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 […]

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 […]