Chabad

May 19, 2023, 2:22 pm

Chabad envoys gather in Morocco, the cradle of the emissary project

Rabbis and their wives, from small communities in about 40 countries, celebrate 70th anniversary of ‘shluchim’ network that’s working to strengthen Jewish life across the globe

By Canaan Lidor

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the lobby of the Citibank headquarters in New York on March 14, 2023. (Courtesy)

March 14, 2023, 9:52 pm

In New York, Smotrich predicts compromise on overhaul that ‘mainstream’ will accept

Finance minister tells Citibank executives ‘noise’ over overhaul will ‘settle down’; meeting with ZOA’s Klein, discusses removing the ‘grandchild clause’ in the Law of Return

By Jacob Magid and Luke Tress

A boy dances to celebrate Purim at a party in a hotel in Berlin, Germany, March 7, 2023. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

March 8, 2023, 6:35 am

Ukrainian refugees celebrate Purim in Berlin, but fears of war linger

Hundreds attend Chabad party in German capital, including dozens of orphans from Odesa and young students, but some remain fearful for relatives back home

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Attendees of a Chabad teen convention in Times Square pose next to the mezuzah affixed to the doorpost of American Eagle Outfitters' flagship store. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)

March 5, 2023, 2:34 pm

American Eagle now has a mezuzah at its Times Square flagship

The popular apparel brand’s CEO Jay L. Schottenstein is well-known for his charitable Jewish contributions, including to Chabad, whose teen program engineered the affixing event

By Jacob Henry

Esther Hecht, the emissary to Auckland, New Zealand, speaks at the annual conference for Chabad women emissaries in New Jersey, February 2023. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)

February 17, 2023, 4:17 am

Chabad women gather in the US once a year. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram

Over 4,000 of the Hasidic group’s emissaries from far-flung locales around the globe meet for annual event in NJ to share strategies and enjoy a moment of in-person connection

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Henya Federman, co-director of Chabad St. Thomas, and her baby. (Courtesy/Chabad.org)

February 11, 2023, 5:22 am

Hundreds of women in NY mourn Chabad emissary who died trying to save her child

Colleagues from around the world gather at movement’s headquarters for funeral procession of Henya Federman, who died after drowning incident in US Virgin Islands

By Jackie Hajdenberg

February 9, 2023, 8:43 am

Chabad emissary dies 2 months after drowning incident in which her baby was killed

Henya Federman had been on life support since November tragedy in US Virgin Islands, where she was serving with her husband and family on behalf of global organization

By ToI Staff

File: Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are seen at the border in Palanca, Moldova, on March 14, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

December 24, 2022, 3:46 am

In Moldova, a tiny Jewish community struggles to stay warm as war rages next door

Skyrocketing fuel costs, inflation make situation dire for already cash-strapped Chisinau, as Ukraine war also brings refugees in

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: New York Giants linebacker Azeez Ojulari (51) defends against the Washington Commanders during an NFL football game, December 4, 2022, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

December 14, 2022, 11:57 pm

Hanukkah menorah lighting to be held on ‘Sunday Night Football’ for first time

Chabad rabbi says candles at Giants-Commanders game will spread the holiday’s ‘light at a time when popular culture reels from antisemitism’

By jacob gurvis

Screen capture from video of Henya Federman, co-director of Chabad St. Thomas, June 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

December 1, 2022, 2:05 pm

Baby drowns; mother, a Chabad emissary, critically injured in Virgin Islands

Henya Federman nearly drowns trying save her 4-month-old daughter who fell into water in Caribbean, where family is deployed by Jewish global organization

By ToI Staff

The Chabad movement's annual convention in Edison, New Jersey, November 20, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

November 22, 2022, 1:06 pm

Daily Briefing Nov. 22: Self-driving buses on the road; Chabad emissaries convene

US reporter Luke Tress discusses an attack thwarted at Penn Station and a Lubavitch convention, as Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David looks at self-driving buses and UAE business

By ToI Staff

An elderly Jewish man in the Dnipro region of Ukraine stands before a delivery of firewood made by JDC as part of an effort to support Ukrainian Jews in advance of a punishing winter. (Courtesy of the JDC via JTA)

November 11, 2022, 4:48 am

As winter approaches, Jewish groups fundraise to ensure Ukrainians able to stay warm

Chabad raising funds to buy hundreds of generators; JFNA announces another $7 million infusion for Ukraine effort; Joint Distribution Committee raising money for blankets

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A Netanya resident wearing a Meretz shirt holds a set of tefillin, or phylacteries, against his crotch at a Chabad booth in Netanya, outside a school where a voting booth is located, on Israel's general elections day, November 1, 2022. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

November 1, 2022, 4:46 pm

Netanya resident detained for holding tefillin against his crotch near voting booth

In a video of the incident, the man is seen wearing a Meretz shirt; left-wing party calls on election authorities to investigate, saying he was likely an imposter

By Tobias Siegal

Illustrative: Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, a Chabad emissary, with congregants at an unfinished synagogue in Sevatopol, Crimea, July 14, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

October 27, 2022, 1:27 pm

Daily Briefing Oct. 27: Chabad navigates Russia, and a green agenda in Sharm

Religion reporter Judah Ari Gross looks at Diaspora concerns in Israeli election and a Lubavitch libel in Moscow; environmental correspondent Sue Surkes previews UN climate confab

By ToI Staff

Zhanetta Butenko's house was partially destroyed when a rocket crashed through its roof in early March, in Hostemel, Ukraine. (Jacob Judah/ via JTA)

September 17, 2022, 11:01 am

‘The Jews have arrived’: In Bucha, a Jewish group distributes sorely needed supplies

Even as private donations dry up, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine says it’s supporting some 37,000 Jewish households at a monthly cost of $3 million

By Jacob Judah