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 […]

Gifted with prodigious memory, spent lifetime absorbing and disseminating the Rebbe’s teachings to the world Rabbi Yoel HaKohen Kahn, known to all simply as Reb Yoel, was a leading disciple of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, and his oral scribe. Blessed with unique intellectual gifts and a once-in-a-generation memory, Reb Yoel […]

Rabbi Yossy Goldman made Sydenham Shul into one of the world’s great synagogues For more than 30 years, people coming to pray in Johannesburg’s largest synagogue have been greeted by a familiar sight: Rabbi Yossy Goldman sitting by his dais, ready to lead the service. Be it a Friday night, Shabbat day or Yom Kippur. […]

18-year-old hopes to be a role model for Jewish life in the major leagues On a bus with his teammates on Israel’s Olympic baseball team heading to Hartford, Conn., 18-year-old Elie Kligman received a call he had long been hoping for. The Washington Nationals had just selected the Las Vegas native in the 20th round […]