G-d’s revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai forever left an indelible mark on the Jewish people. Referring to the event, G-d said, “You all saw that from the heavens I spoke to you.” Rashi’s commentary describes that “seeing is believing” and that the event impacted every Jew with an immediacy that an intermediary could […]

Annual Shabbaton draws hundreds from U.S. and Canada Finding one’s place in the Jewish community as a young, single adult can be challenging. Creating a broad, multi-national community of one’s peers is even harder. But for the hundreds of young adults who convened this past week for the Chabad Young Professionals International Re-Encounter Shabbat Experience, […]

He is remembered as a warm, loving soul who gave back to the community He was a comedian, actor and television host well-known and watched by millions of viewers worldwide. Perhaps less known, but far more important, was the warmth, care, compassion, and generosity he showed for the community in California and beyond. Over the […]

In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, the Chabad community likes to call its neighborhood the “hospitality capital of the world.” This past weekend, the community lived up to this title by hosting hundreds of young Jewish professionals from around the world. Groups of young Jewish men and women accompanied their rabbis for a uniquely […]

“I’m from the Woodstock generation, and I always had a passion for art that gets into your soul.”  Starr Zarin is an artist living in Olney, Maryland, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Five years ago, she was selling handcrafted pieces of art at the local Farmer’s Market when Rabbi Bentzy Stolik walked by with […]

For Jewish students on campus at Duke University, the “Israel conversation” often puts them on the receiving end of a whole lot of hate. This past semester, Rabbi Zalman Bluming, director of Chabad at Duke/UNC & Chabad at Durham/Chapel Hill, brought in two wounded Israeli soldiers to speak to the students. “Most students have no […]

Pillar of kindness fled tyranny in Soviet Russia, found material and spiritual prosperity in America Reb Michel Raskin, an unassuming pillar of kindness and hospitality who survived the ravages of Stalinist oppression and the horrors of World War II to become an iconic bridge between Chassidic life in Soviet Russia and America, passed away on […]

Fifty years of Chabad at SUNY Buffalo The year 1971 was a tumultuous one. Think Pentagon Papers. The 26th Amendment. The Vietnam War. Student uprisings and resistance rallies disrupted college campuses across the country. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, a few years before, a group of students protesting the war had […]

Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish Arbor Day that falls this year on January 17, marks the traditional new year for trees. Celebrated annually on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat, Tu B’Shevat is held in the season when the earliest-blooming trees in Israel emerge from winter’s hibernation and start to bud. Customarily the […]