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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

covid-19

NYU’s Longest COVID Patient Released

“This is the moment I have been praying for from the moment I woke up at NYU this summer,” said Rabbi Yudi Dukes, Thursday, appropriately,…

By Ashira Weiss

November 27, 2020

Humanitarian

Turkey Dinners For Park City Homebound

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and the kitchen at the Bistro Kosher Deli in Park City, Utah is bustling. A team of volunteers, dressed in…

By Ashira Weiss

November 25, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: The Biggest Hug

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

By Staff Writer

November 24, 2020

New Centers

Driving Rural Georgia

The last place Rabbi Chaim Markovits expected to hear an authentic, heimish Yiddish with a Brooklyn accent was in Macon, Georgia (pop. 150,000).

By Mussi Sharfstein

November 24, 2020

New Centers

New Shluchim to San Fernando Valley, California

Rabbi Mendel and Sheva Rapoport were recently appointed to join the team at Chabad of the Valley in California. They will boost Chabad’s

By Ashira Weiss

November 23, 2020

Kinus

Chabad Shluchim Conference Becomes World’s Longest Zoom Event

By now, it is in its 114th hour and still going strong!

By Ashira Weiss

November 18, 2020

Shluchim

Chabad Mumbai: Remembering, Rebuilding

Twelve years ago this week, terrorists stormed the Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai. Members of the Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba held Chabad representatives Rabbi Gavriel…

By Shaindle Fogelman

November 17, 2020

Kinus

Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim Opens Today

The 34th Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim opens today with 5,200 emissaries participating. Instead of taking place in New York this year, the four-day…

By Ashira Weiss

November 12, 2020

New Centers

Planting Jewish Seeds in Atwater

Jonathan found a surprise on his doorstep. The sixty-year-old resident of Atwater Village, a suburb to the northeast of Los Angeles examined the gift basket…

By Ashira Weiss

November 10, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: Rabbi In A Costume

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

By Staff Writer

November 9, 2020

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Making G-d Personal

I had an hour and a half interview with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2014. As he responded to my questions, the editor in me marveled.…

By Baila Olidort

November 9, 2020

Statement

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, 72

Statement by Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky The global Chabad-Lubavitch movement mourns the passing, Shabbat morning, of the former chief rabbi of Great Britain, Lord Jonathan (Yaakov…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

November 7, 2020

Shluchim

Highest Civilian Honor For Chabad Rep in Kosovo

Chief Rabbi of Albania and Chabad representative to Thessaloniki and the Lower Balkans Rabbi Yoel Kaplan received a surprise award from Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi…

By Ashira Weiss

November 4, 2020

Shluchim

Bissli, Bamba and Bolognese Warm a Mother’s Heart

Ayelet Mamo Shay was feeling helpless. The Israeli businesswoman and author who lives in Gibraltar got word that her son, a university student in London,…

By Ashira Weiss

October 28, 2020

Shluchim Of The World

SOTW: “Bubby” In Virginia

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

By Staff Writer

October 28, 2020

New Centers

New Shluchim To Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Rabbi Mendel and Esty Khutoretsky established a Chabad center on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. They joined the team of Chabad of Rural and…

By Staff Writer

October 27, 2020

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Interview: Subliminally Speaking

Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz, a towering figure of Jewish scholarship, became world renowned for his groundbreaking work: the translation of the Babylonian Talmud from Aramaic…

By Baila Olidort

October 26, 2020

Australia

Perth, Australia: Where the Swan River Meets the Southwest Coast

One afternoon in early September, four young men stepped onto Trigg Beach, a haven for surfers just north of Perth, Australia. A spring storm was…

By Sarah Ogince

October 26, 2020

Statement

Chabad Explores Opening New Centers in Muslim Countries

With the growing normalization between Muslim countries and Israel, we can expect to see a significant increase in the number of Jewish travelers and businesspeople…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

October 26, 2020