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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.
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. ...
War-weary residents turn out night and day for holiday celebrations
For 9-year-old Avraham Timor, who attends Kharkov’s Or Avner Jewish school and had a brit milah only a few months ago, Lag BaOmer was “the best day I’ve had since before the fighting,” as he took part in a children’s rally and barbecue at the ...
Keynote speaker can still remember the morning everything changed.
Miriam Moskovitz can still remember the morning everything changed.
For millions of Ukrainians this winter, keeping warm is a life-and-death struggle. With the power grid under continuous attack, electricity, heat and hot water are always scarce—and sometimes not available for days at a time—which has made local generator...
A special affirmation of Judaism in a city under fire
The Kharkov Jewish community had a lot to celebrate this past week as four members of their community, including a 6-month-old, a 4-year-old, a 9-year-old and a man in his 50s received a brit milah. Two of the boys who had a brit milah are the sons of Maz...
Visits during holidays bring the plight of the wartime homebound into focus
As Jewish people around the world celebrate Chanukah this week, the literal darkness that is the reality for many in Ukraine is coming into clear focus. “We visit people’s houses on Chanukah every year, especially older people who can’t come to the synago...
Chabad-Lubavitch brings the ‘Festival of Lights’ to a beleaguered nation
Nearly a decade ago, Maya left her home in Donetsk, in Eastern Ukraine, amid the then-growing conflict in the region and moved nearly 900 miles cross-country to Uzhgorod along the Slovakian border, where she became an active member of the Jewish community...
Public events move indoors to bring much-needed joy to beleaguered communities
On Sunday afternoon, Inna Shapiro will make her way to the grand Chabad Choral Synagogue in the city of Kharkov, Ukraine, where she will help usher in the holiday of Chanukah surrounded by hundreds of other Jews. Then, amid the darkness of a city with lim...
Tamim Academy shatters convention with 10 new Jewish schools across North America
By this fall, and after only three years, 10 new innovative Jewish elementary schools will have opened in communities around the nation, a harbinger of a brighter future for Jewish education in the 21st century. All part of the Tamim Academy Network, the ...
Lack of electricity, running water and gasoline after attacks on infrastructure create humanitarian crisis
A massive wave of airstrikes targeting power grids around Ukraine plunged much of the nation into darkness Wednesday. From small villages to big cities, people are hunkering down and trying to cope as best they can in the freezing-cold darkness, often wit...
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