Noa Amouyal

They say, it’s not a sprint but a marathon. That saying certainly is true for Chabad of Kiryat Ha’leom and Jerusalem Gateway’s Rabbi Yosef Chaim Friedman, the architect of a massive effort to give runners in the Jerusalem marathon, which took place late l...

Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie, count themselves among the most fortunate of the hostages. Two weeks after being kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists during the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, and taken captive into Gaza, the two were suddenly released....

For more than half a century, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries have brought the festive spirit of Purim to Israel’s defenders. This tradition has taken on new significance over the past 18 months. In the wake of the horrific Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack against...

By all accounts, Kfar Aza resident Yaniv Ohana shouldn’t be alive to tell his story. On the morning of Oct. 7, it quickly dawned on him that terrorists were on the loose in his small kibbutz. As a member of his community’s civil defense unit, he drove to ...

On Oct. 7, 12-year-old Daria Marchevska was huddling with her family in their bomb shelter when they saw terrorists in the garden of their Sderot home. Nine months later, she is frolicking under the warm New England sun and finally experiencing the tradit...

The Jewish community of France’s northern city of Rouen is still reeling after their only synagogue was torched by an Islamist arsonist on Friday, May 17. Rebbetzin Sterna Lubecki was up and already cooking for Shabbat when she looked out her kitchen wind...

Nestled in the desert city of Beersheva’s “Bet” neighborhood is an unassuming piece of real estate that hopes to make waves in Israel’s supermarket industry. Super HaTzinor is a full-fledged supermarket that is the result of an ongoing partnership between...

Nestled in the city of Belém, Brazil—the gateway to the Amazon—is a community of Jews who, thanks to a dedicated Chabad emissary couple, have experienced a renaissance of Jewish life and practice over the past 40 years. Currently, there are an estimated 1...

“Welcome to our new abode!” Rabbi Yisroel Goldberg, who co-directs Chabad of Rechavia with his wife, Shoshana, proudly proclaimed as he stood among loose wires and partially removed drywall in a now-vacant apartment in Jerusalem’s Rechavia neighborhood. G...

The Jews of San Diego gathered in El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley on Sunday to mourn the loss of Dr. Benjamin Harouni, 28, a young dentist and a dedicated member of the Jewish community. San Diego, even more so than other parts of southern Cali...