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Jan 15, 2025 | 
tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Mendel Super
Chabad centers in affected areas prepare for a day of rest amid ashen landscapeBy: Mendel SuperAs the massive fires spreading through the greater Los Angeles area burn into a fourth day, Jews across the region are preparing for Shabbat amid the smoke, ash and rubble. Many are homeless, evacuated and in shock.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
chabad.org | Mendel Super
As the massive fires spreading through the greater Los Angeles area burn into a fourth day, Jews across the region are preparing for Shabbat amid the smoke, ash and rubble. Many are homeless, evacuated and in shock. But, like a beacon, Chabad centers in the affected areas are still operating, reaching out to community members, preparing food packages and gearing up for an influx of people at Shabbat services and meals.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mondorfestival.fr | Mendel Super
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
collive.com | Mendel Super
By Mendel Super – Chabad.orgAfter more than a millennium without a rabbi, the tiny principality of Andorra is making Jewish history this month as Rabbi Kuty Kalmenson, his wife Rochel, and their five children arrive to establish the nation’s first permanent rabbinic presence, establishing Chabad-Lubavitch of Andorra. For every inhabitant of Andorra, there are about 25 tourists a year.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
chabad.org | Mendel Super
After more than a millennium without a rabbi, the tiny principality of Andorra is making Jewish history this month as Rabbi Kuty Kalmenson, his wife Rochel, and their five children arrive to establish the nation’s first permanent rabbinic presence, establishing Chabad-Lubavitch of Andorra. For every inhabitant of Andorra, there are about 25 tourists a year. The high-elevation European micronation, nestled between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains, has a population of 85,000.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
chabad.org | Mendel Super
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz.—Tzion Maron, an 8-year-old boy visiting northern Arizona with his family from Baltimore, went missing on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. as he and his family made their way out of Lava Cave, a popular subterranean trail in the Coconino National Forest just outside of Flagstaff, Ariz. “When they came out of the cave, the kid was gone—lost in the woods,” Rabbi Dovie Shapiro, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Flagstaff, told Chabad.org.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
chabad.org | Mendel Super
In 2008, Harley Finkelstein was a young law student at the University of Ottawa when he told Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky that he’d like to one day help purchase a building for Chabad at the campus. At the time, Chabad was being run out of the Boyarsky family living room. “I was a poor law student; I wasn’t a rich kid,” Finkelstein, today the president of the online shopping platform Shopify, tells Chabad.org.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
chabad.org | Mendel Super
Five weeks after massive terrorist attacks rocked Israel and the Jewish people on Oct. 7th, rabbis and lay leaders from around the globe are gathering in New York for the largest conference of rabbis in the world. Representing the full spectrum of Jewish communities, some 6,500 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and lay leaders have arrived in the Big Apple to attend the International Conference of Chabad Emissaries (known also as the Kinus Hashluchim).
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
chabad.org | Mendel Super
This Holocaust survivor’s bar mitzvah was 89 years in the making. Alex Kernish, 18, was supposed to be studying at the Mayanot Institute in Jerusalem this year. When the war in Israel broke out three weeks ago, he enrolled instead for a semester at Chovevei Torah, a yeshivah in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. A native of Issaquah, Wash., Kernish was spending the afternoon of Oct.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
thejewishvoice.com | Sholom Schreirber |Mendel Super
By: Mendel SuperAt 7 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7, air-raid sirens blared in Ofakim, a town in southern Israel about 10 miles from the Gaza Strip. Rachel and David Edri made their way to the bomb shelter. After the all clear, they returned to their house. Things were about to get worse. “I saw five ‘Rottweilers’ breaking through my windows,” Rachel Edri told Israel’s Channel 13, describing the moment Hamas terrorists infiltrated her home on Simchat Torah, one of many across southern Israel that morning.
