The messages were spread via QR codes posted around town. They took you to a site filled with speeches from an anti-Semitic author. Rabbi Shlomo Litvin from the Chabad of the Bluegrass says the community needs to come together now before hateful words turn into hateful actions.
During a recent visit to the United Arab Emirates’ Jewish community, Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef inaugurated the first certified Jewish school in the Gulf states and invested Rabbi Levi Duchman as rabbi of the Emirati Jewish community.
Between serving as the rabbi at the Chabad of Oceanside, a chaplain for Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital and the Oceanside Fire Department, and a member of the chevra kadisha, or “secret society” that ensures that the bodies of deceased Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition, Levi Gurkov rarely has time to himself.
It is a question I have struggled with for years. I proudly identify as a Jewish person. I attend a Conservative synagogue on the High Holidays, keep kosher in my house and recite the Shabbat prayers on Friday night. I attended Jewish day school as a child and continue to speak Hebrew (albeit not well).
The police investigation into the vandalism of a menorah display at Dartmouth College continues to gain steam while New Hampshire Jewish leaders see a continued problem of anti-Semitism.
The result is “Dress for Recovery,” a clothing bank that officially opened Tuesday in connection with the “Circle of Hope” wig bank at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life on Hewlett Avenue in Merrick.
As Jews across the country light their menorahs to celebrate the final night of Hanukkah, Hanover Police are investigating the vandalism of the large menorah installed on the Dartmouth Green.
The iconic and world-famous menorah-lighting ceremony in Paris’s Eiffel Tower was all set to be canceled this Hanukkah – until the timely intervention of the city’s mayor.
Chabad of Vero Beach shed some light on a centuries-old, commemorative festival during Chanukah at the Park.
Filling nearly two dozen cars with friends, supporters and members of the Chabad of Pasadena staged their first-ever Hanukkah parade Wednesday night.
A bucket truck dreidel drop greeted the 154 cars driving through the carnival, as attendees held 5-foot nets outside their cars to catch the falling dreidels and Chanukah gelt.
There was music, a twirler and loads of community bonding.