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Vienna Springs into Action to Take In Ukrainian Students

The Lauder Chabad School in Vienna is going to extreme lengths to accommodate 700 Ukrainian refugee families—free of charge.

Better Than Birthday Cake

April 13, 2022

Editorial

Chabad communities around the world are launching a truly ambitious 1,210 new institutions.

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

April 11, 2022

Passover

Guest Editorial: Why Is This Night’s Matzah Different?

It’s 2022, and this year your matzah may likely taste radically different from all other Passover matzahs. The simple Passover matzah, made of nothing but…

By Rabbi Gedalia Potash

April 10, 2022

In Pursuit of Practicable Freedom

Parents, however, who choose to educate their children in private schools are taxed all the same, while additionally having to pay full tuition for their…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

April 10, 2022

Rebbe

Congress Honors Lubavitcher Rebbe at Washington DC Conference

At the Living Legacy Conference, U.S. Senators and Government Officials set politics aside to honor the life work of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Ep. 22: “Yes, There Are Jews In Montana!”

April 5, 2022

Podcast

The 22nd episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

Meeting Jews and Making Moves in Minnesota

April 5, 2022

New Centers

In 1986 a nuclear reactor in the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl exploded. Deadly clouds spewed across Belarus and Ukraine, leaving radioactive fallout that brought radiation…

Aleph Rescues Afghans from Taliban

April 4, 2022

Humanitarian

When the Taliban started sending him death threats, Fazel Malek* had to leave his wife and daughter behind in Kabul, Afghanistan. After a team of…

April 2, 2022

California Rabbi & Ohio Trucker Rescue Paralyzed Grandmother in Ukraine

A baffling plea for help reached Rabbi Mendy and Esther Harlig on March 7th. A member of their Chino Hills, California community asked if the…

March 30, 2022

Sivan Rahav Meir Interviews Rabbi Shlomo Peles

It was almost midnight when I walked into the fully equipped Crisis Management Room. Magen David Adom has situated their mobile command center in the…

110 Schoolchildren Show Off Jewish Knowledge at Championship Game Show

March 29, 2022

Education

On March 13th, one hundred and ten Jewish schoolchildren marched into a Princeton, New Jersey ballroom for CKids’ annual JewQ International Torah Championship 5782 and…

Ep. 21: Two Dramatic Journeys Out Of Ukrainian War Zones

March 24, 2022

Podcast

The 21st episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

Israeli Chabad Rabbi Fatally Stabbed in Be’er Sheva

March 23, 2022

Israel

We are saddened and shocked by the brutal murder of Rabbi Moshe Kravitzky in a senseless terror attack near his home in Be’er Sheva, Israel…

March 22, 2022

Yeka Counselors Drop Everything to Be With Ukrainian Campers

When shells began exploding in Dnipro, Ukraine, Chabad’s local Mironova Boys’ School for Orphans decided it was time to leave. Mironova’s “parents”, David and Liora…

New Orleans Kicks Off Fourth Generation of Chabad Outreach

March 22, 2022

New Centers

Rabbi Yossi and Mushka Cohen have been appointed Chabad emissaries to New Orleans, bringing Chabad’s outreach into its fourth generation

March 20, 2022

Hero’s Welcome for Chernigov’s Shluchim

The Russian siege trapped Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, his wife Alizah, and their nine children in Chernigov, Ukraine. When the bombs began to fall, they miraculously…

Students Surprise Refugees with Busload of Food

March 9, 2022

Campus

Students touring Poland with Chabad on Campus responded to an unexpected chance to assist Ukrainian refugees

Ep. 20: “Pastrami Shlichus” In Central Massachusetts

March 9, 2022

Podcast

The 20th episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

March 9, 2022

A War And a Wedding

Two Chabad emissary families travel through embattled areas, past army checkpoints and six countries, to a wedding celebration.

By Rena Udkoff

March 4, 2022

Dispatches From Ukraine: “Thousands of Jews and Israelis are arriving in our city”

We’ve received countless phone calls from around the world, asking if we can help bring Jews to Lviv from eastern cities and help them across…

By Rabbi Menachem Gottlib

March 3, 2022

Dispatches from Ukraine: “We’re evacuating the Jewish community”

We set out on what would become a twenty-four-hour drive to the Romanian border. We didn’t breathe until we got across the border

By Rabbi Ariel Markovitch

March 1, 2022

Dispatches from Ukraine: “We’re Facing a Humanitarian Crisis”

We’re just sixty miles from the Russian border, and Russian forces have surrounded the city

By Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein

February 28, 2022

Donors

Someone’s Always Watching

“The bank closed all our loans and wanted to take our building,” Sufrin shares. “It was bad.”

By Dvora Lakein

February 28, 2022

CTeen

LIVE: CTeen Jewish Pride in Times Square

Jewish teens gather in New York City in an uplifting display of Jewish pride and unity; featuring a special Havdalah ceremony, meaningful inspiration and an…