Forty Jewish teens made their way through Manchester Airport security on Thursday morning wearing neon green beanies. Alfie Joseph looked around with pride. His CTeen chapter would be well represented at this year’s Shabbaton in New York City. “Once we were through security, all the boys wrapped tefillin together,” Alfie recalls. Donning tefillin publicly at […]

Chabad rabbis are providing material aid and spiritual comfort wherever possible Despite weeks of buildup, the all-out war that broke out in Ukraine in the early hours of Feb. 24, has brought shock and worry to the entire country, including its 350,000 Jews. “One second, they’re bombing now!” Miriam Moskovitz exclaimed in a telephone interview […]

Tzvi Holt is an observant staff sergeant with the Vermont National Guard Tzvi Holt, 40, is a staff sergeant in the Vermont National Guard and a full-time military man. He’s also an observant Jew and the father of four girls. This February, the long-serving soldier received a promotion to the rank of staff sergeant. Holt […]

By Menachem Brod Translated by Yoni Brown Adar is a month of joy, and our Sages enjoin, “When Adar comes, we increase in joy.” This year, as in every leap year, there are two months of Adar and twice the joy. It sounds good, but it’s not apparent how “increasing in joy” translates into actual […]

Some of the 400 students of Kharkov’s Ohr Avner Jewish School who excitedly marked 30 years since the eastern Ukrainian Jewish school opened its doors.

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

In Episode 19 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, reporter/producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Chaim and Rebbetzin Aidel Zaklos, who have built a strong Jewish community in Solano County, a 900 square mile rural area situated between Sacramento and the Bay Area. When the shluchim arrived there, numbers […]

Tale of a shared childhood courtyard In the wee hours of the morning of Dec. 22, 2021, an intentionally lit fire tore through the building of Chabad-Lubavitch of Almaden Valley, Calif. In the hours that followed, a GoFundMe page created by community member Maryann Barsky garnered support from the wider San Jose community, with tens […]

When we launched our Chabad preschool in 2008, I was introduced by a staff member to The Container Store’s clear plastic shoe boxes. They fit just perfectly into the cubbies for a change of clothing and diapers. We ordered a few cases. Soon, each child had two shoe boxes, boldly labeled with his or her […]