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Another War Casualty for Donetsk Jewish Community

Iryna Shelkeiva, 54, an employee at the Gan Menachem Chabad preschool, killed Tuesday from a shell that hit her apartment in the Ukrainian city of…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

February 12, 2015

Cyprus: A New Jewish Center for Growing Community

Jewish life in Cyprus is looking good. Good enough to warrant the establishment of a swank new 13,000 sq. foot Jewish community center, set to…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

February 12, 2015

A Community Experience for Jewish Students at CU

This month, Chabad CU will open the doors to a new center that will offer students yet a new and improved experience of Jewish community…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

February 11, 2015

At The Hermitage, An Award for Jewish Activism

Last week, David Rozenson, 43, the Executive Director and CEO of Beit Avi Chai, a cultural and educational center in Jerusalem, made the trip from…

February 10, 2015

City of Mystics Nurtures IDF Soldiers With Resolve

Soldiers are embraced with warmth and love by local families at their respective Shabbat dinners, and the experience helps them connect the dots to their…

February 9, 2015

A Help Line for Holocaust Survivors in Moscow

There are some 5000 Holocaust survivors in the city, many of them ailing and alone. Voice of Kindness, the new call center located at the…

By Staff Writer

February 3, 2015

Sweden’s Court Hears Case for Religious Freedom, Again

As Europe marked 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, Sweden's Chabad representatives were in court defending their children's right to a Jewish education.

By Baila Olidort

January 28, 2015

Jewish Teen Volunteers Take “Power” Prize

Chloe Dahan, 13 and Jamie Zimmerman, 14, spent the summer before their 8th grade year avidly planning the various details of a new performing-arts program…

By Rena Greenberg

January 28, 2015

Danish Jews Explore Heritage

What makes a chicken kosher? How do you prepare challah for Shabbat? Do eggs have to be kosher?

By Staff Writer

January 27, 2015

Australia Honors Pioneer of Chabad Synagogue

Today, Australia National Day, Ian Harris was one of 84 individuals to be awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for “service worthy of…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 26, 2015

Ottawa Government Grant Supports Chabad’s Initiative for Seniors

For its work teaching seniors to navigate the rapidly evolving technological and medical fields, the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa received a $10,000 grant from…

By Staff Writer

January 22, 2015

Deaf, But Not Excluded

A Jewish overnight summer camp may be an experience most Jewish kids have come to expect. Not so deaf Jewish children.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 21, 2015

Historic Nevada Cemetery Restored

In 1864, The Eureka Hebrew Society purchased a plot of ground on Cedar Hill, in Virginia City, Nevada, for a cemetery.

By Staff Writer

January 21, 2015

Dust Particles: Levi Robin, Singer/Songwriter

Dressed in plaid shirt and grey slacks with wisps of curly hair poking out of his black Fedora, Levi Robin sits in his studio cradling…

January 20, 2015

Musicians With Special Needs Release Recording

Chauffeured in limousines, dressed in formal attire, prepped by stylists, these aspiring musicians with special needs had the red carpet rolled out for them and…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 18, 2015

Learning Parenting To Raise Healthy Children

A parenting course that looks to Jewish values that have stood the test of time may surprise participants as it cuts the sacrosanct “what are…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 18, 2015

Unseen, Unheard, Poor Philadelphia Demographic Becomes Community Concern

Philadelphia’s Jewish Relief Agency a meeting ground for goodness

By Rena Greenberg

January 15, 2015

Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad, Israel, Rabbi Mordechai Ashkenazi, 71

Long-time Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad and the Emek Lod vicinity, Rabbi Modechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, suffered a fatal heart-attack this afternoon.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 14, 2015

Promise Made by Little Hungarian Girl During WWII Fulfilled

When Robert Rubinstein, a Toronto businessman, had to fulfill the dying wish of a Hungarian Christian woman, he reached out to the Chabad rabbi in…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 14, 2015

$1 Million Ruderman Chabad Initiative To Promote Inclusion

The Ruderman Family Foundation (RFF) has put $1 million towards the establishment of a partnership with Chabad-Lubavitch in order to create a culture of inclusion…

January 13, 2015

STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS

Prime Minister Valls was right in acknowledging that France will be judged a failure if its Jews are forced to flee. We urge Paris’s city…

January 11, 2015

France: In Face of Anti-Semitism, Jews Deepen Identity

Friday's terror siege on a kosher supermarket in France, in which four people were killed, is the most recent of anti-Semitic violence that has targeted…

By Rena Greenberg

January 11, 2015