Tag: Chabad Lubavitch
Interior secretary Bernhardt helps light National Menorah for consecutive year
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt helped light the National Menorah on the Ellipse across from the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the second year in a row.
The eight-day holiday of Hanukkah...
Largest city in Africa gets its first full-time rabbi
When Mendy Sternbach first traveled to Nigeria from Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2014 as a 21-year-old rabbinical student to help out for the High Holidays, he didn’t expect that one day he would be putting down...
Chabad virtual event to highlight triumph of Jewish resilience
The resilience of Jewish life amid the devastation wrought by the global coronavirus pandemic will be the major theme of this year’s Grand Event, the virtual stand-in for the Gala Banquet that annually caps...
Chabad-Lubavitch announces emissary to United Arab Emirates
Each new day seems to bring with it historic good news from the Middle East. August’s surprise announcement of the United States-brokered Abraham Accords between the United Arab Emirates and Israel was followed a...
Ivanka Trump prays at Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave ahead of election
Ivanka Trump, daughter of and senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, made a late-night visit on Thursday to the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., to pray at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem...
Chassidic rabbi, award-winning professor becomes Colorado’s first Jewish military chaplain
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, who runs the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado and Chabad Jewish Student Center @ CSU with his wife, Devorah Leah, and teaches at Colorado State University, is a recipient of the Best Teacher and Outstanding Faculty...
Shofar: A love song
As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he was training his lips for their destiny: to enable their owner...
Biden calls arson attack at University of Delaware Chabad ‘deeply disturbing’
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden came out loudly against the arson attack this week at the Chabad House at the University of Delaware in Newark, calling it “deeply disturbing.”
The former U.S. vice president graduated from the...
Investigators confirm arson as cause of fire at University of Delaware Chabad
A fire at the Chabad House at the University of Delaware in Newark has been ruled an arson, according to investigators.
The building was set ablaze on Tuesday at about 11 p.m. Damages were estimated...
After facing threats, Kentucky rabbi set to offer educational courses on anti-Semitism
After denouncing racist, anti-Semitic fliers left around his community earlier this month and then being threatened by a neo-Nazi leader, Rabbi Shlomo Litvin of Lexington, Ky., aims to educate others on what Judaism and...