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From New Orleans to New Jersey: A Torah Is Welcomed

As Eric Sion prepared to read from the Torah at his bar mitzvah, he could not have imagined that he would be reading from the…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 15, 2005

Tefillin Bank: Every Jew A Pair to Call His Own

Most banks give out complimentary pens. Generous banks give out toasters. But the Kushner International Tefillin Bank has given out 2,500 pairs of tefillin–for free–in…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 12, 2005

Terror Survivors in Israel Offer Thanksgiving

It’s usually the drama of tragic stories that make the news. Here’s one where near-tragedy turns to joy, and a family gets a second chance…

By Raizy Metzger

November 10, 2005

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower

Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of…

November 9, 2005

A New Home For Chatsworth’s Jewish Community

For Yolanda Richman, there’s no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there’s no place like…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 8, 2005

Reaching for the Infinite: Scholars At NYU On the Rebbe

“Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life,” said Elliot Wolfson, a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. “To speak of him is fraught with…

November 6, 2005

Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad

From Oxford, England. From Columbus, Ohio. Dartmouth, Boston, Princeton, NYU, USC . . . Four hundred students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted…

By E.J. Tansky

November 2, 2005

Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift

Elderly Jews in south Florida have two strikes against them: Hurricane Wilma wiped out their electrical power, their lifeline to self-sufficiency, and, after Hurricane Katrina…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 1, 2005

Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again

Stuart Katz, general manager of IsraAir, never thought he’d spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that’s what happened…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 28, 2005

In the Aftermath of Terror: Chabad Reaches Out

When terror strikes in an Israeli city, throwing untold numbers of lives into painful chaos, it’s often hard to know precisely in which ways to…

By Raizy Metzger

October 28, 2005

Jewish Students Bond With the Torah

Minutes to midnight on University of Pennsylvania’s fraternity row, as the ‘Sox were on their way to trouncing the Astros in overtime, the guys at…

By E.J. Tansky

October 27, 2005

Celebrating Simchat Torah, Hurricane and All

As Hurricane Wilma walloped Hallandale, Florida, the local Chabad weathered the storm without wavering from their Simchat Torah holiday plans. Morning prayer services were postponed…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 24, 2005

Lulav, Etrog, Sukkah–Familiarity With The Festival Grows

Kenneth Alan Spector’s mother’s medical bills were such a puzzle that when the insurance company’s telephone rep read the record she could not help but…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 24, 2005

Sukkot at the IDF Bases in Israel

It’s an eight-day long festival observed by taking meals in the Sukkah–the makeshift hut commemorating the Divine protection the Jewish people enjoyed during their long…

October 20, 2005

United Jewish Communities Partners With Chabad

United Jewish Communities allocated over $38,000 to Chabad-Lubavitch for its hurricane relief efforts in Southern Mississippi and for its chevra kaddisha, Jewish burial society, work…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 16, 2005

Peru’s First Lady Marks Yom Kippur

On Wednesday, Peru’s First Lady, Eliane Karp de Toledo, was hosted at an elegant seuda mafseket—the traditional pre-fast meal, at the European Jewish Community Centre…

October 13, 2005

New Educational Complex Opens In Moscow

Some 500 community members, sponsors and local dignitaries crowded a former bus depot in Moscow yesterday, celebrating the opening of the city’s newest site for…

By Raizy Metzger

October 10, 2005

Rosh Hashana in Monroe, Louisiana

What do you give to a community who has lost a good portion of their material possessions, along with their homes, jobs and secure future?…

By Raizy Metzger

October 9, 2005

From Darkness to Light and a Sweet Year to All

“Remember us for life, O living G-d, Inscribe us in the book of life.” These words from the Rosh Hashanah liturgy are articulated simply in…

October 3, 2005

Home for the Holidays

The High Holidays–Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the festive days following–invite powerful associations for many people. There’s the family you may see only rarely; friends…

By Raizy Metzger

October 3, 2005

It Takes A City . . .

It takes a village, they say, to raise a child. What then would it take to build a school in which to raise several hundred,…

By Raizy Metzger

September 29, 2005

Chabad to Terror Survivors: We Won’t Forget You

More than a thousand families of terror victims in Israel will be receiving a pre-Rosh Hashanah visit this week, courtesy of Chabad in Israel’s Terror…

By Raizy Metzger

September 29, 2005

Antidote to Rita: Umbrella of Kindness

After Hurricane Rita’s winds killed the electricity at Rabbi Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff’s Houston home on Friday night, the only other drama came when a…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

September 28, 2005

Bakersfield Welcomes New Chabad Facility

California may not be known for its Bible Belt, but it has one, and the city of Bakersfield is right at its buckle. Chabad of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 27, 2005