April 2016

Friendship Circle partners with manufacturers and donors to give away a record number of bicycles

Newly elected official meets with rabbi who arrived there last year

Those in need receive food for the holiday from Maot Chitim fund

Rabbis at statehouse for model seder and a ceremony noting the Rebbe’s influence

Celebrating the freedom, customs and traditions of the Jewish people

Alcohol-free seders for those in recovery and parolees

Helped by rabbinic chaplains and looking forward to a more spiritual life

Chabad offers room at the seder table for those affected by floodwaters

Chabad Terror Victims Project visits hospitals, provides food and encourages prayer

Despite struggles and shortages, Passover supplies seem to arrive just in time

For the few Jews on this Nordic island, seders led by visiting rabbis become even more meaningful

Proclamation honors the Rebbe’s efforts in education for all

A shmurah matzah route stretches from New England all the way to the White House

First bus bombing in wave of attacks that began last October

Jewish community pitches in to help those in the hardest-hit areas

Maot Chitim funds provide for those unable to pay for holiday necessities

Rabbis urge an increase in public seders, the sale of ‘chametz’ and all holiday activities

Making a Jewish practice more widespread through technology

‘One Heart’ program participants reminisce and reconnect in Israel

Election of Volodymyr Groysman, grandson of a Holocaust survivor, is another sign of change