More than a week after an arsonist caused what Rabbi Avremel Vogel estimated to be close to $200,000 in damages to the University of Delaware Chabad Center, around 40 students gathered in Vogel’s backyard Friday, on the property behind what is now their former Jewish center on campus, for a welcome back Shabbat after the first week of classes.

This High Holiday season COVID-19 has created difficulties for many in joining a synagogue service in person on the Shoreline and across the country. For many there is no precedent for High Holidays outside the synagogue and alone.

With the High Holidays approaching and COVID-19 creating difficulties for many in joining a traditional synagogue service, Chabad of Shelton & Monroe will hold an outdoor Rosh Hashanah [Shofar] service.

Shortly before Shabbat yesterday (Friday), a huge fire broke out in the Itamar community of Samaria.

Rabbi Yehuda “Yudi” Dukes has spent nearly half a year in critical condition due to complications from Covid-19.

Chabad Center of Sudbury recently announced it will offer two tracks for its Hebrew School program, including one in person program and one virtual track.

After years of planning, the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Placer County will soon begin construction on a new $6.5-million center that will more than quadruple the amount of space for its programs.

This year, it will take a lot more than seven priests for the plaintive wail of the shofar to penetrate the walls of Jews sheltering in place for the Jewish High Holy Days.

Recognizing that blowing the Shofar, as the Jewish people have done for millenia, is the central mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah, Chabad directors throughout the area are eager to ensure that everyone can hear the Shofar this year. In that spirit, Chabad has arranged Shofar in the Park ceremonies in several local parks to ensure that no one will be left out of this great mitzvah.

On a typical Friday night in the dead of New Jersey winter, strolling through a narrow street off University Place and just short of Nassau, one might find an unusual scene: as many as 100 students celebrating Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest, by dining outdoors in a tent adjacent to a small house. Shabbat is marked traditionally by refraining from work and partaking in communal meals.

The Jewish landscape of southeast suburban Denver is changing with the opening of the new South Metro Campus for Jewish Life.

The depictions of life within the Satmar community of Williamsburg, known for their precise and somewhat austere interpretation of Halacha (Jewish law), raised many questions from within and outside the Jewish community. That curiosity, and the misconceptions it revealed, led to the creation of this presentation.