Monday, / January 6, 2025
Lubavitch News Service
History is Made: Welcoming Northern Cyprus’ First Torah Scroll
For the first time in history, a Torah scroll has dedicated in Kyrenia, North Cyprus, at the local Chabad House run by Rabbi Chaim Hillel…
For Jewish Students at ASU, It’s Time to Play Ball
Chabad’s new student recreation center gives Jewish ASU students a place to hang out and have fun
What’s Your Hunger?
A members-only operation like Costco, The Family Store sells subsidized groceries and home goods to over 500 Jewish families. In a city where a bottle…
Survivors of Terror: Israel’s Double Orphans Grow Up
In Israel, doubly orphaned survivors of terror and their grandparents pick up the pieces.
The CTeen Experience at March of the Living
For the first time ever, thousands of teens participating in March of the Living will join the complete CTeen experience beneath a large pavilion erected…
Russia: Thousands Attend More Than 500 Public Seders Across the Country
Over 500 public Seders were attended by thousands of Jews in Russia this year.
Thousands of Berlin Jews Receive Assistance for Pesach
This year, over 1,000 welfare-supported Jewish families in Berlin received generous food baskets in honor of the holiday of Passover.
Illinois Declares Education and Sharing Day, Welcomes Passover with Gov. Rauner
In what has by now become a tradition, Governor signed a proclamation declaring 11 Nissan as "Education and Sharing Day.”
From Cemeteries to Celebration: Jewish Students Spend Spring Break in Berlin
While their classmates were spending spring break in warmer climates, 18 Jewish students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign traveled to Berlin for a…
New Nursing Center, First of its Kind, Opens in Moscow
It was a small but impressive ceremony last week marking the opening of the Shaarei Tzedek Jewish Chesed Center which provides professional nursing care to…
“We Need Your Prayers”
In September 2014, Lubavitch International ran a three-part series on the cities affected by the war. Three years later, we asked Rabbi Vishedski to update…
In Russia, Preparations for Pesach are Front and Center
For the past few months, Russia’s kashrut committee has been hard at work preparing for Passover, aiming to offer a huge variety of holiday products…
Baking Bread in Brooklyn
An educational matzah experience attracts over 2,000 visitors a season—including the occasional senator.
Tribute Evening Celebrates Moscow Synagogue’s 16th Year
Celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Marina Roscha Jewish Community Center in Moscow aboard a boat that sailed on the Moscow River. Photos by Levi…
The Great Jewish Food Debate Comes to U. Penn
For the past 71 years, philosophers, noted academics and Nobel laureates have come to argue whether the Hamantash, the pastry traditionally eaten on Purim, is…
Opposition Leader Bougie Herzog Visits Jewish Institutions in Moscow
Israeli Opposition Leader and head of the Zionist Union Mr. Isaac (Bougie) Herzog was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Parliament…
New Mikveh Opens in Abuja, Nigeria
Jewish Women in Nigeria finally have a mikveh of their own. The new addition to Abuja—a clean and modern oasis in the literal and figurative…
CTeen Takes on Times Square in Epic Havdalah Ceremony
Times Square was jam-packed and full of energy Saturday night at the most spirited CTeen Havdalah ceremony to date. Despite the rain, thousands of teens…
CTeens From Around the World Make Their Way to Crown Heights
Hundreds of CTeen chapters from around the world have begun their travels to New York for the 9th annual CTeen shabbaton. Delegations from France, Russia,…
Women Leadership, Global Impact
Thousands of Jewish women leaders from around world were individually photographed this weekend for a special group photo project, a fresh take on the traditional…
Chabad Opens in Mar del Plata, Argentina
It was just over a month ago, on the fifth of Tevet, that Rabbi Zalmi and Patsonia Lipinski relocated to Mar del Plata to open…
Award for Chabad at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill
“Chapel Hill has gained a tremendous confidence in its ability to emerge as a viable and vibrant community,” notes Rabbi Zalman Bluming, who was the…
Videos & Galleries
Videos & Galleries
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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Keren Mamosh Impact Report
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