With Hurricane Ida bearing down on Southern Louisiana, the Chabad Jewish Center community in Metairie, Louisiana, came together to prepare the synagogue and ensure community members have essential supplies. Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, is located approximately 45 miles east of the expected trajectory of the category four storm, and is expected to experience […]
Living in the Bush
Off The Beaten Path: Chabad Houses You Didn’t Know Existed, Part 3 Chabad Of Byron Shire, Australia Like your typical secular Israeli, Inbar joined the Israeli Defense Forces as a teen. When she hung up her olive-green uniform and rifle for the last time, she headed east, trekking through the outlying towns and teeming cities […]
A Jewish Library Changes the Beat in the Heart of Los Angeles
2,000 spiritually nourishing titles draw families from around the city The streets of Los Angeles are awash with waves of images and messaging containing everything under the sun, all of it in glittering Technicolor. The lights and action with which even the most debauched offerings are presented can present a challenge for anyone, but is […]
The Tzfat Kabbalists Collection
At The Library Of Agudas Chasidei Chabad The rare manuscripts department at Chabad’s Central Library and Archive Center contains many original manuscripts penned by the great Kabbalists. Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (1482-1570), renowned as “Ramak,” was a student of the great Rabbi Yosef Karo, and was appointed a judge of the Rabbinic court of Safed in […]
Chabad Marks Birthday of Movement’s Founder
In the Jewish calendar, the month of Elul takes up its own, unique place. It is the end and completion of the Jewish calendar year and at the same time also the introduction and gateway to the approaching New Year beginning with Rosh Hashanah. In its capacity as the former, Elul serves as a time […]
Talmud Teasers: About Moses
How many can you answer? “Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses” Deuteronomy 34:10 The Torah readings of late summer are in the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth and final of the Five Books of Moses. It contains the last will and testament of Moses to the Jewish people, shortly before […]
Planting Life in the Desert of Arizona
New Shluchim arrive to downtown Phoenix “The Jewish people have always flourished in the desert,” said Rabbi Dovber Dechter, his frank and friendly voice resonating clearly over the phone line. “A desert personifies our mission in this world – to take dry, desert-like places and turn them into cities of Torah and good deeds.” Rabbi […]
Book Notes
Escape From Iran The Exodus of Persian Jewry During the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Sholem Ber Hecht GD Media, 265 pages For 2,500 years the Jews of Persia, banished from their homeland, built a civilization in exile. Their fortunes rose and fell, from the glory of their ancestral traditions to persecution, suppression, and the brutality […]
Hospitality is the Name of the Game at UMass Chabad
Chabad is purchasing a new property to accommodate their many guests Jodi Warum knows first-hand what it’s like to be constantly in and out of hospitals. A mother of five, she travels with her eight-year-old son, Azzi, every six months or so from Monsey, New York to treat his muscular dystrophy at UMass Memorial Medical […]
Meet Australia’s Newest Supreme Court Justice, Rabbi Marcus Solomon
Educator, rabbi and judge speaks to Chabad.org in a wide-ranging interview Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon is a graduate of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivahs in Australia, Israel and America. He was ordained as a rabbi before going on to study law in his native Australia. In 1987, he and his wife, Linda, married in Perth, where he […]