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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media
Stories and reports that have appeared in the media during the past two weeks
| The Rebbe’s letters of healing come to Bondi Australian Jewish News,Thursday, July 23, 2026 |
| An author whose book draws on the letters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe will visit Bondi this month, in an evening of growth and healing offered to the community targeted in the December terrorist attack. Rabbi Levi Shmotkin, author of Letters for Life: Guidance for Emotional Wellness from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, will appear at an event hosted by Chabad of Bondi on Wednesday July 29. The evening will include a talk, a signing of a newly adapted Sydney edition of the book, and musical accompaniment by Chazan Menachem Feldman. |
| Billboard Campaign Answers Antisemitism With Jewish Joy The Jewish Link,Thursday, July 23, 2026 |
| Chabad has started a campaign to fight antisemitism with what some might think is an unusual message: joy. “Born to Be a Yid” billboards greet commuters in New York daily. Eighty thousand see a billboard showing two laughing Jewish children at the Third Ave Bridge entrance to Manhattan, and 70,000 see another featuring a Jewish couple under the chuppah overlooking the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Other billboards are planned for Times Square and Florida. The Rebbe taught this decades ago. The way you fight darkness is with light.” |
| He Traveled the World and Found Family Everywhere He Went Detroit Jewish News,Tuesday, July 21, 2026 |
| From Pontiac to Tokyo and Paris, Adam Kollin's global travels through Chabad communities transformed his connection to Judaism. When Adam Kollin was sent the cover of a Chabad magazine from Israel and it featured him visiting a Chabad in Andorra, an independent principality in the Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France, he could not have been further from his Jewish roots in Michigan. |
| Chabad Naples starts new Kitchen of Kindness program to provide meals Fort Myers News-Press and Naples Daily News,Friday, July 17, 2026 |
| Chabad Naples has launched a Kitchen of Kindness at its headquarters. The new initiative kicked off on June 28, with an outpouring of support for the first event. More than 30 volunteers participated. Chef Shabo of 5 Star Catering, with more than 20 years of culinary and event experience, helped guide the effort. The program is designed to bring community members together to cook, pack and deliver fresh kosher meals to local residents and families in need. "This is about more than meals," said Rabbi Fishel Zaklos of Chabad Naples. "It is about people coming together to do something good." |
| Kitchen of Kindness delivers kosher meals to Portland residents in need WMTW - Portland Maine,Thursday, July 16, 2026 |
| A new program from Chabad of Maine is bringing volunteers together to prepare and deliver kosher meals to people in need. The Kitchen of Kindness serves residents who may be unable to cook, facing financial hardship or going through a difficult time. “Some people are not able to cook,” Rabbi Levi Wilansky said. “They’re going through something difficult, and they don’t have the time and headspace to do that, or they can’t afford it.” Wilansky said the program is about more than food. “It’s the fact that people know they’re not alone,” he said. |
| Chabad launches 'Born to Be a Yid' billboard campaign in NYC The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com,Wednesday, July 15, 2026 |
| Chabad has launched a new billboard campaign, titled "Born To Be A Yid," aiming to confront Jew-hatred with Jewish confidence and joy. At the heart of the new campaign is a message by the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: "Non-Jews respect Jews who respect Judaism." This insight, which Sacks credited to the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, argues that the most powerful response to Jew-hatred is not to engage with the haters, but to invest in strengthening Jewish identity and Jewish life itself. |
| Jersey City man finally has his bar mitzvah at age 83 North Jersey Record,Wednesday, July 15, 2026 |
| He reached out to Rabbi Yisrael Bennish of Chabad of Bayonne. The two men began studying Jewish texts together. Soon Woods was attending services on the Sabbath and holidays. He was invited to Sabbath meals. The other men taught him how to put on tefillin, small black boxes containing scrolls with Torah verses that men traditionally strap on during morning prayers. Bennish said he learned a lot from his new student. "He taught me that there's no such thing as too old or too late or missed your chance. We have to use every opportunity we have to do good and keep on growing." |
