Shortly after the hurricane hit on Sept. 20, Chabad of Puerto Rico Rabbi Mendel Zarchi, the organization’s emissary on the island for two decades, managed to hold Rosh Hashanah services, despite parts of his shul’s roof being ripped off and its sanctuary being flooded.

“Hi, are you Jewish?” It’s a question you may have been asked in any number of towns or cities by a smiling bearded man wearing a yarmulke. It’s one of the trademarks of Chabad, the Hasidic movement that dispatches its young men around town to help Jewish strangers perform a mitzvah—Jewish women are offered Shabbat candles, and Jewish men are encouraged to put on tefillin.

A Jewish high school operated by Chabad-Lubavitch in Berlin took top honors in the capital city’s state Regents exams, in which Hebrew was recognized for the first time by the German government as a tested subject.

Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurevitch was on his way to synagogue on Friday when a group of teens spotted his kippah and began shouting anti-Semitic slurs

Nestled in Worthing, Barbados, is a Chabad House run by Rabbi Eli and Sterna Chaikin since 2017 —the 11th Chabad center in the Caribbean to date.
There aren’t a lot of Jews living in Barbados. There aren’t even a lot of Jews passing through Barbados. In 1929 the last Jew in Barbados left, ending 300 years of the island’s Sephardic Jewish presence. In 1931, a Jewish peddler from Lublin became enchanted with the island and decided to stay, reviving a Jewish presence in Barbados.

While most people would have run the other way from the terrorist’s flying bullets, 31-year-old tzaddik, Yosef Twito, who was in charge of security in the Samaria settlement of Itamar, south of Nablus, raced to the Shabo house to help. He was gunned down by the terrorist inside.
Nahal Twito was only 4-and-a-half years old at the time of the tragedy. The charity organization Colel Chabad immediately took the Twito family under its care and has maintained a close relationship with Yosef’s widow, Rachel, and their orphaned children ever since.

The way Chaim Silberberg sees it, barbecuing is an ancient Jewish practice, dating back to the holy Temple in Jerusalem where Jews brought animals to sacrifice and ate a portion of the remains.

Debby and Zohar Elnatan had been searching for eight years for an apartment for their son, Rotem.
Rotem, 23, has cerebral palsy, and likes to DJ in his spare time. So when they found out about the new Beis Finger Rehabilitation Center in Jerusalem, it was a perfect fit.

After a successful pilot program this year, Twinsburg Chabad will open a Sunday/Hebrew School this coming 2018-19 school year, for grades 1-4.
Both the Twinsburg Chabad congregation and the school meet in the Gary Drive home of Rabbi Mendy Greenberg and his wife. For larger worship or High Holy Days services, the congregation meets in the Twinsburg Community Center.

eeping kids healthy and happy during the long summer months can be a challenge. Having a sick child in the hospital over the summer can multiply that challenge manyfold.
Recognizing these obstacles, Colel Chabad, Israel’s longest continuously running charity, organizes summer camps in two of Israel’s hospitals, Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot and Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. Yes, summer camp!

On Thursday, June 14, Tenafly Chabad Academy (TCA) recognized a significant milestone with the graduation of its first eighth grade class. The eight girls who comprised the graduating class each delivered her own personal speech to the proud families, friends, rabbis, teachers, administrators and board members.

If Charlotte Guedalia, a product design sophomore at Drexel University, wants to go to the Chabad serving Drexel on Shabbat, she has to figure out a way to finagle a key necklace.
“The eruv as it was, as it is now, doesn’t reach Chabad, which creates this awkward dynamic [that] students, especially Orthodox ones who are conscious of the need of an eruv, didn’t have a way to carry their key to Chabad on Shabbat or carry their IDs or anything like that,” said Guedalia, who considers herself modern Orthodox.