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Faygie Holt is an award-winning journalist and regular contributor to Chabad.org and other media outlets. She is also the author of “The New Girl” and “Trouble Ahead,” the first two novels in her Achdus Club book series for girls. Learn more at her website.
The struggle of Jewish tech workers since Oct. 7
On Oct. 7 of last year, a Jewish Amazon engineer in southern Israel was taken hostage by Hamas. A month later, when the computer chip he’d worked on debuted at AWS Re:Invent on a Las Vegas stage, his missing presence and plight went unannounced. In an inc...
Anti-Israel protesters disbanded after demanding removal of Jewish groups on campus
On Wednesday night, the anti-Israel encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia was ordered disbanded by the local police department. Protesters left ahead of police action and did so without their many demands being met, including that the school ter...
Proud AEPI brothers stand up for Jews and America
Images of a small group of students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill holding up an American flag amid violent anti-Israel protests last week captured the attention of the nation. The boys were caught on camera struggling to keep the Star...
Ukraine President Zelensky writes the first letter and Israel President Herzog the last
For the first time in modern history—and perhaps even longer than that—two sitting wartime presidents wrote letters in a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to peace and unity, among the Jewish people. The scroll, which will eventually be housed in Be...
Despite war, Jews gather in large numbers for Purim celebrations
As the war in Ukraine continues into its third year and rockets continue to fall in Kyiv and Kharkov—the country’s two largest cities—the question was would anyone come to celebrate Purim? Would they brave a city with no electricity and no subway service?...
A regal presence, educator and poet who saw the good in everyone she met
Some people see the world in black or white, possibly shades of gray. Rochel Kaplan saw the colors of G-d’s creation in every aspect of the world around her, and the beauty in every person she met. “G-d gives us a world that is like a coloring book with t...
Chabad network redoubles efforts to provide shelter and warmth
Amid blackouts and single-digit temperatures, living conditions are becoming unbearable in many parts of Ukraine. Chabad centers around the war-weary nation are going all-out to keep their communities warm and safe after aerial bombings and missile attack...
Artem Reznik, 30, is laid to rest in Kharkiv after service at Chabad’s Choral Synagogue
A 30-year-old Jewish man from Kharkiv, Ukraine, was laid to rest on Jan. 1 after he was killed during a barrage of Russian airstrikes over the weekend. At least 45 people throughout Ukraine were killed in the last few days as drones and rockets were direc...
Rabbi Raleigh and Fruma Resnick’s big plans for Chabad of the Tri-Valley
Rabbi Raleigh Resnick is known to thousands of students around the world for his popular online courses like Right on the Money, The Jewish Pathway to Forgiveness and his monumental project to teach three chapters a day of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah. But c...
Big turnouts at indoor menorah-lightings and parties in every community
Jews around Ukraine are coming out en masse at shopping malls, community centers and synagogues to celebrate Chanukah throughout war-torn Ukraine. Chabad-Lubavitch’s network of hundreds of emissaries and volunteers in every corner of the beleaguered natio...
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