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Chabad

Susan Jaffe (center), her daughter Muriel Doering and granddaughter Savannah Thrower at the Mega Challah Bake (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inBay Area

At Mega Challah Bake, all you ‘knead’ is flour and a little prayer

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 9, 2019September 24, 2019
Rendering of new Chabad North Peninsula, designed by Studio Bondy Architecture
Posted inNews

Chabad of North Peninsula to break ground on new home

by Dan Pine September 5, 2019September 6, 2019
Rabbi Chaim and Dina Bar Sella and 8-month-old Shneur Zalman arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, to set up the country's first Chabad center. (Photo/Courtesy of Chabad)
Posted inWorld, News

Chabad opens its first center in Rwanda

by JTA September 3, 2019
Rabbi Raleigh Resnick surveys the damage to the Chabad center he runs in Pleasanton after it was severely damaged by fire on Aug. 9. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inNews

Fire seriously damages Chabad center in East Bay on eve of Tisha B’Av

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 12, 2019August 13, 2019
“Moses Sees the Promised Land From Afar” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

Moses and me: chasing the flock back into the gazebo

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg August 9, 2019August 8, 2019
Rabbi Chaim Bruk in “The Rabbi Goes West”
Posted inTV & Film

In new doc, a pioneering Chabad family moves to Montana, a land of few Jews

by Sue Fishkoff July 18, 2019
The late Chabad rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Brooklyn, May 1987 (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

The Chabad Rebbe died 25 years ago, but his impact lives on across all Jewish denominations

by Sue Fishkoff July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
Poway Chabad leader Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was shot in the hands, walks towards a press conference with Poway Mayor Steve Vaus, April 28, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Sandy Huffaker-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inBay Area

‘The community is demanding it’: Local Chabad leaders to bulk up security after Poway

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 30, 2019May 1, 2019
Rabbi Gil Leeds and UC Berkeley students do mitzvot to honor Poway shooting victim.
Posted inUncategorized

‘We’re all family’: Jews seek comfort at Berkeley Chabad

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 29, 2019
Pleasanton-based Chabad of the Tri-Valley's Rabbi Raleigh Resnick
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

After zoning dispute, Tri-Valley Chabad gets use permit for playground and preschool

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 17, 2019April 17, 2019

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