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Wanted in Prison: Volunteers To Visit Inmates

Prison inmates are allotted a limited amount of visiting hours from family and friends. But for too many, visitors are rare. For some prisoners, years…

By Mussi Sharfstein

May 8, 2019

When is a Hill Not Just a Hill?

The natural playground is a living outdoor classroom where the children’s natural curiosity leads them to study caterpillars and collect millipedes. The playground uses materials…

By Tzipora Reitman

May 7, 2019

Giving Back: New Jersey Teens Partner With Local Crisis Helpline

Last year, the New Jersey teens packed care packages that were personally delivered to needy children in Mozambique by Posner. But there are needy people…

By Mussi Sharfstein

May 2, 2019

#ShareShabbat: When a Hashtag is an Invitation to Services and Solidarity

This Shabbat, several thousand synagogues around the globe will throw open their doors to hundreds of thousands of Jews who will show, through presence and…

By Dvora Lakein

May 2, 2019

Why is Chabad Hosting an Anti-Israel Activist?

It was terribly upsetting for me to learn about a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist who was feeling right at home at Chabad. American campuses are so…

By Mendel Matusof

May 1, 2019

Nature Rules, but Miracles Happen

Do you believe in miracles? To ask a Jew this question is like asking a raindrop whether it believes in clouds.

By Baruch S. Davidson

April 29, 2019

STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS ON THE POWAY SHOOTING

“Stop the dangerous downward spiral of anti-Semitism”

April 27, 2019

Getting High on Jewish Pride

Did someone say Jewish teens are feeling intimidated? Not the two-thousand-five hundred who converged on Manhattan’s Times Square for a spectacular havdalah and Jewish concert…

By Staff Writer

April 18, 2019

Rabbi Aharon Serebryanski, 86

The Chabad-Lubavitch community world-wide mourns the passing of Rabbi Aaron Serebryanski, director of Austalia's Chabad educational arm.

By Staff Writer

April 17, 2019

A First for Jamaica: Governor-General Declares Education and Sharing Day

Jamaica, a tiny 4,000 sq. mi. island in the Caribbean, declared April 16, 2019 as Education and Sharing Day. “This is incredibly historic,” says Rabbi…

By Shaindle Fogelman

April 15, 2019

Minding the Mission: Jewish Education

The old hatreds that we imagined had ended with the Holocaust have now resurfaced. The anti-Semitic rhetoric and the anti-Semitic violence are back, both in…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

April 15, 2019

Dreading the Seder: When Dad is in Prison

They are hidden victims. Humiliated and financially devastated, the children, spouses, and sometimes parents, of Jewish inmates are left to struggle silently for their survival…

By Rena Udkoff

April 11, 2019

National Recognition for LA Preschool

A Chabad preschool in the heart of urban Los Angeles, California has recently received certification and commendation from the organization Nature Explore for “fostering highly…

By Ashira Weiss

April 11, 2019

Chabad on Call Distributes Seder Kits To Hospitalized And Homebound

There are more Jews attending Passover Seders than Yom Kippur services, according to a Pew Research study, but those spending the Holiday of Freedom in…

By Mussi Sharfstein

April 10, 2019

Two New Centers Open in Japan in Time for Passover

Two new Chabad centers opened in Japan, just in time for Passover this year, bringing the total in the country up to four. Rabbi Shalom…

By Mussi Sharfstein

April 4, 2019

Chabad of Sarasota Florida Presents Geriatric Compassionate Care Symposium

This prompted the rabbi to arrange the Dr. Schwartzbaum Geriatric Compassionate Care Symposium, taking place this Sunday. A half-day event, the program features four prominent…

By Mussi Sharfstein

April 4, 2019

Chabad for the Deaf Celebrates One Year

Based in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion and directed by California-born Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff and his Israeli wife Cheftziba, this unique Chabad center…

By Ashira Weiss

April 3, 2019

After Hate Crime, People of Flagstaff Show their Hearts

On Monday, March 25, Rabbi Dovie Shapiro, director of Chabad of Flagstaff with his wife Chaya, was horrified to discover vandalism at the construction site…

By Tzipora Reitman

April 2, 2019

Historic Village in Mexico Welcomes Chabad Presence

There are no traffic lights in the historic village of S. Miguel de Allende, Mexico, but now there is Chabad. Rabbi Daniel and Raizel Huebner,…

By Mussi Sharfstein

March 28, 2019

Chabad Opens in Chicago Suburb

Illinois just got a new Chabad center! The Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights now has its own Chabad presence. Since moving to the area at…

By Mussi Sharfstein

March 25, 2019

Holocaust Survivor Meets With Students Pictured In Swastika Photo

The rabbi invited Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of the famous diarist Anne Frank, to share her story of survival and her message of…

By Mussi Sharfstein

March 19, 2019

Rashi’s Campus Rises

The event brought a measure of consolation and optimism to the 800 people who came to celebrate the grand opening of Rashi’s Campus, the magnificent…

By Tzipora Reitman

March 19, 2019

Young Professionals Encounter Crown Heights

Two hundred and fifty Jewish young professionals arrived in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY last week for a weekend dubbed "Encounter: Crown Heights."

By Ashira Weiss

March 11, 2019