Chabad of Tallahassee and its community members honored of Tu B’Shvat, the “Jewish Arbor Day” earlier this week. Working with the local Department of Parks and Recreation, Chabad led families and children in planting sapling cherry trees in Lafayette Park.. Read More »
Some 120 Jewish students converged last weekend at Chabad at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, AZ for the first ever Arizona Intercollegiate Shabbaton.. Read More »
Some 350 prominent guests, partnering politicians, and lay leaders attended the Chabad Russian Center of South Florida’s Inaugural Gala at the Surf Club in January, where plans to build a $7.7 million Jewish Russian Community Center in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida where unveiled. Read More »
The funds geared towards revival of communal religious life will compensate the historic religious establishments in Hungary. Read More »
On January 26, Rabbi Alexander and Leah Namdar, Chabad representatives to Sweden, were served at their home with a notice by Gothenburg’s school authorities. Read More »
Canada’s refusal, back in 1939, to allow landing privileges to the St. Louis Missouri, a ship carrying 900 Jewish refugees, many of who eventually perished after being forced to return to Nazi Europe.. Read More »
With the launch of the first Russian language Rohr Jewish Learning Institute course February 6, Jews in formerly communist countries will join the ranks of their brethren everywhere else as they participate in a richer Jewish life experience with the benefit of advanced learning opportunities.. Read More »
Rabbi Mordechai Meir Bryski, a long-time educator and Brooklyn community activist passed away on January 8, 2012. He was 88.. Read More »
Darwin scandalized the world when he published On the Origin of Species. Have we reached the perfection of our understanding of life, or has our perception since evolved? An intelligent argument for intelligent design, exploring some of the dramatic flaws in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, and compelling evidence indicating a creator. Read More »
The Jewish community of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, celebrated a milestone in the city’s Jewish renaissance with the dedication January 12 of a central synagogue and community center,. Read More »
After my first visit to Bet Shemesh, when my husband and I were in the contemplation stage of aliyah. Read More »
A New Jersey Chabad rabbi’s kidney donation to an Israeli living on a secular Moshav in central Israel didn’t make news as the headline-grabbing, purportedly bitter religious vs. secular Jewish divide always does.. Read More »
Holocaust survivors are a fast dwindling population. But buried with many a survivor who dies is a story of untold suffering and loss, and also, lessons of an extraordinary will for life.. Read More »
Born and raised in Palm Springs, Friedman grew up surrounded by a significant number of Holocaust survivors—some local, some visiting, and all praying at her father’s synagogue . “Year after year we’d hear about which survivors would not be returning … Read More »
Pleasantness and peace are not only fundamental to the observance of Torah-true Judaism, but are the only appropriate paths to maintaining and promoting authentic Jewish values. Read More »
As the forerunner of the court systems for much of the civilized world, the Torah’s intriguing system of jurisprudence and adjudication remains as relevant and as applicable today as ever. Read More »
situated on more than 200 acres of Canadian forest with 6000 feet of lakefront property in time for this summer season.. Read More »
The small synagogue is equipped with Torah scrolls, prayer books and other books on Judaism in Russian, donated by members of the S. Petersburg Jewish community.. Read More »
We condemn this news item as a vicious, transparent act of anti-Semitism. We implore readers and watchdog agencies to vigorously protest this dangerous provocation.. Read More »
A Jewish activist in the DP camps after the War and a pioneer of Jewish life in Aubervilliers, France, passed away Monday, December 19. He was 90.. Read More »
Nearly half a million Jews call Brooklyn, New York their home. To some the image of Brooklyn Jewry is young Yeshiva boys. Read More »
150 guests from Chabad Lubavitch of Utah for a Menorah Lighting Ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City. Read More »
From baseball greats Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax to boxers such as Daniel Mendoza and modern-day champ. Read More »
From baseball greats Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax to boxers such as Daniel Mendoza and modern-day champ. Read More »
On Tuesday, December 20th 2011, F.R.E.E. of Brighton Beach’s annual grand outdoor Menorah Lighting took place drawing hundreds of families with children and many onlookers in honor of the first night of Chanukah.. Read More »
Councillor Julie Mills, Mayor of the Royall Borough of Kensington and Chelsea helped a child light the shamash. Professor Nechemia Polen of Boston lit the other menorah lights.. Read More »
More than 1300 turned out to celebrate the first night of Chanukah on the ice at the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park, possibly the largest Chanukah party in New York City.. Read More »
Lord Mayor of Oxford, Cllr Elise Benjaminparticipated in a grand menorah lighting on Broad Street,Tuesday evening, thefirst night of Chanukah. More than 150 people joined the celebration organizedby Chabad of Oxford.. Read More »
Several hundred people celebrated outside Brooklyn Boro Hall’s Courthouse, Tuesday night, as Brooklyn Boro President Marty Markowitz kindled the first light of the menorah with the help of Rabbi Aaron Raskin, of Chabad of Brooklyn Heights.. Read More »
Thousands joined American Friends of Lubavitch for the National Menorah lighting Chanukah celebration.. Read More »
As people everywhere usher in the first light of Chanukah, Chicago’s newly elected Mayor, Rahm Emanuel hosted Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun…. Read More »
The rabbi, along with 10 boys in his Cheder class and 14 in his girls class, have gone global. Expanding the volunteer platoon, this year they launched “The World’s Most Caring Menorah.”. Read More »
The small hamlet of Woodstock, best known for lending its name to the Woodstock, now has another mark of distinction: it’s home to the world’s first solar-powered menorah.. Read More »
Erected by the late Rolling Stones promoter and Holocaust survivor Bill Graham, it was known as the “mama” menorah because of the thousands of others it inspired globally.. Read More »
Noted civil liberties lawyer Nathan Lewin discusses his involvement in the legal battle to allow menorahs to be lit in public spaces. This class was given at the National Jewish Retreat – a yearly event hosted by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Read More »
Chanukah enlivens all of the senses with its oil, light, and sweet treats. Now, award-winning author Sylvia Rouss brings the holiday experience alive for children in her new book, A Touch of Chanukah.. Read More »
Stockholm, Sweden: The night before Israeli chemist Dan Shechtman accepted his Nobel Prize Medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden… Read More »
Chanukah begins Tuesday evening, December 20, but shoppers at Home Depot’s St. Louis store got an early start on the Festival of Lights last Sunday. Read More »
It is crunch time for students at learning institutions worldwide as they study for finals that mark the end of a school semester. But for students learning Tanya, an 18th century classic Chasidic work, today marks the beginning of a new yearly cycle of daily study.. Read More »
There are more synagogues in Jerusalem than Starbucks in Manhattan, still Tully Guralnek is celebrating the opening of Jerusalem’s new Chabad of Rechavia center.. Read More »
Virginia Tech’s Chabad rabbi has been fielding calls since a shooter gunned down a police officer on campus early Thursday afternoon.. Read More »
Rabbi Schneur Wineberg, East Vancouver; Rabbi Meir Kaplan, Victoria; Rabbi Lipa Dubrwasky, Vancouver; Rabbi Falik Schtrucks, Surrey; Rabbi Binyomin Bitton, Downtown Vancouver, Rabbi Shmuli Hecht, Kelowna; Rabbi Yechiel Baitelman, Richmond. Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg Director of Lubavitch B.C wasn’t able to attend.. Read More »
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1928, Greene was raised in a Yiddish speaking home with a strong sense of Jewish identity where he cultivated a love for the language. Read More »
In 1940, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn arrived in Gothenburg, Sweden for what would be the last stop on his harrowing rescue from war-torn Europe.. Read More »
Studies in Rashi, the first volume in a new series focusing on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s ground-breaking exposition of Rashi’s commentary on the Torah. Read More »
Rabbi Sholom Ber Goldshmid passed away November 10. He was 86 years old.. Read More »
Rabbi Sholom Ber Goldshmid passed away November 10. He was 86 years old.. Read More »
Rabbi Sacks’s 30-minute keynote address, packed with pithy lines and weighty ideas, was both an ode to the Rebbe and a powerful primer on Jewish leadership. Read More »
Great Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks delivered the keynote address at the banquet session of the 28th International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries Sunday evening.. Read More »
The 28th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries began Wednesday, November 23, at the movement’s headquarters in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Read More »
Montreal is no Anatevka, but a local matchmaking site is bringing the matchmaker back to town.. Read More »
Representatives of real estate, tourism, health care and hi-tech industries participated at the fourth Israeli Expo in Moscow.. Read More »
A former church building later outfitted as a private residence will now become the “Shul of the Lakes” for the Hollywood Lakes community.. Read More »
Only a stone’s throw from Zuccotti Park where protestors clashed with police last Wednesday evening, scores of Wall Street businesspeople…. Read More »
To put things in perspective, understand that some of these people were struggling before the floods. They lived in basic structures, only one floor high, with the bare minimum. Read More »
You can barely take a step in the modern world without everyone knowing where you are and what you’re up to.. Read More »
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