Florham Park, New Jersey Stu and Beth Katz Founder, Elm City Communications If seeing is believing, Stu Katz, the “unofficial official videographer” for Chabad of SE Morris, is a believer. The view he got of the day-to-day life of shluchim — through the lens of his camera and from the passenger seat of the rabbi’s […]

As a young man, Yankel Meislin’s addiction nearly cost him his life. Today he lives in Brooklyn, writes Torah Scrolls, and speaks to people about what he’s learned on the road to sobriety.  Eighteen-year-old Jordan Meislin crammed himself into a white fifteen-passenger van. The palm trees beside the moonlit road reminded him of his childhood […]

Devoted herself to Jewish children for eight decades In 1944, as a 17-year-old student at Thomas Jefferson High School in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Chave Lasker took on an unusual responsibility. Coming from a materially impoverished but richly religious Jewish home, she volunteered to be an instructor for the newly-established Released Time program, […]

At the supermarket checkout counter with his mother, a little boy is overheard pleading for a candy bar. “It’s not kosher,” the mom declares. The cashier, scanning frozen cheeseburgers and shellfish that the woman has unloaded from her cart, is confused. “Do you keep kosher?” he asks her. “Oh no, we’re not Jewish. But,” she […]

Publisher of ‘Dvar Malchus’ was a Chabad fixture in Israel Rabbi Tuvia Peles, an Israeli accountant, business manager and Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who spread Chassidic teachings to the masses every week as publisher of the massively popular “Dvar Malchus” Torah-study booklet, passed away in Israel on Jan. 18, 2022 (16th of Shevat). He was 73 years […]

In 1890, Montana’s first governor Joseph Toole laid the cornerstone of a 500-person synagogue in Helena. Built by the scores of Jews who came along for the Montana gold rush, the ornate Neo-Moorish building featured lots of stained glass, granite, and sandstone. By the 1930s, however, the community had fizzled out, and the building was […]

Typically, when G-d commanded Moshe to teach something to the Jewish People, He would say, “Command the Children of Israel.” Mysteriously, in the beginning of this week’s Torah portion, G-d says, “And you shall command the Israelites to bring to you pure olive oil crushed for the lamp.” Why suddenly does the Torah emphasize that […]

All too often, individuals with disabilities or those for whom mental wellness is a struggle feel isolated and imagine that no one in the world could possibly understand the challenges they face on a daily basis. But the narrative of their lives could be tremendously altered if only they knew that there is a supportive […]

In Episode 18 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, Lamplighters Reporter/Producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Zuber – as told by his daughter Mrs. Chana Sharfstein – whose groundbreaking work as Shliach to Russia, Latvia, Sweden, and the U.S. was crucial in helping Chabad develop its model […]