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Rabbi Avraham Shemtov joins hundreds in attending the lighting of the National Chanukah Menorah on the Ellipse on the first night of Chanukah in Washington, DC, December 1, 2010 (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via JTA)
May 25, 2022, 1:53 pm
Chabad rabbis seeking return of texts are among many Jews on Russia’s entry ban list
Move seen as possible retaliation for movement’s decades-long effort to recover artifacts taken by the Soviets; rabbis among numerous US Jews targeted by Russia
By Ron Kampeas
Religious leaders from around the world hold a solidarity event in Chernitski, Ukraine, on April 12, 2022. (Elijah Interfaith Institute)
May 1, 2022, 6:27 pm
Religious leaders bring ‘message of hope’ to war-torn Ukraine
Israeli rabbi, American Jewish philanthropist, Chabad rabbi put on interfaith event in Chernivtsi with a message from the pope
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Liron Ederi sits at his desk in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, in 2016. (Chabad.org via JTA)
April 28, 2022, 3:04 am
Zelensky’s parents’ local rabbi: They don’t understand why he wanted to be president
In an interview with an Israeli paper, Rabbi Liron Ederi gives rare insight into the lives of the media-shy parents of Ukraine’s Jewish president
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A rabbi and his students from Oholei Torah in Crown Heights, Brooklyn prepare to hand out shmura matzah to passersby near Lincoln Center in Manhattan, April 12, 2022. (Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)
April 14, 2022, 2:39 am
Chabad stages worldwide celebrations to mark late leader’s 120th birthday
After street parties, Hasidic movement’s emissaries fan out across NYC in ‘mitzvah tanks’ to give out matzah as part of festivities memorializing Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, right, listen to businessman Viktor Vekselberg speak at a ceremony outside the Jewish Museum of Moscow, Russia, on June 4, 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow/via JTA)
April 3, 2022, 4:22 pm
Ukraine invasion puts Chabad of Russia ‘between a rock and a hard place’
The group is simultaneously dealing with strict government laws on speech, a Russian support base crippled by sanctions, and potential Western donors who want stronger condemnation
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Mendel and Rivka Borodkin with their now three-year-old daughter and one-year-old son, in Dnipro, September 2021 (Courtesy)
March 10, 2022, 4:29 pm
Chabad couple, with 11 in tow, races from Ukraine to Israel just in time for Sabbath
During a 3-day rush to Kfar Chabad, Mendel and Rivka Borodkin, who work at a girl’s seminary in Dnipro, had to steer a group through a series of bureaucratic and other hurdles
By Sue Surkes
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
March 3, 2022, 10:42 pm
‘Putin’s rabbi’ calls for end to war in Ukraine, offers to mediate
Berel Lazar says he’s ready to do anything ‘to silence the guns and to stop the bombs,’ after Ukrainian rabbis rail against invasion
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch and his wife, Inna, Chabad emissaries to Kyiv, Ukraine. (Courtesy)
March 1, 2022, 11:19 pm
After departing Ukraine, Kyiv rabbi says he’s working to help those left behind
Rabbi Jonathan Markovich says some people unable to leave the beleaguered Ukrainian capital are still sheltering in synagogue, while others being brought food by volunteers
By Judah Ari Gross
Members of the Chernigov Jewish community gathered in the basement of the synagogue amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 2022 (Courtesy)
February 27, 2022, 10:03 pm
Ukraine rabbi sheltering 35 community members in synagogue basement pleads for help
Yisroel Silberstein of Chernihiv, close to Belarus and Russian borders, says food supplies cannot get through as Jewish homes hit, city bridges bombed or mined
By Sue Surkes
Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch and his wife, Inna, Chabad emissaries in Kyiv, Ukraine, speak to journalists in Israel through Zoom on February 24, 2022. (Screen capture)
February 24, 2022, 4:19 pm
Kyiv rabbi opens synagogue as a refuge: ‘No bomb shelter, but we can be together’
Jewish leader in beleaguered Ukrainian capital fears looting as he stockpiles food, fuel in community center to help the elderly, poor Jews unable to flee the city
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, December 2021. (Emma Goss via JTA)
February 23, 2022, 3:41 pm
Azerbaijan consulate donates funds for California Chabad destroyed by fire
Consul says contribution is ‘in line with Azerbaijan’s longstanding policy of supporting interfaith harmony,’ notes close ties between Baku and Jerusalem
By ryan torok
Viktoria Smyrnova and son Mark. (Courtesy)
February 14, 2022, 4:25 pm
‘My bag’s packed’: Jewish lawyer who fled 2014 Ukraine fight readies for the worst
Viktoria Smyrnova of the Jewish community in Mariupol feels she’s ‘sitting on a bomb,’ as Jewish organizations plan for crisis amid fears of Russian invasion
By Sue Surkes
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