Goldie Plotkin knows a bit about Jewish marriage. The rebbetzin, who lives in Toronto and runs the women’s programming at her local Chabad, has been married to Rabbi Avraham Plotkin for 34 years.

“It’s amazing how people in the streets are sympathetic, asking for selfies with us. They are grateful for the Israeli army and the Jewish people,” Rabbi Nissim Katri, of the Chabad House in Belo Horizonte, told JTA. “They seem amazed with this type of solidarity that is not so common in our modern world.”

the Colel Chabad charitable organization held a joint Bat Mitzva celebration in Jerusalem on Monday for 37 girls and their families and friends. Each of the girls had experienced such direct loss and many families said they appreciated being able to celebrate alongside others who understand those unique challenges.

After seven years in an office suite down the hall from state legislators in the Haskell Towne Centre complex, Chabad Jewish Center Upper Passaic County is relocating four-fifths of a miles north on Ringwood Avenue.

It was something like a ballet of waiters, chefs and kitchen staff on Sunday as 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch female emissaries and lay leaders from 100 countries and all 50 states gathered for a gala banquet to celebrate five days of lessons, classes and lectures in Brooklyn.

Silverstein Hebrew Academy (SHA), in partnership with Chabad of Great Neck and Lake Success Chabad, recently sponsored a community workshop for local parents featuring Columbia University psychologist and mediator, Kira Nurieli.

These women and their husbands represent the Chabad-Lubavitch, an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement known around the world for its outreach efforts. Currently, 4,700 couple emissaries operate Chabad Houses in 100 countries.

On the first anniversary of his father-in-law’s passing, 10 Shevat 1951, in a ceremony attended by several hundred rabbis and Jewish leaders from all parts of the United States and Canada, the Rebbe delivered a Ma’amar, the equivalent to a President-elect taking the oath of office, and formally became the Rebbe.

Chabad Lubavitch of Westport hosted a screening of a documentary called “Complicit,” which not only told the story, but outlined then-President Franklin Roosevelt’s choice to ignore the refugees allegedly to placate some anti-Semitic contingencies in the U.S. and aid his re-election to a third term.

Adam Rosen will also be remembered with a three-day bike-a-thon led by Rabbi Nochum Kurinsky, the director of Chabad at the Beaches Center for Jewish Life in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

After its establishment in 2011, Chabad at Wesleyan is now expanding with a new house on 132 Church Street.

With criminal justice reform center stage in the U.S., Chabad Jewish Center of Bloomfield Hills, in partnership with the Jewish Bar Association of Michigan (JBAM), presents “Crime and Consequence,” starting Feb. 6