Right near Lake Tahoe, the mountain town of Truckee, California, is home to about 17,000 full-time residents and sees thousands of travelers each year — including many Jews. In July, Rabbi Chaim and Bassi Kudan opened the town’s first Chabad — and first ever Jewish presence.
This year, over 700 Shluchim around the world welcomed students with contagious enthusiasm and renewed excitement. In addition to the warm welcome, they were equipped with hands-on tools designed to make Yiddishkeit come to life, including two new CKids curricula.
A group of dozens of Jews stood at the beginning of the week for an emotional and uplifting ceremony to lay the cornerstone of what will be the largest Jewish center for thousands of Jews in the “Novi Moskva” (New Moscow) region, an area of land that was annexed to the Russian capital about a decade ago.
Overnight, military representatives notified the family of Tal Haimi, 41, that his body was returned to Israel by Hamas, after it was identified by forensic experts.
Nearly 100 Jewish teens from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama gathered in Guayaquil, Ecuador, for the annual CTeen Central America Regional Shabbaton. The historic port city became the backdrop for a weekend that blended friendship, adventure, and Jewish pride.
An incredible event of Torah study and achievement was marked with the Chag HaSemicha celebration hosted by Machon LeHoraa Online Smicha, under the leadership of Rabbi Nachman Wilhelm. Rabbonim and Shluchim honored the event with their participation.
King Charles III visited the scene of the deadly Yom Kippur attack at the Manchester synagogue and was accompanied by the synagogue rabbi and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Daniel Walker.
Performed at the Caesarea Amphitheatre in Israel. June 10, 2025, watch as Avraham Fried sings Elokay Neshama Live.
As the Jewish year 5786 begins, the FJC EnerJew Youth Movement has introduced a refreshed brand identity designed to strengthen its connection with Jewish teens across the former Soviet Union.
Chabad Baal Menagen, mashpia and music producer Rabbi Mendel Markel has released four powerful new recordings of Chabad nigunim, in the second release of the “Chabad Nigunim Volume Two” project.
This year, in the days leading up to Yom Tov, the Lubavitch Youth Organization (LYO) received numerous calls from rabbis across the city requesting that Tahalucha groups visit their congregations. “You bring a special life and joy that our shul looks forward to every year,” many rabbis stated.
For two years Ohana’s belief that his son would come home did not waver. Ahead of Sukkot of this year, approaching 730 days since he last spoke to his son Yosef Chaim, Ohana purchased a second set of the Four Kinds that are shaken together on Sukkot for his son, believing with perfect faith that his son would get to use them to fulfil the mitzvah in freedom.
The historic celebration brought together hundreds of local community members and guests from around the world.
A 41-year-old Afula resident was arrested today (Sunday) on suspicion of being behind a large-scale airline ticket scam – after defrauding dozens of Chabad followers by selling them fictitious airline tickets to New York.
The slain soldiers are named as Maj. Yaniv Kula, 26, and Staff Sgt. Itay Yavetz, 21. Both served in the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion and are from the central city of Modiin.
The two bodies returned by Hamas last night have been identified as Ronen Engel HY’D, and Thai National Snthaya Oakkharasr.
Hundreds of Chassidim joined a grand Melava Malka at Beis Chaya Mushka in Paris following the Horaah of the Rebbe.
