New Zealand Earthquake (2011)

Chabad emissary from Christchurch, New Zealand, Tzippy Friedman speaks from the scene of the earthquake.

Clutching them like rescued babies, a non-Jewish police officer salvaged two Torah scrolls from the ruins of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in downtown Christchurch, providing a momentary relief to a Jewish community forced to mourn the additional loss of tw...

Guy Vilner, 23, was making eggs Tuesday when the whole house started to shake.

Like the rest of Christchurch’s scarred population, Jewish community members in New Zealand’s second-largest city are being forced by a seemingless endless stream of aftershocks to head as far away as possible from the epicenter of yesterday’s 6.3-magnitu...

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand’s second-largest city Tuesday morning, sending buildings crashing to the street and toppling the city’s central Chabad-Lubavitch center.