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Severe flooding caused by torrential rains has devastated the Irkutsk district of Siberia, Russia, near the border with Mongolia, July 3, 2019. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Chabad of Irkutsk mobilizes to help Siberia flood victims

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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...
Smoke trails are seen as a rocket is launched from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip to Israel on May 4, 2019. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Gaza rocket hits yeshivah in Sderot in second attack of day

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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...
Rabbi Mordechai and Zlata Lewin, and their children, watch a military flyover in Normandy, France, site of the decisive Allied landing on D-Day that turned the tide of World War II. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

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,...
President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's first-ever Jewish president, held a high-profile meeting with Ukraine's regional chief rabbis on May 6. Here, the comedian-turned-politician is presented with a Chumash in Russian translation by Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki and Rabbi Avraham Wolff, as other members of the delegation look on. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

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...
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan speaks during a press conference for the foreign media on Feb. 3, 2019. Photo: Flash90.

Israeli minister links Chabad synagogue shooting and anti-Semitic ‘Times’ cartoon

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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...
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, one of the senior rabbinical figures in the Chabad organization. Photo by Meni Yuzevich/Wikipedia.

Chabad puts out statement expressing concern about more anti-Semitic attacks

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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...
Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, chief rabbi of Chabad in Poland (pictured with his son Yossi), will host a special Passover seder with the families of ghetto survivors from Israel, Europe and the U.S. Picture by Muzeum Getta Warszawskiego. (EJP)

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...
A whopping 1,850 participants celebrated the 25th anniversary Shabbat dinner held annually at Binghamton University, which started out in 1994 as Shabbat 1000, April 5, 2019. Photo by R. Coschignano/Chabad of Binghamton.

Shabbat student dinner for 1,850 goes off without a hitch

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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....
Children take part in a one-day camp held by Alaska Jewish Campus, which introduced the Jewish Camp Gan Israel adventure over the Martin Luther King Jr. and Presidents' Day holidays in Anchorage. Credit: Gan Izzy Alaska In-Service Day Winter Camps 2019.

Cheers to school days off (and that’s coming from moms and dads)!

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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...
When Rabbi Arieh Raichman was growing up in Texas, he never imagined that he would be koshering pots and pans in Brazil's Amazon River. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

What it’s like to be the rabbi of the rainforest

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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...