Families and schools take to the outdoors for ancient holiday of Jewish pride and unity As the sun comes out and the trees sway in full bloom, Jewish communities around the world will gather in backyards, streets, parks and even cemeteries in celebration of Jewish pride, unity and mysticism, beginning the evening of May 18 […]

Rescue effort is part of ongoing campaign to save and serve those in desperate need Anyone who has ever walked into the home of Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz in Kharkov, Ukraine, knows Luda. With her endless energy and dedication, Luda would do everything she could to help the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to the city. She […]

In Idaho and Wyoming, life-affirming memorials to Yossi Kohn’s unforgettable smile Everyone who encountered Yossi Kohn remembers his smile. Even after he lost his father to a car crash at the age of 7, he continued to bring joy to others, greeting newcomers in his yeshivah, making others comfortable and putting their well-being before his […]

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 […]