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It was a little past 4 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2024, and two members of Melbourne’s Adass Israel Congregation were studying Torah in the synagogue. The first morning services were about two hours away, not unusual for a synagogue where the lights are on well past...

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 t...

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, establ...

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 N...

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 liv...

Five weeks after massive terrorist attacks rocked Israel and the Jewish people on Oct. 7, 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 co...

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 Chovev...

At 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 t...

Chaim Pinson was celebrating Shemini Atzeret in Brooklyn and was ready to retire for the night. It was Friday, and Pinson had spent a joyous evening dancing with the Torah at the central Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Coming...

It’s a quiet, no-frills operation. Many have never heard of it, but amid the hustle and bustle of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, N.Y., a neighborhood heavily populated by émigrés from the former Soviet Union, 15,000 lives have been changed and countless futu...