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Chareidim Rally At Kikar Shabbos To Wipe Out Chareidi Violence

Hundreds of members of the Meah Shearim community and supporters protested at Kikar Shabbos on Wednesday, decrying the recent violence that has plagued the community.The protest was against the violence seen in Meah Shearim and Geula over recent weeks, which culminated in the violent beating of a Meah Shearim resident by a group of chassidim a night earlier. The victim ...

Chanukah Celebration Features Doughnut Menorah

Eight-year-old Aliza and 6-year-old Nochi Zeines drizzled chocolate on a pair of doughnuts, plopped on a dab of whipped cream and finished them off with a handful of sprinkles.Then their father, Sholom Zeines, slid the treats over one of the branches of an 8-foot-high menorah.“It’s a work of art,” Zeines told his children with a laugh. “You have a future ...

Chanukah around the world with Chabad

In town squares and shopping malls, at city landmarks, in public parks and well traveled highways, Chabad’s Chanukah menorahs illuminate the skies with their lights, ensuring that the holiday’s messages of goodness and light and hope reach all people everywhere. Chabad’s holiday awareness programs with olive presses and dreidel houses, menorahs carved of ice, chocolate and every conceivable material, have ...

Chag Sameach! Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah Start Tonight

The eight day festival that consists of Sukkot and Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah comes to an end Thursday night, bringing an end to the holiday season and starting the regular year.In Israel, a popular expression is “Acharei Hachagim” – lets’ wait till after the holidays – as the entire country seems to put off whatever it can from Rosh Hashanah until the day after Shmini ...

Chabad Takes on Hackers

Chabad is weighing in on the recent cyber attacks on Israel: One of the cyber war’s most recent victims was the Ness Ziona Chabad House website, and the Hasidic movement has decided to meet the digital onslaught head on.The Chabad house appealed to the hackers with practical advice on better ways to spend their time, suggesting they try a more meaningful ...

Chabad Sponsors ‘Kosher’ Lag Ba’omer Festival

As Lag Ba’omer approaches, Israelis are stockpiling wood and boards for bonfires and wrapping potatoes in aluminum foil in anticipation of the holiday. The country’s biggest children’s stars are also getting into gear for Chabad’s inaugural “Festilag” – a “kosher” version of the popular Festigal that will put on free performances throughout Israel.Some of the biggest names in Israeli children’s ...

Chabad Spokesman Dismisses Christianity Allegations

A prominent Chabad figure has been accused by participants in an ultra-Orthodox online forum of adopting Christian symbols to describe a Jewish event, following an article he wrote in an official Chabad publication.Chabad spokesman Rabbi Menachem Brod sparked a lively debate in the Haredi forum “Stop, Thinking Here,” when he referred to bread and wine as allegories for flesh and ...

Chabad.org App Reminds People to Keep Resolutions

A little nagging’s not so bad – if it’s electronic. That’s the idea behind a new email-alert service a group of Crown Heights rabbis devised to prod people to keep their Jewish New Year’s resolutions.“[It] can nag you once a day. It can nag you weekly, monthly, but it rests on Shabbat,” Rabbi Motti Seligson, 30, said of the Resolution ...

Chabad: Oprah explores Hassidic life in Brooklyn

TV personality Oprah Winfrey toured the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights on Wednesday for a rare glimpse at the lives of Brooklyn’s Hassidic Jews, the Chabad organization’s website announced on Wednesday.The segment, set to air next week on Winfrey’s new show Oprah’s Next Chapter, featured a discussion with Hassidic women about the ultra Orthodox community’s lifestyle ...

Chabad Opens Jewish School in Lenin’s Birthplace

Excitement filled the air as approximately 60 enthusiastic children, parents, grandparents and teachers celebrated the grand opening of the first Jewish childhood education center in Vladimir Lenin’s birthplace of Ulyanovsk, Russia.Aptly named the “School of Dreams,” the Chabad-Lubavitch run institution is open three days a week for children between the ages of six and 15. Offerings include Jewish traditions, Jewish ...

Chabad Offers Food, Shelter and Comfort During Storm

While residents throughout the Northeast were assessing damage to their property in the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, Rabbi Moshe and Leah Shemtov, Shluchim to Stamford, CT, were preparing the Chabad Center to help the many who were without power.Emails and text messages were sent out, letting members of the Stamford community know that shelter and warm food were available ...

Chabad of the Conejo Celebrates Milestone

Five hundred friends and supporters of Chabad of the Conejo gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, California, for a gala Banquet event celebrating the organization’s recent momentous opening of its new Center for Jewish Life in Agoura Hills, and its commitment to continued growth in the months and years ahead. The theme of the evening was “From ...