Mendel Super

Under the rural northwestern Arizona scorching sun, I trekked through the dusty red rows of the cemetery, looking for a grave with no name. The investigator had told me that the deceased person I was looking for rested at the end of a row in the county se...

Kalgoorlie sits 370 miles east of Perth, the closest large city in Western Australia. A dusty and forgotten mining town with no landmarks for hours in either direction, Kalgoorlie boomed during the gold rush of the 1890s, when it was briefly home to a Jew...

The first thing that hit them was the quiet. Georgetown, where Rabbis Mendel Zaklikovsky and Schneur Deren landed, is the capital of Guyana, one of the least densely populated countries on earth. “It was a long drive from the airport to our rental,” Zakli...

When his health began to decline, Paul-Loup Sulitzer turned to his local Chabad rabbi. The famed French intellectual, financer and author had grown close to the rabbi following his retirement to Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean off the coast...

It was a little past 4 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2024, and two members of Melbourne’s Adass Israel Congregation were studying Torah in the synagogue. The first morning services were about two hours away, not unusual for a synagogue where the lights are on well past...

As the massive fires spreading through the greater Los Angeles area burn into a fourth day, Jews across the region are preparing for Shabbat amid the smoke, ash and rubble. Many are homeless, evacuated and in shock. But, like a beacon, Chabad centers in t...

After more than a millennium without a rabbi, the tiny principality of Andorra is making Jewish history this month as Rabbi Kuty Kalmenson, his wife Rochel, and their five children arrive to establish the nation’s first permanent rabbinic presence, establ...

LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz.—Tzion Maron, an 8-year-old boy visiting northern Arizona with his family from Baltimore, went missing on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. as he and his family made their way out of Lava Cave, a popular subterranean trail in the Coconino N...

In 2008, Harley Finkelstein was a young law student at the University of Ottawa when he told Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky that he’d like to one day help purchase a building for Chabad at the campus. At the time, Chabad was being run out of the Boyarsky family liv...

Five weeks after massive terrorist attacks rocked Israel and the Jewish people on Oct. 7, rabbis and lay leaders from around the globe are gathering in New York for the largest conference of rabbis in the world. Representing the full spectrum of Jewish co...