On Sunday morning, family and friends of Duke University’s Jewish community gathered from all around the country to celebrate the Fleishman House’s ribbon cutting ceremony. The Fleishman House, formerly the King’s Daughters Inn, is located just off East Campus and will serve as the new home for Chabad at Duke University Undergrads. With three floors, a kitchen, 17 bedrooms and a 2,100 square-foot rooftop deck, Jewish students at Duke will have an official communal space to celebrate Shabbat and the High Holidays • Full Story

“At first, I was nervous about going to Chabad for Rosh Hashanah,” said Matthew Edelstein from Florida, “… I was worried about feeling out of place and excluded. “But, those worries were put to rest as soon as I called Rabbi Shmuli [Slonim] to tell him I was coming for services. I could tell just by his tone that Chabad was going to be a familiar and hospitable place I could go to meet a lot of great, new people” • Full Story

UCF is the largest university in the United States, and is home to more than 6,000 Jewish students. Within a few months, the Chabad Center quickly outgrew its first home and moved into a second home. The new location allowed for exponential growth, with regular activities and dinners, but soon they were once again bursting at the seams • Full Story, Photos

Chabad on Campus – France gathered over Shabbos for a regional Kinus Hashluchim. The Shluchim shared ideas and discussed their affairs, joining together to share chizuk for each one to take back to his place of shlichus. Images of the Kinus captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki • Full Story, Photos

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

Oberlin College will broaden its commitment to Jewish life and scholarship this May when it becomes one of only a handful of liberal arts colleges throughout the country to offer students a certified kosher kitchen experience • Full Story

Chabad on Campus in Capetown, South Africa escaped from a large fire in the area undamaged in a major miracle as many other places in the area burned down. As a precautionary measure, the Sifrei Torahs were brought out of the Shul as soon as the news of the fire became known • Full Details

The Miami Student, a site that updates students in the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, reported about the local Chabad presence on their campus • Full Story

The sign in front of the University of Kentucky Jewish Center was rededicated Monday after it was vandalized earlier this month. Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, of the Chabad of the Bluegrass, said the sign means even more now than it did before • Full Story

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, the director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, called an act of vandalism at the UK Jewish Center over the weekend an “apparent hate crime” • Full Story

On a typical Friday night in the dead of New Jersey winter, strolling through a narrow street off University Place and just short of Nassau, one might find an unusual scene: as many as 100 students celebrating Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest, by dining outdoors in a tent adjacent to a small house • Full Story

An arson fire on Aug. 25 may have destroyed the home of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Delaware, but the Jewish university students and communities members in the area are trying to turn the tragedy into something positive • Full Story

College students across the nation are starting the school year expecting change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but for Jewish students at Oberlin College in Oberlin, the adjustments won’t just be wearing masks and social distancing • Full Story

A Tuesday night fire that badly damaged the University of Delaware’s Chabad Center is believed to have been intentionally set, fire investigators said Wednesday afternoon • Full Story

“I loved his combination of modern rap music and Jewish traditional ideas,” added  Rutgers senior Eytan Mendelow.  “The song I loved the most was his rendition of Lecha Dodi, the song we sing in Shul to welcome in Shabbat!” added Rutgers Sophormore Oren Mendelow • Full Story

How is Yeshiva University different from other universities? Is it just that we have a pretty rigorous dual-curriculum, divided campuses, and salmon Thursdays? Obviously, there is an assortment of differences we can find between YU and other colleges; But one difference shines brightly and blares loudly; yet is still not given as much attention as it deserves: a lack of Chabad presence on campus • Full Article

On Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Vayeira, the hundreds of students that came from many campuses across the world for Shabbos in Crown Heights, enjoyed a beautiful Havdalah ceremony in the Oholei Torah Ballroom, led by Rabbi Yossi Jacobson. Photo by Bentzi Sasson.

This past Shabbos, Parshas Vayeira, students came from many campuses across the world together with their local Shliach for a Shabbaton in Crown Heights. On Friday afternoon, the students came to 770 – Beis Moshiach, to participate in a special rally • Photos

Chabad of Champaign, directed by Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, together with some of the campus Jewish houses, put together a fun day with food and fun for the students that just started the new semester • Photos

Chabad on Campus provides a “home away from home” for Jews at campuses across America and around the globe. Chabad seeks to ensure that students graduate as stronger and more empowered Jews than when they entered • Full Article

Chabad at the University of Illinois has unveiled a purpose-built innovation and study co-working space. The concept aims to create a new hub for innovative students at the University of Illinois to learn more about the basics of entrepreneurship, enable them to source internships in their chosen field of study in a collaborative environment • Full Story

More than 100 leaflets with hand-drawn swastikas were found dropped on the front yard of the Chabad Jewish student center at Virginia Tech. The leaflets were discovered at the student center located across the street from the Blacksburg University • Full Story

Every Friday evening, the UT Chabad House welcomes Jewish students with the scent of homemade challah and matzo ball soup. Managed by Rabbi Zev Johnson and Ariela Johnson, the Chabad House is known for the support it gives and hospitality it shows to UT Jewish students • Full Story

Over 300 hundred students attended the first ever “Mega Shabbat” dinner at Penn State’s Alumni Hall this past Friday night. The dinner was arranged by the Chabad Student Board, in honor of Yossi Gourarie, OB”M, late father of Chabad of the Undergrads Co-Director, Rabbi Hershy Gourarie • Full Story, Photos

Among their normal responsibilities on college campuses across America, Chabad emissaries organize events, teach Torah and engage students one-on-one in learning sessions. But whether by design or happenstance, these emissaries often are the first line of defense when students face personal crises as well, according to a recent study • Full Story