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Rabbi Moshe Mayir Vogel is the Executive Director of the Aleph Institute-North East Region. Together, with a team of social workers, Vogel ensures that “No…

By Dvora Lakein

March 16, 2020

STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS ON COVID-19

Specifically, the virus reminds us that none of us is an island; that each one of us affects others and is affected by others. And…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

March 15, 2020

Gleaning Jewish Wisdom Through Art

On the first Friday of every month, the quiet cobblestone streets of Old City Philadelphia are reborn into a bustling, contemporary art scene. Thousands of…

By Lela Casey

March 12, 2020

Coronavirus Couldn’t Stop This Pre-Purim Joy

On Wednesday, with a little help from technology, a coronavirus-related setback was averted for a group of seniors and children.

By Ashira Weiss

March 8, 2020

Teens Pledge Soul Support at Shabbaton

Saturday night, two thousand and seven hundred high school students, from six hundred and twenty cities in twenty-four countries around the world, gathered in Times…

By Ashira Weiss

March 5, 2020

Conference Conversations

Once a year, Chabad leaders serving communities around the world, meet at the Annual International Conference of Shluchot (Chabad women emissaries). At the last Kinus,…

By Ashira Weiss

March 4, 2020

It’s Never Over Even When It’s Over

“Many of the girls come from dysfunctional homes or don’t have a home,” says one of the camp’s organizers, Sheva Rapoport. “YEKA is a safe,…

By Dvora Lakein

February 27, 2020

New Jewish Cemetery for Southwest Florida

A new Jewish cemetery was consecrated in Fort Myers last week under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida.

By Mussi Sharfstein

February 25, 2020

Bay Area Mother and Daughter Released From Quarantine

Esther and Chaya put on their own masks and stayed inside with some challah and grape juice (the only kosher items they had) to see…

By Rhona Lewis

February 23, 2020

Inaugural Scroll For Island Nation

Uri Krauss was turning 50. His wife, Adina was determined to mark the occasion with a memorable surprise—the dedication of a brand new Torah scroll.…

By Ashira Weiss

February 21, 2020

A First for Canberra: Jewish School Opens

The first Jewish school for the Australian Capital Territory and region has opened its doors this week in what is being hailed as a historic…

By Staff Writer

February 21, 2020

Chabad Unveils Memorial Sculpture to Marjory Stoneman Douglas Students

On Thursday, February 14, a sculpture immortalizing the story of 3,320 students was unveiled at Chabad of Parkland.

By Rhona Lewis

February 19, 2020

Serving With Love, Focus At Gala Banquet

At finale banquet of five-day conference, Chabad representatives focus on serving their communities with love.

By Ashira Weiss

February 17, 2020

International Conference Convenes In Brooklyn

They speak a variety of different languages, range in age from early twenties to late seventies, and hail from 100 different countries, but these 3,100…

By Ashira Weiss

February 14, 2020

New Chabad Representatives In Cornhusker State

Rabbi Daniel and Chaya Blotner arrived in Omaha, Nebraska last Thursday morning. The couple join Rabbi Mendel and Shani Katzman in their work here in…

By Dvora Lakein

February 12, 2020

To Be The Rebbe’s Emissary

In a 2014 interview with me, Rabbi Grunblatt shared his ideas about serving as the Rebbe’s emissary, and the attitudes and rigors that inform him,…

By Baila Olidort

February 4, 2020

Masks for the Elderly in Shanghai

Monday, February 3, Rabbi Shalom Greenberg from Chabad-Lubavitch of Shanghai donned his mask and made his way to the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum with a…

By Staff Writer

February 3, 2020

1200 USC Students Reserve for Campus’s Shabbat Dinner for 1000

“What do you do when Shabbat 1000 becomes Shabbat 1200, and it's only Wednesday?” Rabbi Dov Wagner posted on Instagram and tweeted that evening.

By Dvora Lakein

January 31, 2020

It’s Not A Hand-Out, It’s A Hand-Up

The clothing drive was a project of Chabad of Markham’s sweeping Tikkun Olam program, a venture that brings suburban families into the lives, and hearts,…

By Dvora Lakein

January 23, 2020

Still a Dollar

In the spring of 1981, the Lubavitcher Rebbe spoke about Jewish unity as an antidote to looming threat of warfare and terror at the time.…

By Dvora Lakein

January 22, 2020

Marathon Man

Jeremy Cooper, 26, is “running” a marathon, leining every Shabbat for the next 1,000 weeks. Weekday mornings, the Columbia University MBA candidate will get his…

By Boruch Werdiger

January 20, 2020