Tag: Chabad Lubavitch
Menorah car parades set to light up cities worldwide
Chanukah celebrates light, religious freedom and—a theme less often emphasized—the potential of young people. This year, Jews around the world will take that celebration to the streets more powerfully than ever.
Last December, as Kyiv...
Jewish great awakening follows Oct. 7 terror attacks
Those who experience the trauma of losing a friend or loved one or seeing them injured in a violent conflict often become more religious, according to research that U.S., Canadian, Czech and German researchers published in...
Thousands of rabbis in New York pray for Israel, world
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who are gathered in New York City for the 40th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim), assembled at the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the...
St. Louis-area restaurant going kosher for a day, proceeds headed for Israel
A local restaurant will change its entire menu and kosher its kitchen for one day in support of Israel. Novellus, at 201 N. Main St. in St. Charles, a suburb of St. Louis, announced...
Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85
Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak (Ies) Vorst, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Netherlands, died on Sept. 14 at the age of 85.
Vorst was born in 1938, the son of the chief rabbi of Rotterdam....
Maui fire survivors tell of Chabad’s assistance in wake of disaster
When Ido Sarfati moved to the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui a decade ago, he thought he had the perfect place to build a business. And he did; it grew...
As wildfires rip through Hawaii, Jewish leadership on ground offers relief
As of Thursday, wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have claimed 36 lives and left thousands homeless (on Friday, Aug. 11, that number had climbed to 53 fatalities), as emergency workers searched through...
Wisconsin Jewish food fest to feature international dishes, entertainment
What began as a rabbi and his wife offering a “Taste of Kosher” at local supermarkets has now grown to an annual gathering that last year drew as many as 6,000 people.
The fifth annual Jewish Food...
Jewish life in Polish capital thriving 80 years after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish life is thriving in the capital city, reports Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, director of Chabad of Poland.
He and his brother, Rabbi Mayer Stambler, arrived in...
Montenegro Jewish community to inaugurate Torah scroll on Lag B’Omer
During Lag B’Omer last year in Montenegro, which is roughly east of Rome across the Adriatic Sea, the Jewish community was eager to gather around a bonfire and put the pandemic behind it. This...