Tag: Chabad Lubavitch
Chassidic rocket scientist overcame Soviet oppression to guide Israel’s space launch to the moon
One of the chief engineers involved in the creation and post-launch supervision of the moon-bound Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who overcame Soviet oppression and anti-Semitism to play a leading role in Israel’s public and private space programs.
Mathematician...
From Montenegro to Japan: New network of Jewish Sunday schools opens
A new Jewish Sunday school has opened in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, representing the 17th school established as a part of an educational program called JFUTURE.
Intended for families not active in Jewish communal life,...
Chabad of South Korea completing construction of first-ever mikvah
Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Seoul, South Korea, are completing the first-ever mikvah built in the country.
Jewish women seeking ritual-bath services have thus far had to travel quite a distance—to China or Japan—to use a mikvah for Taharat Hamishpachah, or family...
‘Mezuzah Week’: A spiritual revolution in Tel Aviv
A revolutionary campaign under the title “Mezuzah Week in Tel Aviv” has recently been launched by the Central Chabad of Tel Aviv, where residents will be able to check the mezuzahs of their homes free of...
First responders to Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting honored in Pittsburgh
The police officer who took a bullet for the Jewish people while responding to the Oct. 27 shooting during Shabbat-morning services in Pittsburgh, and was promised a hero’s welcome by Chabad of Pittsburgh for his life-saving bravery, got that...
Chabad files $10 million lawsuit against Baltimore County, citing discrimination
A day before deadline, Chabad filed a $10 million federal lawsuit against Baltimore County, citing religious discrimination and defamation, for seeking to demolish the recently built, $1 million Chabad-Lubavitch of Towson, which serves students...
In terrorists’ line of fire daily, IDF troops turn to Chabad of Hebron
With an obvious lump in his throat, a new recruit to the Israel Border Police shared over a break in Safed this past Shabbat that he knew one of the two soldiers laid to rest only a day...
After the fires: Californians start to pick up the pieces of their lives
A little more than a month after a brush fire raced through the Northern California countryside on its way to becoming one of the deadliest and costliest wildfires in U.S. history, people from Paradise,...
Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the context of ‘yellow jacket’ protest in France
According to a comprehensive survey among 16,300 Jews in 12 European countries released earlier this week by the European Commission and the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), anti-Semitism has once again spiked in...
Tel Aviv-Yafo mayor lights Hanukkah menorah in renewed Dizengoff Square
Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Ron Huldai inaugurated the renewed Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv by lighting the fourth Hanukkah candle of the central Chabad menorah with Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the city...