Miami Beach police are investigating a swastika found painted on one of the posts at the Congregation Beth Medrash Levi Yitzchok Lubavitch across from Flamingo Park.

Although Jewish prisoners make up less than 1 percent of the prison population nationwide, Rabbi Menachem Katz continues to maintain contact with prisoners to help provide what they need, such as religious texts, prayer services, and to make sure that they are treated fairly. But his work is not easy.

Students at Wilmette Community Hebrew School are combining creativity with spiritual lessons to bring a charitable light to the holiday season.

The atmosphere was deceptively quiet in the small moshav of Netiv HaAsara, only four hundred meters north of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday afternoon when Mendy Hartman, a 45-year old Hasid from Bnei Brak, approached an armored IDF jeep and handed the soldier sitting in the driver’s seat a honey cake with a wrapper bearing the image of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

“With all this craziness going on, let’s bring some light and warmth into this world.”
This was the message that Mushka Shemtov Matusof of Chabad House posted on Facebook, seeking volunteers to help prepare matzah ball soup and challah for the Light of Shabbat program.

With music and food, hundreds in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community celebrated Sunday in what was billed as a “day of community healing” at Congregation Beth Shalom on Beacon Street in Squirrel Hill.

Chabad of Jackson will ignite a public 9 foot Hanukkah menorah erected at The White Butterfly, followed by a community-wide celebration on Sunday December 2nd, the 1st night of the eight-day holiday.

What motivates Chabad emissaries? Yitzchak’s work is also our work – to dig wells. To believe that under the dirt and dust and all the layers, there is clear, sweet water.

There was standing room only in Paganucci Lounge as students, faculty and Dartmouth community members attended an anti-Semitism panel featuring College President Phil Hanlon with fellow panelists Chabad Rabbi Moshe Gray and Jewish studies professor Susannah Heschel.

Last week, Tenafly Chabad Academy middle school students worked on a chesed project in response to the devastating tragedy that happened in Pittsburgh.

Rabbi Levi Gurkov, co-director of the Chabad of Oceanside, one of the organizations that hosted the event, said it was a “phenomenal showing of the community, of all different denominations, coming together.”

For Rabbi Joseph Eisenbach, leader of Chabad Lubavitch of Northwest Connecticut, there are no answers that can ease the pain of such a loss. His solution: “Celebrate the light.”