Posts Tagged: chabad
Jewish Education Is Needed to Stop Assimilation
My oldest daughter recently enrolled in a major university on the East Coast. On day one, we went to a Hillel event with a few...
‘Return Home’: Bennett Urges Israelis to Leave Ukraine as Threat of Russian Invasion Looms
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged Israeli citizens in Ukraine on Sunday to avoid risks and come home immediately as tensions over a potential Russian...
After Fire, California Chabad Raises Over $50,000 to Rebuild in Less Than 24 Hours
JNS.org - A Chabad synagogue in San Jose, Calif. was destroyed by a fire early Wednesday morning and a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for...
Jewish Students at University of Illinois Decry Passage of Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution During High Holidays
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s student government on Wednesday night voted in favor of a pro-BDS resolution calling for divestment from a number of...
Bob Dylan Is America’s Greatest Jewish Artist
“I’m just like Anne Frank,” Bob Dylan sings on his latest album, “like Indiana Jones, and them British bad boys the Rolling Stones.” The strange confluence...
Sociology and the Rebbe
Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Transformative Paradigm for the World by Philip Wexler (with Eli Rubin and Michael Wexler). In an extraordinary passage by the 19th...
Police Searching for Man Who Daubed Boston-Area Chabad Center With Antisemitic Graffiti in Russian
Police are searching for an unidentified man who scrawled antisemitic graffiti at the entrance to the Chabad religious movement's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, next to...
Tributes Pour in After Leading UK Rabbi Dies of Coronavirus
Tributes poured in on Tuesday at the news that a leading UK rabbi had died of coronavirus. Dayan Rabbi Yehuda Yaakov Refson, the senior rabbi of...
Coronavirus Takes Heavy Toll on Prominent Jewish Leaders in US, Israel, Europe
The coronavirus pandemic is taking a heavy toll on prominent Jewish leaders, with several dying of the disease and others seriously ill. The head of Israel's...
Chabad Initiative Sees Megillahs Read in Public for Westchester Jews Quarantined Due to Coronavirus Outbreak
A Chabad-organized initiative saw megillahs read by volunteers at dozens of locations where Jews were under quarantine in Westchester County, New York, during the Purim...
Chabad on Campus Emissaries Train at Yad Vashem to Be Holocaust Educators
JNS.org - Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge tools that will allow them to...
Outreach Movement Chabad Warns Emissaries Worldwide to Be on High Alert Following Soleimani Assassination
The Hasidic outreach movement Chabad has sent a warning to its emissaries around the world urging them to be on high alert following the US...
Car Outside Elon University Chabad House Damaged by Gunfire While Yom Kippur Services Underway
A car was struck by gunfire outside the Chabad Jewish Student Center at Elon University in North Carolina on Wednesday night as services marking the...
Three New Books Introduce the Lubavitcher Rebbe to a New Generation
JNS.org - When Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson -- known universally as “the Rebbe” -- passed away 25 years ago, skeptics predicted the end of the...
