Escape From Iran The Exodus of Persian Jewry During the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Sholem Ber Hecht GD Media, 265 pages For 2,500 years the Jews of Persia, banished from their homeland, built a civilization in exile. Their fortunes rose and fell, from the glory of their ancestral traditions to persecution, suppression, and the brutality […]

Chabad is purchasing a new property to accommodate their many guests Jodi Warum knows first-hand what it’s like to be constantly in and out of hospitals. A mother of five, she travels with her eight-year-old son, Azzi, every six months or so from Monsey, New York to treat his muscular dystrophy at UMass Memorial Medical […]

Educator, rabbi and judge speaks to Chabad.org in a wide-ranging interview Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon is a graduate of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivahs in Australia, Israel and America. He was ordained as a rabbi before going on to study law in his native Australia. In 1987, he and his wife, Linda, married in Perth, where he […]

Off The Beaten Path: Chabad Houses You Didn’t Know Existed, Part 2 Chabad of Mat-su Valley, Alaska On a short Friday afternoon in December of 2019, Rabbi Mendy Greenberg pops into the Veterans and Pioneers Home of Palmer, Alaska. When he stops at the front desk to see if there are any Jewish residents, he’s […]

Late this Saturday night, Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach, New York, went back to his newly renovated synagogue to ensure that everything was secured correctly after Shabbat. To his horror, he found the sanctuary vandalized and in disarray. For a year and a half, the Chabad of Long Beach […]

Customers eat for a cause at this deli, supporting the Friendship Circle adults who help run the pop-up A new pop-up deli at the Friendship Circle of Dallas is serving up mouth-watering food and an invaluable work opportunity for adults with special needs. The pop-up was founded this March, when Rabbi Levi and Leah Dubrawsky, […]

Online material helps prepare those in isolation for the High Holidays As the coronavirus pandemic forces individuals worldwide to remain isolated, and with many synagogues under orders to restrict attendance, millions of Jews will be praying at home for the High Holidays, many for the first time in their adult lives. To assist them, Chabad.org […]

On the 30th anniversary of the riots, how Crown Heights survived to remain a thriving Jewish neighborhood The Crown Heights Riot took place 30 years ago this month. The event, three days of unrestrained anti-Semitic violence, resulted in the stabbing murder of one Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum, the death by suicide of an elderly Holocaust survivor, […]