When Veronica and Jon Kraus lost their 29-year-old son Jeff to addiction earlier this year, they vowed to do something about the problem by giving back to Chabad Intown, an organization where their son spent much of his time.
Fifth- and sixth-grade girls from Cheder Chabad of Philadelphia went to the Radnor police station to read thank-you cards to express their gratitude for the officers’ presence at their school after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
Dykstra, 55, a three-time All-Star who played for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies and retired from the game in 1996, attends Torah study every Wednesday afternoon in the basement of the Ambassador Wines shop on New York’s East Side, with Rabbi Shmuel Metzger, who runs the Chabad at Beekman-Sutton, the New York Post reported.
“Initially, everyone was focused on clothing, food and shelter,” says Chana Rochel Zwiebel, co-director of Chabad of Chico with her husband, Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel. “Now we are in the next phase, and we are doing everything we can to help with the rebuilding and giving people back some independence.”
Students at Chabad Hebrew School are honored for their Hebrew reading achievements at an Aleph Champ Award Ceremony.
The Forward magazine recently included Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel in its list of this year’s influential leaders. Tiechtel and his wife, Nechama, have led Chabad, a University of Kansas campus Jewish community, since 2006.
A frightening picture taken outside the Chabad of North Hollywood appears to show a man with his face covered in a scarf, holding a machete in a threatening manner toward the Chabad.
The night was cold with the coming of winter, and although it was only 5 p.m., Red Square was already dark, but neither that nor impending final exams stopped about 150 UW students from gathering on the steps of Suzzallo Library.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, co-director, Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale, noted, “27 years ago, people mentioned to me there was no Chabad in Riverdale; there was no Chabad in the Bronx.
About 100 people attended a bris ceremony Wednesday morning at the Chabad of Snohomish County synagogue in Lynnwood’s Perrinville neighborhood.
Tenafly Chabad Academy students welcomed Rabbi Binyamin Yablok and were treated to a fun and interactive dreidel exhibition and demonstration.
As we continue our exploration across the various touch-points patients have when traveling here, we stopped by Chabad-Lubavitch of Rochester, Minnesota to better understand how the local faith community contributes to the spiritual and emotional well-being of our most vulnerable visitors.