Cafe built and serviced by individuals with special needs opens in Milwaukee It smells like a cafe ought to. The rows of eclairs and tarts and cupcakes line the glass counter in perfect, high-caloric formation. Light streams in through large windows, dimpling the whipped cream on the flawlessly frothed drinks.  And then the barista asks […]

“Hey Rabbi, getting ready for takeoff at Newark. Found four other Jewish guys on board. Think we can get a minyan?” At 4:00 A.M. last Monday, Moshe Rosenblatt pressed send on the text, turned his phone off and settled in for the three-hour flight to Omaha, Nebraska. When Rabbi Mendel Katzman, Chabad representative to Nebraska, […]

In Suffolk County, Long Island, temples and synagogues are slowly closing their doors. Over the past thirty years, several have merged and many have shuttered altogether. Iconic, historic and previously thriving places of Jewish worship are now standing empty, defunct. But Village Chabad in Stony Brook just built a new $4.6 million, 13,000 sq. ft. […]

HIGHLAND — In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Jewish teens from across the Orange County gathered to create beautiful fleece blankets for a local shelter. The event was dedicated to Adi Wolff, of Monroe, who had been a member of the CTeen group and passed two years ago. Twenty-five teens attended the event, in which CTeen […]

Rabbi Mordechai Dov Altein, a long-serving Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who was instrumental in the establishment of yeshivahs and other Jewish educational institutions in post-war America, passed away on Sunday. He was 100. Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1919, Rabbi Altein would later recall that life in New York during that time was […]

Moshe Holtzberg, orphaned in the Mumbai Chabad center massacre that took the lives of his parents 11 years ago this week, was called to the Torah for the first time in his home town of Afula, Israel on Shabbat and celebrated his bar mitzvah Sunday evening at a gala affair in Kfar Chabad, surrounded by […]