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Chabad Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik. Photo by John Eisele/CSU.

Chassidic rabbi, award-winning professor becomes Colorado’s first Jewish military chaplain

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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...
Robert Weinger blowing two shofars in perfect harmony. Source: Screenshot.

Shofar: A love song

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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...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the current Democratic Party presidential nominee. Credit: Flickr.

Biden calls arson attack at University of Delaware Chabad ‘deeply disturbing’

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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...
A fire at the University of Delaware Chabad in Newark, Del., has been ruled an arson, Aug. 25, 2020. Credit: Dave Wilson/Aetna Hose, Hook & Ladder Company.

Investigators confirm arson as cause of fire at University of Delaware Chabad

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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...
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, co-director of Chabad of the Bluegrass in Lexington, Ky. Credit: Courtesy.

After facing threats, Kentucky rabbi set to offer educational courses on anti-Semitism

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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...
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. Credit: Kehot Publication Society/Chabad.org.

Muslim Kazakhstan adds grave of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson to heritage list

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The U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad recognized Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and former present Nursultan Nazarbayev for “facilitating the commemoration” of the passing, or yahrtzeit, of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, father of...
Rabbi Levi Lipinski with student Nathanael Ghez. Credit: Courtesy.

Turning the page on a different kind of bar mitzvah learning

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When Marina and Vladimir Druskin of Boston began planning for their son Mark’s bar mitzvah, they knew who their ideal Torah teacher would be. The only problem was that their go-to educator, Rabbi Levi...
Railing of the Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia. Credit: Freepik.

High Holiday prayer books in high demand for those at home

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As the summer months near their conclusion, some can already hear the echoes of the upcoming Rosh Hashanah prayers. The High Holidays are the focal point of the year for many, and the start of a new...
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, former leader of Chabad of Poway in Southern California. Source: YouTube.

Former Chabad of Poway rabbi pleads guilty to federal charges of fraud, tax evasion

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the former leader of Chabad of Poway in Southern California, was among several defendants who pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday to charges of fraud related to a multimillion-dollar tax-evasion...
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis helps out the Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center in distributing free masks to Florida residents in need. Credit: Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center.

Chabad center in Southeast Florida distributes 50,000-plus masks streetside

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A Chabad center in Florida conducted a free drive-through mask distribution and handed out more than 50,000 masks to help people stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center in Fort Lauderdale,...