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A Page a Day, Chabad.org Completes Online Talmud Lessons

Learning a page a day, it takes Rabbi Avraham Zajac, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of South La Cienega (SOLA) in Los Angeles, seven-and-a-half years to complete the entire Talmud, and he’s been teaching since 2004, when he founded Chabad SOLA.

Picture of the Day

A group of kids and their parents get ready to board their flight from Argentina to NYC for the highly-anticipated JewQ Shabbaton, kicking off tonight at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Princeton, New Jersey. “We’ve been counting down to this day for months,” says Dario Roiz, a 7th grader of Chabad Argentina. “I can’t believe it’s finally here.”

Crisis Center in Israel a Lifeline for Jews of Ukraine

In the Israeli village of Kfar Chabad, in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro and in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., dozens of Russian-speaking volunteers coordinated by the Chabad-Lubavitch-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) sit in high-tech crisis-management centers, staffing emergency hotlines and connecting the Jews of Ukraine with Chabad’s boots on the ground.

54 Busloads of Desperate Ukrainian Jews Evacuated in a Single Day

Sitting in the ad hoc crisis center in Kfar Chabad, “Chaim” has been on the phone with Jews in war-torn Ukraine for nearly 14 hours. In call after call, he has been reiterating the same point: “Get out while you can. We will help you leave Ukraine and bring you to Israel if that’s what you want, but you must leave now!”