Purim

Newly published transcripts of some Purim-themed talks given by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, have added to the wealth of material publicly available for study by tens of thousands worldwide.

Ukraine’s Jewish communities turned out in record numbers for joyous Purim celebrations this year as they looked to their faith for joy and comfort amid the day-to-day stresses of the deadly, grinding war that has entered its second year. In the months le...

Melanie Siddig, 28, is getting ready to help her community this Purim. On Tuesday afternoon, she’ll head off to Chabad University Student Center - El Lazo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to volunteer at a festive holiday meal for some 200 Jews in need. It’s h...

Air-raid sirens in Ukraine are not very loud for the same reason there are so few bomb shelters—no one ever expected to need them. In most parts of the country, the most reliable way to stay abreast of deadly bombing raids is via Google alerts, which is w...

Late on Tuesday, Miriam Moskovitz, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Kharkov, Ukraine with her husband Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz, received a text from a woman in her community and a photo of fresh-baked hamantaschen. Given that it was a day before Purim, that wa...

Wearing a wide-brimmed sombrero and colorful poncho, Kherson’s Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff, stood in the city’s beautiful renovated synagogue clutching a Megillah. All around the Russian-occupied city, there were bombed-out buildings, food shortages and re...

Last year at this time, the world was still struggling with a pandemic. This year, hearts and minds are turned towards the people of Ukraine. Nevertheless, Jewish people around the world are celebrating the holiday of Purim—as they have ever since they fa...

Australia’s Jewish communities have a lot to celebrate this Purim. The Land Down Under is emerging as a pandemic-free nation, and unlike most places in the world, the joyous holiday will be celebrated almost normally this year. In Australia’s tropical nor...

Zahava (Gwenn) Flait and her husband, Stuart, are more excited than ever for Purim to arrive. The holiday will be their first time back in person at Chabad of West Boca Raton, Fla., since last Purim, when the coronavirus pandemic began to spread throughou...

Coronavirus has now affected more than 100 countries and territories around the world, with cases being reported from as remote as Guadeloupe, a French territory in the Eastern Caribbean, to South Africa, which reported its first case on Thursday. Nations...