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 […]

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, […]