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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.
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 ...
Torah, tefillin and kosher food for Jews who love motorsports
The NASCAR racing cars roared through Chicago city streets on Sunday reaching speeds of well over 100 miles an hour. Watching from a 20th-floor apartment overlooking the city while sharing kosher food and words of Torah were members of the city’s South Lo...
Increased attendance at services and commitments to positive action
Demonstrations by a small group of neo-Nazis outside Georgia synagogues on Shabbat have unleashed a torrent of outrage, good deeds and support around the state and nation in response. On Shabbat afternoon, as people were arriving for afternoon services at...
Although many never met the Rebbe, they are deeply impacted by visiting the Ohel
Throughout this week, upwards of 50,000 people are expected to visit the Ohel, the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, N.Y., in observance of the Third of Tammuz (Gimmel ...
New center and new Torah scroll celebrated in top tourist destination
Camden Market, a bustling hotspot in London that draws an estimated 27 million visitors annually and hosts a diverse community of shop owners, artists and young families, recently welcomed its newest additions: a new Chabad Center and a new Torah scroll. ...
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