Jacob Scheer

On a freezing December night in 1986, a young rabbi stood in a Baltimore suburb trying to light a seven-foot wooden menorah he’d built himself. He didn’t know it then, but this simple act would transform not just his community, but generations of Jewish f...

Good grades, social life, a good night’s sleep—pick two out of the three. This humorous rubric generally describes how many college students manage their packed schedules. But this weekend, more than 2,000 Jewish college students are making room for a fou...

While Hurricane Melissa has devastated Jamaica and dominated news coverage in the United States, another deadly natural disaster has been making waves across the world. Last week, Typhoon Fengshen brought devastating rainfall to central Vietnam, causing h...

History was made in 1620, when the 102 passengers aboard the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock on the shores of what would later become the United States of America. Fast-forward a few centuries, the site bore witness to another historic event: a public m...

For Jewish students at Columbia University, there is fear in the air. A cloud of blatant anti-Jewish hate has cast its ugly pall over the campus.In the face of fears, Rabbi Yuda Drizin, who co-directs Chabad-Lubavitch at Columbia with his wife, Naomi, thi...

Amid war in Israel, hundreds of students, alumni, faculty members, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the United States, and local and state officials gathered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the...

After a merciless assault by Hamas left more 1,300 Israelis slain and at least 3,968 wounded, terrorists in Gaza are holding hostage more than 199 civilians and soldiers, including foreign nationals. Throughout Jewish history, those who lost their lives f...

As people around the world are stepping up to show their support for Israel and the Jewish people, one Missouri restaurateur is taking solidarity to a whole new level. Working closely with Rabbi Chaim Landa of the Chabad Jewish Center of St. Charles Count...

Early morning on June 6, an explosion destroyed part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam upstream of Kherson, Ukraine. The millions of gallons of water that flowed from the stricken dam flooded the banks of the Dnipro River, and the towns and ci...