Thousands of children worldwide join CKids Mitzvah Meter competition With 25,000 mitzvahs logged online in the first week, Jewish children from Brazil to Hawaii are getting onboard with the new CKids Mitzvah Meter competition, and the excitement is growing. CKids, the Chabad Children’s Network, launched the “Mitzvah Meter” competition last week in partnership with the […]

Stress and trauma levels surge in city under siege In the span of one hour on Tuesday, two hundred Palestinian rockets pummeled the city of Ashkelon, killing two and wounding many others. The terror attacks continued on Wednesday, pounding Ashkelon and its neighboring city of Ashdod. “What has happened over the last few days has […]

In honor of 54 years since the reunification of Jerusalem, when the Lubavitcher Rebbe introduced the Tefillin campaign, we are bringing this article out of the archives. As head of the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, Yossi Cohen’s routine is anything but humdrum. Beginning his day at the crack of dawn, the recently appointed director […]

Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier is a bimonthly podcast focusing on Chabad emissaries, or shluchim, their personal struggles and the people they inspire all around the globe.  In Episode 1 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, former NPR producer and RTNDA Murrow Award Recipient Gary Waleik tells […]

Synagogues, homes, businesses and vehicles ransacked and burned In what the city’s mayor described as “Kristallnacht”—the unimaginable experience of a murderous pogrom aimed at the Jews living in a city in central Israel—residents of Lod were attacked by stone-throwing Arabs; Molotov cocktails were hurled at Jewish homes; dozens, perhaps hundreds, of vehicles were set alight; […]

Jewish homes, synagogues, cars torched by rioting Arab mobs; IDF strikes back at Hamas It was a violent, terrifying and sleepless night for many in Israel as Hamas launched middle-of-the night barrages of more than 300 missiles that killed two and sent hundreds of thousands to bomb shelters from Tel Aviv to Beersheva. In total, […]

https://www.pewforum.org/2021/05/11/jewish-americans-in-2020/ Nearly one-in-five Jews say they often (5%) or sometimes (12%) participate in activities or services with Chabad. This is especially common among Orthodox Jews; 46% say they participate in Chabad activities at least sometimes, compared with 25% of Conservative Jews, 12% of Reform Jews and 8% of Jews who do not identify with any […]

Caribbean archipelago gets its first synagogue and permanent rabbi When Jill Swann moved to the Caribbean Island of Providenciales to teach windsurfing and sailing, she found just about everything she wanted in Turks and Caicos, an archipelago of 30 islands boasting 230 miles of beach, most of it sprinkled with soft, white sand and surrounded […]

Israel hits back at terrorist infrastructure in Gaza Updated at 2:30.pm. ET JERUSALEM—Residents of Tel Aviv and central Israel took shelter tonight amid the sounds of wailing air-raid sirens followed a seemingly continuous series of explosions, as Hamas launched more than 100 missiles at Israel’s coastal cities. At least three people were injured, including a […]