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Chabad on Campus: Spreading light, in wake of a surge of darkness
Rivka Minkowitz directs the Chabad Elon Jewish Student Center with her husband Rabbi Mendy. We hosted Rivka for an interview in Jerusalem, as she was here for a special Chabad on Campus visit to Israel. The Chabad Elon Jewish Student Center opened its doors in December of 2015, with the...
Campus mission: World Women Chabad Congress comes to Israel
The fact that the event was held in Israel and not in New York or anywhere in America, like it usually is, added to its excitement and significance. Despite being tired and receiving the invitation at the last minute, curiosity got the better of me.
Comforting a Community: An Interview with Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi
Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi founded the Harvard chapter of Chabad in 1997 and remains president of the organization. He also serves as the Jackie and Omri Dahan Harvard Chabad Jewish Chaplain at Harvard. Zarchi sat down with The HPR to discuss his experience navigating the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas...
175 Chabad women campus emissaries in Israel on solidarity mission
In a quarter-century as co-director of the Chabad House at the University of Michigan, Chanchi Goldstein said she has never witnessed so much antisemitism. Across the country, Chani Gray, co-director at the Chabad at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where the university administration has been supportive of Israel, reports much...
On college campuses: Chabad fights darkness with light – Rabbi Avi Weinstein
The remarkable shluchim on campuses globally will continue inspiring, guiding, and teaching – because the best way to fight darkness is with the light of Jewish life. The protesters harassing Jewish students on college campuses got it all wrong. They want to intimidate students into silence and invisibility. Yet, the...