Wednesday, / December 17, 2025
Lubavitch News Service
Bulgaria Blooms
For the better part of the last half-century, Bulgaria’s Jewish population (12,000) has not had the benefit of educational and social institutions so integral to…
Memorial On The Black Sea
In a moment of heartrending closure, the kaddish was recited on a ship in the Black Sea in the area where flight Tu-154 went down…
Emerging From the Floodwaters
Only several weeks after torrential rains and flooding left half of Prague submerged in water, Chabad here is back in business, and “stronger than ever,”…
Shabbos House All Week Long
Jason Kirsch, a sophomore psychology major, loves jamming nights at Shabbos House on campus. Jason is one of seventy students who bring their musical instruments…
A Happy Reunion
The last time Karen Guttman, 28, had contact with her father was 14 years ago. By a series of serendipitous events that brought her to…
Sukkot in Donetsk
Like dozens of cities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, Donetsk, one of the largest cities in Ukraine, was home to a thriving Jewish…
A Hut in Bryant Park
Only fifty feet from the glamour and glitz of the fall fashion show in Bryant Park last week, an odd looking hut became a curiosity…
Eugene, Oregon
With the arrival this week of Rabbi Asi and Aviva Spiegel, the spiritual seekers of this city 100 miles south of Portland have a new…
A Sanctuary of Light
Surrounded by wetlands and woodlands in the heart of suburban West Bloomfield, The Shul, Chabad’s newest project, was completed just a couple of hours before…
3,000 Tributes for 3,000 Victims
Fourteen hundred students and faculty members took part in a 36 hour-long September 11th commemorative event at Binghamton University last week. Chabad’s Mitzvah Marathon, co-sponsored…
A Time To Be Merry
The Jewish month of Tishrei spans the entire gamut of spiritual experiences. In a dramatic shift from the intensity and seriousness of Rosh Hashana and…
More On Yom Kippur
LAS VEGAS More than 800 people joined Chabad at four services conducted simultaneously this Yom Kippur in the premiere entertainment destination of the world. The…
Yom Kippur At A Glance
HAWAII– Three Jews filming for the Miss America Beauty Pageant found themselves stranded on this island in the Pacific Ocean as Yom Kippur set in.…
To Hope and Healing
On September 11, Chabad houses nationwide joined millions of Americans to commemorate and honor the lives of the thousands who perished on this tragic day…
From Birobijan to Conejo Valley
When the shofar was sounded this Rosh Hashanah for the first time in hundreds of locations worldwide, among them places far removed from Jewish life,…
A Wish Is Granted
BROOKLYN, NY—When Mishelet Lev—the Israeli branch of Make A Wish Foundation—contacted Snyr Cohen, a buoyant 15 year old who is in the fight of his…
Light Behind Bars
MIAMI, FL–For Kenneth N., the loneliness and despair of life behind bars has no parallel. “It was a denial of my essential humanity,” he says,…
Make Your Own Horn, Please
When the shofar is sounded during Rosh Hashana services tomorrow and Sunday, 10-year-old Shane Golden will have a better grasp than many of the adults…
A Reason to Hope
Here in the slums, among the open sewers and crime-ridden streets, young children amuse themselves, fashioning castles out of uncollected garbage heaps. This is where…
A Chuppah in Vilnius
It was an unusual event that brought traffic to a halt in the streets of Vilnius earlier this week. Five-hundred of the city’s residents were…
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