In 2008, Harley Finkelstein was a young law student at the University of Ottawa when he told Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky that he’d like to one day help purchase a building for Chabad at the campus. At the time, Chabad was being run out of the Boyarsky family living room. “I...

With students beginning to move in on Aug. 14, The Ohio State University Chabad and Hillel groups are each working on programs to welcome both new and returning students to the Columbus campus for the 2024-25 school year. Sarah Deitsch, program director at the Schottenstein Chabad House, said OSU Chabad...

Invited as a guest chaplain by Rep. Marc Molinaro, Slonim called for the return of hostages held in Gaza and emphasized the importance of unity during unprecedented times. One day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress, Rabbi Levi Slonim, the director of development at...

A month before Oct. 7, one survey of Jewish college students found that almost one in three had witnessed or experienced some form of antisemitism on campus. Flash forward to May 2024, after pro-Palestinian protests and encampments had rocked campuses across the country, and more than half of Jewish students...

Rabbi Levi Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Life at Binghamton University spoke one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aiming to show “the importance of unity.” It’s not every day that a session of Congress opens with a request for charity. Or that a rabbi makes...