An emotional, uplifting start to our Annual Kinus HaShluchim (Conference for Chabad on Campus Rabbis) at the Lubavitcher Rebbe's resting place. 130+ campus Rabbis from 4 countries have gathered for 3 days of recharging, bonding and brotherhood with their fellow Shluchim. 📷

Miss me with the "hide your Judaism when traveling" advice. They want us to hide. Our response needs to be doubling down on Jewish pride.

Tonight we celebrate Rabbi Zvi Kogan's HY”D 29th birthday. Rabbi Zvi was a pillar in our UAE community. A man of boundless kindness who was tragically taken from us at such a young age. Since his passing, I’ve heard countless stories from people of every background, religion,

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My daughter starts online preschool next week, her classmates are chabad reps in: McAllen, Texas Erie, Pennsylvania Duluth, Minnesota Winchester, Virginia Fargo, North Dakota Wilmington, Delaware Milton Keynes, England Providence, Rhode Island

I took a look at the nearly 100 Chabad rabbis serving in the IDF, doing what they do best: bringing Judaism wherever it's needed.

Not long before Israel's basketball team clinched a Eurobasket spot with an upset win over Belgium, they took a moment to hear the shofar together, sounded by Chabad Rabbi Refael Popack of Chabad in Katowice, Poland.

The descent into political violence is horrific. We need to center the humanity of every person above all - understanding that we are endowed with divine purpose by our Creator.

I spoke with a retired union worker from Arizona and an English professor from Washington. As kids, their families were rejected from shul because they couldn't pay to pray. Now, they will be joining Chabad for High Holiday services, a result of Chabad's eschewing pay-to-pray.

Yom Kippur is 60 years since Sandy Koufax didn't pitch Game 1 of the '65 World Series. The next day, my grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Feller, visited Koufax. "You've done more for Jewish pride and observance than any rabbi," he told Koufax, and gifted him a pair of (lefty!) tefillin."

Coconut water and slow release caffeine pills for me, works like a charm

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Global Presence, Personal Connection, Internal Joy.

Two pioneer shluchim dance: Between them, they have served for more than 100 years. Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, who directs Chabad in California, dances with Rabbi Moshe Feller, who directs Chabad in Minnesota. These early Chabad-Lubavitch representatives have each led their communities

Please say Psalms 20 & 21 for my son, Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, יהודה לייב בן מאניא who was shot in a terrorist attack at a Chanukah event he was running for Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, Australia. The Chabad Rabbi he was working with Rabbi Eli Schlanger HY”D was killed. Praying for

Sitting on a very long plane ride to Australia from Texas, while still grappling with the lives lost & communicating with the hospital as my son Leibel goes into multiple surgeries for his life threatening injuries. Leibel was spreading light, helping a community thrive,

After the TLV-JFK flight was diverted to MSP, calls and messages to Chabad came in from 300 Jewish passengers, and I've joined local Chabad reps and volunteers cooking up a storm! The Rebbe taught us that our mission is to help our fellow Jews — materially and spiritually!

Daniel Sugarman To be fair, Chabad is a massive geopolitical threat, but mostly because of the free food and relentless welcoming environment.

Special man. Senator William Borah of Idaho. Wild story. In 1927, when the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Yosef Yitzchak, was arrested in the Soviet Union, Senator William Borah of Idaho “Led a one-man crusade in this country that convinced President Hoover to intercede on

Pesach approaching → dropping the Skibidi Seder full 15-step outline. Full lore, no cap. 🐸