As students move back into their dorms on campuses nationwide, Chabad is doing its thing, welcoming them with opportunities to make it a spiritually enriching year.
A young Jewish couple has traveled more than 2,500 miles with their 10-month-old son from Brooklyn, N.Y. to provide UC Riverside students with free WiFi, a kosher meal and a safe space to discuss Judaism.
In a show of great unity in the spirit of Hakhel, many of Sydney’s Jewish communities came together to celebrate Sukkos, with their annual Pizza in the the Sukkah that was a real Sukkos treat.
As they join their fellow South Carolina residents in assessing the full impact of severe flooding that washed away local bridges, severely damaged roads, caused a severe shortage in drinking water and led to the loss of 15 lives, leaders and volunteers at Chabad centers throughout the state are joining with other Jewish communal organizations in helping those most in need.
What do the Jewish business people in Chengdu, China, and the inmates in the Federal Correction Facility in Danbury, Conn., have in common? Come Simchat Torah, they’ll be among the 16 communities to be dancing with newly refurbished Torah scrolls that just arrived to their congregations via the Beis Yisroel Torah Gemach.
Chabad of Mile End in Montreal built a ‘Pedi-Sukkah’ – a sukkah attached to a bicycle – which roamed the neighborhood offering local Jews the opportunity to fulfill the Mitzvos of Sukkos.
Mr. Mike Eman, the Jewish prime minister of Aruba and longtime friend of Chabad, included Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters on his itinerary during a visit to New York last week.
For the tenth successive year, Chabad of Melbourne CBD, led by Shliach Rabbi Chaim Herzog, celebrated the festival of Sukkot by erecting a Sukkah in the very center of the City of Melbourne. On Thursday, 1 October, 2015, it was literally standing-room only as more than 40 people gathered to eat and drink in the City Sukkah and to hear from invited guests, including the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, The Honourable Robert Doyle.
Rabbi Arieh Raichman, Shliach to Manaus, the capital city of Brazil’s vast and isolated Amazon region, related the following story about his nail-biting quest to obtain a set of Lulav and Esrog before the onset of Yomtov, which he acquiesced to share with our readers.
Roughly 800 students and faculty members packed the Science Center Plaza this past Friday evening for “Shabbat 1000,” a massive dinner co-organized by Harvard’s Hillel and Chabad organizations. Organizers said the event was the largest of its kind in Harvard history.
The new year has brought something new to Jewish students of the arts in Philadelphia: a modern, stylish and comfortable space where they can study, socialize and kick back with a cup of coffee while the creative juices flow.
Rabbi Yisroel Labkowski and his wife, Tzipora, have arrived in Northern California from Brooklyn to establish the Bay Area’s newest Chabad center: Chabad of Lamorinda, which will serve the towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda.
As Rosh Hashanah approached, Chani Kaplan was busy catering for New Year’s meals for 250 on Canada’s Vancouver Island, all prepared out of her small home kitchen.
When two yeshivah students knocked on a door in the northeastern Hungarian city of Miskolc, they had no idea what was waiting for them on the other side.
Hundreds of Jews in the Russian capitol of Moscow got up in the early hours of the morning to perform the ancient ritual of Kapores at the cities main synogouge, the Marina Rosche Shul.
Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer, co-director of Chabad on Campus Queens in Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., was making his rounds recently at the Franklin Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Flushing, N.Y., where he serves as a chaplain. He happened to check in on an 83-year-old man named Irving Malkis, a nursing-home resident from Manhattan.
On Friday, August 28, over 25 Birmingham young Jewish professionals gathered for a Shabbat dinner at Chabad of Alabama in conjunction with the local You Belong in Birmingham YJP organization. Starting with the Kabbalat Shabbat service, and then proceeding with delectable traditional Shabbat foods such as challah and matza ball soup prepared by Rabbi Levi and Mushka Weinbaum, YBIB belong members truly felt the Shabbat spirit while meeting other young Jewish professionals in Birmingham.
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