News - Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters

New Centers

Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Gets Infusion of Jewish Community

Storied Chabad-Lubavitch Emissary Family Sees Sixth Generation Embark to Lead American Jewish Community

By Staff Writer

January 4, 2024

Campus

Illini Chabad Dedicates 27,000-Square-Foot Center

Governor J. B. Pritzker Cuts Ribbon, Praises the Center’s Message of Belonging and Inclusion Amid Antisemitism

By Staff Writer

October 30, 2023

Community

Launching Chabad Centers — No Longer Just a Young Person’s Game

Until recently, there had been no synagogue active in the town.

By Staff Writer

August 23, 2023

4

New Centers

Second Chabad Center Opens in Cowboy State

With the opening this past spring of Chabad of Laramie, the campus town now has a Chabad House as well, and the Cowboy State's 1500…

By Staff Writer

July 11, 2023

1

New Centers

Banking On A New Space, Chabad of Clearwater Expands

As bank closures swept across the country in late March, a shuttered Bank of America building in Clearwater, Florida, found new life as a vibrant…

By Liba Rimler

May 29, 2023

1

New Centers

Chabad Opens in Zambia

The southern African country of Zambia is now home to its first rabbi in over seventy-five years

By Rochel Horowitz

March 19, 2023

2

New Centers

A Jewish Community Life Sprouts in Elk Grove, California

Rabbi Chaim and Raizel Groner moved to Sacramento’s fastest-growing suburb in September to connect local Jews and build the city’s first Jewish community

By Yoni Brown

January 8, 2023

New Centers

Jewish Community and Culture Comes to Life in Martha’s Vineyard

Ahead of the summer of 2022, the Alperowitzes booked a one-way ticket to the island on the ferry and launched Chabad of Martha’s Vineyard out…

By Yoni Brown

October 23, 2022

4

CTeen

Trailblazing Former CTeener to Open Innovative Atlanta CTeen Center

Once a CTeener himself, Dovid Goldschmidt and his wife Talya are opening an innovative CTeen center in Atlanta, GA.

By Yoni Brown

August 28, 2022

2

New Centers

Georgia Native Returns as Chabad Rabbi

Rabbi Chaim grew up just north of Atlanta in a home that was traditional, but didn’t practice all the particulars of a religious Jewish lifestyle

By Yoni Brown

August 15, 2022

2

New Centers

Second-Oldest Building in Finland is Chabad’s Newest Center

After two decades of communal growth and half a decade of renovations, and with the help of an old friend from Bogata, Columbia, Chabad of…

By Yoni Brown

July 17, 2022

2

New Centers

Chabad Comes to the Jungles of S. Teresa, Costa Rica

A thriving tropical community of Jewish spiritual seekers and surfers gets a full-time Chabad presence

By Yoni Brown

July 10, 2022

1

New Centers

Paris, Mexico, and Gresham, Oregon

After bumping into Chabad rabbis around the world, Jack Skiterman knew he had to reach out to the new Chabad couple in his own Oregon…

By Yoni Brown

May 2, 2022

2

New Centers

Meeting Jews and Making Moves in Minnesota

In 1986 a nuclear reactor in the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl exploded. Deadly clouds spewed across Belarus and Ukraine, leaving radioactive fallout that brought radiation…

By Yoni Brown

April 4, 2022

New Centers

New Orleans Kicks Off Fourth Generation of Chabad Outreach

Rabbi Yossi and Mushka Cohen have been appointed Chabad emissaries to New Orleans, bringing Chabad’s outreach into its fourth generation

By Yoni Brown

March 20, 2022

1

New Centers

Population Boom Brings Fourth Chabad Couple to Montana

Montana is experiencing a population boom, and new Chabad representatives are moving into the state’s largest city to meet the Jewish community’s growing needs

By Yoni Brown

February 10, 2022

2

New Centers

Chabad House In A Car

Rabbi Saadya Kaufmann, director of Chabad of Texas Towns, runs his Chabad house from the driver’s seat of his car.

By Noa Blokh

October 14, 2021

1

New Centers

A Personal Rabbi, A Personal Home

The two towns of Portola Valley and Woodside, California are peaceful, rural neighborhoods, located hip to hip, known for their rugged beauty and scenic country…

By Noa Blokh

September 30, 2021

2