Current Events

Rabbi Shimon Pelman, the director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic who crossed the border into neighboring Haiti on Friday, described the contrasts as day and night. With hours to go until the onset of Shabbat,he counseled survivors in the de...

Since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students have been making daily trips to Israel Defense Force encampments to encourage the soldiers fighting on the front lines.

As Israel completed its fifth day of air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Israeli cities terrorized by Palestinian-fired rockets counseled frightened residents and soldiers. In the coastal city of Ashkelon, n...

Light returned to the city of Mumbai, India, on Thursday with a pair of public Chanukah menorah lightings organized by Chabad-Lubavitch at sites targeted in last month’s terror attacks that killed more than 170 people.

Hundreds of Jewish children throughout S. Barbara, Calif., gathered outside an area mall Sunday night to personally decorate the “Unity Menorah” erected by the local Chabad-Lubavitch center. Part of the “Unite the Lights” national campaign, the event urge...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined Chabad-Lubavitch of California and local Jewish community leaders to inaugurate a 13-foot menorah at the foot of the capitol. In a Dec. 18 speech making note of the need to spread light throughout the world, the governor ...

It didn’t take long for Hurricane Sandy to destroy most everything at the Chabad Neshama Center in West Brighton Beach, N.Y., but the water didn’t claim the institution’s Torah scrolls.

The Brighton Beach, N.Y., affiliate of the Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe issued an urgent call for donations and support following the destruction of Hurricane Sandy, which flooded its ground-floor synagogue and Mazel Day School and inflicted dama...