Fund established to aid in the recovery from strongest quake since 1918 Puerto Rico’s Chabad-Lubavitch representatives have been called into action once again as disaster-relief providers and are reaching out to others for help after two devastating earthquakes rocked the island nation, killing one and triggering an appeal by the government for an immediate $130 […]

The Friday before she lost her home, Verne Dove went with her family to a Shabbat dinner in Coffs Harbour, a small coastal city in New South Wales, Australia. “It was like an apocalypse; 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and everything was orange. It was the most eerie thing I’ve ever experienced,” Dove tells Chabad.org. […]

Although it’s a staple of the synagogue service, the reading of the Torah remains something of a mystery to many. The Torah portion is recited in a language that few congregants know well. Fewer still are familiar with what it takes to perform a proper leining, the intricate origins of the practice, or, for that […]