Recent Articles from Chabad.org

• Scouted by the Major Leagues, Nevada Teen Won’t Play on Shabbat - A teen’s love of Judaism comes before everything, he says January 14, 2021
  For decades, Jewish baseball fans have looked to Sandy Koufax as a role model for refusing to pitch in game one of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. While that stood out as an example for Jews everywhere, one Nevada teen is hoping to take it a step further and become […]
• Jewish U.S. Marine Vet Comes to the Rescue in Anti-Semitic Attack on Kentucky Campus - It was latest in series of incidents at the University of Kentucky December 14, 2020
  A Jewish veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps is being hailed as a hero after he was injured in an anti-Semitic attack Saturday night during a menorah-lighting outside Chabad at the University of Kentucky Jewish Student Center in Lexington, Ky. As volunteers and staff from the campus Chabad center were preparing for a Hanukkah menorah-lighting […]
• 350,000 Hanukkah Kits to Help Families Celebrate at Home During Pandemic - Part of a global effort by Chabad that will reach 8 million Jews December 3, 2020
  Traditionally, when Hanukkah comes around, Mara Egorin-Williams and her family are quite busy, what with relatives and friends visiting, festive meals, games of dreidel, and, of course, the menorah-lighting. Then there are the myriad holiday events outside the home during the eight days of the holiday, which this year begins on the evening of Thursday, […]