Colel Chabad

Colel Chabad, founded in 1788 by the first Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, R' Schneur Zalman of Liadi, is the oldest continuously operating charity in Israel. This video was produced in honor of the 200th anniversary of the passing of R' Shneur Zalman.

A leading role model for pro-Israel activism actually lived long before the founding of modern State of Israel

The famed Luach Colel Chabad is marking its 100th anniversary. The Luach, the Hebrew word for calendar, is more than just that, the Jewish calendar being an essential guide to day-to-day life as a Jew. For a century the Luach Colel Chabad has weaved toget...

In an arrangement finalized this week, the Israeli government will partner with Colel Chabad and its Blavatnik Food Bank on a new $44 million program to help Israel’s most vulnerable families access healthier food and sustain themselves financially. Worki...

Life will become a whole lot simpler for 10,800 needy families in Israel. Colel Chabad will be partnering with Leket Israel, the National Food Bank, to provide Israeli citizens with prepaid charge cards to purchase up to NIS 500 (about $133) in groceries ...

In time, it came to refer to any group of scholars who were supported by the community.

In 1988, as a restaurant owner living in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, Naftali Feldman was on the dinner committee of Colel Chabad, the oldest operating charity in Israel. When the invitation for the dinner was sent to the Rebbe, it was his name – and...

Challah rolls, chicken, soup, fish, potatoes, rice … these are the basics found on most Shabbat dinner tables. For a good number of people in southern Israel, however, getting these staples with rockets raining down from Hamas in Gaza for the second week ...

Colel Chabad’s three United Soup Kitchens in Jerusalem reported normal operations on Tuesday as snow descended on the Israeli capital for the second time in a month. The organization handed out extra food on Sunday to recipients of its Meals on Wheels.

At the University of Arizona and Dartmouth College, students who went on birthright israel trips with their campus-based Chabad Houses decided to do something to help Israeli victims of terror.