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With its thickly misted mornings and surreal landscapes, Vancouver Island is an appealing destination for those seeking an escape. Before the Kaplans arrived few had ever met an Orthodox rabbi.

"This event offers a glimpse of the vision of kibbutz galuyot [the ingathering of exiles]. Here you have people from every strata of Jewish life unified by an overriding force.”

Israeli President Shimon Peres pays tribute to Chabad Shluchim for their dedication and sacrifice to the Jewish people.

With 84 countries now on its map, Chabad has achieved a good measure of market saturation. What next?

When they arrived here in 1999, the Chabad couple opened up a synagogue, soup kitchen, k-12 Jewish day school system, and summer camps—breathing new life into a community of 20,000 Jews

"Chabad at Yale is a home, and the Yale Jewish community is a family. We are celebrating today to honor this great family of future Jewish leaders that finally has a beautiful place to call home.”

The highly acclaimed Jewish study program for women does it again! After ranking second in the top nonprofits empowering women by GreatNonprofits and GuideStar in 2010, it now ranked among the top 10 NYC non-profit volunteering opportunities.

Germany's lower house of parliament passed a resolution yesterday, July 19, reaffirming the religious rights of parents seeking to circumcise their infant sons.

Chabad scholars and students marked the centennial anniversary of the ground-breaking series of Chasidic discourses delivered orally by the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. In honor of the anniversary, Kehot is publishing a new annotated edition of the series.

Twenty seven people, including nine children, were injured today (Friday) in multiple bombings in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in what is being qualified as terror attacks. At least four blasts went off in quick succession around noon throughout the city center, targeting public areas including a tram stop, cinema and railway station.

Last night, Wednesday, March 7, some 300 Jewish students at the University of Texas in Austin gathered for the reading...

Lord Mayor of Oxford, Cllr Elise Benjaminparticipated in a grand menorah lighting on Broad Street,Tuesday evening, thefirst night of Chanukah. More than 150 people joined the celebration organizedby Chabad of Oxford.

Dr. Ira Weiss, Senior Attending Cardiologist at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL, was called in to attend to the Lubavitcher Rebbe after he suffered a severe heart attack in late 1977. He stayed on for several weeks and remained the Rebbe’s cardiologist through 1992. In that capacity, he had rare access to the Rebbe. Baila Olidort spoke with Dr. Weiss about his experience.

BAILA OLIDORT: You were an enthusiastic student from a young age. Did you look for moral character in your teachers?...

Chana Silberstein has been the Chabad representative to Cornell University, Ithaca College, and surrounding areas since 1984. She has created and implemented Jewish educational programs in a variety of formal

Naftali Loewenthal caught my interest about twenty years ago when his book, Communicating the Infinite, was issued by Chicago University Press. The Chabad Chasid, a Ph.D in Jewish history

Mr. Sharansky met with Baila Olidort, editor of Lubavitch News Service in his office at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Jerusalem, where he talked about his vision, his respect for Chabad’s model of outreach, and the moral ambiguities he discovered in freedom.

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was secretary to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, for a period of 40 years. As a young boy of 13, he came to New York from Boston, where he met the man who, four years later was to become the 7th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch. The Rebbe reached out to the young yeshiva student living away from home, in ways, says Rabbi Krinsky, that moved him and sustain him to this day.