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Chabad Lubavitch

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Tatiana Kovler, a Jewish social worker, is one of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians who had to flee their homes following the rupture of a dam on the Dnipro river in Ukraine on June 6, 2023. (Courtesy of Tatiana Kovler)
June 13, 2023, 12:52 am
As Kherson floods, one evacuee plans return to aid city’s hardy Jewish holdouts
Tatiana Kovler, a social worker with the JDC who fled rising waters, is in constant contact with clients who have remained in the city despite intense bombings and now flooding
By Canaan Lidor
A local resident makes her way through a flooded road after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, Jun 6, 2023. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
June 6, 2023, 8:34 pm
Kherson Jews among thousands forced to flee rising water after Ukraine dam rupture
Some 20 Jewish families living in low-lying areas of frontline southern city being aided by community, says rabbi, with help also planned for those in danger in countryside
By Canaan Lidor
Chabad rabbis tour the old city of Fez, Morocco on May 18, 2023. (Avi Winner - Merkos 302)
May 19, 2023, 2:22 pm
Chabad envoys gather in Morocco, the cradle of the emissary project
Rabbis and their wives, from small communities in about 40 countries, celebrate 70th anniversary of ‘shluchim’ network that’s working to strengthen Jewish life across the globe
By Canaan Lidor
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the lobby of the Citibank headquarters in New York on March 14, 2023. (Courtesy)
March 14, 2023, 9:52 pm
In New York, Smotrich predicts compromise on overhaul that ‘mainstream’ will accept
Finance minister tells Citibank executives ‘noise’ over overhaul will ‘settle down’; meeting with ZOA’s Klein, discusses removing the ‘grandchild clause’ in the Law of Return
By Jacob Magid and Luke Tress
Chana Raskin and her Raza circle who recorded 'Kapalya', an album of sacred Lubavitch tunes, sung by women, released February 22, 2023 (Courtesy Chana Raskin)
March 12, 2023, 5:20 am
Barrier-busting women-only album of Hasidic tunes gives new voice to aging nigunim
‘Kapelya’ marks the debut album for Chana Raskin, whose Chabad upbringing led her into exploring sacred music with other women, breaking into a club once reserved solely for men
By Jessica Steinberg
A boy dances to celebrate Purim at a party in a hotel in Berlin, Germany, March 7, 2023. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
March 8, 2023, 6:35 am
Ukrainian refugees celebrate Purim in Berlin, but fears of war linger
Hundreds attend Chabad party in German capital, including dozens of orphans from Odesa and young students, but some remain fearful for relatives back home
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Attendees of a Chabad teen convention in Times Square pose next to the mezuzah affixed to the doorpost of American Eagle Outfitters' flagship store. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)
March 5, 2023, 2:34 pm
American Eagle now has a mezuzah at its Times Square flagship
The popular apparel brand’s CEO Jay L. Schottenstein is well-known for his charitable Jewish contributions, including to Chabad, whose teen program engineered the affixing event
By Jacob Henry
Esther Hecht, the emissary to Auckland, New Zealand, speaks at the annual conference for Chabad women emissaries in New Jersey, February 2023. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)
February 17, 2023, 4:17 am
Chabad women gather in the US once a year. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram
Over 4,000 of the Hasidic group’s emissaries from far-flung locales around the globe meet for annual event in NJ to share strategies and enjoy a moment of in-person connection
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Henya Federman, co-director of Chabad St. Thomas, and her baby. (Courtesy/Chabad.org)
February 11, 2023, 5:22 am
Hundreds of women in NY mourn Chabad emissary who died trying to save her child
Colleagues from around the world gather at movement’s headquarters for funeral procession of Henya Federman, who died after drowning incident in US Virgin Islands
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A couple prepares to step on a glass, a symbol in Jewish weddings, after their Jewish ceremony in Boston, February 7, 2023. (Igor Klimov via JTA)
February 11, 2023, 1:31 am
Boston Chabad marries 3 couples who were barred from having Jewish weddings in USSR
‘It was my dream’: Ukraine-born husbands and wives, married for a collective 125 years, stand under huppah for 1st time because religious ceremonies were illegal in Soviet Union
By Penny Schwartz
Henya Federman, co-director of Chabad St. Thomas, and her baby. (Courtesy/Chabad.org)
February 9, 2023, 8:43 am
Chabad emissary dies 2 months after drowning incident in which her baby was killed
Henya Federman had been on life support since November tragedy in US Virgin Islands, where she was serving with her husband and family on behalf of global organization
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, January 20, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
January 21, 2023, 8:28 am
Putin fires top official who described Chabad as a supremacist cult
No reason given for dismissal of assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council Aleksey Pavlov, but reports noted his controversial statement
By ToI Staff
File: Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are seen at the border in Palanca, Moldova, on March 14, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 24, 2022, 3:46 am
In Moldova, a tiny Jewish community struggles to stay warm as war rages next door
Skyrocketing fuel costs, inflation make situation dire for already cash-strapped Chisinau, as Ukraine war also brings refugees in
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: New York Giants linebacker Azeez Ojulari (51) defends against the Washington Commanders during an NFL football game, December 4, 2022, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
December 14, 2022, 11:57 pm
Hanukkah menorah lighting to be held on ‘Sunday Night Football’ for first time
Chabad rabbi says candles at Giants-Commanders game will spread the holiday’s ‘light at a time when popular culture reels from antisemitism’
By jacob gurvis
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