Montreal’s Côte des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grâce borough councillor Jeremy Searle accused a Chabad rabbi of invoking anti-Semitism and trying to instil “Jewish guilt” in opponents of a proposed housing project on the site of the former St. Columba Church.
Not many college students go to Israel in the middle of a semester, but that is exactly where the student board of Chabad at Princeton University just went for a week of learning, touring and discussion.
Billed as “Shabbat for 120,” 140 students and faculty filled a specially erected tent on the grounds of Chabad at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, on April 1 for a traditional Shabbat dinner. The historic event, which was sponsored by Chabad at Rowan and AEPhi, was the largest Shabbat dinner ever at Rowan and likely the the biggest ever Jewish event at the university.
For the first time ever, giant of Jewish music Avraham Fried will be performing in three Hakhel concerts in Ukraine, uniting thousands of Jews all over the country.
Seven people whose lives have been changed by Chabad told their stories to the 550 guests at the Chabad UK dinner in central London, which is estimated to have raised close to a million dollars for the organization.
What was most noticeable at last week’s baseball game between the “Cubs” and the “White Sox” at Jerusalem’s Kraft Stadium were the smiles and laughter as players stepped up to the plate and then rounded the bases in an inaugural game for children with special needs, sponsored by the Friendship Circle of Central Jerusalem.
After months of anticipation and preparation, the third annual Jewish heritage ‘Olympics’ quiz for students of Chabad schools across the former Soviet Union has reached its third and final stage.
Chabad of Penn State University, under the leadership of Rabbi Nosson and Sarah Meretsky, hosted a Challah bake for the campus’ Jewish community.
The inhabitants of Lugansk, a city in war-stricken Eastern Ukraine, continue to live in danger and under the threat of violence and hazards. The entire region has not yet recovered from the devastating destruction and the collapse of the economy. Many of the region’s population have dispersed across Ukraine and become refugees, yet thousands have no choice and remain in their homes despite the difficulties.
Chabad Lubavitch of Donetsk, Ukraine, a city currently torn by the civil war gripping the country, celebrated Purim with Jewish refugees in exile – in the nation’s capital city of Kiev.
Over two-hundred state and federal judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, scholars and prison officials attended the first ever Alternative Sentencing Key Stakeholders Summit this past week to advance criminal justice reform nationwide. The summit was hosted by the Aleph Institute, the premier Jewish organization that cares for the institutionalized and their families, founded at the express direction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Chabad of Orange County, NY, led by Shluchim Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, held a family-fun Indian-themed Purim party for the local Jewish community at the American Legion Banquet Hall in Monroe.
Maria has been a prisoner in Leningrad Region’s Kolonia No. 2 for the last eight years. Born to a poor Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, for a time she attended the city’s Chabad Jewish school and other community programs. It was later that she got into serious trouble with the law, ending up at a women’s prison camp about an hour’s drive southeast of her native city. But some good news came on Monday, when Maria and 13 other Jewish women were on hand for the opening of the first-ever prayer room for Jewish female prisoners in the country.
Right before purim, Rabbi Moishe and Mushkie Gurevitz (nee Wolvovsky), together with their children, Menachem and Esther, moved to Morristown, NJ, as the new Shluchim to serve the Young Jewish Professional community in Morristown.
For the first time in history, Chabad in Russia has printed a Russian-translated Siddur in braille, for the sake of Russian-speaking Jews who suffer from blindness.
A group of young Jewish teens rushed out of school on Wednesday, March 16, and headed to the Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center (HRCC) to deliver packages. Chabad of Hunterdon County’s Teen Network (CTeen) brought “emoji” pillows, which they had spent their Sunday designing, to the patients at the HRCC.
Roughly twenty percent of Florida’s population is 65 and older. But that population isn’t all local: most moved to the state as retirees, leaving them without family nearby at times of illness or death.
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