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Community residents look forward to a new Jewish presence
A global pandemic has swept over the world, and to many, the future seems murky and unsure; planning past tomorrow feels impossible. But for the new Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who have taken up their posts since the coronavirus began to spread, now is th...
The Rushmore State to welcome first permanent rabbi in decades
South Dakota, with a very small Jewish population scattered throughout the state’s vast expanses of windswept prairies, has long held the dubious distinction of being the only state in America without a rabbi. That will soon change, when Rabbi Mendel and ...
Young couple finds a niche and a need in a small section of a big city
Like many young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Jacobs grew up watching and learning how to serve a Jewish community directly from his parents, who have run a Jewish preschool in Cleveland for many years. Now after almost a decade studying and servi...
A Report from Cyprus
Getzy Markowitz is part of a group of students who are visiting communities across the island of Cyprus. Some excerpts of Markowitz's daily report.
They welcome refugees, distribute food and lead religious services
As soon as a river of Jewish refugees began streaming out of Ukraine, it became clear that Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Europe needed more manpower—and fast. In response to the urgent pleas for help, the Ukraine Jewish Relief Fund opened a relief desk, ...
A chance meeting with ‘Roving Rabbis’ leads to an unexpected milestone
Let me tell you a little story. It was a cloudless day on Monday in Telluride, Colo., a small Western town high in the Rocky Mountains filled with forests and rivers. This is my eighth year visiting my son Matthew in Telluride, and I have made many friend...
‘Roving Rabbis’ get a wide-open welcome in the Cowboy State
Edmond Gerald Meyer turned 13 in 1933 in Albuquerque, N.M., where his mother’s German-Jewish family had settled during the Civil War and founded a successful business that spanned the territory (as it was then known). Although the family occasionally atte...
Educationally and socially, providing a standard of excellence for students in every locale
While most children were busy buying backpacks and lunch boxes these last few weeks, almost 1,000 boys and girls worldwide were testing headphones and mics as they geared up for the new school year. Children in places like Almaty, Kazakhstan; Venice, Ital...
In program’s third decade, 26 rabbis to visit Jewish men and women in 450 prisons
The mattresses had been much thinner and harder in his former prison, which lacked air-conditioning and was full of gang activity. So why did L.S. (who is currently serving time in Kansas) want to transfer back there? Because at that first correctional fa...
A summer searching for Jews on the streets and in the marketplaces of Vietnam’s capital
Forty Jewish people from around the world sat around a table not too long ago in Hanoi, celebrating Shabbat together. “Almost everyone discovered that they had a previous connection to someone else there,” reports Mendy Tubul, a senior student at the Chab...
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