Jewish travelers who are away from home for Passover can find seders to attend around the world.
The Jewish outreach organization Chabad-Lubavitch will host seders in countries ranging from Australia, China and South Africa to Brazil and Germany.
Rabbi Schneerson was the only rabbi ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal and to have an American national day proclaimed in his honor, Education and Sharing Day.
Bringing the warmth and tradition of this festival to the Greater Hartford Community, Chabad will be holding 7 Public Passover Seders in Greater Hartford area, according to a release from Chabad House of Greater Hartford.
For students such as Nesha Ruther, co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine at UW-Madison, the apolitical Jewish outreach group is a rare place of Jewish inclusion
Many are expected to visit the tomb of the Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Schneersohn (the Rashab) on Sunday, in Rostov, southwestern Russia, on the 98th anniversary of his passing.
Rootin’ tootin’ pardners wearing head coverings of all colors, sizes and descriptions corralled their 120 to 200 horsepower rides to the hitching posts of the Chabad of Yonkers last Thursday afternoon, eager for Rabbi Mendy Hurwitz’s promise of a “grand ole’ time” bringing Purim in the Wild West to Yonkers.
Every photo tells a story, and what you see here is no different. The photo shows two women, smiling and happy. On the right is Rebbetzin Rivkie Lipskier, Chabad at UCF co-executive director, wife, and mother of five young children. I stand on the left, professor of political science at UCF, wife, stepmother to two adult children, and old enough to be Rivkie’s mother.
Chabad of Hunterdon’s ninth Annual Auction fundraiser will be held on Sunday, March 18. The event boasts more than 50 prize packages valued at more than $100,000.
“We’ve been safeguarding this Torah in my family for 90 years,” Ramatsky said. “And now it is time for it to come out of hiding.”
High school students at the Hebrew Academy (RASG) in Miami Beach recently honored the victims of the shooting tragedy of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland with a student-run solidarity program.
This program, a student-run initiative, took place at the Hebrew Academy, an Orthodox Jewish Day School, for 17 minutes to honor the 17 shooting victims.
Inside the Chabad center in Pleasanton last weekend, as the sun set on Shabbat, Sheva Rice helped her husband light a Havdalah candle and pass spices around the table for sniffing. “You should have the Pashtuns smell it, too!” she said.
Characters of all ages celebrated the Jewish Holiday of Purim together at Chabad’s recent community “Superhero” Purim Party at the American Legion Banquet Hall in Monroe.