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Chabad of Dnepropetrovks has mobilized its resources to accommodatet he influx of refugees, providing individuals, families and seniors with reliable shelter and protection, kosher food, schools for children.

As IDF ground forces entered Gaza on Thursday, Chabad-Lubavitch representatives around the world reached out...

Moses' resounding cry should reverberate in our ears. "Shall your brethren go to war while you stay here?!" Should our brothers and sisters in Israel face this war alone while we sit here comfortably in our penthouses?

Leading rabbinical figures from Israel and Europe presided at the dedication ceremony of the new offices of Russia’s Chief Rabbinate. The new facility will serve as the home for all of the rabbinical concerns related to Russia’s Jewish popultion, which until now have been dispersed among various locations.

Rabbi Akiva and Hannah Hall, and their eight-month-old daughter, Leah, are preparing to put down roots in the Biloxi-Gulfport area in southern Mississippi in time for the High Holidays. This brings the number of states represented by Chabad to 49.

Chabad representatives and their communities worldwide join the world Jewish community in praying and grieving with the families.

To be Jewish, the Rebbe taught, is to care about matters great and lofty, but only insofar as they make us more attentive to the needs of our fellow Jew and our fellow human being

To one biographer, he was a world leader who shaped a worldwide movement; to his student, the Rebbe was a tzaddik, a personal link to a higher reality.

In the latest of anti-Jewish activity in France, protestors attempted to storm two synagogues in Paris on Sunday. With a substantial Muslim population, far-right National Front party, and widespread anti-Israel sentiment among French leftists, France is seeing many Jews emigrate. But others are digging their heels in, deepening their Jewish identity.

It may be that instead of depending on adversity as the impetus for change, the Rebbe wanted us to look towards the redemption from a place of well-being, our minds free to imagine a categorically elevated experience, if only we have the audacity for such inventiveness.