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On the Prowl: Missionaries in The Holy Land

One day, after arming soldiers with maps, he watched them enter their armored personnel vehicles and drive off on a routine mission. As he watched…

By Dvora Lakein

July 25, 2016

We Used To Call It A Mitzvah

The other day I heard someone say Chabad was “a humanitarian Jewish organization.” I cringed. She had just come from an event promoting a “groundswell…

By Baila Olidort

July 21, 2016

Hungarian Yeshiva Desecrated by Nazis Restored to Jewish Community

Hungarian-born Jewish children may not appreciate the rich background to their summer camp experience.

By Rena Udkoff

July 20, 2016

Diary: Italy 1956-2016

I was a rabbinical student then, and traveling with me were nine of my fellow students. The Rebbe had sent us on a mission to…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

July 18, 2016

Terror on the French Riviera: Nice Jewish Community Reels From Attack

The girls saw tens of people killed, including “babies in carriages and elderly,” before they ran to take shelter in a nearby restaurant.

By Rena Greenberg

July 14, 2016

Op-Ed: Healing the Racial Divide

It was only months later, on Feb. 6, 1992, that, as a 5-year-old returning home from elementary school, I was informed of the murder of…

By Rabbi Avraham Lapine

July 11, 2016

Elie Wiesel: “Therefore Be Jewish”

The passing this Shabbat, June 2, of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, has been garnering reactions from leaders and laypeople around the world. A prolific author…

By Baila Olidort

July 3, 2016

UpStart Awards ZABS Place National Recognition

The store began as a response to young adults with special needs who were aging out of established programming. Before its inception, this population often…

By Dvora Lakein

June 20, 2016

West Orange Celebrates Opening of New Chabad Center

The Jewish community of West Orange, NJ participated in the dedication of Chabad’s new center, June 14. The center is located at 401 Pleasant Valley…

June 19, 2016

Chabad Rabbi Competes on CHOPPED

It is Leap of Faith, literally and otherwise, the latest episode of the Food Network’s popular cooking competition, Chopped. Rabbinic contestant, Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, Chabad’s…

By Dvora Lakein

June 9, 2016

FJC Kickstarts Exciting New Summer Program

This year, 30 members of EnerJew gathered in Moscow to work on their new project, SummerJew, which will see these same camps staffed with local…

By Etti Krinsky

June 7, 2016

Changing the Landscape of Jewish Life in the FSU

On Sunday, the Jewish community will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, marking the Sinai revelation, when the Jews received the Torah 3,328 years ago. Now…

By Dvora Lakein

June 3, 2016

Philanthropist Mr. David Chase, 86

Philanthropist extraordinaire, Mr. David Chase, a founding member of the Machne Israel Development Fund and Chairman of the Board of the Rabbinical College of America,…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

June 3, 2016

Remembering Rivky

Rivky Berman, a young woman who battled serious illness while serving as a Chabad emissary, passed away Monday. Rivky’s pluck and perseverance, her larger-than-life attitude…

By Staff Writer

May 31, 2016

Tefillin on the Run: Chabad at the Comrades

The Comrades Marathon is to South Africa what the New York City Marathon is to the United States. Only two times as long.

By Dvora Lakein

May 26, 2016

Memorial Museum Opens to Honor Jewish Life in Brazil

Yona Krasilchik arrived in Sao Paulo in 1908 with a small group of landsmen from Bessarabia. By 1912, he had helped build Kehilat Israel, the…

May 24, 2016

European Jewish Forum for Women Meets in Prague

When the Nazis invaded Prague in 1939, they seized Judaica collections from around the region. Their goal: to replace the Jewish Quarter’s residents with the…

By Dvora Lakein

May 20, 2016

LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: Male and Female He Created Them

Does the world really need another book about Women and Judaism? Like the “Mommy Wars”—the subject often makes women enemies of one another.

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

May 19, 2016

Jewish by Design: Chabad at FIT

They meet weekly in A320, an unassuming club room at the iconic Fashion Institute of Technology. Students of toy design, fashion, and business, they gather…

By Dvora Lakein

May 17, 2016

Mental Health Awareness Grows on College Campuses

The first crisis the young Chabad rabbi encountered when he arrived at the University of Pennsylvania was a suicide. The victim was the son of…

By Dvora Lakein

May 15, 2016

Former Choir Boy Turns Chabad Campus Rabbi

During a two-week period several years ago, Matthew Devlin felt hopeless. The 18-year-old came to rest his head one night on a table in a…

By Dvora Lakein

May 12, 2016

260,000 Study Sessions And Counting

The organization, which matches people as study partners, celebrated its 10th anniversary at a gala dinner honoring its volunteers. Those volunteers, who commit to weekly…

By Dvora Lakein

May 9, 2016