How many can you answer? “Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses” Deuteronomy 34:10 The Torah readings of late summer are in the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth and final of the Five Books of Moses. It contains the last will and testament of Moses to the Jewish people, shortly before […]
Planting Life in the Desert of Arizona
New Shluchim arrive to downtown Phoenix “The Jewish people have always flourished in the desert,” said Rabbi Dovber Dechter, his frank and friendly voice resonating clearly over the phone line. “A desert personifies our mission in this world – to take dry, desert-like places and turn them into cities of Torah and good deeds.” Rabbi […]
Book Notes
Escape From Iran The Exodus of Persian Jewry During the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Sholem Ber Hecht GD Media, 265 pages For 2,500 years the Jews of Persia, banished from their homeland, built a civilization in exile. Their fortunes rose and fell, from the glory of their ancestral traditions to persecution, suppression, and the brutality […]
Hospitality is the Name of the Game at UMass Chabad
Chabad is purchasing a new property to accommodate their many guests Jodi Warum knows first-hand what it’s like to be constantly in and out of hospitals. A mother of five, she travels with her eight-year-old son, Azzi, every six months or so from Monsey, New York to treat his muscular dystrophy at UMass Memorial Medical […]
Meet Australia’s Newest Supreme Court Justice, Rabbi Marcus Solomon
Educator, rabbi and judge speaks to Chabad.org in a wide-ranging interview Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon is a graduate of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivahs in Australia, Israel and America. He was ordained as a rabbi before going on to study law in his native Australia. In 1987, he and his wife, Linda, married in Perth, where he […]
Finding Fred After 80 Years
Off The Beaten Path: Chabad Houses You Didn’t Know Existed, Part 2 Chabad of Mat-su Valley, Alaska On a short Friday afternoon in December of 2019, Rabbi Mendy Greenberg pops into the Veterans and Pioneers Home of Palmer, Alaska. When he stops at the front desk to see if there are any Jewish residents, he’s […]
Torah Scrolls Stolen, Synagogue Vandalized at Chabad of Long Beach
Late this Saturday night, Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach, New York, went back to his newly renovated synagogue to ensure that everything was secured correctly after Shabbat. To his horror, he found the sanctuary vandalized and in disarray. For a year and a half, the Chabad of Long Beach […]
Pop-Up Deli Serves up Sourdough Goodness
Customers eat for a cause at this deli, supporting the Friendship Circle adults who help run the pop-up A new pop-up deli at the Friendship Circle of Dallas is serving up mouth-watering food and an invaluable work opportunity for adults with special needs. The pop-up was founded this March, when Rabbi Levi and Leah Dubrawsky, […]
Viznitz Rebbe Dances With The Chabad Shliach of Frankfurt
Rosh Hashanah Prayer Booklet Available for Home Printing
Online material helps prepare those in isolation for the High Holidays As the coronavirus pandemic forces individuals worldwide to remain isolated, and with many synagogues under orders to restrict attendance, millions of Jews will be praying at home for the High Holidays, many for the first time in their adult lives. To assist them, Chabad.org […]