Aleph Rescues Afghans from Taliban

How an Orthodox Jewish non-profit airlifted hundreds of Judges and former US employees from the Taliban’s Afghanistan. When the Taliban started sending him death threats, Fazel Malek* had to leave his wife and daughter behind in Kabul, Afghanistan. After a team of Chabad rabbis arranged his family’s rescue, he’s now living at a Chabad Jewish […]

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How Jews in Ukraine Will Celebrate Passover This Year

50,000 Seder kids with matzah and other holiday necessities are on the way They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues and military bases. But come what may, when night falls on Passover eve on April 15, the Jews of Ukraine will pause to eat matzah and bitter herbs, drink four cups of […]

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Redesigned and Updated, Chabad.org’s Haggadah Brings a Classic Text to Life

Second edition tops Amazon’s charts for both “Haggadahs” and “Jewish holidays” categories In Spring of 2021, just weeks before what would be many people’s second Passover in isolation, Chabad.org released an all-new Haggadah. The Haggadah came at just the right time for so many who would lead their own Seder for the first time, or […]

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Sivan Rahav Meir Interviews Rabbi Shlomo Peles

Sivan Rahav Meir is an Israeli journalist, news reporter, and TV and radio anchor. Last week she traveled to Kfar Chabad to speak with Rabbi Shlomo Peles, a key figure in Chabad’s response to the Ukrainian war and refugee crisis. Here we present Sivan Rahav Meir’s account of the meeting. It was almost midnight when […]

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What It Has Been Like to Host Ukraine Refugees

Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Chanie Myers writes of having more than a dozen house guests at any given time Together with her husband, Slovakian Chief Rabbi Baruch Myers, Chanie Myers serves as Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Bratislava. Over the past few weeks, the Myers family has welcomed a stream of Ukrainian refugees into their home. Here, she shares […]

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