Secured by Chabad Headquarters, a generous grant allows the weary Zhytomyr community to begin rebuilding their lives In the frantic scramble to evacuate the Alumim orphanage from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Rabbi Shlomo and Esther Wilhelm had no time to think about the future. As their city mutated into a warzone, ninety orphaned children and fifty adults […]

A Torah scroll will honor rabbi who passed away at 40 The Chabad Chayil community in North Miami Beach, Fla., marked the 20th yahrtzeit(anniversary of passing)last week of its founder, Rabbi Dovid Bryn, who passed away in 2002 at age 40 after suffering from Marfan syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the body’s connective tissue. […]

In the tropical Nigerian capital of Abuja, dozens of Jewish volunteers spent a day outside at Chabad of Nigeria’s balmy community center, packing thousands of boxes with food essentials. As part of Chabad’s humanitarian efforts to combat hunger in Nigeria, a quarter of a million meals were distributed to single-parent families last week, just in […]

Genesee County, Mich., officials gathered to mark Education Day and the Rebbe’s ongoing impact It’s an unlikely friendship: Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson, who leads Michigan’s 10th-largest police force, and Rabbi Yisrael Weingarten, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Eastern Michigan in Flint. The pair regularly meet at Weingarten’s home to talk ethics, morality and Judaism. Though […]

Hundreds of thousands to flock to Israel’s north; Profiles of the 45 who lost their lives JERUSALEM—One year after 45 participants lost their lives in the midst of the traditional all-night Lag BaOmer religious celebration near the hallowed resting place of revered second-century sage Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai, hundreds of thousands of celebrants are expected […]

Want to study Talmud but never got a handle on Aramaic? No problem. Want to join adult Judaic classes but don’t live near a teacher? That’s not a problem either. What was once the province of an elite few is now available for free online in every language, and fifty years after the Rebbe initiated […]

A founding pillar of the Jewish community in Postville, she dedicated her life to education and mikvah Just 21 years old and newly married, Shternie Vogel arrived in Bogotá, Columbia, in 1988, to discover a world apart from her native Montreal. Like her husband, Rabbi Yisrael Noach Vogel, she didn’t speak a word of Spanish […]

The early morning fire is still under investigation by authorities; rabbi pledges to rebuild A fire has ripped through the campus of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle, in Tallahassee, Fla., gutting the newly renovated building and consuming the Chabad center’s sacred Torah scrolls. The Tallahassee Fire Department confirmed that firefighters were dispatched to the Chabad center […]

Manhunt continues for two terrorists, residents of Jenin area JERUSALEM— The three victims of a terror attack in the predominantly religious Israeli city of Elad on Thursday were named early Friday as Yonatan Havakuk, 44, Boaz Gol, 49, and Oren Ben Yiftah, 35, all fathers who together leave behind 16 orphans. A manhunt continued for […]

Preliminary reports cite ax-wielding assailants JERUSALEM—At least three people were killed and three others injured, two of them critically, in a suspected terror attack in the predominantly religious Israeli city of Elad on Thursday. An emergency team member said there were two assailants who carried out the killing spree that began on a city street […]