CKids’ Tu B’Shevat Event Encourages Intergenerational Dialogue Two generations came together to celebrate Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for trees, at the Friendship Circle of Free Hebrew for Juniors in Montreal, Canada, this Sunday. The event began with an in-person activity for the younger members, who made gummies out of fruit juice while learning about […]

Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish Arbor Day that falls this year on January 28, 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 […]

Dozens of pairs of tefillin found in buildings razed in Warsaw Ghetto are brought secretly to Israel. Dozens of pairs of tefillin (phylacteries) have been discovered hidden in a previously-undiscovered bunker in the Warsaw Ghetto, Israel Hayom reported. The tefillin are a century old but well-preserved, and seem to have been placed in the bunker by the […]

Casa Grande, located approximately halfway between Phoenix and Tuscon in Arizona is quickly becoming a city of choice for families and individuals looking for cheaper, and more spacious housing while working in the two cities. And in March, for the first time ever Casa Grande will see the establishment of its own Jewish community. Rabbi […]

Long Island Chabad opens first clothing bank for people recovering from cancer Cancer patients are already finding support, financial assistance, home-cooked meals, and even wigs at The Circle of Hope center in Merrick, Long Island. Now, they’re also finding clothes. Loraine Alderman, a 59-year-old resident of East Meadow, and her husband, Bill, partnered with Chabad’s […]

Yud Shvat is the anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch, of blessed memory, (5710/1950). On the same day, one year later, his son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, assumed the mantle of leadership of Chabad. During a farbrengen–a Chasidic gathering that evening, the Rebbe delivered his inaugural discourse titled Bati Legani— […]

Here, we share reflections on the Rebbe’s iconic leadership culled from several interviews. Shabbat, January 22, the Jewish calendar date of 10 Shvat, marks 71 years of the unfolding of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s vision. On that date (January 28) in 1950, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, sixth in the dynasty of Chabad Rebbes, passed away, and […]

The worldwide family of Chabad Lubavitch emissaries is heartbroken by the passing of our dear, beloved colleague, Rabbi Yehuda Dukes, 39. Yudi, as he was known by all of us, fought a courageous and difficult battle since being hospitalized with Covid-19 in March. A father of six, he was the director of JNet, a program […]

This Saturday, the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, marks the seventieth anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, assuming the mantle of Chabad leadership. The event, on the occasion of the first yahrtzeit of his predecessor and father-in-law, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, has […]