Tag: Chabad Lubavitch
Chabad House in Jamaica sees major damage from Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has dealt significant damage to the Chabad House in Montego Bay, Jamaica, though Rabbi Yaakov and Mushkee Raskin, who created the Chabad of Jamaica in 2014, and their children are reportedly safe and sheltered...
Ukrainian Jewish group distributes 39,500 Shavuot holiday sets
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine (FJCU) distributed nearly 40,000 Shavuot holiday packages to Jewish households across the war-torn country last week, according to the organization.
“Despite hopes just a month ago that this...
‘Outrageous’: Anti-Zionist group targets Ben-Gvir, Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, NY
Hundreds of people, including anti-Israel, anti-Zionist protesters, gathered outside 770 Eastern Parkway, the world headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday night to demonstrate the presence...
Huckabee visits Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave ahead of Israel posting
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee visited the grave of the late Lubavitcher Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York on Sunday, just days before the confirmation hearings for his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to...
Top Russian rabbi helps freed Gaza captive put on tefillin
Alexander ("Sasha") Troufanov, who was released on Saturday from Hamas captivity in Gaza, put on tefillin for the first time on Sunday, with the help of Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Lazar gave Troufanov, who is a dual...
Orthodox Jewish Arizona council member uses family Bible for swearing-in ceremony
When he was sworn in as a new member of the Scottsdale City Council on Monday, Adam Kwasman used his family’s copy of a Hebrew Bible published by the late renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.
Kwasman...
Thousands of Chabad rabbis pose for ‘massive display of Jewish pride’
The thousands of Chabad rabbis who posed for a group photograph on Sunday during the international conference of shluchim ("emissaries") in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., created an image that "is not only a...
UAE IDs 3 Uzbek suspects in murder of Chabad Rabbi Zvi Kogan
The Emirati Ministry of Interior confirmed on Monday that the three suspects arrested for the murder of Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan are Uzbek nationals.
Security authorities identified the suspects as Olimpi Toirovich, 28, Makhmudjon...
White House denounces murder of Chabad rabbi in UAE ‘in strongest terms’
The White House National Security Council condemns the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates "in the strongest terms," Sean Savett, a spokesman for the council, stated on Sunday evening.
"Our prayers...
Chabad rabbis give Netanyahu Chassidic text printed in Lebanon
In a symbolic move on Tuesday, a delegation of Chabad-Lubvitch rabbis presented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an early work of Chassidic philosophy by the first Chabad rabbi printed in various places in...