In an impressive and heart-warming ceremony, a “Center for Torah Study,” the first of its kind, has opened its doors in Russia’s largest Muslim republic. Tatarstan is home to about ten thousand Jews, many of whom are members of the developed Jewish community in the capital city of Kazan under the leadership and guidance of shliach Rabbi Yitzchak Gorelik, who will also direct the new yeshiva.
Rabbi Uriel Vigler, director of the Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, writes about the “miraculous” wedding he had the honor of officiating at, and the “Ultimate Love Story” behind it.
On Sunday, November 5, 2017, friends of Chabad of Orange County, New York, led by Shluchim Pesach and Chana Burston, filled the Rushmore Estate Ballroom in Highland Mills for an Evening of Laughter & L’Chaim, celebrating Chabad’s Bar Mitzvah Anniversary. This exciting and fun evening marked this milestone of 13 years of Chabad’s service to the community, which began in June of 2004.
On a warm August afternoon during peak tourist season, a van plowed into Las Ramblas a pedestrian, tree-lined mall in central Barcelona killing 14 people and injuring 100. In October, the Mediterranean city was once again making headlines, this time as tensions exploded between Catalonian separatists declaring independence and crackdowns by the Spanish government.
There is great excitement in the Jewish community in the Russian city of Kazan, as preparations are underway for the great historical event that will take place this Wednesday, G-d willing. The 20th of Cheshvan marks the birthday of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rebbe Rashab, who founded Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim. On the eve of his birthday, yet another branch of this yeshiva will be opened and dedicated in the capital city of Tatarstan, which is Russia’s largest Muslim republic.
Around the world in 80 days? How about around the U.S. in 50 states? On Nov. 5, Jerusalem Post chief political correspondent Gil Hoffman made history as the first paid lecturer to speak about Israel in all 50 states. “There’s no way I could have gotten to all 50 states without Chabad,” he said.
On Thursday, October 26, 250 Jewish women and girls of all backgrounds came together to the beautiful West Boca Chabad Center to bake challah and do the mitzvah of Hafrashas Challah.
About sixty Russian philanthropists who support Chabad’s activities in the Former Soviet Union participated in the annual ‘Zevulun Conference,’ which took place this year in Baku, capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is situated between Russia and Iran.
For the first time in over a century, the Jewish community of the small Balkan country of Montenegro has its own resident rabbi.
The Chabad Rabbi on the Caribbean island of St. Martin fears American Jews might stay away from the hurricane-stricken island this winter when it needs their support the most.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, University of Illinois President Timothy Killeen and other university administrators were joined by Rabbi Avraham Kagan of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois on a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem Tuesday night.
The Hon. Zed Seselja, Federal Senator for the ACT and Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs, toured the Chabad-run Jewish community centres in Canberra, Australia’s capital territory.
What do you do when someone you love disappears without a trace? Friends and family of Jesse Galganov, a Montreal native who was last heard from in Peru on Sept. 28, have been living that nightmare for more than a month now.
With thousands of people still displaced two months after Hurricane Harvey flooded swaths of eastern Texas, leaving heavily damaged homes and property, Chabad of Houston is directing funds raised towards immediate uses.
This weekend, Shabbos Parshas Vayera (November 3-5), more than 1,000 college and university students with their campus Shluchim and Shluchos from more than 100 schools around the world will be coming to Crown Heights for the largest Chabad on Campus student Pegisha ever.
Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum has always felt a great sense of responsibility and gratitude to those who put their lives on the line to protect and serve others. That selfless attitude in part sparked the inspiration behind the formation of the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland, which Tenenbaum started in conjunction with Chabad-Lubavitch of Maryland five years ago.
Rabbi Herschel and Chana Finman have taken their passions for Judaism, sustainability, food and art, and combined them as part of a new center, Jewish Ferndale, named for its location in a Detroit suburb.
