50,000 Seder kids with matzah and other holiday necessities are on the way They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues and military bases. But come what may, when night falls on Passover eve on April 15, the Jews of Ukraine will pause to eat matzah and bitter herbs, drink four cups of […]

A baffling plea for help reached Rabbi Mendy and Esther Harlig on March 7th. A member of their Chino Hills, California community asked if the Harligs could help rescue her cousins in Kharkiv, Ukraine.  Rabbi Harlig said he had hosted this community member for Shabbat meals and he knew she had moved to California from […]

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 […]