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• Teen Wins Table Tennis Gold While Observing Jewish Fast Day - Estee Ackerman’s success while fasting on 10 Tevet precedes singles’ victory over No. 1 Olympic seed December 31, 2018
  That a Shabbat-observant teen on her way to the 2020 Olympics took home the gold for the Under-20 Girls’ Doubles with her partner, Linda Shu, from Texas is an impressive feat. But what made the victory truly extraordinary is that she was competing in the high-energy, high-stress match on Asarah B’Tevet, a Jewish fast day. […]
• Rabbi Gives Cars to Those Who Lost Everything in California Fire - Chabad of Chico initiative helps victims in dire need of transportation December 1, 2018
  When the Camp Fire started in Butte County, Calif., Rachel Begbie and her husband, Paul, were recovering from a severe accident they’d had while on vacation a few weeks earlier, trying to mend from several broken bones and Paul’s jaw, which is also broken and wired shut. Since the fire, which claimed 85 lives, and […]
• With 76 Dead and 1,200 Missing, Sifting Through the Burnt Embers of Paradise - Surrounded by death and destruction, some Jewish residents have lost everything but hope November 19, 2018
  It seemed like just a regular morning in Paradise. It was Nov. 8, and Randy Stein had an early-morning doctor’s appointment in the nearby town of Oroville, Calif. His wife, Lois, joined him, leaving their home intending to return a few hours later. There was nothing to suggest that they would soon have no home […]