‘It was always the sincere prayers of Jewish children that aroused heaven’s mercy’ Some 2,000 children representing dozens of Hebrew schools from across the United States run by Chabad-Lubavitch gathered on Sunday morning to give charity, learn Torah and recite prayers for the safety of Jews in Ukraine. During the first-ever Hebrew School Day of […]

‘Happy for the privilege that has fallen on my part to help others,’ says Israeli paramedic Elad Bachar, a paramedic from United Hatzalah emergency services in Israel, tells of how and his team were at a gas station en route to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, to help refugees from Ukraine. There, he saw a familiar […]

The children arrived in Berlin on Friday after a 52-hour bus ride across seven countries German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a close friend of Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin who was instrumental in securing the passage of 120 children from Odessa’s Chabad-run Mishpacha Children’s Home, paid the kids a visit on March 7. Arriving at Chabad of Berlin, […]

An interview with Aliza Silberstein, who fled with her family. including nine children I woke up at 4 a.m. this past Friday morning; I couldn’t fall back asleep. Late Thursday afternoon, I had interviewed Aliza Silberstein, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Chernigov, Ukraine. She had just arrived to safety in Romania after a 50-hour, harrowing journey. She […]

End of a perilous journey from Zhitomir to Romania to Tel Aviv A group of 90 young refugees from a children’s home in Zhitomir, Ukraine, arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport where they were greeted by Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other cabinet ministers, ending a grueling, five-day journey through a deadly war zone. […]

Two Chabad emissary families travel through embattled areas, past army checkpoints and six countries, to a wedding celebration. The bride is from Russia. The groom, from Ukraine. Six hundred and fifty Jews from Kamenskoye, Ukraine, and Samara, Russia, were counting the days down to March 3, when the children of their Chabad shluchim — children […]

Ukraine Yeshiva of Dnipropetrovsk moves to safety in Paris, France, to study at the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brunoy until the war is over.

So far, Lviv has been relatively unscathed, air raid sirens go off occasionally, but no bombs have fallen on our city. We’re just fifty miles from the Polish border. Last week, thousands of Jews and Israelis began arriving in our city, hoping to cross the border into Poland. They are fleeing the bombings and violence […]

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff stayed behind, determined to help those in need Worry for Kherson abounds after the city of close to 300,000 fell, the largest Ukrainian city Russian forces have occupied to date. While many fled while they still could, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Kherson, stayed behind, determined to assist […]