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How Manhattan’s Upper East Siders do the holiday mitzvahs.
Two young Israeli boys were riding their bikes along Manhattan’s East River Esplanade near Carl Schurz Park at 84th Street. They looked up, smiled, and called to their father in Hebrew: “Abba, look! A sukkah!”
Dancing with the Torah in Central America and around the world.
It wasn’t too long ago that the streets near Chabad of Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, were closed to traffic and instead filled with a dancing Jewish community as they welcomed their very first Torah scroll. The community will be celebrating once again next week and with even more people on hand, inclu...
Post-Ian, hard-hit communities in Florida look forward to “the season of our rejoicing.”
Chabad-Lubavitch centers in cities and towns on the Gulf Coast hardest hit by Hurricane Ian are constructing large communal sukkahs where more than a thousand guests are expected to gather during the seven-day holiday.
An emotional Yom Kippur, a Jewish funeral and Sukkot preparations accompany ongoing aid efforts for Jewish individuals and families in Florida.
VENICE, Fla.—Even as the aid efforts continue and the rebuilding work begins for those whose lives were uprooted by Hurricane Ian a little more than a week ago, Jewish life has not stopped at Chabad of Venice, Fla.—bringing a much-needed sense of normalcy, continuity and hope to many who have ne...
Sukkahs are popping up in unexpected places; the holiday begins on Sunday night, Oct. 9.
Hakhel celebrations are set to begin around the world with the onset of the joyous holiday of Sukkot, and Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are finding new ways to engage Jewish people of every age and background in every corner of the world to inspire them to participate in the festival’s many mitzvahs...
Only days before the storm, Chabad moved into a building that kept its electricity
In Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, Fla., you’ll find the roofs of homes strewn along the streets, cars tossed around like toys and fallen trees perched on houses and power lines. Six days after the storm, power is still out almost everywhere; cellphone coverage is scarce; and running water is not ...
Yom Kippur will see record attendance this year at Chabad synagogues throughout the world, where every Jew is a member.
With Yom Kippur soon upon us, Jews around the world are thinking about synagogues, whether they attend one daily or haven’t gone since last Yom Kippur. Chabad.org’s High Holidays Directory is seeing a record number of visitors eager to find a welcoming service in any one of the 110 countries and...
Volunteers and staff provide crucial aid as losses continue to mount.
In one short, horrific moment last week, Sasha Greto lost her home and everything in it to Hurricane Ian. A violent storm surge submerged her neighborhood in Venice, Fla., and brought five feet of water into her house. There was no salvaging; the water didn’t have anywhere to go. Even four days la...
A worldwide livestream of a gala dinner on Sunday, Oct. 2, in Jerusalem will launch the Steinsaltz English Mishnah project.
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz), who passed away in August 2020, will be remembered by thousands of students and admirers, as well as key supporters of his life’s mission of facilitating Jewish literacy, at an event in Jerusalem on Sunday, Oct. 2. Owing to the late scholar’s global reputatio...
Life-threatening flooding persists throughout the state.
The devastation caused by Hurricane Ian has extended far beyond Florida’s Gulf Coast. When Rabbi Yosef Konikov of Chabad-Lubavitch of South Orlando learned that a family of four was trapped on the second floor of their home in Kissimmee, just south of Orlando, and calls to 911 were not being respo...
As raging floodwaters recede, unprecedented devastation is starting to be revealed.
Thousands of residents of Southwest Florida remained trapped in their flooded homes and 2.6 million people throughout the state were still without power more than 24 hours after Hurricane Ian made landfall near Fort Myers. It was one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to strike the United States a...
A Category 4 storm is expected to cause catastrophic flooding and damage in parts of Florida.
As the terrifying and potentially catastrophic Category 4 Hurricane Ian crashed into Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday afternoon with winds of more than 150 mph and storm surges of 18 or more feet, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries reached out to residents trapped by the storm and began to make preparation...
Rabbi presents the president of German parliament with a new German-translated machzor.
German dignitaries, government officials and foreign ambassadors gathered at Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin on Sept. 21, to mark the coming Jewish new year, being celebrated from sundown of Sept. 25 until nightfall on Sept. 27. Led by the president of the Bundestag—Germany's parliament—Bärbel Bas, ...
Rabbis and volunteers are busy distributing 30,000 holidays packages.
With sirens blaring almost constantly and missiles hitting the center of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Rabbi Nachum Ehrentrau can hear rockets detonating just several hundred meters from his synagogue. The rabbi and his wife, Dina, have directed Chabad-Lubavitch of Zaporizhzhia (also spelled Zaporozhye) fo...
A daily message about positivity, followed by powerful shofar-blowing.
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Eitan Ash of Chabad-Lubavitch of Savoy in Johannesburg found a unique way to lift up spirits across South Africa.
He was devoted to Oholei Torah Educational Institution for more than six decades.
For more than six decades Rabbi Yosef (Joseph) Rosenfeld served as the steward of Oholei Torah Educational Institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of the largest yeshivahs in the world. His formal title was executive director, but the term would not accurately describe his total devotion to the instituti...
Mazel Day School in Manhattan Beach is the only private school in New York to win an honor for exemplary performance.
A Jewish day school in the Manhattan Beach section of Brooklyn, N.Y., was named by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2022.
Five years after Hurricane Maria, Chabad again provides material and spiritual support.
With Rosh Hashanah fast approaching and power and fresh water still unavailable over much of the island, Chabad of Puerto Rico has issued a call for emergency supplies as they prepare to meet the Jewish community’s spiritual needs on the High Holidays.
Chabad’s CTeen trip to Poland and Israel had a powerful effect on Yakov Vinnik.
The question played on 16-year-old Yakov Vinnik’s conscience. The child of Jews from the former Soviet Union, Vinnik grew up watching his mother, Maria, light the Shabbat candles, while his dad, Boris, spoke fluent Hebrew. “We were not very religious. I wore a Magen David but no kippah,” Vinni...
The first mitzvah campaign to bring Judaism to the individual, wherever he or she was.
For as long as anyone can remember, the symbol of the High Holidays has been the shofar, the ancient curved instrument used to inaugurate the Jewish New Year. The shofar, most often hewn out of a ram’s horn—although it can be made out of the horns of most kosher animals—is trumpeted in the syn...
Little Daniel and Anton were left on the streets before Chabad took them in.
Two-year-old Anton was found one day in July wandering the streets of Odessa, Ukraine. His mother had disappeared months earlier, and his father had been out of the picture for a long time. Anton’s neighbors and aunt had taken the boy in, but now, with the war plunging Odessa into chaos, Anton was...
38 years, 282 ZIP codes … mission completed!
It was 1984, and the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, had just issued a call to action: In every place where there is a Jewish population, a Tanya should be printed.
Mezuzah program is part of a year-long province-wide effort to raise mitzvah awareness.
Hundreds of Jews in British Columbia are making their homes holy with new mezuzahs and having their old ones checked with the help of Chabad Lubavitch in British Columbia. As part of a year-long “Ambassadors of Light” program, Jewish residents around the province are learning about Judaism’s m...
In a recent visit, U.S. Reps. Jimmy Panetta of California and Thomas Suozzi Panetta of New York said they were inspired by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson.
In 1944, in the harsh conditions of Almaty’s hot summer, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson’s health worsened, and he passed away at age 66. Arrested by the Soviets for the crime of upholding Judaism and exiled from his community in Yekatrinoslav, where he served as chief rabbi, he spent a year in S...
In communities of all kinds, women, men, young and old study a “transformational” Chassidic text.
As a young man and already an accomplished Torah scholar, Rabbi Mordechai Burg felt he needed something more. “I was studying Talmud and the deep, analytical commentaries, but it was dry,” he recalls.
Levi Duchman, rabbi to the United Arab Emirates, and Lea Hadad celebrated their wedding in the capital city of Abu Dhabi surrounded by 1,500 guests from all over the world, including Emirati royals, global dignitaries and much of the country’s burgeoning Jewish community.
Nuptials in the United Arab Emirates, the largest Jewish event in the country’s history, exemplify a couple’s commitment to Jewish life.
Rabbi Levi Duchman, Rabbi to the UAE, and Lea Hadad celebrated their wedding in the country’s capital city, Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday surrounded by 1,500 guests from around the world. Guests included Emirati royals, prominent rabbis, dignitaries, and much of the country’s burgeoning Jewish communi...
A 15 percent increase in High Holiday service attendance is expected in this Hakhel year.
When Rabbi Mendy Mentz moved to California last year with his wife, Dobbie, to establish Chabad of West Bel Air in the Los Angeles area, it was four weeks before Rosh Hashanah, and the Delta variant of the coronavirus was on everyone’s mind. Even though the Mentzes made clear they would be followi...
A congregation goes from a shuttered synagogue to a light-filled facility on 1.5 acres of gardens.
The ebbs and flows of Jewish life in smaller cities and towns across North America since the late 19th century have seen the rise and fall of many a synagogue structure and once-thriving community, with many now residing only in the musty halls of local historical societies or in the form of nearly....
Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau was on hand for the historic event.
To Jews in America and Israel, especially those of Hungarian descent, the very name Debrecen is redolent with Jewish history. There are synagogues, rabbis, and even kosher supervisions that proudly bear its name.
He was a trailblazing, old-world fixture on the Miami Beach shore.
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