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New Centers

New Shluchim to Tracy, CA

As many people transferred to a work-from-home model during the last year due to COVID restrictions, many, especially those with young children, began to look…

By Staff Writer

January 11, 2021

Teens

College-Level Courses for Jewish Teens Picks Up Pace

CTeen U, the Chabad teen program will be launching a new college-accredited course in February. The 14-week Spring course, titled “Introduction to Jewish Law,” a…

By Staff Writer

January 7, 2021

Hospital

A Warm Hug on a Cold, Lonely Street

About five years ago, I was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which causes thickening of the heart muscle.

By Ashira Weiss

January 6, 2021

Inclusion

Opening Chabad House Doors a Little Wider

An accessible Sukkah Mobile in Arkansas, sign language interpreters at Chabad events in Alabama, and in Virginia, a lowered bimah that allows people in wheelchairs…

By Ashira Weiss

January 5, 2021

Editorial

The Story of 2020

How will we tell our grandchildren the story of 2020? I thought about that as I held the tiny fingers of my baby granddaughter, born…

By Baila Olidort

December 31, 2020

New Centers

New Shluchim to Burien, WA

Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Wolff have been appointed to establish a new Chabad center to service the cities of Burien, Federal Way, and the surrounding…

By Staff Writer

December 30, 2020

Features

A Judge and a Jew

Ginsburg, who passed away on September 18 at the age of 87, was memorialized as a brilliant jurist, a tireless advocate for women’s rights, and…

By Sarah Ogince

December 29, 2020

Statement

Statement By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters

The Chabad-Lubavitch international community mourns the passing of Mrs. Ann Kuperman (Golda Perel bas Reb Dov), of blessed memory. She will be remembered widely and…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

December 29, 2020

Centers

Where the KKK Once Marched, a Thriving Jewish Presence

Earlier this month, the Jewish community in Forsyth County, Georgia, laid the cornerstone for the first Jewish establishment in an area where it once would…

By Ashira Weiss

December 28, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: Kosher in Indiana

The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .

By Staff Writer

December 24, 2020

Features

Remembering Miracles and Tragedy Aboard Flight 232

Baruch she-asah li nes ba’makom hazeh. “Blessed is the One who performed a miracle for me in this place.” Yisroel Brownstein, a 40-year-old clinical psychologist,…

By Ashira Weiss

December 23, 2020

Editorial

Family Time

In late 1990, the Rebbe asked that a pictorial album of Chabad representatives be created. It would include photos of all the shluchim families—men, women,…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

December 21, 2020

Mezuzah for Miami-Dade Mayor

Among the first orders of business for newly elected Miami Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was affixing a mezuzah to her office doorpost. The ceremony, on…

By Ashira Weiss

December 21, 2020

President of Germany’s High Court Kindles Chabad Menorah

Karlsruhe, Germany, seat of Germany’s Supreme Court and home to some 2,000 Jews, celebrated Chanukah this year, as every year, with distinguished leaders participating in…

By Ashira Weiss

December 18, 2020

Talmud

Talmud Teasers: Teacher Training

The word Chanukah in Hebrew comes from the same root as chinuch—education, and, indeed, one of the central messages of Chanukah concerns the significance of…

By Staff Writer

December 16, 2020

Hospital

Virtual Hugs for the Hospitalized

Rachel* clutched the package close to her chest, in her room at Morristown Medical Center. In the hospital for a month as she is treated…

By Ashira Weiss

December 16, 2020

Military

Music, Light, and Love for US Troops

It began with a little music. Chaplain to the Iron Rangers and Rabbi on Post at Fort Riley Army Installation in North Central Kansas, Rabbi…

By Ashira Weiss

December 13, 2020

Lifecycle

Four Brit Milot, Four Cities, Four Days

It was a whirlwind week for Rabbi Yossi Simon, director of the Chabad House of Golders Green in London, England. The rabbi, who is also…

By Ashira Weiss

December 8, 2020

Chanukah

Chanukah in the Time of Covid

In line with local COVID guidelines, Chabad communities around the world will be giving the 2,215-year-old traditions of Chanukah a 2020 twist.

By Ashira Weiss

December 7, 2020

Shluchim

Sofia, Bulgaria: Fire Destroys Home, Chabad Family of 12 Safe

A Saturday night fire sparked by an electric short, left the home of the city’s Chabad representatives and their ten children a charred skeleton.

By Staff Writer

December 6, 2020

Judaism

In Orlando, Something to Celebrate

As COVID cases in their state spiked for a second time, Meir and Shawna Waizman wondered what more they could do to protect their friends…

By Ashira Weiss

December 2, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: Shabbos Goy

The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .

By Staff Writer

December 2, 2020

New Centers

New Shluchim to Lagos, Nigeria

When Rabbi Mendy and Mazal Sternbach met for the first time, they discovered they had matching stamps on their passports: both had spent time assisting…

By Ashira Weiss

December 1, 2020

Australia

Ckids International Crowns Australia’s First ‘JEWQ Champion’

Ethan Ickowiz from JEMS Bondi, NSW is the new JEWQ Champion. Ckids International crowned Ethan “Ultimate JewQ champion of Australia” at the JEWQ grand finale…

By Staff Writer

December 1, 2020