Rabbi Sruli and Faigy Mochkin (née Schapiro), along with their daughter, Malka, will be joining the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Riverside California as youth directors. Riverside’s younger population is rapidly growing. “Their move comes at a critical time as the youth community in Riverside is growing by leaps and bounds”, says Rabbi Shmuel Fuss, who began Chabad of Riverside over 15 years ago with his wife Mrs. Tzippy Fuss • Full Story

When Chabad Rabbi Menachem Levin moved to the San Francisco neighborhood of West Portal almost two months ago, he started to meet his neighbors. And he got some words of advice. “One person told me, ‘If you made a deli, you’d be the king of town,’” he said • Full Story

California’s Head Shliach, Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, together with Rabbi Levi Cunin, Shliach to Malibu, CA, were featured on the front cover of “Oidois”,  a bi-weekly magazine printed by Skverer Chassidim • Full Photo

For the second time since April, the Chabad House at San Diego State University has been the target of antisemitism and vandalism. This time two young women were caught on surveillance video destroying a banner and trying to bring down the menorah, a Jewish symbol, just outside of the House • Full Story

After sentimental valuables were stolen from a Chabad House in the San Diego State University last week. a SDSU task force successfully returned the items to their owner • Full Story

Chabad of the Tri-Valley, which saw its Pleasanton building badly burned in a fire in 2019, will get a makeover that has locals pleased. “I’m really excited about this attractive and contemporary building,” city planning commissioner Nancy Allen said in a meeting, as reported by the Pleasanton Weekly. “Thank you for taking it this far; you didn’t have to, and it’s really appreciated.” • Full Story

It used to be a shop that sold healing crystals, but for the past year, the storefront at 1710 University Ave. in Berkeley has been the place that Rabbi Yehuda Ferris of Chabad of the East Bay has been able to call his own • Full Story

Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream. Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society • Full Story

With great sadness, we regret to inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yerachmiel Stillman, OB”M, the Shliach to the UCLA College in California. He passed away on Friday, Gimmel Teves. He was 76-years-old • Full Story

Chabad of Grass Valley will be hosting a Kosher food truck event Thursday, during which visitors may buy a variety of authentic sweet or savory Kosher foods as the Jewish community prepares for the high holidays • Full Story

Synagogues in California have been shut down again following statewide restrictions announced by the governor with cases of the coronavirus there continuing to rise • Full Story

Chabad of Chatsworth, CA, directed by Rabbi Yossi Spritzer, donated pizza to the local LAPD precinct to show appreiciation for all that the officers are doing in general, and specifically during these times.

Coinciding with the fourth Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon, OB”M, Chabad of the Valley today announced that it will be establishing three new Moisdos in the S. Fernando Valley • Full Story

In honor of Rabbi Tzemach Cunin, OB”M, 43 new Shluchim will be moving to communities throughout California within the year of his passing to find Yiden that have not yet been lit up. In Silicon Valley, where the tech industry has attracted tens of thousands of Jews, Rabbi Mendel and Mussi Weinfeld will be moving down to open up a Chabad House in Almaden Valley • Full Story

The L’Chaim of Levi Cunin of Larchmont, CA and Sheina Chincholker of Bloomington, IN took place last night at the Jewish Children’s Museum of Crown Heights. Photos by ChabadInfo.com photographer Avi Pro • Photos

This Sunday, Maayon Yisroel of Los Angeles, will be having a full day of learning on the topics of the Geulah and the third Beis Hamikdash. The classes will be delivered by Rabbi Reuven Wolf and Rabbi Mendel Zirkind. For those who cannot make it in person, there will be a live broadcast available online • Full Details

A bill to ensure the right of Californians to hang mezuzahs on their door frames is moving through the state legislature, and looks primed to pass in the coming months, J. The Jewish News of Northern California reported • Full Story

More than 1,300 enthusiastic friends and supporters of Chabad of the Conejo attended the organization’s 40th Anniversary Gala-Concert on Wednesday, June 12, at the Civic Arts Plaza Theater in Thousand Oaks, California • Full Story, Photos

The rabbi of a California synagogue that was the scene of a mass shooting recalls the moment the suspected shooter pointed a gun at him. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, just out of surgery for a gunshot wound, continues to speak about the synagogue shooting. “As soon as (the gunman) saw me, he started to shoot towards me and I just sort of put my hands up and my fingers got blown away” • Watch

It is painfully fitting, even if wholly coincidental, that the murderous anti-Semitic assault on Jewish worshipers celebrating the end of Passover at a California synagogue on Saturday occurred only days after the New York Times published a grotesquely anti-Semitic cartoon • Full Story

While in California for a family Simcha, Rabbi Zalman Chanin, Director of Va’ad Lihafotzas Sichos, made a visit to the Chabad House of California’s senior Shliach, Rabbi Shlomo Cunin. Rabbi Cunin gave him a warm welcome and showed him around the Chabad House • More Photos

In the hot Bay Area real estate market, sometimes you need more than money to expand a Chabad center. Just ask Rabbi Yossi Marcus of Chabad of the North Peninsula. “It was a very long process of finding the property,” Marcus said. “Finding an available property in the right location. And raising the funds” • Full Story

At the ‘West Coast Kinus Hashluchim’, more than one hundred Shluchim stood in front of California’s replica of 770 for a group picture.