Students receive best scores in year-end testing A Chabad-run Jewish high school for girls was named the best school in all of Berlin by the city’s department of education after its students received top scores on end-of-year state testing despite coronavirus pandemic shutdowns. Staff at the Jewish Traditional School were notified of the designation after […]

From her Chicago home, she lavished love and attention to all those who crossed her path They say you can tell a person’s personality from their couch. Faigy Bassman’s couches feature fluffy cushions with large floral designs on a light background, drenched in sunlight from the largest bay window I have ever seen, and are […]

Rabbi Sholom Noginski says conquering darkness with light is ‘the only way forward’ The rabbi who was stabbed eight times in an anti-Semitic attack in Brighton, Mass., on July 1, has proclaimed his resolve to train and ordain at least eight new rabbis who will join the Chabad-Lubavitch worldwide network in spreading the light of […]

Chabad in South Africa airlifts food and provides comfort on the ground to terrified communitie JOHANNESBURG—Umhlanga is a small, idyllic beach town in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. For its residents, Umhlanga is home, where the everyday hustle and bustle of life takes place. But for a few weeks during the July winter holiday, hundreds of […]

Chabad on the Coast brings the joy of Judaism to English-speaking residents TEL AVIV—It’s a steamy midsummer night only a short walk from the Mediterranean beaches, and Israel’s city that never sleeps is wide awake. The City Center neighborhood is beating with bright, youthful energy. Swarms of bicycles and electric scooters zip by the packed […]

A Jewish City of Yesteryear Welcomes New Shluchim The city of Newark is known for many things: the Newark airport, Rutgers University, Audible’s new headquarters, and for being the largest city in New Jersey. What many do not know, however, is that Newark used to be the sixth largest Jewish community in America, and Jews […]

The thought that she would never get to stand with her son under the chuppah broke Elisheva (Irene) Solovey’s heart. The single mom mourned the untimely passing of her son Eliezer (Leonard) at age 23. She needed solace. She found it in the creation of a Torah scroll in his memory. On a Sunday in […]

In Episode 6 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, Reporter Gary Waleik visits the home of Shlomo Noginski, a rabbi in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The brutal July 1st attack on Noginski outside a Jewish day school made for sensational news headlines. But Noginski and Shaloh House director Rabbi […]

“One who mourns over Jerusalem merits to revel in its joy.”  This evening, Jews around the world will remove their shoes, begin a 25-hour fast, and sit low on the floor in the manner of mourners. We will read Eicha, the Book of Lamentations, funeral dirges over Jerusalem, “the city that sat alone” in the […]