Preconceived notions about the insular role of women in Hasidism were shattered when more than 3,000 women from around the world gathered to brainstorm about the future of world Jewry and their roles as emissary-representatives of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
At a school where 27 percent of the student body is Jewish, Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, is no minor venue. Yet, despite the hundreds of students who show up to weekly dinners, Rabbi Leibel Lipskier decided to raise the bar.
Noted business entrepreneur and startup advisor, Eric Schames, recently dedicated a hospitality house at the Illini Chabad Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
It’s no secret that divisiveness is at an all-time high. It’s also no secret that Chabad’s openness and love-of-every-Jew approach brings many different types of Jews together under one roof.
Chabad, the Hasidic movement that operates Jewish centers in more than 90 countries, has set up shop in the Pacific island archipelago of New Caledonia, which has 250,000 residents and 250 Jews.
Almost 60 years ago, a young New York rabbi and his wife came to Oak Park to start the country’s first Chabad-Lubavitch outpost. Now, the movement has come full circle.
Break out the schnapps! This year, Chabad of Arizona celebrates 40 years of serving the state’s diverse Jewish population with a gala dinner at Embassy Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Resort on Feb. 26.
It is a story told in frayed telegrams and creased photographs, in faded script on yellowing notebook pages, in postmarked envelopes and stamped passports.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once scheduled an hour-long meeting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Towards the end of the consultation, the Rebbe asked if he could request a favor from the senator.
Papers with hand-drawn swastikas and hate messages have been left on homes and a Chabad House in a Los Angeles suburb.
The presence of Chabad is ‘a breath of fresh air’ for Jewish tourists and residents
Authorities on Wednesday asked the public to help identify those responsible for several cases of anti-Semitic notes found in various Oak Park locations, including a Chabad center.