Enthusiastic participation in celebrating Shabbat and Jewish holidays helps residents of senior living communities stay connected to Judaism. Sometimes, they even teach the non-Jewish staff about Jewish traditions and food.
“Today’s students will be the last to personally encounter and ask questions of a Holocaust survivor, let alone one as prominent as Anne Frank’s sister,” says Rabbi Motti Wilhelm.
Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division Makan Delrahim was joined by Executive Vice President of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) and board member of the Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington Rabbi Levi Shemtov for a discussion.
Launched in 2012 by the country’s branch of the Chabad Hasidic movement, the program takes hundreds of Jewish men and women aged 18-28 on fully subsidized trips each spring to Europe.
A rabbi, a priest, an imam and a Buddhist monk go to a football game together. It sounds like the beginning of a cheesy joke, but rather was the story behind one of last night’s Super Bowl commercials.
UC Irvine hosted a celebration Monday to mark the completion of a Torah scroll written in honor of the university’s Jewish community.
When Rabbi Yossi Freedman, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Cleveland, bought one of the first 20 Avenue Townhomes in downtown Cleveland in 2013, he was excited to be moving into a vibrant, walkable neighborhood.
The Jewish Studies program honored a long-standing Jewish tradition on Wednesday by celebrating new beginnings within nature and the university program.
U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which is hosting Super Bowl LII, does not have a kosher concession stand. So a group of rabbis affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement have rented an RV and are hosting a party for all kashrut-observant football fans.
Rabbi Chaim Zaklos and his wife, Aidel, are working on creating a “one-stop-Jewish-life” center in Vacaville. Nearly everything taking shape there is a first, at least for the city, and in many cases, for Solano County as well.
The country’s Chabad emissary is setting up a pop-up restaurant in Pyeongchang County, the site of the 2018 Winter Olympics. During the Olympics, which start on Feb. 9, the temporary eatery will serve three meals daily, including Korean-style bulgogi beef, schnitzel, hot dogs and vegetarian items.
The Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies held its annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony last week.