Turning the main synagogue of Sumy, Ukraine, into a circus was not an easy task. A tent had to be devised to hang throughout the ceiling without a nail knocked in the wall. The Purim props began to slowly fill the Shul and the Shluchim Rabbi Yechiel and Rochi Levitansky with their dedicated staff came up with exciting ideas to decorate it.
This year, Kharkov, Ukraine, is celebrating a quarter of a century since the rebuilding and revival of Judaism in the city. Purim in Kharkov has taken place in the circus for nearly 25 years, ever since the first shluchim arrived in 1990. But this year, the Circus on Ice was a first.
Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who serve Jewish students at the University of Florida in Gainesville were presented with the “AIPAC Ally of the Year” award on Monday during the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C.
Hundreds of Jewish elderly and infirm residents of Moscow experienced the joy of Purim at an event at the Shaarei Tzedek Chesed Center.
This year marked Chabad of Melbourne-CBD’S 18th Purim in the City, under the leadership of Shliach Rabbi Chaim Herzog.
In Russia, the 1,000’s of members of the Jewish community merged the celebration of the completion of a brand new Sefer Torah along with the holiday of Purim in the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow.
Rabbi Moshe Gourarie, head of Chabad of Toms River, a town adjacent to Lakewood, New Jersey, has sued the town and its planning board alleging anti-Semitism and discrimination over the rejection of its application to build a new Chabad Center.
The Chabad Hebrew Academy of San Diego, CA, led by Rabbi Yosef Fradkin, recently switched over to solar energy for all their electrical needs, and declared “energy independence” at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the milestone.
Four days a week, Rabbi Benny Zippel drives across Utah’s sometimes treacherous terrain, visiting hundreds of Jewish adolescents. They are 10-18 year olds, each facing their own struggle: drug abuse, violent behaviors or eating disorders.
Purim is a holiday commemorating courage and redemption, and what better way to celebrate than by reading a Megillah as steeped in history as the holiday itself. This year, Rabbi Sholom Raichik, director of Chabad of Upper Montgomery County in Gaithersburg, Md., is looking forward to reading the story of Esther from a 300-year-old Spanish Megillah scroll.
More than 24 hours after a terrorist detonated his bomb on one of Istanbul’s busy thoroughfares, it has emerged that Jews were indeed the intended target, as surveillance footage shows the suicide bomber following the group from their hotel all the way to the city center.
A network of Lubavitch schools in France, founded by the legendary educator Rabbi Hillel Pevzner OBM, celebrated its continued success in the face of daily terror threats, with hundreds turning out in support.
The generation gap grows wider and wider, but in the Jewish community of Venice & North Port, FL, one team of Chabad representatives might have found a way to fix that.
When Rabbi Yisroel and Shoshana (“Shoshi”) Goldberg first arrived in the upscale Jerusalem neighborhood of Rechavia six years ago, they operated out of synagogues and held classes in private homes whose owners were only too happy to welcome them. But being without a physical center did not stop the couple from taking to the streets and starting what has turned into their own special brand of public Purim celebration, to which they gave the moniker “Azza Zaza.”
The national spotlight is again on Flint as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder gets ready to testify before Congress on Thursday as to what state officials did or did not know, or do, regarding the city’s lead-tainted water supply.
The New York Jewish Week yesterday profiled the outreach work of Chabad emissary Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, the ‘Six-Minute Rabbi’ who brings serious, albeit abbreviated, learning to those who can’t get out of the office.
Two Israeli women in Nepal were evacuated by helicopter to a local hospital after suffering from severe hypothermia. The evacuation was arranged by the Chabad Shliach in Nepal, Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz.
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