Hundreds of thousands to flock to Israel’s north; Profiles of the 45 who lost their lives JERUSALEM—One year after 45 participants lost their lives in the midst of the traditional all-night Lag BaOmer religious celebration near the hallowed resting place of revered second-century sage Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai, hundreds of thousands of celebrants are expected […]

Want to study Talmud but never got a handle on Aramaic? No problem. Want to join adult Judaic classes but don’t live near a teacher? That’s not a problem either. What was once the province of an elite few is now available for free online in every language, and fifty years after the Rebbe initiated […]

A founding pillar of the Jewish community in Postville, she dedicated her life to education and mikvah Just 21 years old and newly married, Shternie Vogel arrived in Bogotá, Columbia, in 1988, to discover a world apart from her native Montreal. Like her husband, Rabbi Yisrael Noach Vogel, she didn’t speak a word of Spanish […]

The early morning fire is still under investigation by authorities; rabbi pledges to rebuild A fire has ripped through the campus of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle, in Tallahassee, Fla., gutting the newly renovated building and consuming the Chabad center’s sacred Torah scrolls. The Tallahassee Fire Department confirmed that firefighters were dispatched to the Chabad center […]

Manhunt continues for two terrorists, residents of Jenin area JERUSALEM— The three victims of a terror attack in the predominantly religious Israeli city of Elad on Thursday were named early Friday as Yonatan Havakuk, 44, Boaz Gol, 49, and Oren Ben Yiftah, 35, all fathers who together leave behind 16 orphans. A manhunt continued for […]

Preliminary reports cite ax-wielding assailants JERUSALEM—At least three people were killed and three others injured, two of them critically, in a suspected terror attack in the predominantly religious Israeli city of Elad on Thursday. An emergency team member said there were two assailants who carried out the killing spree that began on a city street […]

A caring school administration steps in to help its Jewish minority It’s hard being a teen. It’s hard being different. It’s doubly hard being different when you are a teen. But it’s also rewarding. For Chana Cantz, a sophomore at Niles North High School in Skokie, just north of Chicago, the sweet reward came a […]

‘I want the world to hear our stories’ On April 19, Chabad.org first shared with the world the horrific story of Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, a 91-year-old Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust hiding in a basement in her hometown of Mariupol, only to perish 80 years later in another Mariupol basement. Obiedkova’s daughter and family […]

In Episode 23 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, reporter/producer Gary Waleik presents a quartet of the series’ most popular stories to mark the one-year anniversary of its first episode. They include the fight of a Chabad couple to save their baby, the work of an emissary to help people recovering […]