#TefilinforYitzi outside Auschwitz

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

2,500 Teens Join International Conference

One teen survived a suicide attempt, another lost his mother to addiction. One prevailed on her public school to add the...

Monday, February 25, 2019

Teens Return $8,000 Cash

Friday, February 8, 2019

Chabad in Russia Honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day

A Holocaust memorial event in Moscow's Jewish Museum this week brought together 200 men and women, local dignitaries,...

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

International Conference of Shluchos Begins

The thirtieth annual International Conference of Shluchos, known as “The Kinus”, begins today in Brooklyn, New York....

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Newly-Renovated Mikvah Dedicated in Moscow

In a place where mikvahs were strictly prohibited and had to be used secretly, the eighteen-year-old men's mikvah at the...

Monday, January 14, 2019

24th Year of Winter Camp for Shluchim's Children

Shluchim's children spent ten days connecting with their peers at the 24th annual Tzeirei Hashluchim Winter Camp for...

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Fifty College Students Visit Holocaust Sites

Last week Chabad on Campus' Living Links project brought fifty college kids from across the US on a 6 day journey of...

Friday, December 28, 2018

Argentine Chanukah Goes Full Fiesta

Thursday, December 13, 2018

1800 Celebrate Chanukah in Sydney's North Shore

Monday, December 3, 2018

Home Depot's Chanukah Takeover

Hundreds of kids and their families turned out for the Pre-Chanukah Chabad Westmount jKIDS Menorah event at the...

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

In Berlin, Jewish Students Remember Kristallnacht

Friday, November 9, 2018

Chabad Emissaries arrive at Chabad HQ for International Conference of Shluchim

Over 5,000 expected to join 5 day, annual conference

Thursday, November 1, 2018

One thousand students attend Chabad on Campus Shabbaton in Brooklyn, NY

Students spend Shabbat of camaraderie and Jewish growth in the heart of Chabad

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Rabbi Krinsky Tours "LifeTown," New Jersey's 53,000 sq. ft. Facility for People with Special Needs

Sunday, Oct. 14., Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky visited the new 53,000 sq. ft. LifeTown in Livingston, NJ. The center is...

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Celebrating Sukkot at The White House

Staffers and senior officials at the @whitehouse this week, including Mrs. @ivankatrump celebrated Sukkot with a lulav...

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Rosh Hashana Goodies Baked on Houston TV

Houston Life hosts Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of Chabad of Uptown in Houston, TX for a pre-Rosh Hashana baking demo.

Friday, September 7, 2018

Leaders from Chabad on Campus and Hillel International Celebrate Together in Brooklyn

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Getting Ready for Shabbat On Tel Aviv's Sunny Beaches

For six years, this paraglider has been making waves on the beaches of Tel Aviv. Each Friday, tens of thousands of...

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Outgoing Paraguayan President Thanked by Jewish Community

Rabbi Levi Feigelstock met with President Manuel Horacio Cartes Jara to thank him for moving the Paraguayan Embassy in...

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Prime Minister of Australia Cooks for the Needy

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited Our Big Kitchen, a community kitchen with a mission to feed the needy of...

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

International Summer Camp for kids from Chabad outsposts

150 kids from 21 countries gather for 'Shluchim Shtetl' summer camp in Ukraine. They may be diverse in their languages,...

Thursday, July 12, 2018

From Soccer Player to World Cup Rabbi

Ami Pykovski is a former professional soccer player who played for 36 years in Los Angeles as well as for the Israeli...

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Surprise Encounter Onboard - Young Refoel Pewzner received a surprise when he visited the cockpit before flying out to celebrate his cousin's Bar Mitzvah. Delta Captain Michael Mesnikoff is a fellow kipa wearer who regularly attends minyanim at

Surprise Encounter Onboard

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Groundbreaking for Chabad in Hendon, UK

Originally established as a pop-up synagogue, the Beis Gavriel in Hendon was named in memory of the Chabad emissary...

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

German Ambassador to Australia discusses Germany's growing anti-semitic problem with Chabad Rabbi

German Ambassador and Australian Rabbi discuss Germany's growing anti-semitism problem

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Jewish army vets honored at Victory Day parade in Moscow

Jewish army vets honored at Victory Day parade in Moscow

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Chabad Concierge at Berkshire Hathaway weekend in Omaha

Chabad Concierge at Berkshire Hathaway weekend in Omaha

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Inauguration of Le Cannet's First Synagogue

Inauguration of Le Cannet's First Synagogue

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Chabad of Kauai Brings Relief to Flooded Community

Rabbi Michoel Goldman and local island residents unload a food truck with fresh supplies. They then move the food to a...

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Chabad Tent Welcomes Visitors to March of the Living

Monday, April 16, 2018

Chabad Tent Welcomes Participants To March of the Living

Opening day March of the Living April 10, 2018

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Arkansas Announces Education And Sharing Day

Today in Arkansas: Gov. Asa Hutchinson, together with the Arkansas House and Senate, proclaim March 27, 2018 as...

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Chabad Conference Concludes With Gala Banquet

The annual conference of Chabad emissaries began Thursday, Feb. 8 and concluded this past Sunday evening with a gala...

Monday, February 12, 2018

Chabad Lubavitch Women Emissaries Group Photo - 2018

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Bringing Passover Products To Peru

Too early to shop for Passover? Chabad Rabbi Ofer Kripor of Cusco, Peru flew for 30 hours across 3 flights, traveling...

Monday, February 5, 2018

Moshe Holtzberg Returns To Mumbai

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Groundbreaking in Montenegro

The Jewish community in Montenegro gathered last week at the groundbreaking of their first center. The new synagogue,...

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

This Weekend In Jewish History: Chabad Library Trial

Friday, December 22, 2017

Menorah at the Rotunda in the Illinois State Capitol

Thursday, December 14, 2017

When Keys Exchange Hands

For six years, Rabbi Avraham and Channy Lapine have been renting a house on Brandon Road in Columbia, MS. This past week...

Monday, December 4, 2017

Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries Group Photo - 2017

Sunday, November 19, 2017

A center for Torah studies opened its doors this month in Russia's largest Muslim republic

At a Nov. 8 ceremony, the Jewish community of Kazan opened its doors to a yeshiva, first of its kind in Russia's largest...

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Australian Emissaries Join Prime Minister at Centenary of Be'er Sheva Battle

Chabad emissaries Rabbi Levi and Chanie Wolff joined Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Israel for the...

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

In Response to Shootings, “Good Cards” at Kansas U

After the shooting in Las Vegas and a Monday night shooting in Lawrence, Kansas, students at the University of Kansas...

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

A New Chabad Center Inaugurated in London

A long-awaited headquarters office for a Chabad branch in London was opened by the British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis...

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Rabbi Sholom B. Stambler, of Chabad of Poland on Polish national televsion sharing insights on the holiday of Sukkot, Tuesday, October 10. 

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Chabad of Bethlehem Moves into Historic New Home in time for High Holidays

Just in time for the high holidays: Chabad of Bethlehem, New York has just inaugurated their new home. Two hundred...

Monday, September 18, 2017

Chabad Rabbi Inaugurates El Al's New Dreamliner With a Prayer

Rabbi Berry Farkash, Chabad's emissary to Issaquah, WA, recited a prayer Tuesday morning as he inaugurated El Al's...

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

A South American Teen Camp Excites and Inspires

For thirty-two teenaged boys hailing from Colombia, Brazil and Argentina, CTeen’s recent five-day winter camp in S....

Monday, August 7, 2017

Hungary Emissary Presents Netanyahu With Translated Talmud

For the first time in the history of the country, a sitting Israeli prime minister paid a diplomatic visit to the...

Monday, July 31, 2017

A Family Affair With Chabad On Campus

At the Crowne Plaza in Stamford, Connecticut, a conference for Chabad reps serving college students provided...

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Chabad Emissary Comforts Boy with Autism on Transatlantic Flight, Photo Goes Viral

"So we just flew back from chaperoning an amazing trip thanks to MAYANOT: Taglit-Birthright Israel," Wrote Chabad...

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

CTeen's Leaders Get Together

Over 200 emissaries and teen leaders from around the world participated in the 4th Annual CTeen Leadership Retreat and...

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Judaism on Wheels

Rabbi Meir Massas of Chabad of Safsufa, northern Israel, recently unveiled his latest project: a unique mitzvah tank...

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Chabad at Harvard Welcomes Back Mark Zuckerberg

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard University this week to graduate with an honorary degree,...

Friday, May 26, 2017

Etch-a-Sketch 770

Jason Swartz, a member of Chabad of Memphis, Tennessee, drew an artful rendition of Chabad Lubavitch’s headquarters...

Monday, May 15, 2017

History is Made: Welcoming Northern Cyprus’ First Torah Scroll

For the first time in history, a Torah scroll has dedicated in Kyrenia, North Cyprus, at the local Chabad House run by...

Monday, May 8, 2017

The CTeen Experience at March of the Living

For the first time ever, thousands of teens participating in March of the Living will join the complete CTeen...

Monday, April 24, 2017

In Russia, Preparations for Pesach are Front and Center

For the past few months, Russia’s kashrut committee has been hard at work preparing for Passover, aiming to offer a...

Monday, April 3, 2017

CKids Passover Escape Room

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Tribute Evening Celebrates Moscow Synagogue's 16th Year

Celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Marina Roscha Jewish Community Center in Moscow aboard a boat that sailed on...

Monday, March 20, 2017

CTeen Takes on Times Square in Epic Havdalah Ceremony

Times Square was jam-packed and full of energy Saturday night at the most spirited CTeen Havdalah ceremony to date....

Monday, February 27, 2017

CTeens From Around the World Make Their Way to Crown Heights

Hundreds of CTeen chapters from around the world have begun their travels to New York for the 9th annual CTeen...

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Women Leadership, Global Impact

Thousands of Jewish women leaders from around world were individually photographed this weekend for a special group...

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Teens in Central Russia Unite for EnerJew Seminar

Monday, February 13, 2017

Award for Chabad at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill

"Chapel Hill has gained a tremendous confidence in its ability to emerge as a viable and vibrant community," notes Rabbi...

Monday, February 6, 2017

Award for Chabad at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill

"Chapel Hill has gained a tremendous confidence in its ability to emerge as a viable and vibrant community," notes Rabbi...

Monday, February 6, 2017

Public Menorah lighting in Samara, Russia

Monday, December 26, 2016

Berlin Jewish Community to Step Up Chanukah Activities Following Attack

Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Florida Governor Rick Scott High-Fives Preschoolers at Jewish School in Miami

Governor Rick Scott pays a pre-Chanukah visit to the Chabad Brumer Preschool of the Arts-Brickell Jewish Montessori in...

Monday, December 19, 2016

The "Group Photo" of the Rebbe's emissaries at the 2016 Annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries 

Sunday, November 27, 2016

CTeens Gather for TGIS: Thank G-d It's Shabbos

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Souls-on-the-Don: A Photographic Journey

Souls on the Don, not unlike Humans of New York which provides a glimpse into the lives of strangers, open a lens onto the lives of others living far away, and thus revives a nearly forgotten chapter of Jewish history.

Rena Udkoff | News | Sunday, November 20, 2016

As JewFest Concludes, College Students Visit Ohel

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Campus Chabad Group Helps Sailor Have Bar Mitzvah on Veterans Day

A group of students from Texas A&M University, Texas State University, and Rice University are in New York city for...

Friday, November 11, 2016

Go, Cubs, Go! Chabad Rabbi Wraps Tefillin With Cubs Fan at Wrigley Field

Amid all the excitement of the MLB World Series on Tuesday, a Chabad Rabbi helps Cubs fan Howard Tolsky wrap tefillin at...

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Trick-or-Treater Knocks on Rabbi's Door, Gets Bar Mitzvah-ed

What happens when you go Trick-or-Treating at the home of a Chabad Rabbi? This Halloween reveler in Bloomfield Hills,...

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

In Ukraine, Street Named After Lubavitcher Rebbe

On Chol Hamoed Sukkot, the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk, in Kamianske, Ukraine, presented a new street sign. Shluchim Rabbi...

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Dedication of the Morris & Ann Lazaroff Chabad Center in S. Louis

Monday, September 26, 2016

CTeen Participant Prays at Auschwitz Concentration Camp Site

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

New Shluchim to Jackson, New Jersey

Rabbi Shmulie and Musi Naparstek are moving to Jackson, New Jersey with their two daughters to open a new branch of...

Monday, September 12, 2016

Over 7000 Kids Begin New School Year in Or Avner Schools in Russia

Moscow: Over 7,000 Jewish students across the FSU started the new learning year in FJC's Chabad-Lubavitch Or Avner...

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Roving Rabbi Mendel Hertz helps author Reid Rosenthal don Tefillin

Rabbi Mendel Hertz, who is travelling in capacity of "Roving Rabbi" with fellow Rabbi Shneur Druk, helps author Reid...

Monday, September 5, 2016

Five hundred Chabad Rabbis gather in Lubavitch for European Regional Kinus

Five hundred Shluchim from across Europe gathered for the European Regional Kinus in Russia. The kinus marks the 25th...

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

A Jew in Wyoming wrapped tefillin with Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Kollel Torah In Charkov: Women Study Jewish law and Chasidic texts.

Monday, July 25, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presented with surprise gift.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who came to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, sent a virtual...

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Shliach and AF Chaplain (Capt.) Elie Estrin with Capt. Ari Wood and Lt Commander Greg Touchton honor U.S military veterans.

Shliach and AF Chaplain (Capt.) Elie Estrin with Capt. Ari Wood (US Army) and Lt Commander Greg Touchton (US Navy) place...

Monday, May 30, 2016

The Honorable Elyakim Rubinstein, Vice President of the Supreme Court of Israel, on a visit to Chabad Headquarters peruses Lubavitch International.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Rabbi Shlomo Kovesh and his community in Budapest, Hungary celebrated the restoration of the 200 year old Great Synagogue. Israeli ambassador Ilan Mor offered greetings.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis visits newly renovated Chabad of Buckhurst Hill

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Nearly 600 people gathered for Chabad Lubavitch UK's third annual ONE gala dinner, held in the London Lancaster Hotel on March 22.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Chabad Lubavitch of Donetsk, Ukraine celebrated Purim with war refugees in Kyiv. Nearly 400 people joined for a Purim concert.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, in his stateroom aboard the S.S. Drottingholm upon his arrival in New York in 1940.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Youth from Samara attend an Enerjew Shabbaton. Enerjew is the teen division of Chabad of the FSU.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

JNet Celebrates 8,000 Partnerships

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

CTeen Havdalah in Times Square-Photos by Bentzi Sasson & Mendel Benhamou

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Hundreds joined Rabbi Mendel and Chana D. Solomon for the gala event at the Crystal Plaza, celebrating Chabad of Short Hills, New Jersey’s new building.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

"Family photo" of participants at the Annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries.

Three thousand Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, the shluchos, pose for a "family photo" during their annual conference at...

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Survivor and philanthropist Sam Boymel is saluted at Chabad Jewish Center Gala Tribute Dinner on August 23rd. The center’s sanctuary was dedicated in honor of Sam’s beloved wife, Rachel.

Monday, January 25, 2016

Chabad Lubavitch of British Columbia's 40th Annual Gold Plate Dinner, honoring Mrs. Grace McCarthy, chairman of the C.H.I.L.D. Foundation.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Strings of Triumph was held to celebrate the triumphs of the Jewish nation in the face of adversity. Chabad of Maple, Ontario, presented a musical tribute to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Friday, January 15, 2016

The newly renovated Chabad Jewish Center in Coral Springs, FL all lit up before the ribbon cutting on Nov. 21st.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Paris Lights Up With Hope

Monday, December 7, 2015

Thousands of Chabad emissaries representing Jewish communities in 88 countries, stand for the annual group photo at Lubavitch World Headquarters during the annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim which concludes today.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Learning the Complexities of Jewish Scribal Art

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Ghana Jewish Community Celebrates Sukkot

Thursday, October 1, 2015

American Tourists Pack Food Baskets for Israel's Needy

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Chabad Greets Athletes in Berlin with Mitzvahs

Thursday, July 30, 2015

African Immigrants in Milan Enjoy Fresh Challah

Friday, July 10, 2015

The Yellow "ARK" for Goodness Comes to Austrailia

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Thousands Visit Rebbe's Resting Place

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Proud Berliners pose at the Chabad House after morning prayers

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Rabbi Yossi Lipsker presents Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker with a Menorah and the "Lamplighter Award."

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker celebrating Chabad of the North Shore of Boston's 23rd anniversary with Shluchim...

Monday, June 8, 2015

Board members of the Avi Chai Foundation cut the ribbon to the new clinic

Monday, June 1, 2015

Students at the University of Illinois ride a camel as a part of learning about Israel and its accomplishments

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Israel's President, Reuven Rivlin Thanks Chabad of Nepal

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Canadian children learn about Israel's geography via hands-on activities

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulates orphans celebrating their bar mitzvah this week with Colel Chabad.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Children in Kansai, Japan, get a hands-on course on how to bake matzah at Chabad's model matzah bakery

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Historic Birmingham Synagogue Restored

300 members of the community of Birmingham, England met in the Jospeh Cohen hall to celebrate the rededication of the 159 year old Singers Hill Synagogue.

Mushkie Junik | News | Thursday, March 19, 2015

Germany's Director General of Justice Ministry pays a solidarity visit to the Chabad Jewish Center in Berlin

Monday, February 23, 2015

Children at the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Tbilisi, Georgia

Monday, February 2, 2015

Rabbi Dovid Lau, Israeli Chief Rabbi, kindles memorial lights at mass grave

Monday, January 26, 2015

Students at the Chabad Hebrew School in Hanover, Germany at a hands-on course on the Mezuzah

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

500 Chabad representatives in Israel at the annual conference

Monday, January 19, 2015

The Day After . . . School began Monday morning with high security at Jewish schools in Paris. (Photo: I Bardugo)

Monday, January 12, 2015

Israeli Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau discusses Israel and American Jewry at a Chabad of Agoura Hills, CA, town hall discussion

Sunday, January 11, 2015

People with special needs in the spotlight at the opening of Chabad's retail shop

Monday, December 15, 2014

New York Police Authorities Meet With Chabad Leadership

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson paid a visit to Lubavitch World Headquarters Tuesday afternoon. The DA met with leadership to express his concern and support following last night’s stabbing of a student at the central Chabad synagogue.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Chabad of Richmond, Virginia, Celebrates

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Sinai Scholars students at Texas A&M University tour a mikvah.

Monday, November 17, 2014

Deep in the Prussian forest, Berliners enjoyed a Shabbat immersion experience.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Opening day at the Hebrew School at Chabad of Hanover, Germany.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Raising awareness for inclusion of people with disabilities at The Friendship Circle of Richmond, Virginia

Monday, November 3, 2014

After being assisted by Rabbi Levi Cunin of Chabad of Malibu, Yossi Dina, an Israeli businessman, spends some spiritual time in prayer.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Chani Lifshitz, Chabad representative to Kathmandu, Nepal, visits injured Israelis, after a bus overturned on a scenic road, where 11 died and over 50 were injured.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Students in Las Vegas, Nevada, begin a new year at the Chabad Hebrew School.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Prime Minister Netanyahu Reciving the Lulav and Esrog from Chabad Delegation

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

After Firebomb Ukraine Synagogue Sees Growth

Dovid Zaklikowski | News | Tuesday, October 7, 2014

New Torah Scroll Is Begun In Merit Of The Soldiers

Monday, July 28, 2014

New Headquarters For Russia's Rabbinical Leaders

Leading rabbinical figures from Israel and Europe presided at the dedication ceremony of the new offices of Russia’s Chief Rabbinate. The new facility will serve as the home for all of the rabbinical concerns related to Russia’s Jewish popultion, which until now have been dispersed among various locations.

lubavitch.com Staff | News | Thursday, July 17, 2014

New Headquarters For Russia's Rabbinical Leaders

Leading rabbinical figures from Israel and Europe presided at the dedication ceremony of the new offices of Russia’s...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Soul Encounters

How do we honor the yahrzeit of someone who has given you the tools to transform your life in immeasurable ways? How do you say “thank you” to someone who opened the way for you to encounter the soul—the other’s, but especially your own?

lubavitch.com Staff | News | Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Soul Encounters

How do we honor the yahrzeit of someone who has given you the tools to transform your life in immeasurable ways? How do...

Monday, June 30, 2014

Chabad representative to Eilat, Rabbi Shimon Eisenbach, at the IDF ceremony for Israel’s Fallen Heroes.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Florida Governor Rick Scott joined Chabad of Tallahassee on the eve of the first night of Pesach “pre-Seder” event hosted by Rabbi Schneur and Chanie Oirechman

Friday, April 25, 2014

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proclaims Yud Aleph Nissan "Education and Sharing Day" for the state of Massachusetts.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Purim in Smolensk, Russia

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

History in Downtown Miami: Grand Opening of the new Chabad Downtown Jewish Center

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Chabad Delegation From Canada Meets with PMs Netanyahu and Harper.

Addressing the Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper, Israeli Prime Minster Bibi Netanyahu recalled an encounter with...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Dedication Ceremony at Eastside Torah Center - Chabad, Bellevue, WA

Friday, January 17, 2014

Celebrating 120 Years of The Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Russia

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Chanukah Around The World

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Rabbi V

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Baking Challah at the Chabad Israeli Center Atlanta

Friday, February 4, 2011

Rabbi Visits Jewish Burial Sites in Iran

Under a simple brick dome in Hamadan, south of Teheran, are two beautiful wooden tomb-boxes bearing a Hebrew inscription.

News | Thursday, February 3, 2011

Jewish Women Celebrate Family At Annual Conference

They left family and fort behind, but for five days of workshops and sessions, these Chabad representatives were exhorted to remember their primary focus: family.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, January 31, 2011

Eighth Grader in Beijing Bakes Cakes To Sponsor Friends

When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They are custom cakes—dolls, police trucks, snowmobiles

Laima Barber | News | Wednesday, January 12, 2011

New Chabad to Open in Debrecen, Hungary

Rabbi Kotlarsky and a delegation from the Jewish community met with Hungarian President Pál Schmitt. In their hour-long meeting, they discussed the need for increased education to help combat growing anti-Semitism in Hungary.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Photo Essay: Israel Bardugo spent Chanukah in the Congo documenting the activities of Chabad representative to Central Africa Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Rabbi Chanoch Gechtman lights Menorah in front of the Gateway of India. Photo Credit: Gavin Jacobson

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

In Aftermath of the Carmel Fires, Israelis Struggle to Recover

Depending on where you stand in the Carmel region, the scent of wood smoke is still in the air. If it weren't for the destruction it represents, the scent would be holiday-like, appealing.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer joins Chabad for Chanukah celebrations. Phoenix, AZ.

Monday, December 6, 2010

The first night of Chanukah at the National Menorah Washington, DC. Photos by Baruch Ezagui

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Chabad of the Space and Treasure Coasts Hosts Israeli Delegation

A delegation of 65 Israeli students and professionals from Beit Shemesh, Israel headed by acting Mayor Meir Balaish...

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

19 Kislev Photo Essay.

Photos By Mordechai Lightstone

Friday, November 26, 2010

NCFJE Celebrates 70 Years

Last Sunday, November 21, 700 guests joined the National Committee For Furtherance of Jewish Education at a 70 year anniversary celebration Chelsea Piers Pier 60.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, November 25, 2010

Schottenstein Chabad Center To Open in Columbus, Ohio

Residents of historical New Albany, Ohio will soon welcome the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, a stately Georgian structure located in the heart of the quaint village.

Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, November 24, 2010

JLI Teens Launches Internship Program

Young, smart, Jewish, they are the children of the baby boomers who cut their teeth on hi-speed internet and the virtual world it placed in their laps while still in the stroller.

News | Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Chabad of the Tri Valley in California's Bay Area Welcomes New Torah Scroll

Monday, November 15, 2010

International Student Shabbaton in New York

Hundreds of students from universities worldwide spent a weekend of inspiration and fun at Chabad's world headquarters....

Thursday, October 28, 2010

University of Illinois Men's Basketball Team, ZBT Fraternity and Chabad Host Annual Alley Oop for Autism

The children enjoyed an hour-long Basketball clinic with the national ranked team, and an exclusive tour of the locker room. Each child received a gift—a photo of the team, autographed by every player and the head coach.

News | Monday, October 25, 2010

Jewish Public School Children Thrive at Florida Afterschool Program

Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Chabad representative in Highland Lakes, who co-directs the program together with his wife, Layah, says the school has grown by word-of-mouth. Children and their parents seem to love it.

Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, October 18, 2010

Chabad Preschool- Vancouver Island, Victoria, BC

Friday, October 15, 2010

Norbert Lamart, president of the German parliament, the Bundestag, visited the Chabad Lubavitch institutions in Berlin.

L-R Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, German Parliament President Norbert Lammert, Rabbi Shmuel Segal.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Kosher Culture: Jewish, Muslim Students Cook in Sydney

60 Jewish and Muslim school children cooked side by side Wednesday in Bondi’s Our Big Kitchen, a Chabad run community kitchen in Sydney, Australia.

Mendy Rimler | News | Friday, October 8, 2010

Chabad of Colorado Springs built a Sukkah on Pikes Peak summit. At an altitude of 14,110 feet above sea level, the Sukkah is the highest in the world.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Photo Essay: FREE of Brighton, Sukkos Mix (2007-2009). Photos by Oleg Gurvich

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Members of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria with the Premier of Victoria, Hon. John Brumby.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Kyrgyzstan Government Promises Security for Jewish Community

The president confirmed that she read Rabbi Raichman’s letter, and “promised appropriate security for the Jewish community,” said Berkowitz

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Jewish Community of Hamburg, Germany, Welcomes New Torah Scroll

Monday, September 20, 2010

Anti-Semitic graffiti drawn on Moldovan synagogue

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Groundbreaking Ceremony at the Chabad Center for Jewish Awareness - Nashville, TN

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The 30th Annual Chabad "To Life" Telethon.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, Opens Lubavitch Children's Centre. Photos by Yakir Zur

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Australian Premier Says Thank You for Chicken Soup

On Ms Keneally’s last visit to the kosher kitchen, she was suffering from a head cold. The following day she received a package at her office in Governor Macquarie Tower.

News | Monday, August 23, 2010

Chabad's Roving Rabbis Visit Aruba Prime Minister Mike Eman

Monday, August 23, 2010

A Jewish Community in Sydney Grows Young, Vibrant

A shuttered bankers’ training facility will soon reopen as Chabad’s Jewish community retreat center in Sydney’s North Shore.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, August 9, 2010

New Mikvah Construction Begins for Smolensk

Smolensk, the capital city of the Smolensk Region, located on the Dnieper River some 360 kilometers (224 mi) west-southwest of Moscow, home to approximately 5000 Jews, will soon have its own mikvah.

News | Friday, August 6, 2010

IsraeLinks - Three Weeks of Learning and Adventure in Israel, a project of Chabad on Campus International Foundation. Photo Credit: Bentzi Sasson

Photo Credit: Bentzi Sasson

Monday, July 26, 2010

Gan Israel Greensboro, NC

Monday, July 12, 2010

Chabad on Campus Reaches Tipping Point

This past year, on an average Friday night, a combined total of 7,000 students took their seats at Chabad on Campus for Shabbat dinner. Some 3,479 students attended one or more of 408 Jewish study classes

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, July 5, 2010

Queen Elizabeth Meets With Chabad Representative of Canada

Monday, July 5, 2010

Queen Elizabeth Meets With Chabad Representative of Canada

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn was invited on behalf of the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch to an exclusive Garden Party with Queen Elizabeth as well as Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

News | Sunday, July 4, 2010

R-L Rabbi Menachem Schmidt, Philanthropist Mr. George Rohr, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky. Photo Credit: Bentzi Sasson

Monday, June 28, 2010

Chabad of the Conejo celebrates 30 years.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Rohr JLI 12th Annual Conference Explores New Themes in Jewish Life

Some 350 Chabad rabbis from around the world came together last week for the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute conference held on the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Downtown Brooklyn. Now in its 12th year...

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov, Chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Director of American Friends of Lubavitch With Senator Joseph Lieberman at the Chabad Living Legacy Conference. Photo Credit: Baruch Ezagui

Friday, June 18, 2010

Israeli Heroes Visit Washington. Photo Credit: Bentzi Sasson

Click Here To Read Article www.lubavitch.com/news/article/2029099/Editorial-On-The-Biography-of-A-Tzaddik.html

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A First for Ukrainian City: Sumy Municipality Welcomes Torah Scroll

Hundreds of Jewish community residents joined the procession as they danced from the town’s main street to the Jewish community center.

News | Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Boutique Dairy Farm in Germany Goes Kosher

Germany’s kosher consumers can now enjoy a full line of locally produced boutique cheeses and milk that come from a small dairy farm near the major Northern city of Hamburg

S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Historic Ohel Rachel Synagogue (established in 1920) reopens. (Photos: May 2010)

Monday, May 24, 2010

Chief Chaplain (Major General) Douglas Carver, United States Army and William Horton visit Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters. (May, 2010)

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky greets Major General Carver

Friday, May 21, 2010

Jews Concerned, Not Intimidated By Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in Salonica

Chabad representative to Salonica said he refuses to become intimidated after vandals desecrated the city’s Jewish cemetery, spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on headstones and the cemetery’s walls on Friday...

News | Monday, May 17, 2010

Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Moscow, Russia. (May, 2010)

Friday, May 14, 2010

In Conversation: Natan Sharansky

Mr. Sharansky met with Baila Olidort, editor of Lubavitch News Service in his office at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Jerusalem, where he talked about his vision, his respect for Chabad’s model of outreach, and the moral ambiguities he discovered in freedom.

News | Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Russian Jewish Community Remembers and Resolves

Holocaust survivors and Brooklyn community members commemorated Victory Day, Sunday, May 9, at the Holocaust Memorial Park on Emmons Avenue in Brooklyn

News | Monday, May 10, 2010

Lag B'omer Around The World [Photos]

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Lag B'omer celebrations in Sydney Australia.

400 participants enjoy a concert with music superstar Chaim Dovid. Photo Credit: Mr. Henry Benjamin

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Children playing with a bow and arrow on Lag B'Omer (Photo Credit: Israel Bardugo)

Friday, April 30, 2010

Chernigov Jewish Leaders Congratulate Governor at Inauguration

Vladimir Nikolaevitch Khomenko was inaugurated as the city’s new Governor at a ceremony April 27, at the Chernigov regional administration. The event was attended by religious leaders of different faiths.

News | Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Twenty years since Jewish renewal in Chernigov, Ukraine. [Photo Essay]

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Chabad of Central Africa Opens First Day Camp

This year, school break in Nigeria coincided with Passover. For Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chief Rabbi of Central Africa, it provided an opportunity too obvious to ignore

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, both killed in Saturday morning's plane crash in Russia, shown here in 2008 with Rabbi Sholom B. Stambler, receiving matzahs prior to Passover.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Friends and supporters of Chabad of the Conejo gathered at the construction site of the organization's future community campus to celebrate the completion of the project's foundation.

Rabbi Moshe Bryski, executive director of Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills

Friday, April 9, 2010

Chabad Seders in Cusco, Peru

Despite widespread damage in January caused by Peru’s worst flooding in five years, with numerous access roads closed, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted some 700 guests for its Passover Seders in Cusco.

News | Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Chabad delegation on hand as Governor Pawlenty proclaims Education and Sharing Day in Minnesota

Friday, March 26, 2010

Passover Parade In Chicago

Stocked with Passover Matzos and informative literature, the students worked up a Passover spirit on the streets of Chicago.

Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, March 25, 2010

Mazah bakery in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Lubavitch.com Hosts Jewish Digerati at SXSW Festival's Kosher BBQ

New among the workshops and panels at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas, was Judaism 2.0.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, March 19, 2010

Mohel Mendel Goldberg performs a Brit Milah at Chabad of South Korea

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Torah Dedication Ceremony at Chabad @ the Beaches

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Blog: Purim At Riker's Island

The first stop for all is the security checkpoint just outside of Rikers Island. Photo identifications are reviewed and clearance is given to proceed forward.

Yosef Shidler | News | Thursday, March 4, 2010

Rabbi Shimon Heidingsfeld of the Chabad of Moorpark picks up his son Yossi Heidingsfeld after the Megillah reading. Photo: Photo by Juan Carlo/Star staff

Photo Credit: www.vcstar.com  

Monday, March 1, 2010

Intercollegiate Student Weekend at Chabad of College Station, TX

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Brandeis Leadership Students Invited Backstage At Chabad Headquarters.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Brandeis Leadership Students Invited Backstage At Chabad Headquarters

Heads of some of Chabad-Lubavitch's most influential programs silenced their Blackberries and shared their strategies for building Jewish life with sixteen students of the Hornstein Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, February 22, 2010

22nd annual International Conference for Chabad Shluchos

Monday, February 8, 2010

Israel’s President Shimon Peres met with Chabad representatives to Germany, and spoke to the German Parliament in Berlin.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu with Rabbi Sholom Ber Stambler at the writing of a Sefer Torah. Warsaw, Poland. (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

File photo: Howie Mandel wraps Tefillin with Rabbi Chaim Cunin

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

British Royal Prince Tours Nariman Chabad House, Donates Funds. {Photo Gallery}

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Chabad Gives Cardozo Law Students an Edge in the Job Hunt

At Chabad’s recent Attorneys and Law Students Networking Event, 75 students got to know powerbrokers like real-estate mogul and attorney Leon Charney, Jones Day partner Andy Green,

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, January 21, 2010

British Royal Prince Tours Nariman Chabad House, Donates Funds

Prince Michael of Kent visited the Chabad Nariman house in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, January 20. A first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the grandson of King George V,

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bulgarian PM Visits Jerusalem Western Wall. {Photo Gallery}

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Chabad's Haiti Relief Aid Reaches Orphans

In Parkland, Florida, two airplanes were being filled with provisions for children in a Haitian orphanage. Jerry Lowenstein has been sponsoring these children for years, visiting monthly with supplies.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Israeli MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Visits Mumbai Chabad House

Friday, January 15, 2010

Holocaust Survivors Find Social Support With Ivolunteer

Under Manhattan’s dazzling lights, Holocaust survivors met Tuesday at the Cooper Square Hotel’s magnificent penthouse, where they were joined by donors and volunteers in celebration and support of Ivolunteer.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, January 14, 2010

Israeli MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Visits Mumbai Chabad House

Israeli Knesset Member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer visited the ravaged Mumbai Chabad House in India earlier this week.

News | Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.The Prime Minister was accompanied by Rabbi Yosef Salamon. Photo: Col.org.il

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Haditch, Ukraine. Photo Essay: Mordechai Lightstone

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

French Consul General Visits Lubavitch Headquarters. Photos: Menachem Kozlovsky

Friday, January 8, 2010

Major Jewish Philanthropist Explores Chabad's Russian Roots

Guma Aguiar is making up for lost time. Last week, the young billionaire sprinted through blizzard conditions in Russia and Ukraine, tracing the early history of Chabad in Haditch, where its founder, Rabbi Schneur

B. Olidort | News | Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Dnepropetrovsk Synagogue Hosts Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A Jewish Community Grows In Cabo San Lucas

(lubavitch.com) Once a week, Benzion Hershcovich leaves his house at the crack of dawn while his wife and children are still asleep. The twenty-something rabbi heads out to a local dairy farm where he gets kosher milk.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, January 1, 2010

Newly renovated Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at UT

Monday, December 28, 2009

At McGill University, Jewish Students Host Inaugural Shabbat Dinner

On a recent Friday night, Rabbi Shmuly Weiss and his wife Rashi were guests in their own Montreal home. Roles were reversed as university students at Chabad of McGill became the masters of ceremony during

David Lipson | News | Monday, December 21, 2009

World's First Single Malt Menorah

Two hundred people showed up at Buckhurst Hill Chabad to watch the lightning of a 7 foot menorah built out of clear piping filled with 65 Litres of Single Malt Scotch.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lights a menorah with 13-year-old Max Silver and Rabbi Berel Mockin. Rabbis Chaim Mendelsohn, Director of Public Affairs for Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch and Dovid Hayes were also present. Photo Credit: Deb Ransom

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

A child plays in the new Lubavitch Children’s Centre in Stamford Hill, London

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Yeshiva-in-Prison Brings Meaning, Spiritual Growth to Jewish Inmates

Gordon M., 36, is an inmate at a Virginia prison where he recently participated in a yeshiva program. The three-day intensive Torah study experience, he says, were “the happiest and most joyful days in my last ten years of incarceration.”

Levi Margolin | News | Monday, November 30, 2009

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Chabad's educational division, with Shashi Tharoor, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky tours Nariman (Chabad) House in advance of the first anniversary of the Mumbai Terror Attacks.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

On the rooftop of the Nariman Chabad House, Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz discusses logistics for Thursday's memorial service.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Nachman Holtzberg and Shimon Rosenberg dance with thier grandson Moshe

Thursday, November 19, 2009

One Year Later, Mumbai Chabad House Survivor Turns Three

Moshe Zvi Holtzberg entered the party tent in Kfar Chabad, a suburb of Tel Aviv, escorted by his two grandmothers and his nursemaid Sandra Samuel.

Barbara Sofer | News | Thursday, November 19, 2009

Developing Relationships, Businesspeople, Professionals Work With Chabad Leaders To Advance Jewish Life

Partners in the growth of Chabad, lay leaders typically bond with the families of the shluchim and form deep and mutually meaningful friendships.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, November 16, 2009

Transcendent Joy, Transcendent Vision Celebrated at Chabad Conference Banquet

An overflow crowd squeezed through more than a dozen metal detectors and into the garage-turned-gracious-lobby of the Troop C Armory in Brooklyn, New York.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, November 16, 2009

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, visits the Chabad House. Photo Credit: Canadian Prime Minister's Office

Monday, November 16, 2009

U.S. Military Armory Is Transformed for Chabad Banquet

This Sunday evening, thousands will file into the Troop C Armory for the banquet session, concluding the International Conference of Shluchim.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, November 15, 2009

Torah Scroll Completed in Memory of Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg. The Torah Scroll will be sent to Mumbai, India. Photos: Baruch Ezagui

Friday, November 13, 2009

Dancing in the Street With Newly Completed Mumbai Torah

(lubavitch.com) Under a chilly, night sky, colleagues of slain emissaries to Mumbai--Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg--danced intensely with a newly completed Torah. Leading the way under the canopy were leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch and the fathers of Gabi and Rivky, who moments earlier inscribed the final letters in the Torah for their children

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, November 13, 2009

Braids that Bind: Jewish Women Connect Through Challah Baking

At the University of Connecticut, fresh loaves of Challah serve as a bond for the students and local seniors. In conjunction with Jewish fraternity...

R. C. Lundy | News | Monday, November 9, 2009

Queen Elizabeth II with Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Chabad Center Vandalized, Community Pulls Together

Three youths will be arraigned Friday morning in connection with Tuesday’s break-in at the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Cod. The local teenagers are accused of vandalizing the synagogue, pulling a charity box off the wall, smashing doors, and throwing phylacteries on the floor.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, November 5, 2009

Sunday The Rabbi Met The Queen

This past June, Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin received notice from Buckingham Palace that he was selected for a prestigious honor, to be bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, October 30, 2009

Chabad representative to San Francisco Rabbi Langer at West Fest. Photos: Mushka Lightstone

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Edison Fireballs

Tzitzis and yarmulka clad Levi Yitzchok Spiegel is the only Jew on the Fireballs soccer team in Eugene, Oregon. Levi...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Labkowsky was presented with a medal of honor by the city’s police department for his work with Jewish inmates in the prisons of southern France

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani Visits Chabad. Kingston, NY.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Staff Sergeant Jason Block of Fort Carson, Colorado and his brother Sean with Rabbi Moshe Liberow atop Pike's Peak. At 14,115 feet, the Sukkah set up there by Chabad is the highest in the world. Photo Credit: Mordechai Lightstone

Thursday, October 8, 2009

In The Sukkah With Israel's Consul General, Assaf Shariv

Israel’s Consul General in New York, Assaf Shariv, was a guest at the sukkah of Rabbi Mendel Sharfstein, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening.

News | Thursday, October 8, 2009

Children shake the Lulav and Etrog. Rhinebeck, NY

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

A Torah-on-Loan Travels To North Cyprus

When Randi Luxenberg was planning her 25th wedding anniversary, she came up with a gift idea for her husband, Arthur that was anything but same old, same old:

S. Fridman | News | Wednesday, October 7, 2009

In Central Africa, Chabad Helps Jews Celebrate High Holidays

Several hours before Rosh Hashanah set in, Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila found himself in the offices of Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, October 2, 2009

Rabbi Chaim Azimov and local community members help build the largest, and likely the only Sukkah in all of North Cyprus. The Rabbi anticipates about 500 visitors to the Chabad Sukkah in the course of the holiday.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Ukraine Jewish Community Unveils Memorial

Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, joined the city’s Mayor Ivan Kulichenko, Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk and the Dnepropetrovsk region Shmuel Kaminezki, and Mr. Gennady Bogolubov..

S. Fridman | News | Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Bar Mitzvah of student Moshe Reese at Chabad of Hawaii. Photo Credit: Examiner.com

Friday, September 25, 2009

Rabbi Levi and Leah Neubort, Fair Lawn Deputy Mayor Lisa Swain, and Councilman Edward Trawinski cut the ribbon on Anshei Lubavitch’s new center in Fair Lawn on Sunday. Photo Credit: The Jewish Standard

Thursday, September 24, 2009

New Torah for Chabad of Central Cascades

On Sunday, September 13, 2009, Chabad of Central Cascades welcomed a new Torah scroll.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Thursday, September 17, 2009

Chabad Jewish Center of Central Cascades Welcomes New Torah

Rabbi Berry Farkash, Chabad representative, to the Central Cascades, Washington, parades with the new Torah...

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Israeli Children Explore Rosh Hashanah at Bee Farm

On a recent field trip with south Tel Aviv’s Camp Neve Eliezer, eighty children, all clad in shorts, sandals, and matching baseball caps, clapped and laughed at the antics of “Itchele...

Sarah Bronson | News | Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Millions of viewers watched the Chabad annual telethon which aired last night. The six hour program, which featured a colorful line-up of Hollywood stars and noted personalities, garnered $7,523,869 for Chabad of California. Photos: Israel Bardugo

Monday, September 14, 2009

Getting Ready for Rosh Hashana: Adults, Children Learn Hands-On With Chabad

Shofar Factories are popping up in cities across the globe, attracting children to explore the significance of the shofar and the holiday it represents...

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, September 14, 2009

Flashback!: Chabad at UCLA Marks 40th Year

In this week's Flashback! lubavitch.com presents a news release dated 1969 announcing Chabad's purchase of its first campus center located adjacent to the UCLA campus.

News | Thursday, September 10, 2009

LA Laker Ron Artest, shooting hoops for Chabad. Sponsored by philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz of TwinMed, each shot made resulted in a $1000 donation to Chabad.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

NBA's Ron Artest Scores For Chabad

KTLA Morning News (LA’s #1 Morning Show) featured LA Laker Ron Artest, shooting hoops for Chabad.

News | Thursday, September 10, 2009

Dancing in the Streets in Downtown Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Eric Richardson

Monday, September 7, 2009

The Maharal-Chabad Nexus

The Maharal had an influence on many streams of Jewish thought, including Chasidism, and especially on Chabad Chasidism. Indeed, the founder of Chabad, Reb Schneur Zalman of Liadi, was a direct descendant of the Maharal.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, September 7, 2009

Rabbi Joseph and Mina Eisenbach from Chabad of the North West Corner at the 13th annual Klezmer Fest in Litchfield, CT.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Water Carrier: Rabbi Fights Southern California Fire with Love

It has been a long and smoky week in Southern California as firefighters valiantly battle the area’s largest-ever fire and residents race to safety. With 58,000 hectares of land charred, fire officials are now declaring 38 percent containment.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, September 4, 2009

Last Night the Boxer Stepped into a Different Ring

Undefeated junior welterweight Dimitry "Star of David" Salita was married yesterday to Alona Aharonov, of West...

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

At Staten Island Russian Fest, Russian Jews Sample Judaism

Some 10,000 visitors descended on Staten Island's South Beach this past Sunday, for the annual Staten Island Russian Fest. Browsing the booths...

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Ted Kennedy with Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff, Rabbi Avraham Shemtov and Rabbi Zalman Wilschanski. Photo Credit: COLLIVE

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Jewish Inspiration Trails Chabad Rabbis After Summer Tour

“There was no cutting back this year despite the economy,” emphasized director Rabbi Schneor Nejar. “Wherever there is a need to reach Jewish people, we are sending rabbis.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, August 27, 2009

Rabbi Chaim Cunin puts Tefillin on Howie Mandel at the Chabad Drug Treatment Center. Photo Credit: Clinton H. Wallace / Photomundo International

Monday, August 24, 2009

Chabad Dedicates Opening of New Building in Buenos Aires's Soho

A newly renovated Chabad center in Palermo Soho, a popular bohemian neighborhood of Buenos Aires's Palermo Viejo area, drew several hundred locals to the building's formal dedication last Thursday.

Staff Writer | News | Monday, August 24, 2009

Chabad's Rabbi Lazer Danzinger, Captain, CFSTG Chaplain Services, National Defence, Borden, ON, Canada with Canada's Minister of National Defence.

On Thursday, Aug. 13, Canada's Minister of National Defence, the Honourable Peter MacKay visited CFB Borden. While...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

JLI Retreat Explores Themes of Jewish Empowerment

With almost 600 attendees, this year’s assembly brought together more participants than all three previous retreats combined. It was a stunning success....

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Exploring Garments of the Soul in Urubamba

Last week, Chabad representative to Cusco, Peru, Rabbi Ofer Kripor, led a group of 12 travelers, far removed from ordinary distractions of cell phones and emails in the study of the Ten Sefirot in Urubamba, Peru.

News | Monday, August 17, 2009

The 2009 JLI National Jewish Retreat

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Road Sages: Finding Jews in All the Right Places

While en route from Chicago to Minneapolis last weekend, three guys in a Dodge Sprinter heard about a small town halfway to their destination...

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Chabad Center To Open in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Chabad-Lubavitch, has appointed Chabad representatives to Cambodia, a first for this South East Asian country.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, August 10, 2009

Road Sage: Rabbis Cruise For A Cause

The decorated Dodge Sprinter promises to be a traffic stopper this summer as it makes its way from New York to...

Saturday, August 8, 2009

80 Years After Massacre, Baby Named For Hebron Matriarch

On that fateful day, thousands of bloodthirsty Arabs carrying knives, hatchets and pitchforks rampaged through the streets of Hebron hunting Jews for slaughter. With cries of "Slaughter the Jews” and “Allahu Akbar,” the mob broke homes, tortured, raped and murdered men, women and children.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Manali Diary 3: Chabad Rabbis Continue To Search For Missing Israeli

When an Israeli traveler, Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, was discovered missing in India, Chabad rabbinical students Levi Pekar and Yehuda Kirsh  took an active role in organizing search parties. This is part three of Levi's Manali diary, exclusive to lubavitch.com .  

Levi Pekar | News | Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Children Learn Through Art and Community Service At A Toronto Chabad School

A new Chabad center in an unlikely Toronto neighborhood is getting noticed for its unique Hebrew arts school. Chabad of York Mills quietly opened before the 2007 Jewish high holidays in the northern suburb home to more than 7,300 Jews of various denominations.

D. Lipson | News | Monday, August 3, 2009

In Cusco, Peru, Backpackers Observe Jewish Fast Day

It was a record breaking pre-fast meal Wednesday evening, as 75 backpackers took their final meal before the Tisha b'Av fast at the Chabad center in Cusco, Peru.

News | Friday, July 31, 2009

Summer School, Yeshiva Style

Nine weeks ago, Josh Weinstein packed up his blue Corolla for the 284-mile drive from Norfolk, Virginia to Morristown, New Jersey. The semester at Virginia Wesleyan College had just ended, and Weinstein, an English professor at the school, was gearing up for some study of his own: Yeshiva-style.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Entrepreneur Says It's Time To "Give Back" To Chabad

What’s a successful entrepreneur doing sponsoring the publication of an esoteric, Chasidic discourse? Or repairing the gravesite of its author in some remote Ukrainian townlet? Mouli Cohen , 51, who made his fortune as an investor in biotechnology and hi-tech enterprises, believes in “giving back.” And he wants to give back to Chabad, he says, because of what Chabad gives to the world. 

S. Fridman | News | Monday, July 27, 2009

Manali Diary: Chabad Rabbinical Students Search For Missing Israeli

An Israeli search team is expected to arrive in India on Monday, to search for a 24-year-old Israeli backpacker missing in the Parvati Valley area. Last Tuesday , 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz and a friend set out on a one-day trek from the village of Khirganga. The two split up at some point, but when Shtainmitz did not return, his friend notified Israeli authorities. In the meantime, Chabad rabbinical students in Manali are leading local search teams.

Levi Pekar | News | Sunday, July 26, 2009

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Sunday, July 26, marks the anniversary of the passing, of Rabbi Isaac Luria on the fifth of the Hebrew month of Av.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, July 26, 2009

Chabad Rabbis with ANDREW M. CUOMO

Rabbi Hanoch Hecht from Chabad Dutchess Rabbi Yitzchok Hecht from Chabad of Ulster county & his son Mendel met Attorney...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Road Sage: Rabbis Cruise For A Cause

Three Chabad rabbinical students will be easily spotted this summer as they make their way from New York to California in an unusually decorated Dodge Sprinter.

News | Thursday, July 16, 2009

Reflections on a Mitzvah

A year ago, when the Chabad community in Vancouver gathered to initiate the writing of a new Torah for the Jewish Center, I thought to myself – why? We had a perfectly serviceable Torah – albeit borrowed – why would we need one of our own? I just didn’t get it. Yet, the excitement for this project was palpable – almost as if the birth of a child was upon us.

Stephanie Hatton / photos: Ilona M LaRue/Studio Lumiere Contemporary Lifestyle Photography | News | Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Boys From Brooklyn

For Rabbi Chaim Shmaya Wilhelm , a son of Portland, returning to his hometown for a summer of study is only natural. This August, Wilhelm and six young rabbis will descend on America’s greenest city with Talmudic tracts and Torah books, ready to study with local businessmen, students, and professionals. The much-anticipated Oregon Yeshiva Experience attracted 60 students last year; this year Wilhelm hopes to push the number to 100. With promises of “study with Moses, Maimonides, and a couple of guys from Brooklyn,” Wilhelm is setting up yeshiva-shop in this northwestern city.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, July 9, 2009

Australia's Governor-General visits Sydney Yeshiva

The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Ms. Quentin Bryce AC , paid a visit last week to The Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters in Sydney.

News | Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Israel's President To Chabad: You Give Life to the Living

“I have no idea when the dead will come back to life, but I am certain,” said Israel’s President Shimon Peres, “that your work that gives life to the living, is no less important.”

Miriam Davids | News | Monday, July 6, 2009

Bar Mitzvah Celebration for Israel's Orphans

107 Israeli boys orphans were honored at a moving bar mitzvah ceremony Monday, at the Western Wall. Colel Chabad's...

Monday, July 6, 2009

Bar Mitzvah Celebration for Israel's Orphans [Photos]

107 Israeli orphans were honored at a moving bar mitzvah ceremony Monday, at the Western Wall. Colel Chabad’s annual Bar Mitzvah Project sponsored the gala bar mitzvah with a full reception at the Jerusalem Convention Center, marking the boys’ right of passage in dignity and celebration.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Israel's President Peres Meets With Azerbaijan Jewish Leaders

(lubavitch.com) On a historic first state visit to Azerbaijan, Israel’s President Shimon Peres’s itinerary included a visit to the local Jewish community.

News | Monday, June 29, 2009

Dominican Republic Welcomes Chabad Rabbi

Rabbi Shimon Pelman , Chabad emissary to the Dominican Republic, was formally welcomed to the country in a meeting Thursday with President Leonel Fernández Reyna at the National Palace in Santo Domingo.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, June 29, 2009

Jewish Learning Instructors: Students For A Day

For one full day, the teachers became students. Clad in their distinctive black hats and suits, they listened attentively, raised their hands to ask questions, and passed the occasional note (via text-messaging, of course).

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, June 29, 2009

Bielski Brothers Survivors Raise Funds for Jewish Camping

In 1942, the Jewish community was entrenched in the ghetto and Sarah Koll had the dire (and accurate) premonition that life was about to get much worse. She instructed her eight-year old daughter, Paula to take care of her younger brother, should bad come to worse.

News | Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Atlanta Yields A New Crop of Rabbis

Since 2005, the Atlanta Smicha Program has ordained 32 rabbis (including this year’s crop of eight students) in a unique combination of rigorous personal study and community instruction. In addition to standard Jewish law and ethics, the students also completed a course of “practical rabbinics,” including public speaking, fundraising, and counseling.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, June 18, 2009

Jewish South Florida Leads in World Unity Awareness Event

“Unity is necessary for receiving the Torah. It is the condition for our survival,” asserted Rabbi Israel Meir Lau , survivor of Buchenwald and former Chief Rabbi of Israel.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Northwest NJ Jewish Community Dedicates New Chabad Educational Center

Some 300 guests, among them community leaders, members and well wishers turned out last Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the new Chabad Educational Center of Northwest NJ.

News | Friday, June 12, 2009

Scholarship Requests Soar As Chabad Camps Try To Meet Demand

Bonfires at overnight camps throughout the country will have spare marshmallows and graham crackers this summer. Day camps are scrounging for campers and parents are searching for scholarships.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, June 8, 2009

Kfar Chabad: It Takes A Village . . .

Five miles south of Tel Aviv and near Ben Gurion airport is Israel’s modern day version of Anatevka, complete with agricultural fields, milk cows, numerous educational institutions, more than 8,000 Chasidic Jews, and the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in the Holy Land.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, June 4, 2009

Tashkent First Graders Celebrate Siddur Party

First grade students at the Ohr Avner-Chabad School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan performed for family members, showed off their Hebrew language skills, and received their own prayer books at a traditional Mesibat HaSiddur ceremony to mark an important milestone in Jewish education – achieving basic Hebrew proficiency.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

IDF Soldiers Stationed in Hebron Find A Home With Chabad

When they’re not monitoring Hebron’s network of anti-terrorist security cameras and gathering intelligence, female soldiers of the (IDF) stationed here love to hang out with Batsheva Cohen . The dynamic  Chabad representative bakes challah with the soldiers, explores questions of Jewish identity, and infuses their tour of duty here with a joyfully Jewish experience.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, June 1, 2009

Russian President Intervenes On Behalf Of Jewish Students

In a meeting Monday between Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and President Dmitry Medvedev , Russia’s Jewish students were granted permission to postpone upcoming state exams conflictingly scheduled for the first day of the Shavuot holiday.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, May 21, 2009

Chabad at Cannes Film Festival

Chabad’s mitzvah-smart mobile was a sight in contrasts at last week’s Cannes Film Festival. During the week-long event, the city’s normal population numbers of 70,000 swells to 200,000. Many were pleased to meet up with Chabad, and welcomed the offer to do a mitzvah and take a few minutes to reflect amid the endless partying.

News | Thursday, May 21, 2009

Sderot on Alert Once Again

After two months of relief from the constant barrage of Hamas launched rockets, Sderot’s silence was shattered and Israel’s south went back on high alert late Tuesday afternoon when a Kassam rocket landed in a residential neighborhood, lighting injuring a resident and sending people into shock.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Business Unusual: A Chabad Rabbi Helps Businesses Grow

R. C. Lundy | News | Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Encountering Chabad at Hanover Israel Day Festival

Sunday’s fourth annual Israel Day Festival in Hanover, Germany drew more than 1000 local Jews and featured Jewish, Israeli, religious and cultural  attractions, including a popular booth from Chabad-Lubavitch of Hanover.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Utah Governor Huntsman Returns From Trade Mission to Israel

News | Monday, May 18, 2009

Lag B'Omer With Chabad In Israel

News | Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Photos: Lag B'Omer Celebration In Sydney Australia

News | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Photos: Lag B'Omer Parade In Moscow Russia

News | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Governor Paterson Meets With Chabad Leaders On Education

(lubavitch.com) At a meeting in the Governor’s office last Thursday, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky , Chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch Educational and Social Services divisions spent the better part of half an hour speaking with New York State Governor David Paterson about Chabad-Lubavitch educational activities in the State.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, May 11, 2009

400,000 Head to Mt. Meron for Lag B'Omer

Every 20 seconds, another bus arrives at Mt. Meron in Israel’s Upper Galillee. Lag B’Omer, which begins  Monday night, is one of the liveliest days in Israel, and Miron, where the second century mystic, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar , who died on this day was buried, becomes a magnet for some 400,000 visitors.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, May 11, 2009

Israeli Delegates to Eurovision With Chabad in Moscow

News | Monday, May 11, 2009

Israel's French Jews: Making the Most of A Second Chance

More than 150 French Jews filled the Chabad Center for French Speakers in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday night to celebrate the Second Passover and its message of “It’s never too late” with Rabbi Yitzchok Chaviv .

Zalman Nelson | News | Sunday, May 10, 2009

Chabad Rabbis In Singapore Host IRCC

At least 100 community representatives from districts and faiths across Singapore participated in a government sponsored seminar on the fundamentals of Judaism and Jewish practice presented by the local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, May 1, 2009

Photos: Sinai Scholars At Princeton University

Sinai Scholars Society, a joint program of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and Chabad-on-Campus seeks to promote greater engagement in Jewish education for college students. Students are admitted by application process to its intensive, semester-long Jewish study program that offers in-depth levels of Jewish education and follow-up study opportunities like this conference. 

News | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Father of Slain Mumbai Victim Says He Joined Israel's Family of Bereaved

Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg , father of Rifka Holtzberg who was murdered alongside her husband Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg during the attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai last year, addressed a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Yeshiva For A Day At Binghamton University

What’s it like to study in a yeshiva setting? Some 30 students at Binghamton University got an approximation of the traditional yeshiva model of Talmud and Jewish philosophy study this past Sunday as they paired up with rabbinical students from the central Chabad yeshiva in New York, and split hairs over Talmudic minutiae.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, April 27, 2009

Scotland's Rabbi Jacobs Speaks in Parliament

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendel Jacobs, Scotland’s only Scottish Rabbi and Minsiter of Synagogue -Shul In The Park, who is also Chabad emissary, visited the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh this week to lead the Time For Reflection for the Parliament.

News | Friday, April 24, 2009

My Space/Your Space: Teens Hash It Out

What is a woman’s responsibility to her unborn child? Is it her right not to birth the infant? Is it her obligation to care for her child?

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, April 23, 2009

Jewish Participants Find A Welcome Antidote to Durban II

(lubavitch.com) Tensions fomented inside the UN conference in Geneva on Monday when delegates walked out as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the platform to condemn Israel and the West. Outside, Jewish students and diplomats found a blessed antidote to the Iranian president’s hatefulness, as they were greeted at The Jewish Welcome Center.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, April 20, 2009

Photos: Passover in Mumbai

The seders in Mumbai were part of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Passover campaign funded by the support of philanthropists, including Mr. George Rohr and Mr. Guma Aguiar . A special grant for the Indian seders was made by Australian philanthropist, Rabbi Joseph Gutnick .

News | Monday, April 20, 2009

Blessing the Sun On the Congo River

News | Sunday, April 12, 2009

Jerusalem Mayor Barkat: Chabad Public School Exemplary

(lubavitch.com) As part of an inspection of local schools and educational initiatives his administration hopes to implement as they tackle the city’s scholastic challenges, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and several members of his staff made a three hour visit to Chabad’s Ir Ganim - Jerusalem school last week.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, March 30, 2009

Canadian PM Harper Dedicates Chabad Centre Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper sported a blue kippah tonight as he helped cut the ribbon at a new Lubavitch synagogue in Toronto, which has been more than 20 years in the making.

lubavitch.com Staff Writer | News | Thursday, March 26, 2009

Indian UN Ambassador Visits Chabad Officials, Holtzberg Family

India’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Nirupam Sen , visited the Holtzberg family in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon to offer his condolences. The Ambassador said it was important for his country that a representative of the Indian government extend personal condolences to the family of Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg , murdered last November in the Mumbai terror attacks.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Survivor of the Gulag, Reb Mottel the Schochet, 97

Known affectionately as "Reb Mottel the Shochet”, he was the sole ritual slaughterer, or shochet, in Moscow during the last two decades of Communist rule.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Celebrates Goldie's Torah

How do parents of a severely challenged 12 year old girl celebrate their daughter’s bat mitzvah? The question was poignantly relevant for Rabbi Moshe Meir and Pnina Lipszyc, Chabad representatives to Ft. Lauderdale, who have cultivated a lively Jewish community over nearly two decades while raising their special needs children under extraordinary circumstances. 

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Jewish and Loving It: Counting Down to Total Immersion Summer Camp

Snow still covers the campground on Perch Lake Road, but for Rabbi Yitzchok Steinmetz , summer is already underway. The director of Camp L’man Achai has been gearing up for the camp season since October and now finds himself in a flurry of applications. The camp, which recently earned ACA accreditation, offers a unique niche in a world where there are camps to fill every interest.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, March 19, 2009

Dnepropetrovsk City Establishes Memorial For Former Chief Rabbi

Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Schneerson (1878-1944), the former chief rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, on Sunday became Ukraine’s first spiritual leader to have his life commemorated with a public memorial during a ceremony at his former home in downtown Dnepropetrovsk. Schneerson was the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of blessed memory.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Purim Spring Break

Sun. Surf. Scuba. Nightlife. Ancient Mayan civilization. Ancient Persian history. Ancient Persian History? Well yes, if you are spending Purim with Chabad in Cancun.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, March 9, 2009

Purim In Israel: No Holds Barred

The Jewish festival of Purim begins sundown on Monday, but the celebrations and preparations in Israel have been underway since the start of the month. Candy displays and colorful costumes of characters, modern and ancient have filled the shop windows for weeks. Days before the holiday, young and old costumed characters—pirates, superheroes, princesses and cowboys—take  to the streets with parades, parties and carnivals.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, March 9, 2009

Justice Scalia, Talmudic Scholars On Privacy, Free Speech

Gossip columns may plaster the internet and paper newsstands. But is this commerce of secrets permissible according to Jewish or American tradition?

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, January 29, 2009

Rabbi David Hollander: Oldest Full-Time Pulpit Rabbi

The Jewish community united in mourning Tuesday, upon the passing of Rabbi David B. Hollander. Rabbi Hollander, who at his death was the leader of the Hebrew Alliance in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, also served as rabbi at the Mount Eden Synagogue in the Bronx and was the former president of the Rabbinical Council of America. The 96-year old was the oldest full-time pulpit rabbi in the world.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Photo Gallery: IDF Soldiers Write A Torah

(lubavitch.com) Hundreds of the IDF's Givati soldiers on duty outside Gaza participated in a grand Torah dedication ceremony on Tuesday. The event, made possible by Aguda L'maan Hachayal, sought to recognize the soldiers and their dedication

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, January 21, 2009

New Uniform Makes the Grade At Fashion Conscious Lyons School

(lubavitch.com) Under sultry beats of café jazz and club electronica, a string of young women strutted down the catwalk, as lithe and stone-faced as contestants on "America's Next Top Model." They wore playful confections made of gauzy fabric and delicate trim. The bohemian chic skirts and couture-style gowns they modeled looked well suited to the fashion week tents of New York or Milan.

Jennifer Bleyer | News | Thursday, January 15, 2009

Into the Depths: Jewish Women Find Self Through Study and Snorkel

People use the expression ‘out of this world,’ and I never understood it before,” says Lauren Kraft, a senior at Arizona State University. “But this was definitely an out of this world experience: it was like an eight-day Shabbat.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, January 12, 2009

Chabad Gives IDF Soldiers An Inspired Sendoff

As IDF soldier's prepare to enter Gaza, Chabad representatives give them an inspiring sendoff with gifts of food, extra clothing, and specially printed prayer books designed to fit in their uniform pockets.

News | Monday, January 5, 2009

Under Rockets and Sirens, A New Baby Is Welcomed in Ashkelon

How does one plan a brit milah under the rain of mortar shells? Who will manage to get a minyan together, a mohel , let alone a festive meal, under the cacophony of red alert sirens and rockets that explode at random?

Miriam Davids | News | Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Menorah Lights Glow With Hope and Promise at Terror Site in Mumbai

Five flames danced in defiance Thursday evening against the Indian sky, as the Chanukah menorah was lit at the Gateway of India, Mumbai’s most famous monument.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, December 25, 2008

Father of Slain Terror Victim Kindles Menorah on Liberty Island

(lubavitch.com)-- Freezing temperatures and icy winds whipped Liberty Island off the New York harbor Tuesday night. Hardly a night for a boat ride with the kids, and several hundred adults and children, plus distinguished city and state officials came out into the cold to celebrate a unique Chanukah lighting.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, December 23, 2008

THOUSANDS REMEMBER CHABAD'S GAVRIEL AND RIVKAH HOLTZBERG: Vow to Continue Holy Work

A huge crowd of about ten-thousand people gathered in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Tuesday afternoon to remember the lives of Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg

Sarah Bronson | News | Tuesday, December 2, 2008

When Shluchim Come Marching In: Gala Banquet Concludes Chabad-Lubavitch Conference

(lubavitch.com) As temperatures in New York City dipped to unseasonably low digits Sunday night, the atmosphere inside Pier 94 heated up. Well over 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim, lay leaders, and supporters filed into the 175,000 square ft. hall for the highlight of the International Conference of Shluchim: banquet night. Attendees have been participating in workshops, round-table discussions, and informal meetings all weekend, but it is the banquet that brings it all together for a dramatic finale.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, November 24, 2008

Economic Woes and All, Hundreds of College Students Flocked and Rocked At National Shabbaton

(lubavitch.com) Going into the Chabad-on-Campus International Shabbaton in Brooklyn, I didn’t think that Chabad could attract enough students to match the success at last year’s Shabbaton. After all, our country is suffering from economic troubles.

News | Friday, November 14, 2008

Lost in The Andes, Found by Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Roey Sadan , a 26-year-old old Israeli, was looking for adventure after he had finished his mandatory three years in the Israeli Army. Looking to explore the world and to expand his horizons, he took a job to pay for his travel expenses.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Photos: "And You Shall Bless the Children of Israel

News | Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Maharal Institute Opens in Prague

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch of Prague launched the Maharal Institute last week, dedicated to the legacy of Rabbi Yehuda Loew , the Maharal of Prague.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, September 25, 2008

Chabad of West Coast's "To Life" Telethon Generates $8 Million-Plus

(lubavitch.com)  With heartfelt appeals and joyful performances from a diverse group of celebrity guests, the 2008 Chabad "To Life" Telethon generated more than $8 million for the charity. 

Bradford Wiss | News | Monday, September 15, 2008

Photos: Chabad Universo

News | Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Photos: Jews Rock At Sighet Festival

News | Monday, August 25, 2008

Photos: Shabbat With Chabad in S. Bernardo

News | Friday, August 22, 2008

Oregon's Chabad Families At Home With The Governor

News | Thursday, August 21, 2008

Beijing Remembers Murdered Jews At Munich Olympics

News | Thursday, August 21, 2008

Lakers' Farmar: A Slam Dunk For Tefillin on Campus

News | Friday, August 15, 2008

Photos: Israel's President Peres With Chabad in Beijing

News | Monday, August 11, 2008

Trenton Thunder Defeats Fisher Cats, But Jewish Community Takes Home the Prize

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, July 24, 2008

Senator Obama Meets With Chabad Rep in Sderot

News | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Dancing in the Rain At the Staten Island Russian Fest

News | Monday, June 16, 2008

In Ukraine: Jewish Community Opens New Mikvah

News | Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Lag B'Omer

News | Thursday, May 22, 2008

Actor Jon Voight In Solidarity With Sderot

(lubavitch.com) It’s not every day that an American film actor hangs out with somebody else’s children, let alone children living in a danger zone. That’s what Jon Voight did Tuesday.

News | Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Photos: Minnesota Governor Pawlenty Meets With Chabad at Israel Fair

News | Sunday, May 11, 2008

At the IDF, Soldiers Remember the Fallen Heroes With Tefillin

News | Friday, May 9, 2008

A Proud Day For Warsaw's Jews 65 Years Later

Israel’s President Shimon Peres was joined Thursday morning by Warsaw’s Chabad Jewish community leaders at Poland’s Belvedere Presidential Palace as he inscribed the final letters in a new Torah scroll.

News | Thursday, April 17, 2008

Passover With Chabad Round the World

News | Friday, April 11, 2008

Ukraine: Children, Adults Get Passover Crash Course with Touring Chabad Rabbis

Rabbi Shmuly Brown of Tzivos Hashem in Dnepropetrovsk, trains Chabad rabbinical students before they embark on a 3,700 kilometer tour in Ukraine, with the model matzah bakery.

News | Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Images: Looking Out For Israel's Neediest

As Passover nears, Israel's largest food bank, Colel Chabad, prepares holiday provisions for 25,000 families in the country.  For the full story, click here.

News | Thursday, March 27, 2008

Images: Purim With Chabad Round the World

As Chabad Houses from San Francisco to Sydney continue to send us their photos, it's clear that Purim falling on Friday this year, didn't slow the partying with Chabad one bit.

News | Thursday, March 27, 2008

Photos: Operation Message in A Matzah For US Army Troops Abroad

News | Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Chabad Draws Thousands To "The Biggest Jewish Party in LA--Ever"

Two thousand students from four southern California colleges partied to a live band and snapped up Purim mitzvahs until 3 AM at a Chabad sponsored mega event that earned its billing as the “biggest Jewish party in LA – Ever.”

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, March 24, 2008

Jewish Day School Teachers Impact Students' Life Choices

Dr. Joel Wein is looking for the Lubavitch teacher who changed his life. As a youngster eager to earn a Cub Scout religion badge, he asked his Hebrew School teacher, a young Chabad-Lubavitch woman in her early twenties, for a synagogue where he could attend services.

News | Monday, March 17, 2008

Photos: Shabbat With European Jewish Leaders

News | Saturday, March 15, 2008

Chabad Places Mezuzahs on Doors Of House Majority and Minority Leaders

Mendy Hecht | News | Thursday, March 13, 2008

On Campus: 600 Students Observe Shabbos, Some Say For Keeps

 “What a credit to Chabad that 500 Jewish students from around California devoted a weekend to learning about Judaism and Jewish commitment."

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, February 21, 2008

Brandeis Student Dinner, A First, A Success

Neither icy roads nor blinding sleet deterred 90 students from stepping out in formal wear to fete Chabad at Brandeis University during the first annual Gala Student Dinner on February 10.

News | Thursday, February 14, 2008

"Chabad Changed the City," Says Cannes Mayor Brochand

Hundreds of guests, among them political, civil and religious figures, participated in the inauguration earlier this week of the new Chabad day school building in Cannes, France.

News | Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Chabad Representative Addresses Council of Europe

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad’s Rabbi Mendel Samama joined 47 European ambassadors at the Council of Europe to mark  Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27.

News | Friday, February 1, 2008

Chabad Representative to Cracow At Auschwitz-Birkenau

News | Monday, January 28, 2008

EU Commissioner of Education Meets With Chabad Representative to Slovakia

News | Thursday, January 24, 2008

Mayor of Buenos Aires Visits the Children at Chabad's Perla Rohr Home

News | Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Road To Haditch (Gaditch)

January 2nd 2008 corresponds to the Jewish calendar date of of 24 Tevet, 5768 which marks the 195th anniversary of the passing of Reb Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Known as "The Alter Rebbe," Reb Schneur Zalman authored the Tanya, the foundational text of Chabad Chasidism.

News | Wednesday, January 2, 2008

In Argentina: Chabad Child-Care Program Earns UNICEF, UNESCO Acclaim

The only thing about it all that astonishes Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt , head Chabad representative to Argentina, is how IELADEINU, a Chabad sponsored agency, has evolved, from an impromptu appeal to a judge, on behalf of two Jewish children back in 1999.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, December 31, 2007

Princess Anne Visits Chabad Menorah in Leeds

Rabbi Reuven Cohen and Rabbi Yirmya Angyalfi , Chabad-Lubavitch representatives to Leeds, England, welcomed Princess Anne , the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth, to the public Menorah in Leeds last week. This Chanukah, the city celebrated  25 years of the first giant Menorah in Europe.

News | Sunday, December 16, 2007

A Time to Build

"May it be an everlasting edifice." It's one of the sweetest and most meaningful blessings we give to young couples creating a home together. The images on the following pages tell a story of people all over the world working together to create beautiful Jewish communities. These new buildings continue a growth pattern of Chabad Houses and Centers worldwide, each of them a home of Jewish life, warmth, and joy.

News | Thursday, November 15, 2007

Sukkot Images

News | Monday, October 1, 2007

Chabad Telethon Viewed By Millions, Garners Millions

Millions watched the popular, annual Chabad Telethon by Chabad of California. Actor Jon Voigt and numerous personalities graced the stage in support of the work of Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, head representative to the State of California.

News | Monday, September 10, 2007

Camp Gan Israel, the Chabad Camping Network

News | Thursday, July 26, 2007

Lag B'omer 2007

Always a children's spectacular, it's especially grand when Lag B'Omer falls on a Sunday, as it did this year.

News | Sunday, May 6, 2007

Tefillin At Auschwitz

News | Wednesday, April 18, 2007

From the Archives: In Transition

A delegation of Lubavitch from the US shown here with survivors and officers sometime in 1947, at the Poking DP camp in Germany. 

News | Sunday, April 15, 2007

Preparing for Passover: Hands-On For the Little Ones

It's matzah-baking season and Jewish children around the world are lining up for their chance to mix and knead, roll and bake.

News | Thursday, March 15, 2007

Out of the Mouths of Babes . . .

In the world of Chabad-Lubavitch, children take center stage. Last week, our photographer, Yisrael Bardugo, visited the Geulat Yisrael Chabad school in Sarcelle France, and caught the faces of our future.

News | Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Jewish Education in Russia Gaining Momentum:

Two new Jewish online schools opened this week for dozens of children Russia-wide. Dozens of Jewish children...

Historic Pictures of Kfar-Chabad

Five miles south of Tel Aviv and near Ben Gurion airport is Israel's modern day version of Anatevka, complete with...

Encountering Chabad at Hanover Israel Day Festival

Sunday's fourth annual Israel Day Festival in Hanover, Germany drew more than 1000 local Jews and featured Jewish,...

Passover With Chabad in Mumbai

The seders in Mumbai were part of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Passover campaign funded by the support of...

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Celebrates Goldie's Torah

Goldie Lipszyc kissing a Torah written and dedicated in honor of her Bat Mitzvah, Sunday at Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale.

Dnepropetrovsk City Establishes Memorial For Former Chief Rabbi

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944), the former chief rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, became Ukraine's first spiritual...

Purim Gifts Come Early In Dnepropetrovsk

Earlier this week, thousands lined up at the Central Golden Rose Synagogue to receive Purim food packages distributed by...

Timeless Perspectives on Timely Problems Rohr JLI Course Examines Civil Law Through Jewish Principles

International Conference of Shluchos

The banquet session closed the five day conference, a whirlwind of events that explored all aspects of the Jewish...

At Argentine Consulate, Hundreds Bid For Art and Orphans

Preparing for Battle Near Gaza

Chabad representative, Rabbi Yossi Swerdlov, helps a soldier with tefillin

Chabad day school receives award from mayor of Milan

Snatched From the Inferno

Moshe Holtzberg, 2, is spirited out of the besieged Mumbai Chabad by his heroic nanny, Sandra Samuel, who is now in...

The Governor and the Children

Governor Ted Kulongoski and the children of Oregon's Chabad representatives.

Zalcman Torah Learning Center opens in Overland Park, Kansas

Victor Bergman Esq., TLC president; Rabbi Benzion Friedman; Dr. Steven Zalcman, director clinical Neuroscience Research,...

A Promise for Jewish Grandchildren at March of the Living

Among those leading the March were Israel’s former Chief Rabbi Meir Lau, himself a Holocaust survivor, Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, and a delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives led by Krakow’s Chabad Rabbi Eliezer Gurary.

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Chabad's Model Matzah Bakery

As part of thousands of Model Matzah Bakeries around the world, Rabbi Levi Krinsky puts rolled matzah dough into an oven...

Ready for Purim at the local Judaica shop in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Chabad Reps Bring Chanukah Cheer to Shut-Ins in PA and WV

Rabbis Zalman Deren and Shimmy Susskind visited the Federal, state and local jails in Pennsylvania and West Virginia...

A bar mitzvah celebration last Thursday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem had family and friends of the Levys moved to tears.

Kobi Levy read beautifully from the Torah; the absence of his sister Rachel was on everyone's mind. Rachel Levy lost her...

Princess Anne visits Chabad public menorah in Leeds

Governor Corzine at Menorah Lighting

Some 400 community members gathered in City Hall Sunday night, to join Governor Jon Corzine in lighting the menorah in...

Chanukah with Chabad

Once upon a time, Jewish children got short shrift when December came around. Most of them were taught to be shy about their Jewish identity and they kept a low Jewish profile.  The old metal menorah in the attic never saw the light. They didn't much celebrate Chanukah, or even know what it was all about. But things have changed since. The first time Chabad decided to put up a giant menorah in a public square, the adults were shocked. Some even protested . . . But the kids, they were delighted. And passersby loved the light That is of course, what Chanukah is all about: light and warmth and Jewish pride. Today, there are thousands of giant menorahs in public squares round the world. There are Dreidel Houses and Macy's Chanukah Parades and eight days packed with Chanukah pomp and circumstance that make the adults proud and keep the kids engaged and animated educated about their Jewish history.

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A Bar Mitzvah Celebration for Three Generations

Baruch Brandon Shapiro, whose family emigrated 15 years ago from Odessa, Ukraine celebrated his Aliyah to the Torah in...

Philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder greets students at the Lauder Chabad Campus in Vienna, after affixing the mezuzah on the...

Rabbi Levi Cunin loads Torah scrolls into his car as wildfire threatens Chabad of Malibu (Adam Wills)

Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum of Chabad of Upper Montgomery County, putting on Tefillin on Michael Pinsky of Rockville. It was...

Children Learn about Shofar Production

One of the top seasonal attractions at the Jewish Children's Museum in New York, is a step-by-step shofar construction...

A Bar Mitzvah for Alex

Alex Tkach, still raw from his father's passing three weeks ago, donned tefillin like his dad did shortly before his...

Tefillin at the Western Wall

Some 1,000 immigrant boys and girls from the Former Soviet Union celebrated their Bar/Bat Mitzvah at the Western Wall in...

Torah completion ceremony at Chabad at Florida International University

Rabbi Levi Friedman and Mr. Moshe Tabacinic carry the new Torah to the newly dedicated Tabacinic Chabad House

Shabbat 1000 at CMU

Chair of the UJF, Professor Barbara Burstin, and President/CEO of UJF, Jeffrey Finkelstein flanked by CMU ZBT brothers,...

South American student at RCA, Morristown, learns the ropes

At the Rabbinical College of America's special South American program, student learns how to strap tefillin.

Ambassador Visits Chabad of Vietnam

Israel's ambassador to Vietnam, Effi Ben Matityahu, paid a visit to the home of the new Chabad Representatives in...