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Karen Schwartz is a freelance writer whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Detroit Jewish News and Red Thread magazine. A Columbia University Journalism School graduate, she hails from Detroit and currently resides in Brooklyn.
Statewide initiative brings 'Bread of Faith' to doorsteps across Michigan
This article is being published in collaboration with the Detroit Jewish News. DETROIT—Levi Eber came in from Arizona to deliver matzah. A yeshivah dorm counselor in Scottsdale, he’s spent the week driving around Traverse City, Michigan, and surrounding a...
Originally named 'Shabbat 1,000' 31 years ago, annual event has outgrown moniker
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 traditio...
Five-day event celebrated those who facilitate Jewish life for 15,000 Jewish service members and their families
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 d...
From coast to coast, a great spiritual awakening
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 at...
Aleph Institute sends student volunteers to more than 100 prisons around the country
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 i...
“The Menorah in the D” draws thousands of college students, residents and guests
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 nig...
Public celebrations hearken back to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem
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 an...
Holidays an opportunity to combat conflict and hate with positive action
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...
Rabbi Avraham Zajac begins online study of Jerusalem Talmud
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 wee...
Shelter, food and supplies in Kelowna
As thousands of people continue to be evacuated following the damage and destruction wrought by wind-swept fires swirling in and around Kelowna, British Columbia, the local Chabad center and Jewish community are providing supplies and lodging for anyone i...
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