Tag: Chabad Lubavitch
Chabad of Irkutsk mobilizes to help Siberia flood victims
At least 15 people have been killed and thousands more remain homeless after torrential rains caused severe flooding in the Irkutsk district of Siberia, Russia, near the border with Mongolia.
Rabbi Aharon Wagner, director of Chabad Lubavitch in Irkutsk, has...
Gaza rocket hits yeshivah in Sderot in second attack of day
A rocket launched by Hamas in Gaza struck a building in the southern Israeli town of Sderot late on Thursday, causing damage but no injuries.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the building hit belong...
What it’s like to be the rabbi on the beaches of Normandy 75 years...
Exactly 75 years ago, Normandy was the site of one of the largest military invasions ever staged. Forever known as D-Day, June 6, 1944 marked the turning point of World War II, in which 156,000 American,...
First Jewish president of Ukraine holds ‘historic’ meeting with community-based rabbis
Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky held what was called a “historic” meeting on May 6 in Kiev with the six leading representatives of the country’s Jewish community.
The meeting with the chief rabbis of Ukraine’s six...
Israeli minister links Chabad synagogue shooting and anti-Semitic ‘Times’ cartoon
In a Facebook post about Saturday’s synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif., Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan claimed the shooter had been influenced by a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon that appeared last week in The New York Times.
Erdan...
Chabad puts out statement expressing concern about more anti-Semitic attacks
Chabad-Lubavitch leaders worldwide are warning Jewish communities about the possibility of more anti-Semitic attacks like the Saturday synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif., on the last day of Passover.
In a message put out after the April...
A Passover seder in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto
For the first time since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 100 Diaspora Jewish families will celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption in the heart of what was once the ghetto.
Seventy-six years ago German troops...
Shabbat student dinner for 1,850 goes off without a hitch
While Israelis spent their Shabbat on April 5 gearing up for national elections, a group of Americans—a very large group, at that—was getting their Shabbat underway with a little more than the usual pre-preparations....
Cheers to school days off (and that’s coming from moms and dads)!
They are words uttered by parents from coast to coast: “What do I do with my kids when school’s closed and I have to work?” It’s a question asked whether it’s a planned vacation...
What it’s like to be the rabbi of the rainforest
Nestled deep in the Amazon rainforest lies one of most isolated Jewish communities in the world. Located where the Solimões and Negro rivers join to form the Amazon—1,500 kilometers upstream from the Atlantic and...