Recent Articles

• 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 […]
• Devastated California Jewish Communities Fight Fire With Light - In the midst of back-to-back crises, people are helping neighbors, offering support November 12, 2018
  Voices filled with emotion, Chabad rabbis from across California made clear their determination to help people in need while dealing with the devastation a weekend of at-times uncontrollable fires has wrought on their hometowns. “Paradise is a part of our community,” said Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of the town in Northern California where at least 48 […]