City’s rabbi and community celebrate at the Golden Rose synagogue adjacent to massive Menorah Center Despite the war that is devastating much of the nation around them, a group of Jews gathered on Monday at the Golden Rose synagogue in Dnipro, Ukraine, to rejoice. A local boy was celebrating his bar mitzvah. As is customary, […]

Brighton Beach is home to thousands of Jews from Ukraine, making it a very personal effort New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited Chabad-Lubavitch of West Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday to see the massive relief drive that is being undertaken on behalf of Ukrainian refugees. There he met with local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries […]

‘It was always the sincere prayers of Jewish children that aroused heaven’s mercy’ Some 2,000 children representing dozens of Hebrew schools from across the United States run by Chabad-Lubavitch gathered on Sunday morning to give charity, learn Torah and recite prayers for the safety of Jews in Ukraine. During the first-ever Hebrew School Day of […]

‘Happy for the privilege that has fallen on my part to help others,’ says Israeli paramedic Elad Bachar, a paramedic from United Hatzalah emergency services in Israel, tells of how and his team were at a gas station en route to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, to help refugees from Ukraine. There, he saw a familiar […]

The children arrived in Berlin on Friday after a 52-hour bus ride across seven countries German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a close friend of Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin who was instrumental in securing the passage of 120 children from Odessa’s Chabad-run Mishpacha Children’s Home, paid the kids a visit on March 7. Arriving at Chabad of Berlin, […]

An interview with Aliza Silberstein, who fled with her family. including nine children I woke up at 4 a.m. this past Friday morning; I couldn’t fall back asleep. Late Thursday afternoon, I had interviewed Aliza Silberstein, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Chernigov, Ukraine. She had just arrived to safety in Romania after a 50-hour, harrowing journey. She […]

End of a perilous journey from Zhitomir to Romania to Tel Aviv A group of 90 young refugees from a children’s home in Zhitomir, Ukraine, arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport where they were greeted by Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other cabinet ministers, ending a grueling, five-day journey through a deadly war zone. […]

Two Chabad emissary families travel through embattled areas, past army checkpoints and six countries, to a wedding celebration. The bride is from Russia. The groom, from Ukraine. Six hundred and fifty Jews from Kamenskoye, Ukraine, and Samara, Russia, were counting the days down to March 3, when the children of their Chabad shluchim — children […]

Ukraine Yeshiva of Dnipropetrovsk moves to safety in Paris, France, to study at the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brunoy until the war is over.