The local Chabad of the Tri-Valley will commemorate this anniversary by hosting German Rabbi Y. M. Wagner to speak at its center in a few weeks on post-Holocaust Jewish life and confronting anti-Semitism.
Sophie’s friends say she had a magical way of making everyone feel included. A sign outside Chabad Jewish Center reads ‘home away from home’, and members say Sophie made everyone who walked in feel like family.
Earlier this week, a certain TV personality ruffled some feathers when he tweeted a picture of another famous person taking a walk with his baby strapped to his chest, implying that it was a most un-masculine thing a man can do.
Two Israeli reservists came to UNC on Monday to speak about growing up in Israel, serving in the Israeli Defense Forces and their lives after being in the service.
According to Rabbi Shlomo, the co-director of Oberlin’s student Chabad organization, this year’s weekly holiday dinners at Chabad House have regularly hosted at least six members of the men’s basketball team.
For groups and individuals who visit the Holy Land from all over the world, the highlight of their visit is often Jerusalem’s Western Wall. For the first time, a special group of severely disabled people, who live in unique housing centers sponsored by the charity organization Colel Chabad, were blessed to join in that life-altering experience.
Harley Finkelstein was a poor law school student when he made a pledge to help support the local Chabad emissary, Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky, however he could. Now, over a decade later, Finkelstein is finally following through on that promise.
When he and his wife moved to Pensacola, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, Rabbi Mendel Danow expected to spend the following couple of weeks settling in and buying supplies for their new home.
Greg Joseph of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns got a new mezuzah and kicked a game-winning field goal — on the same day.
As this is a food rather than faith column, there is rarely a mention of God, but the folks at Chabad of Bakersfield are doing the Lord’s work with these pop-up Jewish deli events.
Cultural and religious clubs on campus do not get the acknowledgement they deserve, and their importance should be recognized.
Being a member of Chabad on Campus has helped me stay connected to my Jewish identity and celebrate Jewish holidays while living away from home.
During this year’s High Holidays I observed that nobody at our Chabad House’s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services was Orthodox.
Why? Why do several dozen Jews, and in larger cities perhaps several hundred, choose to attend services at Chabad, when the temples and synagogues around the corner offer a much more contemporary experience.