Friday, / October 31, 2025
Lubavitch News Service
Creating Community
When Chabad at Flamingo, named for the obscure little road it sits on in Northern Thornhill, opened the doors of the Ernest Manson Lubavitch Center,…
Making Light in Naperville
Young and old from Naperville and surrounding areas turned up to participate at a lively Chanukah program held at the SciTech hands-on museum in Aurora,…
Light Begets Light . . .
Millions of television viewers nationally watched last Friday’s public Menorah lighting ceremony in Lenin Square. Kherson’s Jewish mayor, Vladmir Vasilevitch Saldah, officiated at the ceremony…
Jewish Revival in Birobidjan
The irony of 100 Jews braving icy streets of a remote Russian backwater in 20 degrees below zero, to participate at a public menorah lighting…
More Chanukah on Campus
The University of Chicago, a bastion of the American academic elite since its founding in 1890, is displaying its first ever Chanukah menorah in the…
Around Africa in Eight Days
When you live in a remote country in central Africa, foreign residents will tell you, it’s not hard to feel isolated from the rest of…
Campus Chanukah Roundup
Coinciding this year with Thanksgiving weekend, and coming just before the grueling weeks of final after final, Chanukah would have to compete aggressively for the…
A Menorah on the Slopes
Jason, a 24 year old Australian ski enthusiast was heading down the slopes one day in the winter of ’95 during a season-long ski stint,…
Seashells on the Beach
Against a snowy backdrop, the lights of the Menorah seem the perfect way to add warmth and brightness to the long winter nights. But in…
Chabad Comes to Penn State
When Dan Singerman started out at Penn State University three years ago, he was “not too identified,” religiously. Raised conservative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dan embarked…
Healing for the Soul
In a diary entry written only days before her death, M., a 40-year old woman from New York battling cancer, listed several things she was…
A Jewish House of Healing
Nine hundred and fifty dinner guests turned up on October 1 at the Westin Hotel, one of Sydney, Australia’s most prestigious venues, in a broad…
Sun and Surf and Soul
“The idea of a Lubavitch center springing up here on the island was just surreal,” perhaps as surreal as the island itself, says Kim Barkan,…
Chanukah Gelt for Thousands
Thousands of children nationwide will soon be checking the post for their Chanukah gelt and gifts. Sponsored by an anonymous donor, Lubavitch World Headquarters will…
Ukrainian Government Awards Chabad Rabbi
Once a capital crime in this region, Jewish outreach and spiritual leadership were recently awarded the highest government recognition. Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski, Chabad representative to…
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