Ramping up mass evacuation efforts from east Ukraine Jewish capital For two weeks of the war in Ukraine, the eastern city of Dnipro—Ukraine’s fourth-largest city with almost a million people and an estimated 50,000 Jews—was a haven of relative calm amid the heavy, daily bombardment of other cities. With its advanced Jewish infrastructure, including the […]

Under constant attack, Daniel fields calls for help around the clock The Chabad.org/News team wishes to introduce you to Daniel, a 21-year-old staffer at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish community in eastern Kiev, who has been devoting night and day caring for the elderly and other vulnerable people in Kiev’s eastern flank, known as the “Left Bank.” […]

They raise more than $4,000 for relief efforts Wanting to do something to help Jewish orphans in Ukraine, 13-year-old Maya Solomon recruited a group of friends and hosted a bake sale that netted more than $2,000 for relief efforts. The funds she and her friends raised were then matched by a local community member, bringing […]

Baruch and Levi Yitzchak enter the Covenant of Abraham Even in the most difficult times, the Jewish people have always found reason to celebrate. In Berlin, there is a large contingent of refugees from Odessa, the staff and 120 children of the Mishpacha orphanage, along with an additional 140 women and children (men between the […]

All segments of the community have joined Chabad’s effort While the conflict, bloodshed and humanitarian crisis continues unabated in Ukraine, those who have been able to escape—many with the help of Chabad-Lubavitch, which has evacuated more than 35,000 refugees—have been absorbed by Jewish communities across Europe and beyond, including 500 in Berlin, several hundred in […]

Chabad emissaries provide buses, food and prayer to save lives and raise spirits For centuries, Jews have called Cherkassy, Ukraine, and its environs home. Even in the middle of the current deadly conflict, many Jews have decided to remain in this town on the banks of the Dnipro River, some 112 miles southeast of Kiev […]

City’s rabbi directs distribution of thousands of food packages from afar As Russian rockets and shells continue to batter the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev (Mykolayiv), on-the-ground sources report that the situation is getting worse by the day. “There is no longer food on the shelves and no medicine in the pharmacies,” says Rabbi Shalom Gottlieb, […]

Buses stand ready to evacuate residents as they pray for a humanitarian corridor Rabbi Mendel Cohen got a call late last week from an elderly Jewish woman in Mariupol, the besieged southeastern port city that has been cut off from the rest of Ukraine. She needed a bit of help and hope, she said. The […]

Geula Message from Purim with Rabbi Avrohom Yehuda Kievman, Dayan at Melbourne Beis Din, based on the teachings of The Rebbe

A beloved congregational rabbi who provided comfort and support to many Rabbi Nachum Ber Presman, the humble and beloved Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the Jewish community of Potsdam, Germany, and regional rabbi of the state of Brandenburg, passed away on Tuesday, March 8 (5 Adar II, 5782), three months after suffering a debilitating stroke. He was […]