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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media
Stories and reports that have appeared in the media during the past two weeks
| Rabbi Shmuly Altein, 43, was on a mission to bring new life to Chabad of Winnipeg The Canadian Jewish News,Monday, July 13, 2026 |
| Rabbi Shmuly Altein grew up in Winnipeg then returned to his hometown as a second-generation Chabad rabbi, to revitalize a community through initiatives designed to rekindle Jewish life. “He was a Jewish leader of impact in this country,” his friend Rabbi Levi Gansburg told The CJN. “He and his wife were the ‘Jewish invigorators’ of the next generation in Winnipeg.” Rabbi Altein died from cancer on June 18. He was 43. |
| Iceland welcomes its first historic permanent Jewish community center The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com,Monday, July 13, 2026 |
| Although Jews have lived in Iceland for more than 100 years, the community there has been informal and has functioned by word of mouth. The Chabad-Lubavitch couple saw an opportunity to create a thriving hub of Jewish life in Reykjavik, and a year later, in 2018, they relocated to the island. “Our first priority was just to connect with people on a personal level, on an individual level, and find out what people felt was missing,” Rabbi Feldman told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. |
| Iceland Opens First-Ever Jewish Center, Marking Historic Milestone for Country’s Jewish Community Algemeiner Journal,Sunday, July 12, 2026 |
| The Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland was inaugurated on July 7 in downtown Reykjavík, the capital. Housed in a renovated three-story building of roughly 9,000 square feet that previously operated as a bar, the center will serve the country's small Jewish community — estimated at between 100 and 300 people — as well as the thousands of Jewish visitors who travel to Iceland each year. It is named for philanthropist Eugene Shvidler, among the donors who funded the project. |
| Iceland Chabad Opens First Jewish Center in Reykjavik YeahThatsKosher – Kosher Restaurants & Travel,Sunday, July 12, 2026 |
| For years, Iceland has sat near the top of the kosher traveler’s bucket list and near the bottom of its list of practical destinations. Glaciers, black-sand beaches, and the Northern Lights on one side; no synagogue, no mikvah, and no reliable place to buy kosher food on the other. That equation changed this week. Iceland’s roughly 300 Jews now have a permanent home for the first time in the country’s known history, and Jewish visitors finally have a real anchor in Reykjavik. |
| Europe’s smallest Jewish community gets a home of its own — complete with geothermal mikvah Jewish Telegraphic Agency,Thursday, July 9, 2026 |
| That began to change in 2018, when the Feldmans relocated from the United States to Reykjavik to establish a Chabad-Lubavitch presence, becoming Iceland’s first permanently stationed rabbi and his wife in the country’s documented history of a thousand years. The couple started small, hosting Shabbat dinners and holiday services out of their living room. Estimates of the community’s size hover around 300 self-identified Jews, out of Iceland’s total population of about 400,000. |
| Everybody can Make Friends, Drinks and Fun at this Inclusive Cafe TMJ4 News,Wednesday, July 8, 2026 |
| Everybody can Make Friends, Drinks and Fun at this Inclusive CafeFriendship Circle Cafe PrevNext Posted Learn to make the classic iced vanilla lattes with Friendship Circle Cafe and find out about their employment training program! Training is a year-long program where participants learn job skills and important lifeskills to thrive upon graduation and find a job. Friendship Cafe provides jobs for those living in our community. |
| Local teens recognized for their community impact at Chabad’s CTeen Awards Gala The Photo News,Monday, July 6, 2026 |
| CTeen Orange recently hosted its annual Awards Gala, honoring more than 50 exceptional teens for their dedication to community service and Jewish leadership throughout the year. CTeen Orange is a branch of Chabad of Orange County, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston and youth director Sarah Litzman, and is comprised of teens from across the county. Awards recognized teens for their contributions to the Friendship Circle, serving children, teens, and young adults with special needs, as well as CTeen leadership, |
| Chabad of Woodstock celebrates Torah's completion Daily Freeman,Sunday, July 5, 2026 |
| Chabad of Woodstock celebrated the inscribing of the final letters to complete a Torah scroll on Sunday, June 28. A Torah scroll contains the first five books of the Bible, the foundational scripture in Judaism. Writing a Torah takes, on average, a year to complete, according to a press release. The work requires exquisite calligraphy imbued with spiritual meaning, the release added. The Torah's completion was followed by a procession of some 300 people. They were led by a band playing on a flatbed trailer. |
| Two gunmen took her friend. She won’t let them take something else CNN,Saturday, July 4, 2026 |
| Rabbi Eli Schlanger leaned back in his chair, sighed and grinned like a kid. “What are you thinking?” Nikki Goldstein asked him. “I am completely happy,” Schlanger said. “I love my wife and my children, and I am doing exactly what I am meant to be doing. I am completely on my path.” It was a summer morning, and light rain was falling outside Goldstein’s home. Schlanger was running late for their Zoom call, but they soon fell into the rhythm of their usual winding, philosophical conversations. |
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