Aggieland Mikvah Will Educate Students, Serve Locals Chabad Serving Texas A&M—U.S.’s Largest College—Builds Unique Mikvah Educational Center By Shneur Brook March 31, 2024
Podcast Ep. 43: A Sub-Saharan Brit Milah The 43rd episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives By Staff Writer March 26, 2024
Lifecycle Bar Mitzvah Lessons, 21st-Century Edition Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein has seen the damage left in the wake of careless bar and bat mitzvah lessons. By Yoni Brown July 21, 2022
Lifecycle Against All Odds, Kharkiv Jewish Community Welcomes a New Member The war-weary city fell silent for a moment as the Jewish community gathered to welcome their newest member. By Yoni Brown July 7, 2022 2
Lifecycle Good Deeds for Daniel Perelman After a young man passed away in an airplane crash, his Wisconsin community is coming together to do mitzvot in his memory By Yoni Brown June 1, 2022 2
Lifecycle A Funeral & a Bar Mitzvah After Naomi Rosenberg’s funeral, Rabbi Alter Korf brought her dream true by celebrating a bittersweet Bar Mitzvah with her two sons By Rabbi Alter Korf May 26, 2022
Ukraine A War And a Wedding Two Chabad emissary families travel through embattled areas, past army checkpoints and six countries, to a wedding celebration. By Rena Udkoff March 4, 2022 11
Lifecycle Starr’s Yahrzeit Project “It’s so personal, it touches people profoundly. And it creates a deep sense of community.” By Staff Writer January 18, 2022 1
Judaism A Mom, A Torah, A Chuppah Ceremony The thought that she would never get to stand with her son under the chuppah broke Elisheva (Irene) Solovey’s heart. By Staff Writer July 20, 2021 2
Lifecycle A Canceled Bar Mitzvah, A Heartwarming Wave Of Support As Gedaliah recovered in bed, his phone sprang to life with a ping. "Mazel Tov Gedaliah!" By Yoni Brown July 14, 2021 1
Lifecycle ‘Yossi Tenenboim Day’ Celebrates Young Shliach’s Bar Mitzvah Hempstead NY Town Supervisor proclaimed June 16 "Yossi Tenenboim Day" in recognition of 13-year-old's contribution to the community By Yoni Brown July 1, 2021 1
Lifecycle Jewish Speed Dating Gone Virtual One thousand five hundred participants sign up to meet their match By Noa Blokh May 26, 2021
Travel Deals, Points, Miles, And a Jewish Burial How anonymous points hobbyists helped complete the burial of Dr. Jay Goldstein By Mussi Sharfstein March 21, 2021 38
Conversion A Nation is Born A family? A race? A religion? How do we define Jewish peoplehood? Does it matter? By Boruch Werdiger March 5, 2021
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 5
Lifecycle Paying It Forward The post on the WhatsApp group shared by Chabad reps described the situation: A young dad in some remote town in a province of northern… By Staff Writer September 16, 2020
Lifecycle Why Won’t You Call My Daughter Up To The Torah? The prevailing myth of bar and bat mitzvah as being the finale of their Jewish education marked by the memorization and chanting of a Torah… By Sarah Alevsky September 8, 2020 2
Lifecycle Mental Health Support and Memorial in Mineola Rabbi Anchelle Perl has officiated at what he called “an inordinate amount” of funerals since the coronavirus pandemic began. By Ashira Weiss September 1, 2020 10
Lifecycle Four Babies And An 11-Year-Old Brit in Hong Kong Community navigates pandemic regulations to import mohel from Israel By Ashira Weiss August 24, 2020 3
Community Hanover, Germany: A Tragedy and a Choice Fifteen years ago, Zev Iluz’s phone rang. The Israeli expat had settled in Hanover, Germany, to escape the pressures of life in Israel. He wanted… By Frayda Kaplan July 21, 2020
Lifecycle A Final Passage, From China to Israel A Jewish man dies alone in Suzhou, China. Chabad engages an international effort to prevent cremation and bring his body for burial to Israel. To… By Ashira Weiss July 16, 2020
Lifecycle Emerging From Lockdown, Romance Returns to Rome With a tragic national death toll of 34,000, these moments of joy are particularly poignant for the Jewish community of Rome. By Ashira Weiss June 24, 2020 1
When Jewish Life Goes Viral: What a Wedding! In this multimedia mini-series, we look at Chabad’s response to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Jewish life events. In this, part two, we… By Ashira Weiss March 29, 2020
When Jewish Life Goes Viral: Home for Shabbat In this multimedia mini-series, we look at Chabad’s response to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Jewish life events. In this, part one, we… By Ashira Weiss March 27, 2020
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