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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media
Stories and reports that have appeared in the media during the past two weeks
| No lines, no stigma: Chabad kitchens deliver kosher meals home worldwide ynetglobal,Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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| That is the gap the “Kitchen of Kindness” initiative was created to address. Founded by Chabad’s global headquarters in memory of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who led the movement’s worldwide network of emissaries and died about two years ago, the project has quickly expanded to dozens of cities worldwide. Chabad’s central headquarters in New York provides local Chabad houses around the world with a ready-made operating kit: uniform branding, recipe books, digital systems for managing volunteers and websites for registration. From that point on, the project is run by the local community. | ||
| Rabbi joins 1989 Mohave County cold case search Fox 10 Phoenix,Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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| Standing by a grave with no name, Chabad Rabbi Mendel Super is searching for answers. "Almost 40 years later, she doesn’t have a name," Super said. What we know: In 1989, homicide investigators found the woman’s decomposed body. The initial autopsy estimated she was between 25 and 30 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, and 115 pounds. New renderings show what she may have looked like, but much remains unknown. "I’ve been in strong contact with Investigator Miller with the Sheriff’s Office," Super said. "I’ve run different leads by her- leads that come in to me I’ve passed to her." | ||
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| Recalling a great man of light: Eli Schlanger The Australian,Wednesday, May 27, 2026 |
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| A new book, Conversations With My Rabbi, captures the human toll of the Bondi massacre, up close and in an unforgettable way. The conversations are between the joint authors, Nikki Goldstein and Eli Schlanger, the beloved “rough diamond” Bondi rabbi who served the local Jewish community and was one of 15 men, women and children gunned down dead in December, in our worst terrorist attack. Eli organised the Chanukah by the Sea event. His wife, Chaya, hit by shrapnel, shielded their youngest child as her husband died. | ||
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| Nikki was days from death when Rabbi Eli blew an ancient horn by her bedside Sydney Morning Herald,Tuesday, May 26, 2026 |
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| The rabbi asked a nurse if he could blow his shofar, an ancient ram’s horn sounded on special days to stir the soul. The nurse agreed, conceding it was unlikely to bother anyone. “Most of them are comatose,” the nurse said drily. Schlanger’s horn briefly silenced the machines of the ICU ward. Twenty-four hours later, Goldstein’s lungs began to repair. Within days, instead of dying, she was moved to a general ward in the hospital, where she recovered. Schlanger popped by, surprised but thrilled to see Goldstein had survived. | ||
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| Mitzvah Kitchen Marks One Year Anniversary! | Featured# Miami's Community News | Your local connection,Tuesday, May 26, 2026 |
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| Mitzvah Kitchen is proud to celebrate its first anniversary with a community cooking event in which over 700 meals were prepped, cooked and packaged for people experiencing food insecurity. The event on May 13th marks the 38th event in one year and the accomplishment of a grand total of 20,000 meals served to date. The nonprofit centered on combating food insecurity while building community emerged in May of 2025 under the direction of Rabbi Yossi Harlig at the Chabad of Kendall & Pinecrest. | ||
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| Bridging the Divide: A Conversation with Nikki Goldstein Jewish Book Council,Monday, May 25, 2026 |
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| I don’t remember the first time I met Rabbi Eli Schlanger because I was in a coma. The second time I met him, I was awake and alive — though barely — and I was still in the hospital. When he saw me alive, he came directly to my bedside and pulled up a chair. He was surprised because the doctors had told my husband and daughter to prepare for the worst when they asked him to pray for me. He instantly called my recovery a miracle, and Eli considered his part in my survival as something very special, mystical, and powerful. | ||
| New Torah Scroll Welcomed into Mykolaiv Synagogue Ahead of Shavuot - The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS The Federation of Jewish Communties of the CIS,Sunday, May 24, 2026 |
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| The Jewish community of Mykolaiv, Ukraine led by Rabbi Sholom and Rebbetzin Dina Gotlieb, celebrated the dedication of a new and beautifully written Torah scroll to the city’s central synagogue ahead of Shavuot, the festival marking the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Hundreds of community members, guests, local dignitaries, and students from the city’s Or Menachem Jewish educational institutions joined the festive procession, which made its way through the streets accompanied by live music, singing, and dancing. | ||
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| Our book began after my coma. It ended with Rabbi Schlanger’s murder at Bondi Beach Jewish News UK,Sunday, May 24, 2026 |
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| It is late evening in Sydney, and Nikki Goldstein’s voice breaks as she shares the story of the man to whom she feels she owes her life. Four years ago, against all the odds, Rabbi Eli Schlanger helped her to survive. Six months ago, he himself was cruelly taken – killed by a terrorist at the ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ party he helped organise every year. Back in 2022, Goldstein was 57 years old and chronic lung disease had pushed her into a ‘white out’ – where the air in the lungs is replaced by fluid. | ||
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