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CHESTER – The Jewish community spread cheer and gratitude – along with a live concert – in a festive “Honk for Heroes” car parade to honor health care workers, first responders and seniors. Dozens of cars participated in this unity and community event organized by Chabad of Orange County, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way almost everything is done. The Chabad Jewish Center of Tamarac has adapted to this new normal by finding new ways to connect with residents. On May 12, the Chabad celebrated the Jewish holiday, Lag B’Omer. Typically celebrated at a park with a barbecue, Rabbi Kopel Silberberg explained that […]
The Jewish community spread cheer and gratitude – along with a live concert – in a festive ‘Honk for Heroes” car parade last week to honor health care workers, first responders and seniors. Dozens of cars participated in this unity and community event organized by Chabad of Orange County, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana […]
Memorial marking the shloshim since the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman a”h will be held on Thursday, April 30 at 8pm. The program will be livestreamed by Chabad.org at Chabad.org/RebYisroel. Reb Yisroel was born in the Belarusian city of Beshenkovitz, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1936, to R. Yaakov and Gittel Friedman, prominent […]
The recorded prayer, fewer than ten minutes long, has since been played in a number of hospital rooms, allowing for patients, even among isolation, to have the prayer read to them. The prayers for the final moments of life have been recorded and uploaded to Chabad’s website for medical staff to play for isolated coronavirus […]
Hospital staff stand in for family and clergy Chest rising and falling, machines beeping, the hospital room is eerily calm. Nurses flitter in and out, staying just as long as they need to before turning their attention to the next patient. They have so much to do and so little time to do it. The […]
An energetic leader and personal mentor to hundreds, she worked under the Rebbe’s guidance for decades The story of Rebbetzin Rachel Altein’s life is intertwined with the history of Chabad in America like that of few others. She served for decades as the English language editor of Di Yiddishe Heim, a periodical by and for […]
How To Do a Traditional Moshiach Feast When You’re Locked Away As the final hours of Passover slip away, Jews in every part of the world celebrate the Feast of Moshiach (Moshiach’s Seudah in Yiddish), a custom of the Baal Shem Tov and his students. Just as we enter Passover with a celebration of the […]
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sitting at my Seder table with my two eldest daughters and my wife, I was struggling to find something to say that would provide meaning to this moment. Here we were: alone, beginning a Passover unlike any other we had ever experienced and, please God, will ever experience. Moments before Passover began, […]
With synagogues shuttered indefinitely, Jewish life is evolving to conform with the new home-based reality. When possible, technology is taking a more prominent role, facilitating Torah study, fellowship and more. Perhaps one of the most difficult mitzvahs to fulfill in an ordinary year is the counting of the Omer, which requires that each sequential day […]