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For Helga Melmed, helping children enjoy their Judaism is reclaiming what was taken from her
Helga Arndtheim had her childhood stolen by the Nazis and spent her teenage years struggling to survive Auschwitz and other concentration camps. More than eight decades later, Helga— now Helga Melmed— spends her summers reclaiming a piece of what she had ...
Rabbi who administers site says damage is devastating, but pledges to rebuild bigger and better
A fire tore through the main visitors center and synagogue near the gravesite of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, in Haditch, Ukraine, on Friday night. The blaze reduced the center, one of the most visited Jewish sit...
Siberia Chabad rabbi presides over Jewish burial delayed nearly a century
Among Rabbi Binyamin Wagner's responsibilities as Chief Rabbi of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia is arranging Jewish burials for members of the local community. In that regard, the funeral he presided over last week was fairly typical. What made it...
Co-authored with Australian journalist Nikki Goldstein, new book explores faith and purpose through prism of Jewish universal values
The Seven Noahide Laws form the universal code more people need to know about. Dating back to the aftermath of the Great Flood, these seven commandments were given to all of the children of Noah, in other words, all of humanity. Some generations later, du...
Shavuot was a weeks-long experience in the Rebbe’s court
For the past 3,338 years, the holiday of Shavuot has commemorated G-d’s giving of the Torah to the Jewish people at Sinai. Chassidut teaches that it is not just a commemoration, but that the yearly celebration is, in fact, a re-living of the revelation th...
Rabbi Liraz Zeira displayed resilience and even joy in face of his new reality
Just over seven months ago, Rabbi Liraz Zeira, a Chabad on Campus rabbi in Jerusalem, was fighting for his life in a hospital after being severely injured in combat in Syria. This week, he returned to a hospital under far happier circumstances: the birth ...
Children and staff of Chabad’s Mishpacha Ukraine children’s home safe
Missile strikes, air raid sirens, and scenes of widespread destruction are all too familiar in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa, where Russia has carried out near-constant bombardments for more than four years. On Wednesday night, one strike hit especially c...
Laid groundwork for a wide range of activities in both New York and Cleveland
The 1970s are widely regarded as a pivot of change in history. Coups, conflicts, wars, sweeping economic and social upheaval, and the dawn of the “Me” generation. It was an era of change in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as well: In the 1970s the Rebbe, Ra...
The story behind the seder waiting for you anywhere in the world
Come March each year, two reminders arrive like clockwork: your accountant tells you it’s time to file your taxes, and your local Chabad center lets you know that there’s a seat waiting for you at their communal Passover seder. Public seders organized by ...
The Rebbe took time on the busy night to make sure diverse groups had what they needed to celebrate
The Passover seder night is rich with once-a-year mitzvos, layered customs, and the recitation of the Haggadah, one of the most extensively studied texts in Jewish literature. The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, authored a master...
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