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 […]

For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time brimming with family, camaraderie and abundance in all things, especially food. But for those who are alone or in need, it can be one of the most painful of times. That’s why Rabbi Eli Rivkin will be out making the rounds in the unusually cold, driving rain that […]