Moshe New

In the wake of a deadly shooting at Florida State University on Thursday that left two people dead and six injured, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle-Tallahassee—which serves university as well as the area Jewish community—has become a place of refuge and...

For Jewish students at Barnard College and Columbia University, the significance of Purim—which this year begins on Thursday evening, March 13, and continues through Friday, March 14—has taken on new dimensions this year. As distinctly antisemitic campus ...

MELBOURNE, Australia—At this time of year, as the Australian summer comes to a close, the pristine beaches of Queensland’s Gold Coast are typically shimmering under blue skies. Further north, Byron Shire and the Sunshine Coast offer some of the continent’...

On Shabbat morning—Saturday, Feb. 15—Alexander (“Sasha”) Troufanov was released by Hamas after spending 498 days held captive by Palestinian terrorists. He was released together with Sagui Dekel-Chen and Iair Horn, all three of them having been kidnapped ...

Amid hostile winds and drought-stricken ground on Tuesday, three separate wildfires suddenly sparked and engulfed Los Angeles County. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 1,000 buildings have burned, two people have been killed, and more than 100,000 indi...

On a dark, frigid winter’s night in Fairbanks, Alaska, as the mercury descended to 20 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a light shone forth from the city’s first-ever public menorah. As the rabbi kindled the menorah’s wicks, icicles clung to his face and bea...

Incoming U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joined Chabad-Lubavitch of Arkansas for the lighting of the menorah on the first night of Chanukah in Little Rock, Ark. The menorah-lighting in the state’s capital city has become somewhat of a family affai...

Trois-Rivières is a historic city in Quebec, Canada, about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. The city gets its name (“Three Rivers” in English) from the three channels formed by islands at the mouth of the Saint-Maurice River, on the banks of whic...

Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the United Arab Emirates who devoted himself to Jewish life in the Gulf state, was abducted on Thursday afternoon by Islamic terrorists in Dubai. In a horrific crime that has shaken the Jewish community of t...

When Rabbi Yuda and Naomi Drizin, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch at Columbia University, sought to welcome students back to campus this year, they envisioned something uniquely Jewish, large-scale, and above all, fun. “Together with our Chabad student l...