Torah, The

Chabad-Lubavitch of Curitiba, Brazil, celebrated 25 years of operation by dedicating a new building and a Torah scroll, and then quickly pledged to expand. Two newly arrived emissary-couples will help the institution do just that.

The Torah scroll comes alive at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Jewish Children’s Museum as visitors to the Chabad-Lubavitch institution watch the sacred item being written by a certified scribe and witness demonstrations of how all of the scribe’s implements are ...

The Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center serving Brandeis University held its first-ever gala dinner this month. The student-run affair drew some 100 guests, who each paid $180 to attend. The proceeds, including a reported $20,000 pledge, will benefit ...

In Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, 300 people poured over Jewish texts in a relaxed atmosphere as part of the Chabad-Lubavitch Rohr JLI National Jewish Retreat.

For more than a month, Rabbi Guy and Maya Efraim – two of the newest Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries stationed in communities across the world – have been encouraging Jewish pride in the counterculture haven of Goa, India. With an outreach largely geared to ...

The Jewish community of Saratov, Russia, celebrated the 100th anniversary of its synagogue by dedicating a new Torah scroll.

In a relatively new trend, Chabad-Lubavitch centers worldwide are taking the opportunity of a Torah-writing celebration to involve children as well as their parents. The idea is to make the Torah a part of children’s lives by letting them take an active ...

A Torah dedication ceremony in Perm, Russia, demonstrated last week that no longer must Jews keep their identity private. In the country’s 13th-most populous city, the local Jewish community paraded through downtown streets and celebrated the arrival of ...

The Jewish community of Frankfurt Oder, a city in Brandenburg, Germany, celebrated its first Torah dedication since the Holocaust. The procession of the new Torah scroll began from the very spot where the city’s Frankfurter Synagogue stood prior to World ...

Israeli troops stationed at an army base near Beit El celebrated the dedication of a Torah scroll written specifically for the nation’s soldiers.