Off The Beaten Path: Chabad Houses You Didn’t Know Existed, Part 2 Chabad of Mat-su Valley, Alaska On a short Friday afternoon in December of 2019, Rabbi Mendy Greenberg pops into the Veterans and Pioneers Home of Palmer, Alaska. When he stops at the front desk to see if there are any Jewish residents, he’s […]

Late this Saturday night, Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach, New York, went back to his newly renovated synagogue to ensure that everything was secured correctly after Shabbat. To his horror, he found the sanctuary vandalized and in disarray. For a year and a half, the Chabad of Long Beach […]

Customers eat for a cause at this deli, supporting the Friendship Circle adults who help run the pop-up A new pop-up deli at the Friendship Circle of Dallas is serving up mouth-watering food and an invaluable work opportunity for adults with special needs. The pop-up was founded this March, when Rabbi Levi and Leah Dubrawsky, […]

Online material helps prepare those in isolation for the High Holidays As the coronavirus pandemic forces individuals worldwide to remain isolated, and with many synagogues under orders to restrict attendance, millions of Jews will be praying at home for the High Holidays, many for the first time in their adult lives. To assist them, Chabad.org […]

On the 30th anniversary of the riots, how Crown Heights survived to remain a thriving Jewish neighborhood The Crown Heights Riot took place 30 years ago this month. The event, three days of unrestrained anti-Semitic violence, resulted in the stabbing murder of one Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum, the death by suicide of an elderly Holocaust survivor, […]

The first mitzvah campaign to bring Judaism to the individual, wherever he or she was For as long as anyone can remember, the symbol of the High Holidays has been the shofar, the ancient curved instrument used to inaugurate the Jewish New Year. The shofar, most often hewn out of a ram’s horn—although it can […]

Remembering Norman Rosenbaum Thirty years ago, on Aug. 19, 1991, a tragic car accident in Brooklyn, N.Y., sparked what has been called “the most serious anti-Semitic incident in American history.” For four days the Jewish community of the borough’s Crown Heights neighborhood sat in terror, as rioters rampaged through the streets and desperate calls for […]

Eighty public school students find friendship and personal connection to Judaism on a whirlwind summer trip to Israel The energy was building in the terminals of New York’s John F. Kennedy International airport. Alone and in small groups, teens from distant posts around the U.S. trickled in. For many, this was to be their first […]