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As Getty Fire Burns in LA, Chabads Offer Assistance

At about 1:34 on Monday morning, in the hills of Brentwood, California, a eucalyptus branch fell onto a power line, sparking a fire that quickly…

By Ashira Weiss

October 31, 2019

University of Pittsburgh Marks One Year for Tree of Life

On October 27, 2018, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the worst mass killing of Jews in America. At the…

By Ashira Weiss

October 29, 2019

Odessa’s Orphans

The Ukrainian port city of Odessa has seen a Jewish Renaissance in recent decades. Its now robust infrastructure of Jewish schools and community centers, packed…

By Rena Udkoff

October 28, 2019

Hot Meals and Warm Jewish Spirit Uplift Stranded Passengers in Barcelona

After technical delays forced a Norwegian airline traveling from Israel to New York to land in Barcelona, Spain, more than 100 passengers found themselves stranded…

By Mussi Sharfstein

October 24, 2019

12 Hours in the Heart of the Hood

Members of 10 Atlanta Chabad centers met at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport for a six a.m. flight last Wednesday. The 83 travelers, ranging in age from four…

By Dvora Lakein

October 24, 2019

Two Lesser-Known Jewish Holidays Occur this Week

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are the last two festivals during this month of the High Holidays. Shemini Atzeret is an extension of the Sukkot…

October 20, 2019

Meet Hallandale’s New CTeen Directors

That’s the winter I met the guy who would, some years later, become my husband. I met Joey at the CTeen International Shabbaton in New…

By Rachel Wilkes Goffstein

October 17, 2019

How Can I Make This World A Better Place?

The plethora of biographical books and articles about the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, have typically summarized his impact on the Jewish community by…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

October 16, 2019

Breaking Ground In Clearwater

One hundred and fifty community members gathered to break ground and lay the cornerstone of the new Feldman Campus for Jewish Life and the Tabacinic…

By Mussi Sharfstein

October 10, 2019

Learning Leadership, Life Skills, Love At South Florida Jewish Academy

They come from public schools, day schools, and yeshivahs, from homeschool and from no school. Fewer than half have diagnosed disabilities. Others are academically gifted,…

By Tzipora Reitman

October 10, 2019

Florida Community Steps Up to Bring Holiday Joy

In celebration of its 40th year, Chabad of South Broward, Florida, has launched a campaign to raise $40,000 for needy families in their area. Rabbi…

By Tzipora Reitman

October 7, 2019

$6 Million Dollar Chabad of Charlotte Grand Opening

Chabad of Charlotte welcomed dignitaries and locals to the “Grandest Opening” of their stately, six million dollar campus on a balmy Sunday evening in September.…

By Dvora Lakein

October 7, 2019

Our Yom Kippur Prayers: Better Than The Angels

Somewhere in the middle of the cantor’s repetition of the Yom Kippur afternoon Mussaf service, I finally get to concentrate on the prayers for a…

By Levi Fogelman

October 7, 2019

Fiftieth Chabad in the Lone Star State

In October, Rabbi Sholom and Chaya Block will be packing up the home they’ve lived in since their marriage eighteen months ago and setting out…

By Ashira Weiss

October 4, 2019

Cteen Judaism 101 in University Today

This fall, some 100 teenagers are expected to register as Yeshiva University non-matriculated students in a ground-breaking course on the tenets of Judaism. In conjunction…

By Dvora Lakein

October 3, 2019

Plugged In & Disconnected

“Students put their headphones in, stare at their cell phones, and walk right by us. But I don’t think it’s Judaism necessarily that they are…

By Dvora Lakein

October 2, 2019

High Holidays

Ancient Texts That Speak To Me: A CRY IS HEARD IN RAMAH

In the emotionally charged story of Mother Rachel weeping for her children, which we read in the haftorah on the second day of Rosh Hashanah,…

By Rabbi Mendel Kaplan

September 27, 2019

Historic: Two Synagogues and Two Torahs at the Banks of the Danube

At the shores of the Danube River, seventy-five years after 20,000 Jews were murdered there, the Jewish community of Budapest, Hungary celebrated this week the…

By Mussi Sharfstein

September 26, 2019

Chabad Makes it Easier Than Ever to Find a Service in Australia

As communities all over the world prepare for High Holy Day services, Chabad is looking out for the small towns, making sure cities of less…

By Mussi Sharfstein

September 25, 2019

Chabad Regains Rights to Krakow Synagogue Before High Holy Days

Judge Jacek Blat of the court of Krakow ruled today that the Izaak synagogue must be returned to Chabad of Krakow and reopened to the…

By Mussi Sharfstein

September 25, 2019

Sixty Three Days

When she was almost two weeks old, Gila and I boarded an early morning Delta flight bound for my mother’s bedside. We repeated the trip…

By Dvora Lakein

September 24, 2019

REPOST: Shofar in Kaluga, Russia

As this was our first Rosh Hashanah in Kaluga, we wanted to invite as many Jews as possible to celebrate the holiday with us. But…

By Michoel Oishie

September 23, 2019

New $7 Million Chabad Center Opens in Flagstaff

Flagstaff, AZ - Dr. Merrill and Rhoda Abeshaus were among Northern Arizona’s pioneers of Jewish life back in the 1970s. When in 2006, they heard…

By Tzipora Reitman

September 20, 2019

A Spiritual Injection for Azerbaijan’s Hidden Jerusalem

Just about thirty miles from the Caspian Seashore, in the northeast of Azerbaijan, lies the only all-Jewish town outside of Israel and Kiryas Joel and…

By Ashira Weiss

September 19, 2019