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The murdered boys’ great-uncle affixes mezuzah
Maurice Shnaider carefully affixed a mezuzah to the doorpost of the newly renovated playroom at Chabad-Lubavitch of Ulster County in Kingston, N.Y.. The room, filled with toys and games for the Jewish community’s youngest members, is named for his great-n...
$2.5 million facility in Quebec more than 20 years in the making
Two days before her daughter’s wedding this past June, Sharyn Hoppenheim accompanied her to the mikvah for her first immersion. Years earlier, Hoppenheim had immersed herself for the first time, at age 50. Her daughter had been there to support her then. ...
Young professionals find friends and community at Intown Chabad
In a world in which Jewish non-profit professionals and consultants try to come up with all sorts of ways to attract young Jews, The Intown Chabad in Dallas, Tex., has been successfully doing just that. The secret? Offering young Jews the opportunity to e...
Beth El-Chabad of the Meadowlands will celebrate Simchat Torah with scrolls of its own, even as it waits to rebuild
Under a chuppah, the traditional wedding canopy, members of a New Jersey congregation carried two new Torah scrolls through the streets of Rutherford on Sept. 6. The procession passed the site where their synagogue stood for a century until a fire tore th...
This Simchat Torah, two Torah scrolls that escaped persecution are being celebrated once again
The dancing at Chabad-Lubavitch at the Shore in Ventnor, N.J., was already underway on Simchat Torah 2023 when the horrific news from Israel, of the Oct. 7 Massacre, began to spread through the room. It came in fragments, each update worse than the last. ...
Co-pilot stabbed captain and sent plane into a dive; all 174 aboard landed safely
There was widespread celebration around the world, as Jewish people thanked G-d for His kindness earlier today in what is being described as a “miracle in the skies.” A Flydubai passenger jet carrying 174 people, among them 166 Israelis, from Dubai to Tel...
‘It is not about how many times the sukkah falls down, but how many times we get to rebuild it’
On the first night of Sukkot, September 25, the wind and rain had eased just enough for Rabbi Mendy Teldon to welcome 150 people into the sukkah at his home on Long Island, N.Y., where they heard Kiddush, made a blessing, and had a bite to eat, before ret...
A non-Jewish neighbor’s pledge helped inspire a mezuzah campaign across the region
On the evening of Sunday, Sept. 20, as Yom Kippur began, a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun fired on a police officer stationed outside the synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. More than 30 shots were exchanged, leaving the officer, Const. Jeff S...
‘Oseh Shalom’ has reached highest echelons of government, including Prime Minister Netanyahu
Just hours before departing for New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was offered a summary of a new book by a visiting delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis to help him prepare. “A summary? I’m going to r...
From a giant art-filled one in Tel Aviv to a brightly lit one beneath Masada, Chabad emissaries prepare for Sukkot with their communities in mind
The spiritual high of Yom Kippur has barely begun to settle when the hammering starts. Across the Land of Israel, families are breaking their fasts, cars are just beginning to return to streets that stood empty for 25 hours—and already, the first sukkahs ...
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