Ruderman Foundation Celebrates Six Years of Collaboration An accessible Sukkah Mobile in Arkansas, sign language interpreters at Chabad events in Alabama, and in Virginia, a lowered bimah that allows people in wheelchairs to be called up to the Torah. These are just a few of the accomplishments of the Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative (RCII). Established […]

Pittsburgh educator was devoted to people in need Mrs. Miriam Rosenblum, a beloved educator in Pittsburgh for more than five decades and the founder of Keren Racheim, a local organization committed to helping those in need, passed away last month at the age of 78. Her passing came only two months after the loss of […]

Rabbi Avraham Plotkin talks about ‘Seven Conversations With Jerry’ Death is something everyone encounters sooner or later, though none of us wants to face it. The loss of a loved one invariably invites us to ask life’s most important questions—questions that beg answers: What happens to the soul after the death of the body? Is […]

Today in Jewish History: 20 Teves, Passing Of Maimonides The “Rambam,” acronym for Rabbi Moshe ben (son of) Maimon, passed away today, the 20th of Teves in 4965 (1204). Born in Cordoba, Spain on Passover eve in 1135 or 1138, the Rambam became known to the world as Maimonides. He was of the most prolific […]

Rabbi Yoḥanan says: Why were the Jewish people likened to an olive tree? It is to tell you that just as an olive tree brings forth its oil only by means of crushing . . . so too, the Jewish people . . . must be pressed in order to emit its oil. Menahot 53b:12 […]

Shterna Wolff oversees the expansion of the Chabad center in Hanover When Rabbi Binyamin Wolff passed away in Hanover, Germany, at the age of 43 last April following a brief illness, he left behind his wife, Shterna, their eight children, and a shocked and devastated Jewish community. But the tragedy has not deterred Shterna Wolff […]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Chabad rabbi, and the mysterious nature of Jewish identity My mother would smile to think of me lighting candles, and saying the brucha, something she made very special in our home… Writing by hand, on stationery bearing the seal of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg […]

Northern Georgia gets a JCC Earlier this month, the Jewish community in Forsyth County, Georgia, laid the cornerstone for the first Jewish establishment in an area where it once would have been inconceivable. “I remember watching live demonstrations of the KKK in this spot in the eighties,” says Forsyth resident Stu Cohen. “When I came […]

Excerpt from Sacks’s Torah Studies Taught in Six Languages as Part of Worldwide Project The world suffered a devastating blow this past November when Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and a brilliant scholar and teacher, tragically passed away at the age of 72. In the time since his untimely […]

The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . . Shaindy Gluck, West Lafayette, IN Episode 8/8 Shortly after we moved to Indiana, I went out for coffee with a friend from our community. While we were waiting in line to order our […]