Flying during a holiday season is tough.

With Puerto Rico still reeling from the devastation left by Hurricane Maria, Valley residents and Jewish organizations are working together to help the beleaguered island.

Brand-new Monroe Chabad House was eight years in the making

The Jewish High Holidays came alive for students at Lake Success Chabad’s JLE Hebrew School as they participated in a Shofar Factory.

Two leading Israeli charity organizations are joining forces to educate impoverished Israelis about nutrition after studies reveal that many poor people tend to eat cheaper, unhealthier foods which lack nutrients.

Sounding the shofar and praying for recovery on St. Thomas

When they immigrated to the United States from Iran in 1976, Moshe and Ruth Daniels arrived first in New York. In 2012 they moved to Camarillo.

“To see the utter devastation firsthand and so close to home is shocking.

Puerto Rico’s Jews turn to helping neighbors ravaged by Hurricane Maria

habad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale usually hosts the annual event “Loaves of Love,” where volunteers bake challah and pack High Holiday packages for distribution to hospitals and senior residences, before Rosh Hashanah.

Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, director of Chabad in Franklin Lakes, heard firsthand from his brother-in-law Rabbi Mendel Zarchi, director of the Chabad of Puerto Rico, about the ferocious winds and horizontal rain they experienced for hours on end last week that caused extensive damage to their brand-new building, which was dedicated just over a year ago.

Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia’s far east is now barely 1% Jewish but officials hope to woo back people who left after Soviet collapse