Second edition tops Amazon’s charts for both “Haggadahs” and “Jewish holidays” categories In Spring of 2021, just weeks before what would be many people’s second Passover in isolation, Chabad.org released an all-new Haggadah. The Haggadah came at just the right time for so many who would lead their own Seder for the first time, or […]

Victims included local residents, an Israeli Arab police officer, and workers from Ukraine The five people who were killed when a gunman opened fire in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak on Tuesday were laid to rest in Israel. It was the third terror attack in a little more than a week. The victims […]

Sivan Rahav Meir is an Israeli journalist, news reporter, and TV and radio anchor. Last week she traveled to Kfar Chabad to speak with Rabbi Shlomo Peles, a key figure in Chabad’s response to the Ukrainian war and refugee crisis. Here we present Sivan Rahav Meir’s account of the meeting. It was almost midnight when […]

Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Chanie Myers writes of having more than a dozen house guests at any given time Together with her husband, Slovakian Chief Rabbi Baruch Myers, Chanie Myers serves as Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Bratislava. Over the past few weeks, the Myers family has welcomed a stream of Ukrainian refugees into their home. Here, she shares […]

JewQ international contestants compete in Princeton, N.J. Fourth-grader Avery (“Masha”) McMullen of Haverford, Pa., loves to learn, and says language arts is her favorite subject. But it was her knowledge of Judaism that propelled her to the head of the class in an international Jewish competition for kids. When the Coopertown Elementary School student received […]

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons killed by police Two terrorists with automatic weapons opened fire at passersby at a bus stop near several restaurants in the northern Israeli city of Hadera, killing two and wounding six others, some critically. The gunmen were shot dead by police at the scene. Two of the wounded were in […]

Reading the Megillah amid air-raid sirens and adjacent to Europe’s largest nuclear plant Air-raid sirens in Ukraine are not very loud for the same reason there are so few bomb shelters—no one ever expected to need them. In most parts of the country, the most reliable way to stay abreast of deadly bombing raids is […]

Batsheva Oberlander and Miriam Alexandrov with Chana Weisberg Batsheva Oberlander, shlucha in Hungary, talks about her refugee work, and is joined by a refugee from Ukraine, who is en-route to Israel. Source: https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/5471167/jewish/In-Hungary-Doing-Whatever-We-Can-to-Help-the-Ukrainian-Refugees.htm

Mega-seders and home deliveries require many tons of shmurah matzah, wine and other staples First in a series of articles on helping the Jews of Ukraine to celebrate Passover Passover has always been a celebration of freedom and redemption for Jews the world over, but also a time to focus on the needs of the […]

On March 13th, one hundred and ten Jewish schoolchildren marched into a Princeton, New Jersey ballroom for CKids’ annual JewQ International Torah Championship 5782 and took their places on the dais. They had spent months accumulating a considerable body of Jewish knowledge at their local Chabad Hebrew Schools, and now they were ready to show […]