Entrepreneur Mort Fertel shares how he and his family have turned Salt Lake City into home As part of our “What’s It Like to Be Jewish” series in which we take a look at Jewish life in places as diverse as the jungles of the Amazon and the teeming streets of Casablanca, we bring you […]

And of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, O Zebulun, on your journeys, And Issachar, in your tents. They invite their kin to the mountain, Where they offer sacrifices of success. For they draw from the riches of the sea And the hidden hoards of the sand. (Deuteronomy 33:18-19) Before his passing, Jacob blessed his children and […]

Parsha and Geula Message from Parshas Terumo with Rabbi Avrohom Yehuda Kievman, Dayan at Melbourne Beis Din, based on the teachings of The Rebbe

By Rabbi Menachem Brod Translated by Yoni Brown Let’s say your friend asks for a loan. You might imagine — it depends on how I feel that day… If you’re feeling generous, you’ll say yes. If not, you’ll dodge the question or tell him you can’t help him today. But the truth is that the […]

International intrigue does not stand in the way of a community’s joyous celebration As anyone preparing to host a wedding for 500 might expect, the last week has been a blur for Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz, the rabbi and rebbetzin of Kharkov, Ukraine. There were the food deliveries, some last-minute shopping and late-night airport […]

Steve Berger pulls up to the Hebrew Academy’s parking lot every Tuesday. He’s not here to meet with the school’s 300 students. The seventy-year-old’s weekly visits are for checking on his own brood, some thirty-five fruit trees blooming across the Long Beach campus.  Berger, a computer programmer by training and a horticulturist by hobby, has […]

שבע האחיות לבית גרינברג לא זוכרות מתי נפגשו בפעם האחרונה. ככה זה כשכל אחת היא שליחת חב”ד במקום אחר, בשש מדינות שונות. ביום האישה הבינלאומי – הנה הצצה לחייהן של נשים שהן גם רבניות, גם אימהות, גם מנכ”ליות, גם מתמודדות עם כל אתגרי העולם היהודי, וגם מוצאות זמן לזום משותף באמצע הלילה, כדי לתת עצות […]

Adults inconvenienced, kids delighted by unusual winter storm JERUSALEM—There were major disruptions for grownups and lots of fun for kids as more than eight inches of snow fell on Jerusalem and the surrounding area on Wednesday night and Thursday. The unusual winter storm caused the closing of schools, shuttering of shops and major delays on […]

Museum to house Chabad at Auraria Campus programs The Colorado home of Israel’s first female prime minister will continue to have an impact on the Jewish world. The Golda Meir House Museum in Denver, where Meir lived as a teenager, was rededicated earlier this month to serve as a center of Jewish learning and engagement […]

Yitzchak Kogan spent 14 years waiting for a Soviet exit visa. Then the Rebbe sent him back In the winter of 1986, Yitzchak and Sofya Kogan finally received the Soviet exit visas they had waited 14 years for. Naturally, they were thrilled—but much had changed since they first applied in 1972. Like thousands of other […]