With a little creativity, communities find ways to celebrate Jewnity and Pride on Lag B’Omer On Monday evening at 18:00 sharp, 45,000 individuals tuned into the livestream at 18for18.com.au. Narrated and presented by children and individuals from Jewish communities across Australia and New Zealand, the event sought to bring together 18,000 Jewish Australians for 18 […]

Bringing inspiration and Jewish pride to some 40 percent of Aussie and Kiwi Jews MELBOURNE, Australia—From Dunedin on the southern tip of New Zealand to Townsville in Australia’s tropical north, they came together on Lag BaOmer as “one people with one heart.” The tough coronavirus lockdowns since mid-March down under haven’t dampened the spirits of […]

The 1980 Russian-language address that took the world by surprise and placed the Soviet regime on notice The year 1980 was turning out to be a dark one for Soviet Jewry. The previous decade had seen the first large-scale Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, reaching a peak of 51,300 exit visas in 1979. But […]

How the far-flung Auckland community is keeping together and apart during the pandemic After last Yom Kippur, as the community members of Chabad of Auckland, New Zealand, gathered together to break the fast, one congregant rose, telling those gathered: “If it weren’t for Chabad, I wouldn’t have been at synagogue today. I would have been […]

Tonight, May 10th at 8 PM EST. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98230182032

Hatzalah of Crown Heights is there for you when you need us We leave our jobs during the day, and jump out of bed at 3 AM We respond during family time, and in middle of our own Simcha’s We answer your call during the “18 Minutes”, during Ne’ilah or in middle of the SEDER […]

This webcast begins: Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM Click here to watch