Culminating a year of Torah study, six hundred young eastern European Jews enjoy a spectacular trip to Dubai. As the sun set on the sands of the Rub’ al Khali desert outside Dubai, six hundred young Russian Jews gathered there, around a chuppah, to celebrate the marriage of Alexander and Alina Rudenko. Despite a day […]

Chabad Rabbis are known for bringing Judaism to the far corners of the globe. But for three days a year, they come back to where it all began.  The annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (the Kinus Hashluchim) typically attracts some 6,000 rabbis and supporters to Brooklyn, New York. After having been held virtually last […]

In Episode 10 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, Reporter/Producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon, whose appointment to Western Australia’s highest court came after years of hard work in the legal profession. But he also worked during that time to vigorously build Jewish education … which […]

Who was the man with the numbers on his arm? It’s a nightmarish image for most. Some time in the 1980s, Penelope Frey was sorting through her husband’s belongings in his Park Avenue clinic in Manhattan when she came across an old box. Brushing off the years of dust, she opened it to discover a […]

“My zaidy called it ‘di heiliger Shabbos’ (the holy Shabbos); my father called it the Shabbos; I call it ‘the Sabbath,’ my children call it ‘Saturday,’ and my grandchildren call it ‘the day before Super Bowl Sunday’.” This pithy anecdote describes a tragic trend among Jews who came over from the Old World and failed, […]

Former NY Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, speaks about his first visit to The Rebbe

Parshas: Chayei Sarah

Today in Jewish History 20 Cheshvan: Birthday of the fifth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson in 1860 (5621), the founder of the central Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivah, Tomchei Temimim. “If you find yourself in a certain place, a particular situation, know that it is by Divine providence. For G‑d orchestrates and arranges many events so to […]

Confronting the challenges of Covid, people from across the spectrum of Jewish life flock to Chabad. When the world entered the Covid era in early 2020, life moved online fast. At first, it all seemed temporary; then Covid’s long-term impact became clearer. Through 2020 and into 2021, almost every facet of Jewish community life became […]

Four-week course on the Jewish idea of an afterlife begins on Tuesday, Nov. 3 We spend our entire lifetimes, well, living life. But how much attention do we pay to what happens after that—when we die? For many, the topic of death is taboo or avoided until it can no longer be ignored. But like […]