JewQ international contestants compete in Princeton, N.J. Fourth-grader Avery (“Masha”) McMullen of Haverford, Pa., loves to learn, and says language arts is her favorite subject. But it was her knowledge of Judaism that propelled her to the head of the class in an international Jewish competition for kids. When the Coopertown Elementary School student received […]

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons killed by police Two terrorists with automatic weapons opened fire at passersby at a bus stop near several restaurants in the northern Israeli city of Hadera, killing two and wounding six others, some critically. The gunmen were shot dead by police at the scene. Two of the wounded were in […]

Reading the Megillah amid air-raid sirens and adjacent to Europe’s largest nuclear plant Air-raid sirens in Ukraine are not very loud for the same reason there are so few bomb shelters—no one ever expected to need them. In most parts of the country, the most reliable way to stay abreast of deadly bombing raids is […]

Batsheva Oberlander and Miriam Alexandrov with Chana Weisberg Batsheva Oberlander, shlucha in Hungary, talks about her refugee work, and is joined by a refugee from Ukraine, who is en-route to Israel. Source: https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/5471167/jewish/In-Hungary-Doing-Whatever-We-Can-to-Help-the-Ukrainian-Refugees.htm

Mega-seders and home deliveries require many tons of shmurah matzah, wine and other staples First in a series of articles on helping the Jews of Ukraine to celebrate Passover Passover has always been a celebration of freedom and redemption for Jews the world over, but also a time to focus on the needs of the […]

On March 13th, one hundred and ten Jewish schoolchildren marched into a Princeton, New Jersey ballroom for CKids’ annual JewQ International Torah Championship 5782 and took their places on the dais. They had spent months accumulating a considerable body of Jewish knowledge at their local Chabad Hebrew Schools, and now they were ready to show […]

In Episode 21 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, reporter/producer Gary Waleik reaches out to Rebbetzin Miriam Moskovitz of Kharkov and Rebbetzin Esther Wilhelm of Zhitomir for their stories on the dramatic journey leaving Ukraine during the war, about their continuing efforts to serve their communities despite the war in Ukraine, […]

Rabbi Moshe Krivitski ran a Colel Chabad soup kitchen for more than 10 years Rabbi Moshe Krivitski, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in the Nachal Beka neighborhood of Beersheva who ran a local soup kitchen for more than 10 years, was among the four victims of a terrorist attack in Israel on Tuesday morning. He leaves behind […]

Assailant identified as Bedouin with terrorist ties At least four people were killed and two were seriously injured in a terrorist stabbing attack and car-ramming in Beersheva, Israel. A lone assailant reportedly drove up to a gas station near a large shopping center, exited his car and began stabbing people, killing three and injuring others. […]