly evolving technological and medical fields, the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa received a $10,000 grant from…

By Staff Writer

January 22, 2015

Historic Nevada Cemetery Restored

In 1864, The Eureka Hebrew Society purchased a plot of ground on Cedar Hill, in Virginia City, Nevada, for a cemetery.

By Staff Writer

January 21, 2015

Tokyo, Japan, Gets Its First Kosher Restaurant

In a country where baba ghanoush, a Middle-Eastern favorite made of eggplant and mayonnaise or tahini is hard to come by, Chabad of Tokyo is…

By Staff Writer

December 30, 2014

Siberian Rabbi Honored on Province’s 80th Anniversary

The Krasnoyarsk Krai province honored eighty people who “have devoted themselves to the benefit of the region,” including the city of Krasnoyarsk’s chief rabbi, Rabbi…

By Staff Writer

December 24, 2014

Council of Europe Leader Honors Chanukah

Chanukah, it turns out, is a favorite with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland.

By Staff Writer

December 22, 2014

Baltimore’s City Hall Unveils Large Menorah

When a Chabad rabbi visiting Baltimore’s city hall last year Chanukah was greeted by a small menorah dwarfed by the dominating seasonal displays, he suggested…

By Staff Writer

December 22, 2014

Menorah at the Kremlin

At the Kremlin, Aleksander Torshin, Acting Chairman of the Russian Parliament, lit the shamash candle, and congratulated thousands of Jews celebrating Chanukah. “Mazel Tov and…

By Staff Writer

December 17, 2014

U.S. Vice President Joins Menorah Lighting

“Tonight is about miracles, the miracle of courageous warriors overcoming the great odds,” Biden said, pointing to another noteworthy miracle: “Thousands of years later, Judaism…

By Staff Writer

December 17, 2014

German Interior Minister Notes Berlin Chanukah Miracle

At the Brandenburger Gate, where Germans once marked the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler announced his plans to make the world Judenrein, thousands…

By Staff Writer

December 17, 2014