Sessions at 31st annual conference held in person and live streamed around the world Thousands of leaders and role models in communities around the globe are joining together in person and online for the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchos in Hebrew), which encompasses six days of camaraderie, bonding. learning and inspiration […]

Dean of Oholei Torah Yeshiva educated and inspired thousands of students Rabbi Zushe Wilhelm, a renowned Torah scholar, author of many Torah works and longtime dean of the high school division of Educational Institute Oholei Torah in Brooklyn, N.Y., passed away on Wednesday night, Jan. 5 (4 Shevat). He was 62 years old. He served […]

Thousands join virtual programming alongside scaled-back in-person reunion. In ordinary times, the international conference of Chabad women representatives — known simply as the Kinus — drew over 3,000 women from around the world to Brooklyn, New York. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the event to go entirely online last year. With the Omicron variant raging, this […]

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 […]