Jewish pride will be on full display, from hardwood to ice The roar of the crowd fades, the bleachers fall quiet. As the Columbus Blue Jackets prepare to face off the visiting team mid-game a bearded rabbi comes into view, climbing a ladder. It’s Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, and he’s about to light the menorah at […]

Sophisticated Brooklynite who nurtured children, welcomed guests and cared for others Razel Wolvovsky was many things to many people. To the hundreds of children she taught over her decades as a preschool teacher, she was the loving, imaginative morah who made Judaism come alive at the most formative stage of their lives. To others, and […]

A source of wisdom and guidance for fellow Chabad emissaries around the world Rabbi Shimon Raichik, a noted Torah scholar and rabbinic leader, led Congregation Levi Yitzchok of Los Angeles, a prominent Chabad-Lubavitch community in California. Widely known for his expertise on Jewish law and his passionate Chassidic persona, he would frequently receive calls from […]

A scaled-back version of an annual Shabbat retreat to Brooklyn leaves a deep impression on four hundred college students. The streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn came alive over Shabbat, November 13, as some four hundred college students from over forty college campuses across the country convened for a weekend of inspiration.  The unpredictability surrounding the […]

For many, the eight-day holiday is a springboard for personal growth in Judaism Kim Barlow lives in Malanda, Queensland, a town of 1,985 people in remote northern Australia. Born to a Jewish mother and Indigenous father, she never felt that she completely fit in either world. When she traveled to nearby Cairns during Chanukah of […]

Rabbis talk of freedom amidst persecution during their youth For more than 200 years in Chabad-Lubavitch communities around the world—in the best of circumstances and the worst—these early winter days have been dedicated to preparing for the Chassidic holiday of Yud Tes Kislev, the 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev (which in 2021 […]

How Atara Ciechanover spearheaded the design and creation of the world’s most visible menorah The gleaming two-ton Chabad-Lubavitch menorah on the corner of Manhattan’s storied crossroads at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street—one of the busiest and most affluent thoroughfares on the planet—has long been an inseparable part of life in New York. Throughout the eight […]

In Episode 13 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, Lamplighters Reporter/Producer Gary Waleik presents Part 1 of the story of deaf Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, and how Soudakoff is reaching out to deaf Jews around the world. One he encountered in the U.S. had walked away from the Jewish community at the […]

Joyous events and commitments to learning this week at Chabad-Lubavitch centers everywhere Jewish people of all ages and backgrounds around the world are celebrating the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidut” this week, marking the day when the founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, was released from a Czarist prison after being held […]