History was made in Iceland today as celebrants danced down the streets of Reykjavik Feb. 16, to mark the first-ever completion and inauguration of a Torah scroll on the European island, following a reception last Thursday at the home of the U.S. Ambassador to Iceland. For more than 1,000 years of its recorded history up […]

As more than 3,000 women from across the globe return home from the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchos), some of the women who participated in the conference’s guest program reflected on their experiences at the five-day conference. Martha Schlenger, Santa Fe, N.M. “Thought-provoking, heartwarming, inspiring” are just some of the adjectives that […]

Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded a flight to Shanghai and then on to New York. “Until then, it wasn’t obvious what […]