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 […]

Thousands of manuscripts at Chabad-Lubavitch Library now readily available to the public In a move that is making waves in academic and lay circles, the Chabad-Lubavitch Library has created a new site with high-quality, full-color scans of a vast collection of thousands of precious manuscripts that have never been seen by the public—until now. Overnight, […]

15 Russian military men arrived to pray after hearing that all prayers are answered at a Jewish cemetery in the small town of Lyubavichi. Fifteen Russian generals prayed for peace last week at the Jewish cemetery in Lyubavichi, a Russian town credited as being the birthplace of the Chabad movement. The military men, who visited the […]

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

When every Jew donated a half-shekel, the halves were counted and a census was taken. The mitzvah to donate a half-shekel applied to every Jew over twenty years of age, healthy or not. In the book of Bamidbar, G-d counts the Jewish people once again. But the second time around, there was a catch — […]