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Karen Schwartz is a freelance writer whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Detroit Jewish News and Red Thread magazine. A Columbia University Journalism School graduate, she hails from Detroit and currently resides in Brooklyn.
Aleph Institute sends student volunteers to more than 100 prisons around the country
Chanukah isn’t over yet, and rabbinical students Mendel Leverton and Zalman Kaplan have already covered nearly 1,000 miles of Ohio this week. The purpose of their roadtrip? Visiting Jewish inmates across the state, bringing the light and joy of Chanukah i...
“The Menorah in the D” draws thousands of college students, residents and guests
It’s finals week at Michigan State University—when every available moment is usually spent studying—but senior Alex Mision and a group of Chabad on Campus students stopped what they were doing and got on a bus from East Lansing to Detroit on the first nig...
Public celebrations hearken back to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem
Aliza Shabani, of Whitefish Bay, Wis., grew up celebrating Sukkot with her family in Los Angeles. When she moved to the Badger State in 2017, she was looking for a way to connect with the holiday. She called a local Chabad House and found out about the an...
Holidays an opportunity to combat conflict and hate with positive action
In June, a small but loud group of neo-Nazis brandishing swastikas and other hate symbols picketed Chabad of Cobb County in Marietta, Ga. The antisemitic incident was universally condemned, but the Chabad community’s reaction went deeper, with an emphasis...
Rabbi Avraham Zajac begins online study of Jerusalem Talmud
Over the past year, thousands of online students have been studying Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah daily through the engrossing classes on Chabad.org given by master teacher Rabbi Avraham Zajac, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of South La Cienega, Calif. Last wee...
Shelter, food and supplies in Kelowna
As thousands of people continue to be evacuated following the damage and destruction wrought by wind-swept fires swirling in and around Kelowna, British Columbia, the local Chabad center and Jewish community are providing supplies and lodging for anyone i...
Thousands have learned and grown at Mayanot Institute
For more than 25 years, young Jewish men and women from around the globe have traveled thousands of miles to the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem for their first experience of intense, high-level Torah study. Some have stayed for a month o...
Desperate search for refuge from blazes that killed 114, destroyed homes and businesses
When Ido Sarfati moved to the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui a decade ago, he thought he had the perfect place to build a business. And he did; it grew to include seven retail shops that sold skincare products and other offerings to touris...
Centers offer services to residents and tourists alike
With the deadliest wildfires in the United States in a century claiming at least 93 lives and leaving thousands homeless on the island of Maui, emergency workers continued their search for survivors in the charred ruins of burned-out buildings. Chabad-Lub...
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson remembered on the anniversary of his passing
More than 1,000 local residents and visitors from around the world gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, on Monday, Aug. 7, to mark the 79th anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, and to honor his legacy. Today, his resting...
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