The Lubavitch Center and Yeshiva Schools always honor an outstanding person at their annual community-wide event known as Melava Malka. This year, though, after an egregious act of anti-Semitic violence so profoundly rocked the city, the schools decided to honor those who stood — and continue to stand — in defense of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community.

The project will create temporary bridge housing for homeless individuals and intends to expand housing options for the Los Angeles homeless population. The bridge housing facility in Westwood will be located within Chabad of Westwood’s building on Gayley Avenue. Each facility in the project will remain open for three years.

In 2002 Marthe penned her memoir, “Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany.” She lives together with her husband in Palos Verdes, CA and travels internationally, sharing her remarkable story. On Wednesday, January 30, we will be hosting Marthe Cohn at Chabad and she will tell her story.

Chabad of the S. Barbara will host a Kids Mega Challah Bake, allowing children to experience a huge challah-baking party, 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at Franklin Neighborhood Center, 1136 E. Montecito St., Santa Barbara.

Students at Longmeadow’s Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy went back in time on Tuesday, recreating the Jewish migration to America during the late 19th and early 20th century.

With criminal justice reform center-stage in the United States, Chabad of Port Washington is offering course by the Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), the world’s largest Jewish adult Jewish education network, that explores the Jewish approach to the challenging questions of crime, punishment and justice.

The Atlanta BeltLine is among the fastest-growing and most trafficked areas of Atlanta, and Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman saw an opportunity to connect with intown Jews.

With criminal justice reform center-stage in the United States, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI)—the world’s largest adult Jewish education network—is launching a course that explores the Jewish approach to the challenging questions of crime, punishment and justice. “Crime and Consequence” is a six-part series that will be offered beginning on February 10 at Anshei Lubavitch of Fair Lawn, as well as at more than 400 locations worldwide.

Adam Levitz, a 44-year-old married father of three, was in liver failure. Things were getting worse, and he knew it. On Dec. 20, he received a new liver and a new lease on life. His donor, Rabbi Ephraim Simon, is one of only a handful of individuals to have ever donated both a kidney and a liver—a procedure most hospitals won’t even allow.

When Chabad requested kosher food, it wasn’t a big stretch for the college because it was already providing Halal food for Muslim students, Sharfstein said.

Is there a Jewish community in Galloway Township—outside of Stockton University and Seashore Gardens Living Center? There definitely is now, said Rabbi Meir Rapoport, who runs Galloway’s Chabad House with his wife, Shaina.

I have witnessed the miracles performed by Chabad, as they arrive in some far out city in Asia thought to have no Jews, open their doors and draw together dozens, then hundreds of Jews, to create Jewish communities where none existed.