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.

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...

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...

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...

Esther Sonnenschine has eaten lunch in her car more times than she cares to count. For the graduating architecture student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, since Pratt eliminated the kosher options in the cafeteria, “there isn’t really anything to eat on campus for many Jewish students.” And the...