Worldwide Chabad effort secures transportation for those fleeing the war Sitting in the ad hoc crisis center in Kfar Chabad, “Chaim” has been on the phone with Jews in war-torn Ukraine for nearly 14 hours. In call after call, he has been reiterating the same point: “Get out while you can. We will help you […]

BH Ukraine-Israel Update – March 8th, 2022 Ukraine: • All the Chabad Shluchim and their families – except for a few – have been able to get out of Ukraine. It took several days to travel via different countries to reach their final destination. Some are still traveling, but all are safe. • Shluchim, who […]

Parshas Vayikra Parsha and Geula Message with Rabbi Avrohom Yehuda Kievman, Dayan at Melbourne Beis Din, based on the teachings of The Rebbe.

The famed digital media, film and music festival is back live in Austin One could be forgiven, with everything in the news these days, in missing that the internationally popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival was beginning again. However, after a two-year hiatus, the digital media, film and music festival is back in Austin for […]

MIAMI – Photos of a family of 11 huddled in a makeshift bunker, cooking, sleeping, and praying, tell the reality currently happening in the Ukraine. The photos also tell the beginning of an incredible story for Alizah Silberstein, her husband and their nine children, including twins that are just seven months old. “Their entire city […]

Students touring Poland with Chabad on Campus responded to an unexpected chance to assist Ukrainian refugees On Tuesday, forty college students walked into the historic Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin building in Lublin, Poland as part of Chabad on Campus International’s LivingLinks trip. They had come to Poland to experience a piece of their history. Instead, they […]

The Russian siege trapped Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, his wife Alizah, and their nine children in Chernigov, Ukraine. When the bombs began to fall, they miraculously found an open road out of the city. Rushing to escape, they left everything behind and made it out with only a single suitcase. After a marathon fifty-hour drive to […]

Chabad details needs on the ground As the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine grows worse by the day and Israel prepares for a massive surge of Ukrainian Jewish refugees, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met via Zoom with Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis leading the rescue of the Jews of Ukraine from inside and outside the country. Chabad is […]

A fateful responsibility for Chabad-Lubavitch throughout the war-torn region Whenever Tania Baily or her 13-year-old daughter, Veronika, hear a siren, they jump with fear. After spending three days running between home and the local school, which doubled as a bomb shelter, and sleeping fitfully there each night as the air-raid sirens wailed, the two decided […]

Voices of children from Odessa, Ukraine, drown out fears from war A group that included 140 women and children who evacuated last week from Odessa, Ukraine, were captured on video in Moldava, clapping and singing “Spasiba Hashem, Thank you G‑d” for their rescue. After leaving Odessa en route to Germany, the group stopped in neighboring […]