If someone wanted to learn the secret of Jewish engagement — and the steady growth that eludes most congregations today — they might want to chat with Chabad of Carnegie Mellon University’s Rabbi Shlomo Silverman. “We’ve had steady growth over the 17 years that we’ve been here,” Silverman said. “Student...

This house at 5118 Beeler Street close to the campus of Carnegie Mellon University is slated for demolition to make way for a new three-story structure for a Chabad of Carnegie Mellon, a nonprofit that provides a home-away-from-home facility for Jewish people at the university.

I never thought I was the kind of student who would end up at Chabad. In fact, for most of my time at Rice, I didn’t go to Chabad at all. I didn’t consider myself religious, and I assumed it was mainly for observant students. But that changed during my...

Wherever the college, there may be a Jewish resource nearby. Hillel branches exist at over 850 colleges in the U.S., with many locations also in Canada and abroad, while Chabad has more than 260 college locations. In other words, having a new collegiate adventure could very well include the Jewish...

Internationally-acclaimed muralist Solomon Souza has completed a new mural on the front wall of the soon-to-be-completed Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Lawrence, Kansas. Towering 50 feet wide and 14 feet tall, the mural is a visual tapestry of Jewish symbols, themes and heritage. It’s intended as a public declaration...