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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

In this image circulated to Israeli media, Jonathan Pollard and Rivka Abrahams-Dinon, who are engaged to be married according to their announcement September, 14, 2022.

September 15, 2022, 2:06 am

Former spy Jonathan Pollard engaged to be married

This will be Pollard’s third marriage after he lost his late wife Esther earlier this year; bride-to-be is a mother of 7 from Jerusalem

By TOI staff

An Emirati government official, center, greets Lea Hadad, left, and UAE Rabbi Levi Duchman during their wedding in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sept. 14, 2022. (Sami Sasso)

September 14, 2022, 11:52 pm

Chabad couple holds UAE’s largest Jewish wedding on Abraham Accords anniversary

Around 1,500 guests, including Emirati royals, take part in wedding of UAE Chabad emissary Rabbi Levi Duchman; celebration considered largest Jewish event in UAE history

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A passerby attacks an ultra-Orthodox man on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2022. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

September 7, 2022, 12:29 pm

Man to be charged for assaulting Haredi man in Tel Aviv

Police to also ask court to hold 26-year-old resident of Pardes Hanna until end of legal proceedings; victim was walking down Allenby Street when he was shoved to the ground

By TOI staff

September 6, 2022, 11:46 am

Man arrested on suspicion of shoving Haredi man to the ground in Tel Aviv

Police say they are questioning 26-year-old resident of Pardes Hanna; victim was walking down Allenby Street when he was pushed over

By TOI staff

September 5, 2022, 7:00 pm

Ultra-Orthodox man shoved to the ground by another man on Tel Aviv street

Victim was out encouraging passersby to lay tefillin; UTJ Knesset member calls for attacker to be charged with hate crime

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Israeli doctors from LeMa'anam - For Their Sake: Physicians for Holocaust Survivors - give medical assistance to a Jewish Ukrainian who fled a war zone in Ukraine, at an emergency shelter in Chisinau, Moldova, March 13, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)

July 13, 2022, 7:01 pm

Survey hails Jewish, Israeli aid groups’ Ukraine war response

Report by the OLAM umbrella group finds organizations worked well together during the crisis; interviewees express discomfort at prioritizing Jews, found amateurs got in the way

By Judah Ari Gross

Robert (Bobby) E. Crimo III. (City of Highland Park Police Department via AP)

July 5, 2022, 12:45 pm

Chabad rabbi says alleged July 4 Chicago shooter entered his synagogue

Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz, whose house of worship is near the site of Monday’s shooting in heavily Jewish Highland Park, says Robert Crimo wore a yarmulke but ‘seemed out of place’

By TOI staff and Agencies