Two-hundred and nineteen years ago, the first rebbe – founder and leader – of the Chabad Hassidic movement in Russia was miraculously released from jail.

US District Court judge André Birotte, Jr. on Friday granted a legal victory to the Chabad of Irvine, dismissing a lawsuit brought against the Chabad House by animal rights activists, who sought to end the group’s practice of Kapparot.

Last week, the co-director of Chabad House at UCLA set a large stainless-steel bowl filled with bread dough onto a long wooden table in her family’s Westwood townhouse

For the Bais Menachem Youth Development Program of the Jewish Community Center in Wilkes-Barre, Sunday was a day of pride for their religion.

Beginning Monday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m., Chabad will offer a fascinating new six-session course from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) called Survival of a Nation: Exploring Israel Through the Lens of the Six-Day War.

Similarly to the Shabbas candles, Friday night’s Mega Shabbat event was lit. Jointly hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Hillel, Chabad, and Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity chapter, the Mega Shabbat festivities looked and felt like a large family gathering.

Now, after two years of construction, the Chabad Center for Jewish Life will soon have its own mikvah. Rabbi Shimon Kramer and his wife, Chanie, said they look forward to introducing it to the Bellmore-Merrick community on June 11.

All the social media in the world can’t match up to a personal, face-to-face connection.

West Hartford >> One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Fifty years later, Israel continues to face numerous existential threats.

Chabad of Charleston will celebrate Lag B’Omer on Sunday with its annual Lagfest event, featuring live entertainment, barbecue, jump castles, games and rides, face painting, balloon art, a bonfire and more.

This Sunday, May 14, TheSHUL DC – Chabad welcomes all ages for the unique opportunity to watch a sofer at work writing the Washington Torah, the first Torah to be exclusively written in DC

Rabbi Itchel and Rebbetzin Pearl Krasnjansky came to Honolulu almost three decades ago as young shluchim for the Lubavitcher Rebbe and, now with their seven children, some of whom still live on the island, have set down roots and grown the community from the inside out.