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500 Honor 40 Years of Chabad School on the French Riviera

Over 500 people gathered in the iconic Negresco Hotel this past November to celebrate forty years of the Chabad Kerem Menachem school, directed by Sara…

By Mussi Sharfstein

December 20, 2018

New Chabad Center for America’s Fastest Changing City

With an eye on the upward trending growth of the local population, Chabad House of Asheville recently celebrated the opening of a new, permanent center.…

By Ashira Weiss

December 19, 2018

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Joins Chabad in Packing Staples for the Needy

Every day, dozens of local and visiting volunteers head to the Colel Chabad warehouse in Jerusalem to pack food staples to be distributed to thousands…

By Mussi Sharfstein

December 18, 2018

Today in Jewish History: Asarah (10) B’Tevet

On the 10th of Tevet in the Hebrew year 3336 (425 BCE), the army of Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar surrounded Jerusalem’s stone walls and laid siege…

By Staff Writer

December 17, 2018

Tackling the Text in Braille, JLI Teaches Torah to the Blind

Not one to shy away from a challenge, Rabbi Rivkin called up the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), the course creators, known for their cutting-edge…

By Mussi Sharfstein

December 17, 2018

Latkes and Lights at the Oregon Zoo

Rachel is a program manager at the Union for Reform Judaism. She works to build inclusivity daily and is responsible for bringing diversity and equity…

By Ashira Weiss

December 14, 2018

Chabad House Bowery Goes Apping

A new app was launched by Chabad House Bowery, providing students and young professionals in the Bowery area of Manhattan (including students at NYU) with…

By Mussi Sharfstein

December 12, 2018

Germany: Light in the Footprint of Hate

As a light drizzle fell, thousands gathered for a historic Menorah lighting in Berlin, Germany. “I just watched a light extinguish a dark history at…

By Ashira Weiss

December 7, 2018

NBA Teams Partner with Chabad for a Night of Jewish Pride

The American Airlines Arena in Miami, was transformed into a Chanukah celebration this Sunday as the Miami Heat hosted their tenth annual Jewish Heritage Night…

By Ashira Weiss

December 4, 2018

Four Days of Chanukah Fun in Queens

Families in Queens, New York, once again have something to look forward as the annual Queens Chanukah Experience opens for four days of interactive, thematic…

By Ashira Weiss

December 2, 2018

60,000 Participants Celebrate Chabad Founder’s Holiday in Jerusalem

Over 350,000 books on Jewish and Chasidic themes were sold in less than ninety-six hours during Israel’s largest Chasidic book fair, hosted at Jerusalem’s Binyanei…

By Frayda Kaplan

November 29, 2018

Chabad Waterloo Celebrates Ten

The room erupted with a standing ovation at the tenth anniversary gala for Chabad of Waterloo as Rivky Goldman was presented with a bouquet of…

By Ashira Weiss

November 28, 2018

From Imprisonment To Freedom

It’s a 220 year old celebration. And it happens all over the world. The 19th of Kislev, beginning at sunset on Monday evening and lasting…

By Shaindle Fogelman

November 27, 2018

TanyaClass.com Celebrates Completion of Fourteen-Year Series

What started as a class of ten people studying the Tanya at Chabad of the Upper East Side in Manhattan became a global network of…

By Mussi Sharfstein

November 26, 2018

Why I Support Chabad

“Chabad is the only proactive outreach Jewish organization that I’ve seen in my adult life and that’s something I want to support ... I’m a…

By Staff Writer

November 26, 2018

The Case for Religious Freedom: the Struggle to Expand a NJ Synagogue

Rabbi Dov Drizin never imagined that his Chabad House would become the centerpiece of a federal lawsuit. Arriving in suburban Pascack Valley, New Jersey, he…

By Tzipora Reitman

November 25, 2018

Mumbai: On Tenth Anniversary, Nariman House Becomes Nariman Lighthouse

In the decade since Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba left 166 people in Mumbai dead, including Chabad representatives Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, the city has…

By Shaindle Fogelman

November 24, 2018

Jewish Life Thaws in Remote Arkhangelsk

Government archives show that Arkhangelsk, some 750 miles north of Moscow and more than three degrees higher than Anchorage, Alaska, was once home to two…

By Shaindle Fogelman

November 20, 2018

How To Help Victims of California’s Most Destructive Fire

“The Zwiebels provided us with food and some gelt just to tide us over,” said Randy, who likes to pepper his sentences with Yiddish phrases.…

By Tzipora Reitman

November 19, 2018

Chabad Comes to Rescue of Diverted Flights

The Hendels weren’t the only emissaries to host stranded passengers that week: an Aeroflot flight to Israel was also delayed by the New York weather,…

By Staff Writer

November 19, 2018

California’s Blaze Begins to Contain, Chabad’s Help Expands

There are people who lost everything, people who lost a great deal, and people who are still under mandatory evacuation orders who are in need…

November 16, 2018

Synagogue Confiscated By Soviets Now A Jewish Orphanage

In a place where Jewish activities-were once conducted in secret, the Jewish community of Dnipro, Ukraine celebrated the renovation and reopening of its orphanage for…

By Mussi Sharfstein

November 15, 2018

Ottawa Student Gives Back

More than ten years after he first met the local Chabad representatives, Harley Finkelstein and his wife Lindsay Taub, have decided to give back to…

By Mussi Sharfstein

November 13, 2018

Open Hearts, Helping Hands at UMass Amherst

When hackers broke into university printers and distributed anti-Semitic flyers two years ago, the University of Amherst community was shaken by the spike in blatant…

By Shterna Karp

November 13, 2018