“Shalom! What are you doing here? I thought I’m the only Jew in town!” Along with three yeshiva friends, Rabbi Wolf has been travelling all over Ukraine in a colorful Mitzvah Mobile since 2017.
Recently discovered answer from the Rebbe sheds new light on why CGI Detroit alternated sessions for boys and girls and why they are finally set to purchase a second campground.
The renaissance of Yiddishkeit in Crimea was impressively expressed at the Hachnasat Sefer Torah ceremony for a new Torah Scroll, which was joyfully carried into the synagogue of Simferopol.
A touching memorial ceremony was held at the Old Jewish Cemetery of the Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) Synagogue, honoring the Jewish soldiers of WWI.
Sunday night was the grand Gan Yisrael all-star game!! (quite literally) The campers who were voted all-stars joined forces to play the most hyped basketball game in Gan Yisroel history
When the Ukrainian ministry of health was devising the logistics of a massive vaccine distribution for the Dnepropetrovsk region, Healthcare Minister Viktor Liashko and Governor of the Region Valentin Reznichenko turned to the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
Michael and Hannah Mandler, proud first-time parents, had another less common mitzvah to do after circumcising their bundle of joy, whom they had named Zev Mordechai. They had to redeem their firstborn son from a Kohen, in a ceremony known as pidyon haben, or the redemption of the firstborn.
A series of historic events commemorating ‘Eighty Years of Tragedy’ and in memory of the Holocaust victims of the Bukovina region, took place last week in the ‘Jewish Shtetel’ of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and included a surprise announcement.
Court Discourages Vows, Settled- Jordan Bank, Obituary, and Ads. Shazak has released their weekly “Parsha Post For Parshas Matos”, and has made it available for all here on CrownHeights.info.
Thousands of us remember a truly great man whom we lost on the 26th of Tammuz, 5755 (1995). His name; Rabbi Dovid Wichnin Z”L.
Chabad at Duke University Undergrad’s new building is the perfect place to create a home away from home for Jewish students. Being the former location of the popular King’s Daughters Inn, it has a long history of hospitality.
This has been a year of many “firsts” for the Rockwall Jewish community: the first bar mitzvah, the first public menorah lighting, and the first communal seder, to name a few.
Unlike other big or small cities in Russia’s vast borders, the city of Novokuznetzk in Siberia does not have any known Jewish history. Jews began settling there only in the last decade or so, and of the city population of over a million, there are a few thousand Jews.
Yehuda Guberman, a retiree in North Miami Beach, Florida, enjoyed attending weekly study sessions at United Jewish Generations, a Chabad center for seniors in South Florida. Then COVID hit, and the elderly began to isolate and limit social interactions. Classes were suspended, but not for long.
The Secret Room series combines comedy, adventure and educational elements to explore a variety of symbols and concepts from Jewish culture, history and lifestyle.
The weeks and days leading up to Jewish holidays are a frenzied time for Chabad.org’s editors, programmers and Ask-the-Rabbi responders, as they provide the Jewish nation with the tools, information, encouragement and guidance they need to fulfill the mitzvahs of the day.
Filled with elegant medieval architecture, hilly landscapes, lush gardens and a prestigious university that dates back to 1583, Edinburgh, Scotland, will now have a permanent home for vibrant Jewish student life with the building of Chabad’s new center at the University of Edinburgh.
