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 Ellen Braunstein is a freelance writer working for several Jewish publications. She is based in Chicago.
Hot lunches and spiritual connection for residents in Southeast Florida coastal community
Chabad of West Palm Beach, Fla., has teamed up with Palm Beach County to provide free kosher lunches to seniors. The kosher food program is the first of its kind to be offered by the county, which has 13 other free meal sites. As many as 50 meals a day ar...
From live music to traditional cuisine, events showcase richness of Jewish life
Jewish culture festivals are vibrant celebrations of Jewish heritage offering immersion in a day filled with Jewish music, art and ethnic kosher cuisine. They are also opportunities for Jews to come together and engage in Torah, mitzvot and Jewish heritag...
Rabbi Yaakov and Tiferes Cahnman arrive in Grand Canyon State as its newest emissaries
Eastern Arizona is home to cool mountain lakes, lofty buttes, towering cliffs and turquoise skies. And there are some Jews there, as well—although not nearly as numerous as the ponderosa pine trees that the region is famous for. That doesn’t deter Rabbi Y...
A Chabad initiative brings kosher to Jews of Utah, North Carolina and beyond
You may not think of Salt Lake City as a place for an award-winning kosher falafel, but thanks to Chabad’s bright green Yalla food truck, Utahns can now easily dig into fresh, hot, certified kosher Mediterranean food. The kosher food truck has emerged as ...
Rep. Mike Lawler assists in the initiative of making and distributing challah to the sick, those celebrating milestones and those keeping Shabbat
The Chabad Jewish Center of Suffern, N.Y., recently celebrated a major milestone—the baking of 12,000 challahs for the community since the Covid pandemic began. For many, the challah-baking has quickly become an “act of love, friendship and care,” Devorah...
Chabad breaks ground on new multimillion-dollar campus
Amid a week-long, anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago, the Jewish community proudly showed up to the groundbreaking ceremony for a $3.2-million expansion of the Rohr Chabad Center on campus. “We believe that when Jewish students are in a c...
Thousands at Binghamton U. shatter record for largest campus Shabbat dinner
A mega Shabbat dinner on Friday night served to unify the Jewish community of Binghamton University in New York with a record 2,200 students participating. The Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life sponsored the April 5 event, saying that it was the ...
As in 2017, Chabad in remote Carbondale, Ill., to host eclipse chasers
An Illinois Chabad center along the route of Monday’s total solar eclipse will host out-of-town Jews seeking to witness the historic spectacle and get its Jewish perspective. Rabbi Mendel Scheiman, director of the Carbondale Chabad Center at Southern Illi...
Family of five killed after engine failure over Nashville
A close-knit community in Canada is grieving over the devastating loss of a family of five who died on March 7 in a fiery small-plane crash in Nashville, Tenn. The Dotsenkos—Victor, 43, the pilot, and his wife Rima, 37—were described as “involved and gene...
‘Tefillin Together’ unites Jewish students in colleges across North America
In the face of antisemitic hostility on university campuses, Jewish college students across North America are challenging one another to gather publicly at the center of their campuses to put on tefillin. The “Tefillin Together” challenge, started by 15 s...
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