Karen Schwartz

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Thousands Gather for Festive 'Shabbat 2400' at Binghamton University - Originally named 'Shabbat 1,000' 31 years ago, annual event has outgrown moniker

2 weeks ago | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Nearly 2,000 students, alumni, faculty and supporters gathered on a recent Friday night for Chabad-Lubavitch at Binghamton’s 31st annual mega Shabbat celebration. Held at the university Events Center, it celebrated Jewish pride with an evening of traditional food and community. On a regular Shabbat, the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life at Binghamton University hosts about 600 students at its main center near campus and another 100 students at a downtown location.
Over 200 Jewish Servicemen Gather for Annual Aleph Conference - The five day conference celebrated those who facilitate Jewish life for over 15,000 Jewish service members and their families

3 weeks ago | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Over the course of five days in early March, the streets of Bal Harbor, Fla., were filled with Jewish men and women who had flown in from around the world. However, these were not the typical religious Jews who normally walk the streets. These Jews were dressed in full military regalia. One of the attendees was Doc Bleich, who spent the better part of a recent week doing important learning.
In Post-Oct. 7 World, Bringing In the New Year With Jewish Resolutions - From coast to coast, a great spiritual awakening

Oct 7, 2024 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Aaron Lee was raised in San Francisco’s Jewish community. But it wasn’t until recently, when some Chabad boys in his San Francisco neighborhood stopped him to put on tefillin, that he suddenly felt the need to delve deeper into Jewish study. The Oct. 7 attack on Israel had left him wary of antisemitism, he says, as did the secular world’s conversation around it. He’d been a writer and even quit writing.
Chanukah Comes to the Incarcerated and Their Families - Aleph Institute sends student volunteers to more than 100 prisons around the country

Dec 13, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Chanukah isn’t over yet, and rabbinical students Mendel Leverton and Zalman Kaplan have already covered nearly 1,000 miles of Ohio this week. The purpose of their roadtrip? Visiting Jewish inmates across the state, bringing the light and joy of Chanukah into society’s darkest corner: the prison system. The students have been to around a dozen prisons on their journey.
In Downtown Detroit, Menorah Lighting an Antidote to Antisemitism - ‘Menorah in the D’ draws thousands of college students, residents and guests

Dec 13, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

It’s finals week at Michigan State University—when every available moment is usually spent studying—but senior Alex Mision and a group of Chabad on Campus students stopped what they were doing and got on a bus from East Lansing to Detroit on the first night of Chanukah to take part in a public menorah-lighting.
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Oct 3, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

A Jew entered the Alter Rebbe’s study and said, “Rebbe, I am a simple man. Please explain to me: What is this holiday of Shemini Atzeret?”The Alter Rebbe held his head in his hands for a moment. Then he answered:“For a long journey, you might make a concentrate of the food and drink you will need for the way. At...
Sukkot Street Parties Bring Joyous Holiday Mitzvahs to Cities Around the World - Public celebrations hearken back to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem

Sep 28, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Aliza Shabani, of Whitefish Bay, Wis., grew up celebrating Sukkot with her family in Los Angeles. When she moved to the Badger State in 2017, she was looking for a way to connect with the holiday. She called a local Chabad House and found out about the annual community-wide street party put on by Chabad-Lubavitch of Wisconsin. “I loved the vibe; you find the community together, you feel the positive energy,” she says.
Record Turnouts Hail Jewish New Year With Public Pride and Faith - Holidays an opportunity to combat conflict and hate with positive action

Sep 14, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

In June, a small but loud group of neo-Nazis brandishing swastikas and other hate symbols picketed Chabad of Cobb County in Marietta, Ga. The antisemitic incident was universally condemned, but the Chabad community’s reaction went deeper, with an emphasis on increasing synagogue attendance and commitments to positive action.
Chabad.org Series on Mishneh Torah Completed at Maimonides’ Gravesite - Rabbi Avraham Zajac begins online study of Jerusalem Talmud

Sep 7, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Over the past year, thousands of online students have been studying Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah daily through the engrossing classes on Chabad.org given by master teacher Rabbi Avraham Zajac, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of South La Cienega, Calif. Last week, a group of Californians who had been spending about an hour and a half every morning with Rabbi Zajac traveled with him to Tiberias, Israel, to complete their study.
Chabad.org Series on Mishneh Torah Completed at Maimonides’s Gravesite - Rabbi Avraham Zajac begins online study of Jerusalem Talmud

Sep 7, 2023 | chabad.org | Karen Schwartz

Over the past year, thousands of online students have been studying Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah daily through the engrossing classes on Chabad.org given by master teacher Rabbi Avraham Zajac, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of South La Cienega, Calif. Last week, a group of Californians who had been spending about an hour and a half every morning with Rabbi Zajac traveled with him to Tiberias, Israel, to complete their study.

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Articles

Thousands Gather for Festive 'Shabbat 2400' at Binghamton University - Originally named 'Shabbat 1,000' 31 years ago, annual event has outgrown moniker

Over 200 Jewish Servicemen Gather for Annual Aleph Conference - The five day conference celebrated those who facilitate Jewish life for over 15,000 Jewish service members and their families

In Post-Oct. 7 World, Bringing In the New Year With Jewish Resolutions - From coast to coast, a great spiritual awakening

Chanukah Comes to the Incarcerated and Their Families - Aleph Institute sends student volunteers to more than 100 prisons around the country

In Downtown Detroit, Menorah Lighting an Antidote to Antisemitism - ‘Menorah in the D’ draws thousands of college students, residents and guests

Jewish News

Sukkot Street Parties Bring Joyous Holiday Mitzvahs to Cities Around the World - Public celebrations hearken back to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem

Record Turnouts Hail Jewish New Year With Public Pride and Faith - Holidays an opportunity to combat conflict and hate with positive action

Chabad.org Series on Mishneh Torah Completed at Maimonides’ Gravesite - Rabbi Avraham Zajac begins online study of Jerusalem Talmud

Chabad.org Series on Mishneh Torah Completed at Maimonides’s Gravesite - Rabbi Avraham Zajac begins online study of Jerusalem Talmud

Journalists covering the same region

Matt Austin

Summer Huechtker

Gannon Medwick

Benjamin Schachtman

Gareth McGrath

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