Entire city is shut down; Jews ask for prayers As the sixth day of the Ukraine conflict is coming to a close, the fighting is only intensifying. Kherson, a city of 290,000 people only 100 miles east of the Crimean Peninsula, is totally shut down, Chabad-Lubavitch of Kherson director Rabbi Yosef Y. Wolff tells Chabad.org […]

As Shabbat began in Kyiv, eighty of us were in the Chabad House. We sang Kabbalat Shabbat as a community with the sound of exploding bombs ringing in our ears. We ate the Shabbat meal and tried to get some rest; but by 3:00 a.m., the explosions were growing closer, and sleep was impossible.  On […]

“When my father died a few years ago, I didn’t know where to turn,” says Daren Burney. “I’m not religious and don’t belong to a synagogue.”  At the time, his daughters were taking Bat Mitzvah classes with Mrs. Devorah Sufrin of ​​Chabad Lubavitch North East London & Essex so Burney decided to call her husband, […]

Reports identified the deceased as Roman Brodsky, a father of two A Jewish man in his 40s was killed today while attempting to flee Ukraine for Moldova. The man, identified as 41-year-old Roman Brodsky, an Israeli citizen and father of two, was killed when his car—part of a 12-person, two-car convoy headed to Moldova—was fired […]

Chabad-Lubavitch has evacuated hundreds of Jewish community’s ‘most vulnerable’ westward As soon as the war in Ukraine broke out on Thursday, Chabad-Lubavitch of Zhitomir began working overtime to arrange for the children in their orphanage and educational institutions to flee to safer ground. “I’m in the bunker right now, ” Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm told Chabad.org […]

#TefillinForYitzi and other good deeds for Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz Covid has been difficult for all of us. But for Yitzi Hurwitz, legendary Chabad rabbi in California who has continued to maintain a lively social and spiritual life despite grappling with ALS, they have been particularly challenging. Before the coronavirus reared its head, his Los Angeles […]

The annual CTeen weekend convention culminated in a Manhattan street concert NEW YORK—On double-decker buses and packed subway cars, 2,500 exuberant Jewish teens from 650 chapters of the Chabad-Lubavitch teen network CTeen converged on Manhattan’s Times Square for a concert and musical havdalah ceremony marking the end of Shabbat. Saturday night’s mass display of Jewish […]

Jews take shelter in synagogue; Russian troops make incursion to city; heavy aerial bombardment In the last 72 hours, Kharkov, Ukraine’s second city, has been rocked by increasingly heavy aerial bombardment and shelling. Earlier today, artillery slammed into a residential neighborhood, with reports of dozens of civilians killed and hundreds injured. All this has made […]

Chernigov, Ukraine Our community is under siege and facing an unqualified humanitarian crisis. Artillery shells have been exploding sporadically across our city since Thursday. We’re just sixty miles from the Russian border, and Russian forces have surrounded the city.  We’re sheltering thirty-five people in the basement of the Chabad House, including one lady whose apartment […]

350,000 Jews are served by 200 Chabad couples in 35 cities and towns Ukraine has been under attack since the early morning of Feb. 24, and the country’s entire population is in danger, including the 350,000 Jews who call it home. For many Jews around the world, the name Ukraine conjures images of the place […]