With recent world events rocking the global Jewish community, every Jew of every stripe has felt the need to do something. To get more involved, to act upon their inner identity as a member of the Jewish people who have been so brutally battered.
Citizen-activist, co-founder of Ohr Chabad, and Chabad.org news reporter Bruria Efune speaks about how her family is dealing with war. They have brought toys and supplies to the displaced families, volunteered in a soup kitchen, and even taken a mission to the troops in Gaza.
Thousands of underprivileged homes in Russia received extra help this Chanukah, thanks to an initiative by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and a major operation by Moscow’s Chessed Center.
Chanukah isn’t over yet, and rabbinical students Mendel Leverton and Zalman Kaplan have already covered nearly 1,000 miles of Ohio this week. The purpose of their roadtrip? Visiting Jewish inmates across the state, bringing the light and joy of Chanukah into society’s darkest corner: the prison system.
An archaeological excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in 2010 near the Old City’s Jaffa Gate brought to life a c. 1500-year-old map.
Chen and Devorah Barak from Kingston, PA had a baby girl!
Mrs. Molly Resnick is a former Israeli and American television producer who now lectures internationally about Judaism. (Her late husband, Dr. Lawrence M. Resnick, served as a consulting physician to the Rebbe from 1977 until 1994.) She lives in Washington Heights, New York, and was interviewed in the My Encounter studio in May 2022.
Over 7,100 Jews from all walks of life filled the famous guitar hotel in Hollywood, Florida for a night of music, Solidarity and Unity for Israel.
A large menorah on display outside a California amphitheater was ripped apart and tossed into a lake Wednesday morning by vandals who left threatening antisemitic graffiti on the sidewalk in its place.
Israeli intelligence agency says seven Hamas operatives arrested for plotting attack on Jews on European soil.
A Grand Chanukah Event hosted by Rabbi Yitzchok and Rabbi Peretz Meir Simcha Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida lit up Castle Golf this week.
A beautiful parade in Monsey, NY saw a large turnout this year, with a long train of vehicle Menorahs trailing bac as far as the eye could see.
In celebration of Chanukah and its profound connection to Chinuch, Oholei Torah hosted its annual Latkes “Ovent” (evening) on the sixth night of Chanukah, treating the entire school’s staff and their families to a festive gathering
Jews around Ukraine are coming out en masse at shopping malls, community centers and synagogues to celebrate Chanukah throughout war-torn Ukraine. Chabad-Lubavitch’s network of hundreds of emissaries and volunteers in every corner of the beleaguered nation are working to ensure that Jewish residents can celebrate the holiday with joy.
Unpaid medical debt will no longer appear in New York residents’ credit reports under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday.
Chabad of Melbourne CBD together with the St Kilda Shule held a Chanukah celebration in the Queen’s Hall of the Victorian Parliament today.
n the past seven weeks, Rabbi Levi Mendelson slept very little. His main concern? Aid and relief for soldiers, the wounded and the displaced, and the hostages and victims’ families.
