A tour of the Etrog orchard, listening to the sound of the shofar, visiting a beehive, and donning tefillin, were the focus of the visit to Kfar Chabad in Central Israel of Mr. Nachman Shai, Israeli’s Diaspora Minister. The minister was surprised to learn that among the hosts were three of Ukraine’s leading rabbis who granted him a “Token of Salvation” for his assistance to the Jewish communities in Ukraine.
Rabbi Avrohom and Cheina Dyce are Shluchim to Gresham, Oregon. Read their story from being teachers to Shluchim along with some memorable stories of their Shluchus.
An innovative curriculum launching in schools brings Moshiach into the lives of students. Throughout the year, monthly international Hakhel gatherings will help connect the classroom with everyday life.
A tour of the Panama Canal, up-close experiences with wild monkeys, and a taste of authentic Jewish life created the ultimate CYP Panama Encounter for a group of young professionals from around the country.
A prehistoric elephant tusk was found intact in Israeli excavation, setting off a a joint two-week excavation named “Operation Elephant”.
On June 6, 1950, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Popereka, a deputy minister of the Ukrainian branch of the MGB Soviet secret police—the precursor to the KGB—drafted an 11-page memo on the status of the ongoing investigation into the case of the “Chassidim” and sent it to Viktor Abakumov, minister of state security (MGB) of the Soviet Union. Marked with a hand-written “Top Secret,” the report synopsized information gathered by the MGB over the course of its investigation into “the Schneerson anti-Soviet organization” via foreign agents, informants and interrogations.
Camp Gan Israel for boys in the UK just finished the most successful summer experience with an unprecedented number of campers coming from around the world.
When community leader, Rebbetzin Sarah Deitch, took it upon herself to lead guided tours of the ancient Jewish Cemetery, she didn’t expect it to lead to an exciting historical discovery.
Thousands of children in Chabad overnight camps worldwide woke up to the highly anticipated second edition of the Compass Junior magazine.
The group of 30 teens was in Poland as part of one of the CTeen Heritage Quest programs, a 22-day adventure through Poland and Israel. While there, they saw the residence belonged to Mordechai Anilevich, a commander in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and it was from the basement of this home that the sparks of the uprising were born.
In Chabad house communities around the world, a movement is taking place. Children can be seen spending their free time mastering fundamental Jewish ideas – whether during recess, at dinner time, or even on vacation. The young students are participants in JewQ, the International Jewish knowledge competition.
As the Nigri Jewish Online School experiences a wave of growth, the Shluchim Office announces a talented group of new staff members who have joined the team to accommodate its expansion.
The City of Salzburg is a beautiful Austrian tourist city just over the border with Germany. Known as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, it will soon be complete with a Chabad House and dedicated Shluchim.
In CGI Toronto the CIT’s girls look forward to Fridays when they leave campgrounds to go on Mivtza Neshek in local areas and other camps.
Hundreds of Jewish teens from communities around the world spent this past Shabbos in Eretz Yisroel as part of seven different programs offered by CTeen Summer.
A new series of stunning images have been released by NASA sowing never before seen galaxies and phenomenon rarely documented.
Nearly 500 years after the Portuguese Inquisition began, rare documentation of its proceedings and victims has been discovered in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at Jerusalem’s National Library of Israel, and digitized for the first time.
