Chabad emissaries provide buses, food and prayer to save lives and raise spirits For centuries, Jews have called Cherkassy, Ukraine, and its environs home. Even in the middle of the current deadly conflict, many Jews have decided to remain in this town on the banks of the Dnipro River, some 112 miles southeast of Kiev […]

City’s rabbi directs distribution of thousands of food packages from afar As Russian rockets and shells continue to batter the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev (Mykolayiv), on-the-ground sources report that the situation is getting worse by the day. “There is no longer food on the shelves and no medicine in the pharmacies,” says Rabbi Shalom Gottlieb, […]

Buses stand ready to evacuate residents as they pray for a humanitarian corridor Rabbi Mendel Cohen got a call late last week from an elderly Jewish woman in Mariupol, the besieged southeastern port city that has been cut off from the rest of Ukraine. She needed a bit of help and hope, she said. The […]

Geula Message from Purim with Rabbi Avrohom Yehuda Kievman, Dayan at Melbourne Beis Din, based on the teachings of The Rebbe

A beloved congregational rabbi who provided comfort and support to many Rabbi Nachum Ber Presman, the humble and beloved Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the Jewish community of Potsdam, Germany, and regional rabbi of the state of Brandenburg, passed away on Tuesday, March 8 (5 Adar II, 5782), three months after suffering a debilitating stroke. He was […]

Crisis presents unique challenges that Colel Chabad intends to rise to JERUSALEM—For most of its 300-year history, Colel Chabad, the oldest charity in the Holy Land, has served Jewish refugees, immigrants and the displaced from around the world. Over the centuries, most who arrived in the land of Israel desperate and impoverished were, as in […]

JewQ brings together kids from across North America and beyond Hundreds of children and their parents gathered at a New Jersey hotel for an inspirational Shabbat experience as they count down to the start of JewQ, an International Torah Championship, on Sunday morning. Some 2,000 kids from North America, Central and South America and elsewhere […]

Helped by Chabad at every step Alona Dedovsky considers herself lucky. For nine days she, her husband, young son, elderly parents and even older great-aunt lived deep underground in Kharkov’s Prospekt Gagarina subway station. “We came there early and got space in the metro cars where it was warmer,” says Dedovsky. “Most people had to […]

Rabbi Avraham Zajac’s class finishes the entire Talmud over seven years At 6:10 a.m., Sunday through Friday, dozens faithfully gather for an hour-long Talmud class with Rabbi Avraham Zajac, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of South La Cienega (SOLA) in Los Angeles. The study group has slowly leafed their way through the Talmud’s 2711 folios almost three […]

Interview with Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, currently in Moldova Reporting on the deepening humanitarian crisis in war-devastated Ukraine, CNN interviewed Chabad Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, who is currently in Moldova, where Chabad-Lubavitch has been bringing thousands of Jewish refugees. Berkowitz was quick to point out that he was just one among hundreds of Chabad emissaries on the […]