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 Bruria Efune is a co-founder of Ohr Chabad, a new Chabad yishuv in Israel that will welcome visitors from all over the world to experience chassidic wisdom come to life. She frequently blogs about life in Israel and shares jewish inspiration on social media. You can connect with Bruria here.
Hundreds of residents in upscale neighborhood attend Chabad outdoor services
Every year, Yom Kippur services at Chabad of North Tel Aviv, especially the Kol Nidrei and Neilah prayers at the opening and close of the Day of Atonement, bring out crowds of between 300 to 400 people. Many of them are neighborhood residents who don’t us...
Clearwater Chabad debuts new center at site of a former bank
It was once a local Bank of America branch, but now it’s the new Tabacinic Chabad Center and Feldman Family Shul, serving the Jews of Clearwater, Fla. And it includes what is believed to be the first-ever kosher drive-through grocery in the United States....
Teams deliver food, drink and vital supplies to areas where more than 2,100 died
When Rabbi Levi Banon and teams of rabbinical students and volunteers arrived on Sunday morning in the devastated Old City of Marrakesh, Morocco, the area was unrecognizable and still fraught with danger. Buildings collapsed around them, while search-and-...
Chabad arranges meals and services with no time to lose
It was less than three hours until sundown on Friday afternoon on the island of Rhodes, Greece, when a group of 200 Jewish passengers realized that they would be stranded for Shabbat. Their El Al flight had departed Thessaloniki towards Israel 10 hours ea...
Chabad emissary, a former Israeli officer, faces the loss of his own son
After Meir Tamari, a 32-year-old father of two young children, was killed in a terrorist attack outside of Hermesh, a town in northern Samaria, it was not at all unusual for hundreds of mourners to turn out for his funeral. Every fatal terror attack in Is...
Influenced thousands of Jews from Iraq, North Africa and the East
As a beloved school principal and director of Chabad of Avital and the Taanach region of northern Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yadgar captured the hearts of thousands through his personal warmth and Torah classes filled with humor and optimism, and influenced g...
Backlash drives steep increase in tefillin use on the streets of Israel
JERUSALEM—In a video taken last week on the streets of Tel Aviv that went viral, an Israeli woman berates a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical student for helping Jewish men, including teenagers, put on tefillin and recite the Shema prayer. Instead of reacting a...
General session and committee hearings laud Chabad in Israel and worldwide
JERUSALEM—Moments before one of the most contentious voting sessions in memory and just as mass protests were about to break out across Israel, an unusual gathering took place in a Knesset auditorium, where politicians from both coalition and opposition p...
Businessman and rabbi join forces to create a dazzling new home for Taiwan’s Jews
The new Jeffrey D. Schwartz Community Center in Taiwan has been called a work of art. The $16 million complex spans 22,500 square feet and is home to an upscale kosher restaurant, a 300-capacity ballroom, a Judaica museum, a synagogue, classrooms and a lu...
‘There was no question about what we needed to do and when,’ says the donor
Eleven years ago, when Richard and Terri Davgin were looking for something more in their Judaism, they connected with Rabbi Leibel and Goldie Baumgarten, co-directors of Chabad of the Hamptons on the east end of Long Island. The couple never imagined just...
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