If we need a meal for someone at the last minute, we say: “if they don’t find anything they can go to Chabad.” Why is it more of a responsibility of Chabad than for any other Jew? Leading a High Holiday service in New York City is one of the highlights of my year. Being […]

Lori Lynn Lane honors the memory of a beloved local The Poway City Council voted yesterday to name a Poway, California, street in honor of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was murdered during an anti-Semitic shooting last Passover at Chabad of Poway. This was “the easiest vote we will ever take…” tweeted Poway Mayor Steve Vaus the […]

Nevada kids get customized lessons at convenient times Monday nights are special for Eadin Jacobs, a fifth-grader in Reno, Nev. That’s when his house is temporarily transformed into a Hebrew school for one. As the only Jewish kid in his elementary school, it’s one of the few times he gets to immerse himself in Judaism […]

Judaism Comes To Former Industrial Hub, Now A Top Neighborhood At the turn of the 20th century, there were so many factories in River North on the north bank of the Chicago River that the smoke billowing from their chimneys often blocked the sunlight. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was known as a […]

The small Balkan nation of Montenegro, home to a diverse group of about 500 Jewish people, now has its first resident chief rabbi. Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Ari Edelkopf was formally appointed to the post last week in the presence of the nation’s president, Israel’s religious affairs minister, members of government, rabbis from Israel and Europe, […]

Assaults come amid an uptick in anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City, with at least 163 so far this year JTA — Several identifiably Jewish men and boys were attacked in a string of assaults in the Borough Park community of Brooklyn on the same night. Three of the attacks late Friday night involved […]

Nassau, Bahamas – On behalf of the local Jewish community, Rabbi Sholom Bluming of the Chabad of the Bahamas (a Jewish centre), presented to Mrs. Patricia Minnis, wife of the Prime Minister, and Khrystle Rutherford-Ferguson, Chairman of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers’ Confederation (BCCEC), a $10,000 cheque that will go towards the BCCEC’s-led […]

Fifty students from Odessa and abroad currently attend Chabad’s Jewish University in Odessa. The Jewish University is the only institution of higher learning in the region where students can earn accredited bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business, law, and humanities while also engaging in Jewish studies. Tuition, including room and board, is paid for by […]

Stuck In Wildfires, They Find An Opportunity To Help Others Rabbi Chaim Bryski was carpooling a group of yeshivah boys, his son among them, from Thousand Oaks, Calif., to their school in Los Angeles this week when he found road after road closed because of the raging Getty Fire. They spent six hours on the […]