Wednesday, 21 Shevat 5785 / February 19, 2025
Lubavitch News Service
New Shluchim to Indiana University
Rabbi Levi and Sheina Cunin are set to join the team at Chabad of Indiana University in Bloomington. Both Cunins’ parents serve as Chabad on Campus Shluchim. Levi’s parents,…
New Shluchim to Houston, TX
Rabbi Menny and Peri Raichik have opened a new Chabad center in Houston, Texas. The Chabad Israeli center will provide Hebrew-language programming for Hebrew speaking…
New Shluchim to Winnipeg, Canada
Rabbi Mendel and Dvora Altein will move to Winnipeg to expand Chabad’s activities for the growing number of Hebrew speakers in the city. They will…
Chicago Teens Paint The Town
Thirty-five Skokie teens who have been cooped up at home for the last four months had an opportunity to get their creative juices flowing recently.
Chabad at 7,000 feet above sea level
“I love being Jewish. There is no place in the world where you cannot find a community. 7,000 feet above sea level in Montana and…
New Shluchim to Utica, NY
Rabbi Levi and Frumie Charitonow have opened a new center in what was once a thriving Jewish community. They have set up Torah classes, and…
Camp Gan Israel, Sleepaway Edition
55 Attend CKids’ Inaugural Overnight Camp
Today in Jewish history: 3 Tammuz
Today marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s passing. Since his passing, the Rebbe’s influence on world Jewry has grown exponentially and is felt today…
New Shluchim to Ellicott City
Rabbi Yanky and Leah Baron will join the team at Chabad of Columbia, Maryland, establishing a new Chabad community in Ellicott City in the Baltimore…
Covid-19 Graduation Florida
The Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami, Florida held multiple drive-in graduation ceremonies yesterday. As graduates sat socially distanced from each other, their families looked on…
Pre-Shavuot Ice Cream Parties
Hundreds of children around the world enjoyed drive-by pre-Shavuot parties. At the Chabad Persian Center in Los Angeles volunteers handed out Ten-Commandment cards and interactive…
Aid to Families in Moscow
Over 20,000 households in #Russia are receiving weekly food packages as part of an initiative of the country’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar to aid those suffering under…
JewQ national competition motivates Hebrew school kids in Wilmette
A project of CKids International, JewQ is a Torah championship that was created to give children who don’t attend Jewish day schools an exciting opportunity…
Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld, Rabbinic Coordinator for OK kosher certification, helps two co-pilots don tefillin before disembarking from a flight to the Bahamas.
One pilot had never laid tefillin before. Weinfeld stopped by the cockpit to thank the pilots for the flight on his way off the plane.…
First-ever circumcision in the United Arab Emirates
Rabbi Teichtel from Chabad of Berlin, Mohel and baby’s father perform first-ever circumcision in the United Arab Emirates
Camp Yeka winter camp in the Carpathian Mountains.
84 girls from around Yekaterinoslav in Ukraine spent seven days at Camp Yeka winter camp in the Carpathian Mountains.
Today in Jewish History: The Victory in Chabad Library Trial
On the 5th of Tevet (Hei Teves) in 1987, the extensive library of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was declared as belonging to…
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and First Lady Frances hosted more than 30 Chabad representatives from around Ohio for a menorah lighting at the Governor’s Mansion in Columbus on Monday.
The Governor’s father, Private Dick DeWine, was part of the U.S Army’s 103 rd Infantry Division that helped liberate Dachau concentration camp. Representative Dave Greenspan,…
Rabbi Mendy and Sarah Rimler with their children, Chayala, Eli and Bluma. They are the first Shluchim to South Phoenix.
A new Chabad center is coming to south Phoenix, a fast-growing region of the metropolitan area that previously had no synagogues. Rabbi Mendy Rimler and…
Chabad Paints for Chanukah
Parents of Hebrew School children display the Chanukah decorations they created at Chabad of Orange County
Chabad teens create blankets for needy
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Jewish teens from across the Orange County gathered to create beautiful fleece blankets for a local shelter. The event was…
U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman addresses the Conference of Shluchim
You welcome those seeking a bond with G-d, Judaism and our 3500 year old history. And you do it all with a beautiful sense of…
Videos & Galleries
Videos & Galleries
The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place at Chabad of Charlotte, North Carolina
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Ice and fire combine to illuminate the night, courtesy of Chabad of Steamboat Springs.
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The “World’s Widest Menorah” will be kindled at Chabad of Clearwater, Florida
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A unique menorah stands at Wasilla Lake in Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley, placed by Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad
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The Executive Director of Machne Israel, Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky, paid a Shiva visit to the family of Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, הי״ד, Shliach of the Rebbe in the UAE, who was brutally murdered
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Olathe, Kansas—the state’s fourth-largest city—will welcome its first Jewish center
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On a windswept beach in beautiful Turks and Caicos, Chabad Rabbi Shmulik Berkowitz brings Sukkot observances to tourists and locals on the Caribbean island
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Sukkah on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
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