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The Hungarian Jewish community will supply tens of thousands of packages of poultry to Jewish communities in France, England, Germany and Austria In light of a growing shortage of kosher meat among European Jewish communities due to the coronavirus pandemic, April 2, 2020. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungary to supply packages of kosher poultry to Jewish communities of Europe

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In light of a growing shortage of kosher meat among European Jewish communities primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Hungarian Jewish community announced on Thursday that it will begin supplying tens of thousands...
Some 200 Israelis flying home after being stranded abroad due to the coronavirUs (COVID-19) got a pre-taste of the Passover holiday in the form of boxes of round, handmade shmurah matzah, March 26, 2020. .Credit: EMIH.

200 Israelis and 74 foreign nationals arrive home from abroad due to pandemic

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A special flight with 200 Israelis who were stranded in Hungary departed on Thursday from the Hungarian capital of Budapest and arrived back to Israel. The Israelis had been unable to leave Hungary since...
Yoav Leibowitz, 25, a medical student from Netanya who has been in Budapest for the past seven months, is scheduled to return to Israel on a special flight out of Hungary on March 26, 2020. Source: Peter Szijjarto Facebook Page.

Flight slated to bring 200 Israelis in Hungary home and return foreign nationals

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A special flight bringing 200 Israelis stranded in Hungary back to Israel is scheduled to depart from the Hungarian capital of Budapest on Thursday. The Israelis have been unable to leave Hungary since the country...
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich has stayed behind in Beijing, China, though his family evacuated to safety overseas. While much of the expatriate Jewish community has left China, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are still hard at work, helping local residents. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

As global health crisis worsens, Chabad of China asks for help

As the coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues its worrisome spread around the globe with more than 80 affected countries and territories, China, where the virus originated in late December, has been deeply impacted with more...
Celebrants dance down the streets of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, to mark the completion and inauguration of a Torah scroll on the European island. Photo by Gabriel Rutenberg/Chabad.org/News.

Iceland Jewish community celebrates its first permanent Torah scroll

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The Jewish community in Reykjavik, Iceland, celebrated the completion and inauguration of the island’s first permanent Torah scroll on Sunday. Celebrants danced down the streets of the nation’s capital, and guests came from Europe and Israel for...
The newly certified Holocaust educators spent a week training at Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, representing the first time that Yad Vashem has gathered a group of campus leaders for an intensive training, February 2020. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Chabad on Campus emissaries train at Yad Vashem to be Holocaust educators

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Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge, relevant and effective tools that will allow them to teach about the Holocaust and the growing problem...
Magen David Adom responds to the request by Chabad for protective gear for communities in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, February 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

Magen David Adom sends protective gear to Chabad in China amid coronavirus outbreak

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A shipment of medical supplies from Magen David Adom in Israel were delivered on Monday morning to Chabad in China to help prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus. At the request of Chabad, Magen...
Representatives from the Israeli emergency medical services’ organization Magen David Adom pack boxes of protective gear, responding to a request by Chabad to help communities in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, February 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

Corona and the Chinese ambassador’s Holocaust chutzpah

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China’s acting ambassador to Israel came under well-deserved fire this week for invoking the Nazi genocide of the Jews to criticize Jerusalem’s preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus. At a press conference in...
An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on Sept. 19, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

El Al flight forced to land before Shabbat, Chabad steps in to help

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Not long after El Al Flight #26 took off from Newark International Airport for Tel Aviv on Thursday night, there was trouble onboard. Smoke began to fill the cabin, and the plane was forced...
A celebratory bar mitzvah crowd dances with Moshe Holtzberg, orphaned in the Mumbai Chabad center massacre that took the lives of his parents 11 years ago this week. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Orphaned in Mumbai in 2008, Moshe Holtzberg celebrates his bar mitzvah

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Moshe Holtzberg, who was orphaned in the Mumbai Chabad center massacre that took the lives of his parents 11 years ago this week, was called to the Torah for the first time in his hometown of Afula, Israel, on Shabbat and celebrated his bar mitzvah on...