In the living room of a sprawling house on the edge of Sioux Falls, Mendel Alperowitz is winding a leather strap around the arm and fingers of Stuart Jacobs.

The Chabad ACT Synagogue is set to own its very first Torah thanks to principal sponsors Dr Alena and Jacob Reich.

Sept. 14 was an evening of laughter, music, dance, prayer and unity among women at The Roth Family JCC and the Rosen JCC as each dug their hands into bread dough, braiding magnificent round Challah at Chabad’s fourth annual Mega Challah Bake.

LAS CRUCES – A local Jewish congregation announced Tuesday it had successfully raised more than $50,000 this week to buy a new Torah scroll.

In an effort to make Judaism accessible and affordable, Rabbi Yaakov and Shayna Borenstein, co-directors of the Chabad Jewish Center of Longmont, are partnering with four Jewish communities across Colorado on the Free Hebrew School Project.

Around 30 Washington University students, along with campus Chabad Rabbi Hershey Novack and his family, completed inking an unfinished Sefer Torah— previously in storage at Barnes-Jewish Hospital— and rededicated the scroll to Chabad Sunday Sept. 17.

As he sounds the shofar each year, Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel thinks about the name of each person attending Chabad of Nashville’s Rosh Hashanah prayer service.

Hundreds of Jewish travellers flock to Chabad in Thailand for Yomtov and Shabbat

As the Jewish calendar comes to a close and Jews all over the world take an accounting of their past year’s deeds, Colel Chabad, Israel’s premiere charity supporting the Holy Land’s neediest since 1788, is taking an accounting of the help they have given throughout the country.

Ever wanted to know how to make a challah? More than 380 women came together to bake bread — actually, challah — in a sold out pre-Rosh Hashana event last week. Rosh Hashana — the Jewish New Year — begins on sundown Wednesday.

HAVERHILL — The new year is bringing new beginnings for members of two Jewish groups in the Merrimack Valley.

With power for most residents of St. Thomas expected to be out for months and less than a week’s supply of fresh water remaining, an emergency airlift of desperately needed supplies for the Caribbean island, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma, is on its way from Houston.