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Putting Children First: Chabad of Los Feliz, CA Dedicates New Center

2 months ago | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

In the Wake of Wildfires, New Center Brings Food, Shelter to Angelinos On December 8, 2024 Chabad of Los Feliz—a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California—dedicated a newly-renovated Chabad Center to serve the neighborhood’s Jewish community, as well as families of young patients in nearby Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The new Chabad House includes a spacious sanctuary, mikvahs, commercial kitchen, and preschool.
Community Heals Together as Moldova Mikva Dedicated

Jan 21, 2025 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

When Chabad of Moldova first built a mikvah back in 2002 they didn’t anticipate Chișinău’s Jewish population boom. Chabad emissary Rabbi Zalman Abelsky, of blessed memory, and his wife Leah moved to Chișinău in 1990, which then counted a Jewish population of 10,000. The Abelskys built Jewish infrastructure, including synagogues, schools, and the country’s first mikvah.
Florida’s Amelia Island Welcomes its First Rabbi

Jan 12, 2025 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

Douglas Greene, a real estate investor, moved to Amelia Island, Florida about 15 years ago. Like many of the island’s residents, Greene and his wife, Carolyn, enjoy the balmy weather and laid-back lifestyle on the island, which, at the northeastern tip of the state of Florida, is the southernmost of the Sea Islands chain along the East Coast. When Greene first moved to the island, there wasn’t much in the way of Jewish life.
Chabad Centers Offer Refuge Amid Raging Wildfires

Jan 9, 2025 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

On either side of them, houses burned. While the fires tearing through the Los Angeles area have left several dead, and entire communities in ruins, Chabad has boots on the ground. “The rabbis and rebbetzins spent most of the day yesterday up in the fire zones trying to assist people,” said Rabbi Chaim Hanoka, of Chabad of Pasadena. “They’re helping to put out fires at the homes of members of our congregation.
Chabad Welcomed in Mountain Principality of Andorra

Dec 1, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

There was a time when Jews were not allowed to stay overnight in Andorra. Now, the country has a Jewish community that will be welcoming its first-ever rabbi. Rabbi Kuty and Rochel Kalmenson have moved from Ningbo, China to the tiny mountainous country to establish Chabad of Andorra and to lead the local Jewish community.
Thousands of Shluchim Gather for Annual Convention, Days After Colleague was Murdered

Nov 28, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

Rabbi Bentzion Butman was on a long, long flight. He was on his way from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to New York City, where this week some 6,500 Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim (emissaries) and their guests will convene for the Kinus, the annual International Conference of Shluchim.
STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH WORLD HEADQUARTERS

Nov 23, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Yehuda Krinsky

We are deeply concerned about Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who went missing in the Emirati city of Dubai on Thursday. Our emissaries are working closely with authorities as they investigate his disappearance. We pray, along with the worldwide Jewish community for his safe return, and we ask everyone to keep Zvi haCohen ben Ettel in your prayers.
Lubbock, Texas Welcomes Chabad Presence

Nov 21, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

It was a Friday afternoon, and the hot, northwest Texas sun was beating down on students as they walked to and from classes along the broad Engineering Key at Texas Tech University. A small folding table stood along the way, a lone figure standing near it. A smiling rabbi, black fedora perched on his head, sleeves rolled up in the Texas heat, asked student after student, “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” Of the more than 40,000 students at Texas Tech this year, some 400 are Jewish.
What Israel Means To Them Now: Shehekhiyonu

Nov 18, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Ruth Wisse |Abraham Sutzkever

Following the events of October 7, I reached back to a poem I committed to memory when I first read it—a poem written when we Jews thought that the worst was already behind us. I was born in East Central Europe in 1936, and raised in Canada as a fortunate immigrant in the 1940s, and I consider it the greatest privilege of my life to have seen the establishment of the state of Israel.
Thousands of Jewish College Students Meet Up at International Shabbaton

Nov 14, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Tzemach Feller

After the year Jewish students have had, Rabbi Ariel Stern knew he had to do something special for them. Rabbi Stern and his wife Mushky have been serving the Jewish student community at Dawson College, in Westmount, Quebec, for nearly a decade. Overall, the school has been a positive space for Jewish students. This year, however, rising antisemitism brought immense challenges for Jewish college students around the world.