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Family Time

In late 1990, the Rebbe asked that a pictorial album of Chabad representatives be created. It would include photos of all the shluchim families—men, women,…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

December 21, 2020

Mezuzah for Miami-Dade Mayor

Among the first orders of business for newly elected Miami Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was affixing a mezuzah to her office doorpost. The ceremony, on…

By Ashira Weiss

December 21, 2020

President of Germany’s High Court Kindles Chabad Menorah

Karlsruhe, Germany, seat of Germany’s Supreme Court and home to some 2,000 Jews, celebrated Chanukah this year, as every year, with distinguished leaders participating in…

By Ashira Weiss

December 18, 2020

Talmud

Talmud Teasers: Teacher Training

The word Chanukah in Hebrew comes from the same root as chinuch—education, and, indeed, one of the central messages of Chanukah concerns the significance of…

By Staff Writer

December 16, 2020

Hospital

Virtual Hugs for the Hospitalized

Rachel* clutched the package close to her chest, in her room at Morristown Medical Center. In the hospital for a month as she is treated…

By Ashira Weiss

December 16, 2020

Military

Music, Light, and Love for US Troops

It began with a little music. Chaplain to the Iron Rangers and Rabbi on Post at Fort Riley Army Installation in North Central Kansas, Rabbi…

By Ashira Weiss

December 13, 2020

Lifecycle

Four Brit Milot, Four Cities, Four Days

It was a whirlwind week for Rabbi Yossi Simon, director of the Chabad House of Golders Green in London, England. The rabbi, who is also…

By Ashira Weiss

December 8, 2020

Chanukah

Chanukah in the Time of Covid

In line with local COVID guidelines, Chabad communities around the world will be giving the 2,215-year-old traditions of Chanukah a 2020 twist.

By Ashira Weiss

December 7, 2020

Shluchim

Sofia, Bulgaria: Fire Destroys Home, Chabad Family of 12 Safe

A Saturday night fire sparked by an electric short, left the home of the city’s Chabad representatives and their ten children a charred skeleton.

By Staff Writer

December 6, 2020

Judaism

In Orlando, Something to Celebrate

As COVID cases in their state spiked for a second time, Meir and Shawna Waizman wondered what more they could do to protect their friends…

By Ashira Weiss

December 2, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: Shabbos Goy

The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .

By Staff Writer

December 2, 2020

New Centers

New Shluchim to Lagos, Nigeria

When Rabbi Mendy and Mazal Sternbach met for the first time, they discovered they had matching stamps on their passports: both had spent time assisting…

By Ashira Weiss

December 1, 2020

Australia

Ckids International Crowns Australia’s First ‘JEWQ Champion’

Ethan Ickowiz from JEMS Bondi, NSW is the new JEWQ Champion. Ckids International crowned Ethan “Ultimate JewQ champion of Australia” at the JEWQ grand finale…

By Staff Writer

December 1, 2020

covid-19

NYU’s Longest COVID Patient Released

“This is the moment I have been praying for from the moment I woke up at NYU this summer,” said Rabbi Yudi Dukes, Thursday, appropriately,…

By Ashira Weiss

November 27, 2020

Humanitarian

Turkey Dinners For Park City Homebound

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and the kitchen at the Bistro Kosher Deli in Park City, Utah is bustling. A team of volunteers, dressed in…

By Ashira Weiss

November 25, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: The Biggest Hug

The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .

By Staff Writer

November 24, 2020

New Centers

Driving Rural Georgia

The last place Rabbi Chaim Markovits expected to hear an authentic, heimish Yiddish with a Brooklyn accent was in Macon, Georgia (pop. 150,000).

By Mussi Sharfstein

November 24, 2020

New Centers

New Shluchim to San Fernando Valley, California

Rabbi Mendel and Sheva Rapoport were recently appointed to join the team at Chabad of the Valley in California. They will boost Chabad’s

By Ashira Weiss

November 23, 2020

Kinus

Chabad Shluchim Conference Becomes World’s Longest Zoom Event

By now, it is in its 114th hour and still going strong!

By Ashira Weiss

November 18, 2020

Shluchim

Chabad Mumbai: Remembering, Rebuilding

Twelve years ago this week, terrorists stormed the Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai. Members of the Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba held Chabad representatives Rabbi Gavriel…

By Shaindle Fogelman

November 17, 2020

Kinus

Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim Opens Today

The 34th Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim opens today with 5,200 emissaries participating. Instead of taking place in New York this year, the four-day…

By Ashira Weiss

November 12, 2020

New Centers

Planting Jewish Seeds in Atwater

Jonathan found a surprise on his doorstep. The sixty-year-old resident of Atwater Village, a suburb to the northeast of Los Angeles examined the gift basket…

By Ashira Weiss

November 10, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: Rabbi In A Costume

The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .

By Staff Writer

November 9, 2020