Chabad School in Lugansk Hosts National Academic Competition

For the fifth consecutive year, students from across Ukraine participated in the prestigious academic Olympiad at the Beit Menachem Ohr Avner Chabad day school in Lugansk, Ukraine

German Minister of Family Affairs Dedicates New Nursery at Chabad Berlin

The German Minister of Family Affairs and Youth, Dr. Kristina Schroder visited the Chabad Kindergarten in Berlin earlier this week, to participate in the dedication of a new nursery school.

Growing Up Jewish, Female, Responsible: Rethinking the Bat Mitzvah Party

For most Jewish tween girls, the concept of the bat mitzvah has come to mean one thing: a lavish party with multiple outfit changes, Oscars-style celebrity goodie bags and a hiprocker singing new hits.

Celebrating Lag b'omer - Kfar Chabad. Photos by Israel Bardugo

Chabad Preschoolers Garden and Grow Their Own Snacks

A group of preschoolers at Shaloh House Preschool & Kindergarten welcomed the spring season this year with the help of Mr. Mal Jacobs

I Never Knew…

I never knew just how special my father-in-law, Reb Moshe, was until I saw the way in which he passed. As I shared with you last week he was squeezing every bit of life out of his life. As the illness became more acute, he seemed to float through the last few days of his life like an angel.

Rabbi Moshe Nemanow, Expert on Hebrew Manuscripts, 74

A scholar and expert on Hebrew manuscripts who worked in the archival division at Chabad’s Central Library in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, passed away Tuesday, May 1. He was 74.

Chabad IDF Soldiers Among Presidential Honorees

After a rigorous selection process, a mere 120 out of 300,000 soldiers were chosen for the awards as a result of their professionalism, dedication, and sense of responsibility.

Learning From the Past; Living the Present; Looking to the Future-Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet & Mrs. Eva Schloss

Eva Schloss was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929. Her family immigrated to Belgium and eventually to Holland in 1938, shortly after Hitler annexed Austria. After the Germans invaded Holland in 1942, they went into hiding. In May 1944, they were betrayed, captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. When they were liberated by the Russian Army in 1945, only her and her mother were left. After the war, they moved back to Amsterdam where Eva finished her studies, and she eventually moved to London to pursue a career as a professional photographer. In 1952 she married Zvi Schloss. One year later, her mother married Otto Frank, the widowed father of diarist Anne Frank. Eva and Zvi live in London and have three daughters and five grandchildren. Since 1985, Eva has become increasingly active in Holocaust education, and received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from the University ofNorthumbria, Newcastle, England. She also became a Trustee of the Anne Frank Educational Trust, U.K.

Guests Attend Grand Opening of Chabad Lifeline Center in Montreal

The new building, a historic mansion located near the Jewish General Hospital, will help expand the scope and reach of Chabad Lifeline.

Bombs Terrorize Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Twenty seven people, including nine children, were injured today (Friday) in multiple bombings in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in what is being qualified as terror attacks. At least four blasts went off in quick succession around noon throughout the city center, targeting public areas including a tram stop, cinema and railway station.

Queen of Holland Bestows Civilian Honor on Chabad Rabbi

The honor, which is usually bestowed upon princes of other royal families in Europe, diplomats, artists, and social activists

Israeli Foreign Minister Visits Chabad of Baku during Official Visit

Israel marked twenty years of diplomatic relations between the Jewish state and Azerbaijan on Sunday, April 22, with an honorary diplomatic visit to the 95% Muslim Eurasian country, headed by Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Chabad of Central Africa hosts Passover children's program in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Blog: Reflections on Passover in Cabo S. Lucas

Cabo S. Lucas sits at the tip of the Baja California peninsula. Once a small fishing town, it's been reborn in the last decade as a tourist hotspot.

Chabad Synagogue in Basel: First in 80 Years

The city’s earliest Jewish settlements date back to the 12th century

Interview: Chabad's Answer To Sweden's Jewish Problem

Sweden is not the most hospitable of countries for a Chabad couple to raise a family. Your lifestyle and your values have been directly challenged, even threatened, at so many turns over the years—most recently your right to give your children the Jewish schooling you choose.

At The Seder: Telling It Like It Was, And Still Is

Ohio rabbi's books tied to Holocaust survivors

As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud.

AT NYU , STUDENTS TO SEDER AT NEW BOWERY CENTER

Mah Nishtana? How is this year’s NYU Passover on campus different from all other Years?

Chabad Opens Its Doors for Passover

For Jews without a home synagogue, who are away from home or are looking to reconnect with the traditions of their youth, there is an open door in the Farmington Valley and this weekend, for the Passover, a place at the Seder feast.

Denver’s JLI Offers Melton Graduates Unique Courses

The Rohr JLI’s division in Denver, Colorado has recently partnered with the Colorado Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) to offer “Medicine & Morals,” an intriguing 6-week course in Jewish law and medical ethics, to members of the greater Denver Jewish community as well as graduates of the local Florence Melton Adult Mini-School.

Pre-Passover Fun Day at Chabad of Clearwater

Baking Matzah with Rabbi Levi Hodakov, Director of Chabad of Clearwater

Senior Rabbi Honored by Colleagues, Students on 80th Birthday

A festive 80th birthday celebration of prominent Chabad Rabbi, Rabbi Dovid Schochet, took place in NYC

Books In Review: Haggadah Picks

Pesach Preparation: Your Kitchen

Scholar: Rabbi Berel Bell Video title: Pesach Preparation: Your Kitchen Channel: Passover, Kosher, Passover, Passover Preparation

Chabad of Sunnyvale holds Torah dedication ceremony

The Jewish community celebrated the creation of a new Torah scroll this past week at the Hilton Garden Inn in Mountain View.

Blog: Jewish Guests, Israeli Start-ups Experience Shabbat at SXSW

This year a myriad of Jewish and Israeli acts performed during the music festival and a series of programs coordinated by the Israeli Consulate brought exposure to 25 Israeli tech companies.

Massacre at Jewish School in Toulouse, France

Tragedy struck the Jewish community of Toulouse, France on March 19 as a motorcycle gunman opened fire in front of a local Jewish school, Ozar Hatorah, killing a rabbi, his two small sons and one other child.

King of Morocco Knights Chabad Rabbi

Purim at Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe

Rohr Chabad Jewish Center at University of Texas Unites Jewish Students, Greek Life

Making Merry, Happy Purim!

WWII Veteran 95, Dedicates Torah Scroll to Chabad Beekman-Sutton

About 150 members of the Jewish community of Chabad at Beekman-Sutton, including preschool students, parents, seniors and rabbis celebrated the dedication of a new Torah scroll on Sunday March 4, in a mini parade along Manhattan's 2nd Avenue.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met Chabad representatives Rabbi Chaim and wife Bassy Mendelsohn

At a reception last week with leaders and activists, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met Chabad representatives Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn and his wife Bassy Mendelsohn, and Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky. Netanyahu spoke to PM Harper of his historic meeting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the prescient advice the Rebbe gave him.

Blog: Howard Kissel’s Encounter With Chabad

Howard Kissel, longtime theater critic for The New York Daily News, passed away on Friday in his Manhattan home. Though not Orthodox in his observance, he wrote about an encounter he had with Chabad...

Brandeis Students Learn Recipe to Chabad's Secret Sauce

If the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement was a guest invited to your wedding, where would it sit?

Chabad of North Brooklyn Forges Community Ties

On Sunday, February 26, an eclectic mix of 150 guests, among them artists, young professionals and black-hat Hasidic Jews gathered in a Williamsburg art gallery to celebrate the growth and expansion of Chabad of North Brooklyn.

New Siddur Enhances Prayer Services for Russian Language Readers

The Russian Annotated Siddur, published by the F.R.E.E. Publishing House, promises to make prayer services for Russian-language readers a more meaningful experience.

Tanya Printed in Antarctica: Photos Meir Alfasi

International Conference of Chabad Women

While the men were home minding the children and the house, the women took in lectures and workshops, celebrated with friends and enjoyed a change of pace in the hub of Chabad’s headquarters in Brooklyn, NY.

Photo Gallery: Kinus Hashluchos 5772

Baking Bread Together: A Community Sisterhood Grows

When Dina Krasnianski, co-director of Chabad of the Town in the Town-of-Mount-Royal launched Loaves of Love in her home’s kitchen, she had just a few participants. It has since morphed into a strong following of devoted women.

Autopsies: A Delicate Balance of Law and Religious Freedom

On December 12, two days after Grobois’ family reported him missing, his body was recovered and transported to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s office where medical examiner Dr. Thomas Clark called for an autopsy due to the “unnatural” circumstances of Grobois’ death.

Chabad: Oprah explores Hassidic life in Brooklyn

TV personality Oprah Winfrey toured the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights on Wednesday for a rare glimpse at the lives of Brooklyn's Hassidic Jews, the Chabad organization's website announced on Wednesday.

Chabad's 'New Year For Trees' at Back to Nature in Basking Ridge

The Chabad Jewish Center at Basking Ridge is partnering with their new neighbor, Back to Nature for a joint Tu Bishvat celebration at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8 to mark the "New Year for trees." The public is invited to show up at the Home and Garden Center at 3055 Valley Road, across the street from the Chabad Center.

Chabad of Tallahassee Plants Trees in Honor of Tu B'Shvat

Chabad of Tallahassee and its community members honored of Tu B’Shvat, the “Jewish Arbor Day” earlier this week. Working with the local Department of Parks and Recreation, Chabad led families and children in planting sapling cherry trees in Lafayette Park.

Art Space of Their Own

After a year and a half of running programs out of rented space at Center City universities, Chabad House for Students of the Arts is opening its own exhibition and programming space on South Street.

A deaf Indonesian 12-year-old is not your typical bat mitzvah

It took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, a majority Muslim country with an Jewish community that is thought to number in the double digits.

'Son Of Hamas' Visits Mt. Kisco, Draws Large Crowd

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the author of the acclaimed book "Son of Hamas," came to Mount Kisco this week to speak about his troubled times during his young life. The event was hosted by the Chabad of Bedford on Thursday.