A whopping 1,500 meals prepared for visiting athletes, coaches and journalists When the Beijing Olympics committee needed kosher food, they turned to Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing, directed by Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the Chinese capital since 2001. After all, Freundlich is no stranger to preparing massive quantities of kosher food in the city of […]

Adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Imagine you are preparing to host royalty in your home. Think of the pressure. What food will you serve? How will you address the king? All the tiny details of your behavior take on a whole new world of significance. The construction of the Mishkan put the […]

Living alone can be lonely for anyone. For a ninety-two-year-old living in a dilapidated Russian apartment with no family, it can be dangerous. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Rostov-on-Don in Southern Russia, the Jewish community’s seniors were utterly isolated. Many of them are Holocaust survivors and World War Two veterans who had been relying on […]

‘Simanim: Parsha Mnemonics’ provides inspiration and insight for each weekly portion Viewers of Chabad.org/Video and consumers of the website’s in-depth essays have long known and enjoyed the prolific scholarly output of Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Downtown Brooklyn and rabbi of Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights. The rabbi’s most recent work, Simanim: […]

Entrepreneur Mort Fertel shares how he and his family have turned Salt Lake City into home As part of our “What’s It Like to Be Jewish” series in which we take a look at Jewish life in places as diverse as the jungles of the Amazon and the teeming streets of Casablanca, we bring you […]

And of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, O Zebulun, on your journeys, And Issachar, in your tents. They invite their kin to the mountain, Where they offer sacrifices of success. For they draw from the riches of the sea And the hidden hoards of the sand. (Deuteronomy 33:18-19) Before his passing, Jacob blessed his children and […]

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

By Rabbi Menachem Brod Translated by Yoni Brown Let’s say your friend asks for a loan. You might imagine — it depends on how I feel that day… If you’re feeling generous, you’ll say yes. If not, you’ll dodge the question or tell him you can’t help him today. But the truth is that the […]

International intrigue does not stand in the way of a community’s joyous celebration As anyone preparing to host a wedding for 500 might expect, the last week has been a blur for Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz, the rabbi and rebbetzin of Kharkov, Ukraine. There were the food deliveries, some last-minute shopping and late-night airport […]

Steve Berger pulls up to the Hebrew Academy’s parking lot every Tuesday. He’s not here to meet with the school’s 300 students. The seventy-year-old’s weekly visits are for checking on his own brood, some thirty-five fruit trees blooming across the Long Beach campus.  Berger, a computer programmer by training and a horticulturist by hobby, has […]