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Historic Choral Synagogue sukkah packed with guests in war zone
Perhaps nowhere in Ukraine has Sukkot been more widely celebrated this year than in Kharkov, the country’s second-largest city. There, in the eastern part of the country, close to the border with Russia, Yisroel Moskovitz became a bar mitzvah during Chol ...
Daily celebrations to bring spiritual and material relief
Anatoly Rivkin has lived in Zaporozhye, a city on the Dnieper River in southeast Ukraine, for most of his 60-plus years, and has been living near the heavily contested front lines of the war for more than a year and a half amid daily missile attacks, alar...
Campaign part of initiative that began 50 years ago during the Yom Kippur War
Friendship Circle of New Jersey is distributing 3,000 charity boxes to homes in the region, honoring the instruction of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—that people everywhere, especially children, should give tzedakah on a dail...
A young Chabad rabbi makes a big difference to four generations
On Rosh Hashanah morning, 97-year-old Edward Hoffman stood beside the ark at Chabad of Sea Cliff and Glen Cove, N.Y., faced the congregation and recited Birkat Kohanim, the priestly blessing, as three younger generations of his family looked on during the...
Shofar, services and festive meals as Ukraine’s Jews pray for a peaceful new year
Amid the nightly buzz of armed drones over the capital city of Kiev and continued missile attacks on cities and towns around the country, Jews in Ukraine gathered together on Saturday night to recite Selichot, the penitential prayer that precedes Rosh Has...
50,000 Jews to receive emergency holiday food relief from JRNU
A new food-relief program by Chabad-Lubavitch to manufacture, produce and bake kosher foods within Ukraine will ensure that Jews will have a sufficient supply of items when they sit down to their Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot holiday meals. Funded by the Jewis...
Volunteers help the elderly and homebound in the California city
It was a few weeks before last Rosh Hashanah, and Roi Bardenstein, a native of Jerusalem, wanted to help others in his adopted hometown, San Jose, Calif. He reached out to a local Chabad rabbi and asked for a list of people in need. No such list existed, ...
Chabad’s Tamim Academy starts a new school year in cities around North America
As a career educator, Shoshi Shachar of Chandler, Ariz., is always on the lookout for ideas on what makes an elementary school successful. She even keeps a growing spreadsheet of the essential elements of any excellent educational institution. When it cam...
Survey shows that 25 percent of all who attend Jewish programs engage with Chabad
When Ari and Erin Witkin decided to send their son, Maddox, to preschool, they looked at a number of local schools in Northeast Portland, Ore. Many seemed good, but none “fit the bill” of what the couple was looking for. Then they heard about The Gan: Por...
Florida city fights antisemitism with light and positive action
A campaign to build a new Chabad House in Pensacola, Fla., is on a fast track after an act of antisemitic vandalism brought the community—Jew and non-Jew, observant and not—together to spread kindness. It was around 8:30 p.m. on July 17, and two young ...
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