Chabadnik News
The challenge of being legally blind since birth has not stopped Richard Bernstein from becoming a lawyer, a Michigan Supreme Court Justice, run more than 20 marathons and compete in a Ironman triathlon race. Bernstein recently inspired the local Jewish community when he shared his story at synagogues and day schools in South Florida. Bernstein […]
Following Israel’s announcement on Wednesday that anyone returning from France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain will be required to self-quarantine, a directive that applies retroactively to anyone who has visited these countries in the past two weeks, a number of Mir bochurim who returned from their homes in Europe recently will now have to self-quarantine, […]
Looking out the window of his office, Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum finds it hard to get work done when he sees kids enjoying the miniature town he built for them. The indoor “Main Street” inside his enclosed “LifeTown” complex in Livingston, New Jersey, lets children with special needs — “special abilities,” Grossbaum insists — hone their […]
If you are a Jewish person on business in China, chances are you’ve been serviced by one of the country’s thirteen chabad houses. Today, in the wake of the coronavirus, hundreds of these business people, and many others, are paying it forward with awe inspiring support. And you can too. Five days into its campaign, […]
Chabad executive director and Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray became a certified Holocaust educator for college campuses earlier this year. His certification followed his participation alongside other Chabad rabbis in an intensive week-long seminar at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial for the Holocaust. According to Gray, this was the first time Yad Vashem organized a program […]
From the age of ten until I was fifteen, I attended the Chabad yeshivah in Newark, New Jersey. This was a very small, unaccredited school – housed in a one-family, colonial-style home on Grumman Avenue – run by Rabbi Sholom Ber Gordon. Although small, the school offered a warm educational environment and I learned a […]