Mendel Scheiner

Mikvah Chana in Tzfat has opened a new visitor center featuring a 40-foot mural that traces the spiritual history of mikvah through Jewish tradition. The Otzar Hataharah visitor center transforms the mikvah experience for local women and visitors to the m...

In November 2024, following a Maccabi Tel Aviv football match, Israeli fans were ambushed across Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands. Victims whom the attackers assumed were Jewish were chased, beaten and robbed. One man was heard begging, “I a...

Hundreds gathered in Dublin’s Herzog Park on the second night of Chanukah, Dec. 15, to watch Rabbi Zalman Lent kindle a large public menorah, lighting up the winter night in a defiant show of Jewish pride. The cross-communal event, put on in conjunction w...

A monumental public art menorah will be unveiled in Boulder, Colo., this Chanukah, lighting up the same site where a deadly antisemitic attack took place earlier this year. The piece represents months of work by the artist Yitzchok Moully, the Boulder com...

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...

This year, a group of five Chabad rabbinical students will embark on their most ambitious journey yet—bringing the light of Chanukah to Jews scattered across Colorado’s remote mountain communities. “Chanukah in the Rockies” will expand to four towns durin...

Rabbi Chaim Brikman, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Sea Gate and Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., shepherded his community through a hurricane and flooding, a synagogue fire and other challenges all while battling serious illness that never broke his spirit ...

In the prayer hall, blackened books, used to start the inferno, sat in piles, their ashen pages scattered across the floor. “We took it very hard,” said Rabbi Menachem Glitzenstein, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. “I took it hard; the...

For the past two years, Kobi Kalfon has regularly journeyed to New York. With his son, Segev, chained beneath Gaza, kidnapped during the Palestinian attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Kobi would enter the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens to pray at the Oh...

In 1975, Aryeh and Tova Hinda Siegel were among the 1,500 people filling the Hollywood Palace Theater for a taping of “The Merv Griffin Show.” Applause shook the room. Hundreds leapt to their feet. All eyes were fixed on one man. On the stage sat a bearde...