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Egypt's Jews Celebrate Restoration of Maimonides Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) About a dozen Chabad emmisaries participated Sunday in the festive rededication of the ancient Maimonides synagogue in Cairo.

Chana Katz | News | Monday, March 8, 2010

Chabad of Santiago Mobilizes Relief Aid

Chabad-Lubavitch of Santiago is mobilizing its resources with a plan of action to bring relief aid to areas affected by the recent earthquake.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, March 5, 2010

The Hidden Jews of Solano County

S. Fridman | News | Thursday, March 4, 2010

Blog: Purim At Riker's Island

The first stop for all is the security checkpoint just outside of Rikers Island. Photo identifications are reviewed and clearance is given to proceed forward.

Yosef Shidler | News | Thursday, March 4, 2010

Chabad Rabbi's Online Torah Class Grows Popular

Five million minutes. That’s how much time users have logged joining an online broadcast hosted by a Chabad rabbi as he delivers a daily dose of Torah and Tanya simply

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Purim Notes From The Chasidic Rebbes

Mordechai was a Benjaminite, but he is called "Yehudi,” literally meaning a descendant of the tribe of Yehudah. Likewise, the Megillah refers to the Jewish people as "Yehudim," ignoring tribal differences.

| News | Friday, February 26, 2010

Purim in Hollywood

With its weekend parties and packed bars, outlandish clubs and celebrity-studded Sunset Strip, Chabad of Los Feliz has learned how to compete for a crowd.

Amy Klein | News | Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Wertheimer Places Chabad’s Rohr JLI at Top

| News | Monday, February 22, 2010

Rabbi In Search of Dog

“I’m looking for a dog now.” That’s what Rabbi Shneur Goodman was busy doing when lubavitch.com caught him by phone the other day.

| News | Monday, February 22, 2010

Remember Aftonbladet?

Once a haven for Holocaust survivors, Sweden is now gaining notoriety for its anti-Semitism, prompting Jews who’ve lived there for as long as six decades...

| News | Monday, February 22, 2010

Brandeis Leadership Students Invited Backstage At Chabad Headquarters

Heads of some of Chabad-Lubavitch's most influential programs silenced their Blackberries and shared their strategies for building Jewish life with sixteen students of the Hornstein Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, February 22, 2010

Russia's Public Schools to Embrace Religious Education

Come September 2010, The Foundations of Jewish Culture, as the Jewish volume is named, will be delivered along with the other volumes, to 4th and 5th grade classrooms in 19 regions of the State.

S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Chabad of Vancouver Game for Jewish Guests at 2010

some 55,000 fans participated in the opening of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics last Friday night, thousands of Jewish Olympic guests were warmed by the lights of the Shabbat candles.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, February 12, 2010

A Conversation with Ted Yale

At 23, Ted Yale is possibly the youngest candidate on record to run for Congress. The soft-spoken Pennsylvania native competing in the Republican primary for his state’s 10th District, lives an observant Jewish lifestyle since converting to Judaism in 2004...

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Greenbergs 17: A Leader in Every Time Zone

(lubavitch.com) Some call it “fate,” but the Greenbergs prefer “mission.” The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenberg—there are seventeen in all—were raised in Bnei Brak, Israel. But today the family is dispersed around the globe in places as remote as Alaska, Ukraine, and Shanghai.

| News | Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Costa Rica Elects Jewish VP

Luis Lieberman, a former banker and well known financier, is to become the country’s VP. He ran with Laura Chinchilla, a social conservative, who won the elections on Sunday.

Staff Writer | News | Monday, February 8, 2010

Flashback!: 22nd of Shevat 1988

February 11, 1988, Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson, wife for sixty years, of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away early Wednesday morning, February 10, after a brief illness. She was 86 years old.

Lubavitch News Service | News | Thursday, February 4, 2010

Rabbi Mom

The 22nd annual International Conference for Chabad Shluchos convenes this week Wednesday.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, February 3, 2010

FIU President Hosts Shabbat Dinner For Chabad Rabbi

The Chabad Jewish Student Center at FIU, known as the Tabicinic Chabad House, was founded by Rabbi Levi and his wife, Sashie, in August of 2004. By the time the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at FIU, became its president--the Friedmans were well acquainted with him.

Levi Margolin | News | Thursday, January 28, 2010

Remembering a Tragic Past Spurs Jewish Continuity in Europe Today

European and Israeli state heads are this week meeting with Jewish leaders and Chabad representatives in Europe as they observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, January 27, 2010

From Carlsbad to Carlsbad: Chabad of La Costa Welcomes a Torah home

The 200-year old scroll originally belonged to the Jewish community of Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Czechoslovakia. Until the 1840s..

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Transition in Lubavitch: January 28, 1950

Today, the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the sixtieth Yahrtzeit of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn of Lubavitch.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, January 25, 2010

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BLOG: About Black Boxes and Jewish Pride

Caleb Leibowitz, a reserved 17 year old yeshiva student, is hardly the type to appreciate the limelight. But he was smack in the center of it Thursday, when news that flight 3079 from New York to Lousiville, KY, diverted on account of his religious ritual, hit the wires.

Baila Olidort | News | Friday, January 22, 2010

Chabad Gives Cardozo Law Students an Edge in the Job Hunt

At Chabad’s recent Attorneys and Law Students Networking Event, 75 students got to know powerbrokers like real-estate mogul and attorney Leon Charney, Jones Day partner Andy Green,

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, January 21, 2010

Countdown Nears As Jewish Non-Profit Competes for $1-Million Prize

There are only three days left to get out the (Facebook) vote and help the sole Jewish non-profit competing to win $1 million dollars take the prize.

Amy Klein | News | Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chabad's Haiti Relief Aid Reaches Orphans

In Parkland, Florida, two airplanes were being filled with provisions for children in a Haitian orphanage. Jerry Lowenstein has been sponsoring these children for years, visiting monthly with supplies.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, January 19, 2010

From Pasadena to Rostov-on-Don: A Jewish Family Makes A Radical Move

In ways they never anticipated, Americans across the entire economic spectrum have radically lowered their living standards in the past two years.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, January 18, 2010

Elliot Wolfson And Shmuel Klatzkin: An Exchange

Following the lubavitch.com review of Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson...

| News | Saturday, January 16, 2010

Holocaust Survivors Find Social Support With Ivolunteer

Under Manhattan’s dazzling lights, Holocaust survivors met Tuesday at the Cooper Square Hotel’s magnificent penthouse, where they were joined by donors and volunteers in celebration and support of Ivolunteer.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, January 14, 2010

In Australia, Chabad Summer Camp Draws Record Numbers

It’s summer in Australia, and despite a depressing economy, the numbers at Camp Gan Israel of Melbourne have grown, says camp director Rabbi Moshe Kahn.

Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Book Review/ Revealing the Secrets: An Academic Explores The Rebbe’s Teachings

The academic world hasn’t always been friendly to Chasidism or Kabbala. Nineteenth-century Enlightenment scholars derided them as “mystical cobwebs,”

Shmuel Klatzkin | News | Friday, January 8, 2010

Major Jewish Philanthropist Explores Chabad's Russian Roots

Guma Aguiar is making up for lost time. Last week, the young billionaire sprinted through blizzard conditions in Russia and Ukraine, tracing the early history of Chabad in Haditch, where its founder, Rabbi Schneur

B. Olidort | News | Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Twin Cities Media, Citizens, Help To Save Minnesota Yeshiva

Today’s financial climate earns foreclosures scant notice. But with a thriving yeshiva in middle America facing that prospect, the response is coming in fast and furious.

C.R. Lundy | News | Monday, January 4, 2010

A Jewish Community Grows In Cabo San Lucas

(lubavitch.com) Once a week, Benzion Hershcovich leaves his house at the crack of dawn while his wife and children are still asleep. The twenty-something rabbi heads out to a local dairy farm where he gets kosher milk.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, January 1, 2010

Crunch Time: Rolling Out Passover Matzahs in December

Until the last few decades, they were available only at select Judaica shops or in Brooklyn storefronts. These days, the crispy confections can be had at more than 200 major supermarket chains..

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Chabad Centers Devise Strategies To Outwit the Recession

When Wall Street cheers as the Dow Jones scrapes its way up from 12-year lows, it sounds faint and hollow to Chabad centers on Main Streets around the world.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, December 24, 2009

PERSPECTIVES: Compromising A Sacred Trust

Infidelity is in the news with the recent development of Jenny Sanford --- wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford --- filing for divorce after 20 years of marriage

Simcha Backman | News | Thursday, December 24, 2009

At McGill University, Jewish Students Host Inaugural Shabbat Dinner

On a recent Friday night, Rabbi Shmuly Weiss and his wife Rashi were guests in their own Montreal home. Roles were reversed as university students at Chabad of McGill became the masters of ceremony during

David Lipson | News | Monday, December 21, 2009

Chabad Representatives Near Auschwitz Say Interest in Polish Jewish Life Strong

The'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign stolen Friday from the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp has been recovered, say Polish police authorities. Five men were reportedly arrested for the theft.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, December 20, 2009

How Chanukah Came Out of Closet

The first public menorah went up in San Francisco’s Union Square, in 1975. Erected by the late Rolling Stones promoter and Holocaust survivor Bill Graham

Natasha Rosenstock | News | Friday, December 18, 2009

Energy Magnate Aguiar Makes Chanukah Gift to Chabad-Lubavitch

Energy magnate Guma Aguiar has made a gift of $770,000 to Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in honor of Chanukah 2009.

| News | Monday, December 14, 2009

Reinterpreting The Latke, Deconstructing the Doughnut

(lubavitch.com) Latkes with applesauce and sour cream may be a familiar favorite, but Pessy Haskelevich is serving them instead with a side of pear and ginger compote.

David Lipson | News | Sunday, December 13, 2009

Elie Wiesel To Hungary's Jews: Stay Jewish

Brenda Farkasz | News | Friday, December 11, 2009

Allegheny vs. ACLU: Good for Chanukah

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that placing Chabad-owned menorahs in public spaces did not violate the establishment clause, it set a slab of precedent for Chabad centers to rest their menorah requests upon.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, December 10, 2009

Menorah Lights To Shine At the Games

Chabad’s holiday awareness programs including olive presses and dreidel houses, and menorahs carved of ice, chocolate and every conceivable material...

Levi Margolin | News | Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Baby Boomer: A Fertility Specialist’s Conception of Life

Six babies, and the possibility for many more, were first conceived at a Mumbai memorial in Merion Station, Pennsylvania last winter.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, December 7, 2009

From the Czarist Archives

In honor of 19 Kislev, corresponding this year to December 6, lubavitch.com loosely translated segments of the file on Rabbi Schneur Zalman's interrogation.

| News | Sunday, December 6, 2009

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Scion of Chabad Musical Family Passes Away

Rabbi Shamshon Charitonow, an expert on Chasidic melodies and a survivor of Soviet oppression, passed away last Thursday, Nov 26, in Brooklyn. He was 91 years old.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, December 3, 2009

Chabad of El Paso Targeted By Vandals

| News | Thursday, December 3, 2009

JLI Launches Advanced Women’s Study Division

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, pioneer of adult Jewish education, is breaking new ground with its latest division–a women’s only study program that debuts this month in 40 cities around the world.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Yeshiva-in-Prison Brings Meaning, Spiritual Growth to Jewish Inmates

Gordon M., 36, is an inmate at a Virginia prison where he recently participated in a yeshiva program. The three-day intensive Torah study experience, he says, were “the happiest and most joyful days in my last ten years of incarceration.”

Levi Margolin | News | Monday, November 30, 2009

A Thankful Reunion After 64 Years

Bronislaw Firuta arrived from Poland on one of the busiest travel days of the year. There to greet him was Joseph Bonder.

Levi Margolin | News | Thursday, November 26, 2009

Nariman (Chabad) House To Open For Memorial

(lubavitch.com) As memorial events in India this week mark the first year anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund will host two ceremonies Thursday at Nariman House.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Chairman of Lubavitch Headquarters Visits Nariman House

(lubavitch.com) In advance of the first anniversary of the Mumbai Terror Attacks, the Chairman of Chabad’s educational and social services divisions, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, visited Nariman House for the first time, Wednesday.

| News | Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Despite Economic Woes, Ohr Avner Network Thrives

(lubavitch.com) On September 1, 2009, 14,000 students in the Ohr Avner school system of the Former Soviet Union lined up for first bell.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, November 23, 2009

Remembering Mumbai: A Traveler’s Reflections On the First Yahrzeit

On November 26, 2008 at 9:45PM, two terrorists stormed the Chabad House in Mumbai, India. When I heard a CNN news report that members of Nariman House were being held hostage

Hillary Lewin | News | Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Developing Relationships, Businesspeople, Professionals Work With Chabad Leaders To Advance Jewish Life

Partners in the growth of Chabad, lay leaders typically bond with the families of the shluchim and form deep and mutually meaningful friendships.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, November 16, 2009

Transcendent Joy, Transcendent Vision Celebrated at Chabad Conference Banquet

An overflow crowd squeezed through more than a dozen metal detectors and into the garage-turned-gracious-lobby of the Troop C Armory in Brooklyn, New York.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, November 16, 2009

U.S. Military Armory Is Transformed for Chabad Banquet

This Sunday evening, thousands will file into the Troop C Armory for the banquet session, concluding the International Conference of Shluchim.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, November 15, 2009

Dancing in the Street With Newly Completed Mumbai Torah

(lubavitch.com) Under a chilly, night sky, colleagues of slain emissaries to Mumbai--Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg--danced intensely with a newly completed Torah. Leading the way under the canopy were leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch and the fathers of Gabi and Rivky, who moments earlier inscribed the final letters in the Torah for their children

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, November 13, 2009

Have Bed, Will Host: Crown Heights Residents Host Travelers Year Round

The Crown Heights community’s hosting marathon begins in September, when thousands of visitors arrive for the High Holidays—often staying as long as six weeks

Sara Spielman | News | Thursday, November 12, 2009

Hometown Heroes: Thousands of Chabad Rabbis Return to Lubavitch Headquarters

The 25th annual International Conference of Shluchim, which will commence Wednesday, draws leaders from around the world back to their source.

C. R. Lundy | News | Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Braids that Bind: Jewish Women Connect Through Challah Baking

At the University of Connecticut, fresh loaves of Challah serve as a bond for the students and local seniors. In conjunction with Jewish fraternity...

R. C. Lundy | News | Monday, November 9, 2009

Chabad on Campus Draws 800 College Students To Retreat in Brooklyn

They are trading Harvard Square and College Hill for Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue. For an entire weekend, their course schedules and term papers will be relegated to the bottommost regions of their backpacks.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, November 5, 2009

First Israeli Real Estate Trade Fair Held in Moscow

Among the guests joining Chabad of Moscow’s Israeli community for Shabbat services and dinner last Friday night, were a group of Israeli realtors, bankers and lawyers who had come to participate in the city’s first real estate fair.

S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, November 3, 2009

"You Will All Be Listening To Him One Day . . ."

A popular speaker at Jewish functions worldwide, Luchins has been selected to present the keynote address at the banquet concluding the 25th annual International Conference of Shluchim

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, November 2, 2009

Sunday The Rabbi Met The Queen

This past June, Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin received notice from Buckingham Palace that he was selected for a prestigious honor, to be bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, October 30, 2009

Torah Café Invites Users to Explore Jewish Themes Online

In this classroom, you can chew gum and sit with your feet up. And while the teacher is in your living room, your office, and seat 16F on your next flight, you can relax. He isn’t taking attendance.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Jewish Teens Explore Identity With Chabad Teen Network

Roughly 93% of teenagers use the internet today, with 70% regularly accessing social networking sites such as facebook and myspace. Three out of four teens carry their own cell phones, and even more communicate via email and instant messaging.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Seoul Stirrings

A simple melody can resonate more powerfully than the most profound sermon or even a moving service. So says Rabbi Avi Lesches, at least. Lesches and three other rabbis were in Seoul last month to assist with High Holiday activities at an American army base.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, October 22, 2009

At Eton College, Jewish Students Try Tefillin

Eton College doesn’t sound like a place where you would expect to find a Chasidic rabbi helping boys wrap tefillin. In fact, the prestigious boarding school founded in the 15th century by Henry VI as “The King’s College,” counts a small population of Jews within its student body, and that precisely is what they were doing this Sunday morning with Rabbi Yossi Simon of Tzivos Hashem UK.

S. Fridman | News | Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Lone no More: Austin Jewish Community Celebrates 25 Years With Chabad's Representatives

When Rabbi Yosef and Rochel Levertov moved to the Lone Star state in 1984, its capital, Austin, had only a fledgling Jewish community. Initially, the couple’s mission was to serve the student body of the University of Texas (Jewish population: 4,000). Since then, they have expanded their efforts to include the greater Austin area, and have hired a young rabbi (a UT alumnus) to serve as the campus representative. A highly-acclaimed elementary school, holiday and Shabbat offerings, and a full roster of classes are only a smidgen of what the Levertovs have provided the Austin community.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Jewish Encounters in the Wild

“What in the world are you doing here?” The truth is, Michoel Harari barely knew himself. As director of Yeshiva Outdoor Adventure Camp, Rabbi Harari is used to finding himself beyond the beaten path...

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, October 15, 2009

Huntington Beach Academy Teacher Wins AVI CHAI Educational Technology Grant

For her work, “Enhancing Language Skills Through Technology Driven Global Connections,” Hebrew Academy teacher Ms. Miriam Gold, a teacher at Chabad’s Huntington Beach Hebrew Academy...

Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A Hakafah for Daniel Pearl

The Jewish American journalist murdered by Al Qaeda terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002, would have celebrated his 46th birthday on Simchat Torah...

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, October 8, 2009

Chabad of Vancouver Recipient of $1.2 Million Government Grants

Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg states that “Chabad’s goal to teach, inspire, and uplift, will be enhanced by this government grant.” As Chabad of BC’s director for over 35 years...

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, October 7, 2009

A Torah-on-Loan Travels To North Cyprus

When Randi Luxenberg was planning her 25th wedding anniversary, she came up with a gift idea for her husband, Arthur that was anything but same old, same old:

S. Fridman | News | Wednesday, October 7, 2009

NY State Senator Eric Adams To Work Closely With Chabad on Security Concerns

The Senator, who is also NYS Chairman of the Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs met with leaders of the Chabad Lubavitch movement where the conversation focused on the activities of Chabad...

Yaacov Behrman | News | Tuesday, October 6, 2009

In Central Africa, Chabad Helps Jews Celebrate High Holidays

Several hours before Rosh Hashanah set in, Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila found himself in the offices of Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, October 2, 2009

Sushi in the Sukkah, Pizza in the Hut, Hookah in the Sukkah . . . It's Holiday Time on Campus

The recent University of Colorado graduate will spend the entire Thursday and Friday assembling 300 rolls of sushi. “The numbers [30 pounds of fresh fish and several gallons of rice] are absurd,” laughs Zeldner, “but it will all get eaten. Definitely.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, October 1, 2009

Submariner At Sea Calls On Chabad For High Holy Day Prayer Texts

What’s a submariner at sea to do on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur without a prayer book? Shortly before the Jewish New Year set in, Chabad representative to Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Levi Brashevitzki..

Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Ukraine Jewish Community Unveils Memorial

Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, joined the city’s Mayor Ivan Kulichenko, Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk and the Dnepropetrovsk region Shmuel Kaminezki, and Mr. Gennady Bogolubov..

S. Fridman | News | Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Chabad of The Upper West Side Wins Approval On Landmark Project

A unanimous decision reached Tuesday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, granted Chabad of the West Side a Certificate of Appropriateness...

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Netanyahu Recalls Rebbe’s Advice: Dispel Lies, Darkness, With Truth

"You will go into a house of lies," he said the Rebbe told him.

Miriam Davids | News | Friday, September 25, 2009

President of Dominican Republic Meets With Chabad Leadership

President of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Leonel Fernandez visited the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn, Tuesday evening, where he met with the leadership of the movement.

Miriam Davids | News | Wednesday, September 23, 2009

New Synagogue Goers Find Easy Welcome At Chabad

The Jewish High Holiday services are sometimes viewed as fashion shows where tickets are hawked at Super Bowl prices...

D. Lipson | News | Thursday, September 17, 2009

Israeli Children Explore Rosh Hashanah at Bee Farm

On a recent field trip with south Tel Aviv’s Camp Neve Eliezer, eighty children, all clad in shorts, sandals, and matching baseball caps, clapped and laughed at the antics of “Itchele...

Sarah Bronson | News | Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Getting Ready for Rosh Hashana: Adults, Children Learn Hands-On With Chabad

Shofar Factories are popping up in cities across the globe, attracting children to explore the significance of the shofar and the holiday it represents...

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, September 14, 2009

Changing Facts on The Ground: From Cracow To New York

As Sept 11 is remembered today, memorial ceremonies will abound, as they should. But many will look for signs of change that prove that the evil unleashed on that calamitous day has been defeated.

B. Olidort | News | Friday, September 11, 2009

Flashback!: Chabad at UCLA Marks 40th Year

In this week's Flashback! lubavitch.com presents a news release dated 1969 announcing Chabad's purchase of its first campus center located adjacent to the UCLA campus.

| News | Thursday, September 10, 2009

Chabad of Israel Prepares To Welcome 130,000 More Jews To High Holiday Services

Chabad-Lubavitch of Israel is expecting to greet an additional 130,000 Jews—many self-described as non-observant—at prayer services this Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

S. Fridman | News | Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Toronto Developer Fulfills Jewish Congregation’s Dream

Toronto developer Mario Romano wanted to give back to the Jewish community that has helped him prosper. But when the 57-year-old donated three acres of land north of the city for a new Chabad center...

David Lipson | News | Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Maharal-Chabad Nexus

The Maharal had an influence on many streams of Jewish thought, including Chasidism, and especially on Chabad Chasidism. Indeed, the founder of Chabad, Reb Schneur Zalman of Liadi, was a direct descendant of the Maharal.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, September 7, 2009

Water Carrier: Rabbi Fights Southern California Fire with Love

It has been a long and smoky week in Southern California as firefighters valiantly battle the area’s largest-ever fire and residents race to safety. With 58,000 hectares of land charred, fire officials are now declaring 38 percent containment.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, September 4, 2009

Chabad Marks Birthdate of Movement's Founder

On 18 Elul, Jewish communities the world over will mark the anniversary of the birthdate Rabbi Schneur Zalman on Liadi...

| News | Thursday, September 3, 2009

Chabad Representative to MA Remembers Ted Kennedy

As a week of mourning winds down for United States Senator Ted Kennedy, his constituents are remembering his contributions in the Senate chambers and eulogizing the end of Camelot.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, August 31, 2009

Hong Kong Jewish Community Celebrates Rabbi's 50th

When Goldie Avtzon, Chabad representative to Hong Kong, decided to throw a surprise party in honor of her husband’s 50th birthday last week, she had modest expectations.

S. Fridman | News | Sunday, August 30, 2009

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Jewish Inspiration Trails Chabad Rabbis After Summer Tour

“There was no cutting back this year despite the economy,” emphasized director Rabbi Schneor Nejar. “Wherever there is a need to reach Jewish people, we are sending rabbis.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, August 27, 2009

Chabad of Sweden: Jewish Community Stands With Israel

The recent article in a mainstream Swedish newspaper claiming that Israeli soldiers harvested body organs from Palestinians has many in Sweden’s Jewish community deeply concerned.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, August 25, 2009

New Jewish Day School To Open On Cape Town's West Coast

The scheduled opening of a new primary school this January is a development that bodes well for Cape Town's Jewish community. Despite years of fears and speculation to the contrary, Jewish life here is enjoying positive growth.

S. Fridman | News | Sunday, August 23, 2009

Chabad Combats Hate At York University With Enhanced Jewish Involvement

Vidal Bekerman uses a spiritual approach when addressing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric at York University in Toronto.

D. Lipson | News | Wednesday, August 19, 2009

JLI Retreat Explores Themes of Jewish Empowerment

With almost 600 attendees, this year’s assembly brought together more participants than all three previous retreats combined. It was a stunning success....

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Manali Diary 4: Search for Missing Israeli Continues

The search wasn’t planning to go out on Shabbos because most of the people were way too worn out, but when a flock of vultures were seen in the distance hovering over a location about 10 miles from Khalga...

Levi Pekar | News | Monday, August 17, 2009

First Chabad House Opens in St. Martin/St. Maarten

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters officially appointed new Chabad representatives to St. Martin/St. Maarten in the Caribbean Islands.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, August 17, 2009

Flashback!: Gan Israel Campsite Purchased

It was forty years ago this summer that the popular Camp Gan Israel overnight boys' camp purchased a sprawling property in the Catskills Mountains.

| News | Thursday, August 13, 2009

Downtown: Everything Jewish is Waiting for You

When Patti Berman moved into her sunny loft in downtown Los Angeles, the rough-and-tumble neighborhood was known as skid row...

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, August 13, 2009

Gan Israel Campers Reach Out To Special Needs Child

Chabad of Orange County offices received a special request via email which sparked the interest of Camp Gan Israel directors...

| News | Thursday, August 13, 2009

Road Sages: Finding Jews in All the Right Places

While en route from Chicago to Minneapolis last weekend, three guys in a Dodge Sprinter heard about a small town halfway to their destination...

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, August 12, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

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.

| News | Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Chabad Center To Open in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Chabad-Lubavitch, has appointed Chabad representatives to Cambodia, a first for this South East Asian country.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, August 10, 2009

80 Years After Massacre, Baby Named For Hebron Matriarch

On that fateful day, thousands of bloodthirsty Arabs carrying knives, hatchets and pitchforks rampaged through the streets of Hebron hunting Jews for slaughter. With cries of "Slaughter the Jews” and “Allahu Akbar,” the mob broke homes, tortured, raped and murdered men, women and children.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A Match Made In Iraq

Zimmet enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve in August of 2001, two weeks shy of 9/11. She worked in various military positions and was sent to the Persian Gulf, including Iraq in 2003. After seven months, she returned to the United States, eventually returning for a year of service in Iraq in 2005. Within a few weeks of her and Lans’ arrival, serendipity struck.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Broadway

On campuses around the world, Chabad’s newest representatives are getting ready for their first season meeting and greeting, reaching and teaching Jewish students. Among them, two of Chabad’s newest campus representatives took a short break to talk with lubavitch.com and share their unusual story.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Manali Diary 3: Chabad Rabbis Continue To Search For Missing Israeli

When an Israeli traveler, Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, was discovered missing in India, Chabad rabbinical students Levi Pekar and Yehuda Kirsh took an active role in organizing search parties. This is part three of Levi's Manali diary, exclusive to lubavitch.com .

Levi Pekar | News | Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Children Learn Through Art and Community Service At A Toronto Chabad School

A new Chabad center in an unlikely Toronto neighborhood is getting noticed for its unique Hebrew arts school. Chabad of York Mills quietly opened before the 2007 Jewish high holidays in the northern suburb home to more than 7,300 Jews of various denominations.

D. Lipson | News | Monday, August 3, 2009

In Cusco, Peru, Backpackers Observe Jewish Fast Day

It was a record breaking pre-fast meal Wednesday evening, as 75 backpackers took their final meal before the Tisha b'Av fast at the Chabad center in Cusco, Peru.

| News | Friday, July 31, 2009

Summer School, Yeshiva Style

Nine weeks ago, Josh Weinstein packed up his blue Corolla for the 284-mile drive from Norfolk, Virginia to Morristown, New Jersey. The semester at Virginia Wesleyan College had just ended, and Weinstein, an English professor at the school, was gearing up for some study of his own: Yeshiva-style.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Chabad Hebrew Day School Integrates SMART Boards In All Classes

Dusty chalk and dry-erase boards are so Twentieth-century. The Hebrew Academy of Huntington Beach, California, known for its progressive educational methods is moving ahead once again.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Entrepreneur Says It's Time To "Give Back" To Chabad

What’s a successful entrepreneur doing sponsoring the publication of an esoteric, Chasidic discourse? Or repairing the gravesite of its author in some remote Ukrainian townlet? Mouli Cohen , 51, who made his fortune as an investor in biotechnology and hi-tech enterprises, believes in “giving back.” And he wants to give back to Chabad, he says, because of what Chabad gives to the world.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, July 27, 2009

Manali Diary: Chabad Rabbinical Students Search For Missing Israeli

An Israeli search team is expected to arrive in India on Monday, to search for a 24-year-old Israeli backpacker missing in the Parvati Valley area. Last Tuesday , 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz and a friend set out on a one-day trek from the village of Khirganga. The two split up at some point, but when Shtainmitz did not return, his friend notified Israeli authorities. In the meantime, Chabad rabbinical students in Manali are leading local search teams.

Levi Pekar | News | Sunday, July 26, 2009

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Sunday, July 26, marks the anniversary of the passing, of Rabbi Isaac Luria on the fifth of the Hebrew month of Av.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, July 26, 2009

Chabad Rabbi Makes Study Central to Greensboro Mission

Harry Samet was wheeling his cart through Costco last August when he saw a young rabbi in a black jacket loading up on folding tables and chairs. Rumor had it that a Chabad couple had moved to town, a Yosef Plotkin and his wife, and this was Samet’s first introduction to the bearded rabbi.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Chabad Education Initiative Gives New Meaning to 'No Child Left Behind'

A visitor to a middle school classroom in Los Angeles on a sunny morning some months ago was greeted with what appeared to be utter chaos. The desks were not lined up, everyone seemed to be talking at once, and almost no one was paying any attention to the young twenty-something teacher, who was unfazed by the scene in front of her.

Tzivia Emmer | News | Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Seattle Jewish Day School Secures $3.5 Million Property

A Jewish day school near the University of Washington has left the Chabad center it has called home for the last 35 years, for a bigger and greener learning environment. “We’re going to move from having skinned knees to having grass stains,” said Rabbi Yossi Charytan, head of the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder Day School.

D. Lipson | News | Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Donetsk Jewish Community Reaches Out With Games

At the Jewish Community Center here, a new club has been established. Its goal: to bring together fans the wide variety of games that challenge the mind. The program is being led by the president of the Donetsk Intelligent Games Club, Dmitry Senatorov.

| News | Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Australian Chabad School First to Integrate Cybersmart

Cybersmart, the first national cybersafety education initiative of its kind, was launched July 13, at Chabad’s Beth Rivkah Ladies College of Melbourne.An interactive website designed to keep kids safe when using the internet, Cybersmart was provided by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Staff Writer | News | Monday, July 20, 2009

Road Sage: Rabbis Cruise For A Cause

Three Chabad rabbinical students will be easily spotted this summer as they make their way from New York to California in an unusually decorated Dodge Sprinter.

| News | Thursday, July 16, 2009

Reflections on a Mitzvah

A year ago, when the Chabad community in Vancouver gathered to initiate the writing of a new Torah for the Jewish Center, I thought to myself – why? We had a perfectly serviceable Torah – albeit borrowed – why would we need one of our own? I just didn’t get it. Yet, the excitement for this project was palpable – almost as if the birth of a child was upon us.

Stephanie Hatton / photos: Ilona M LaRue/Studio Lumiere Contemporary Lifestyle Photography | News | Thursday, July 16, 2009

Unearthing Temple Instruments in JLI's Latest Course

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute unveiled its latest course, “Heaven on Earth: Timeless Vessels, Timely Lessons” to 2,500 students this week. The three-week program comes on the heels of last year’s miniseries which explored the significance of the structure of the Beit Hamikdash (the Temples that stood in Jerusalem). This year, its continuation focuses on the spiritual significance of the Temple’s six primary instruments.

R. C. Lundy | News | Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Tough Economy Won't Stop Chabad of Roseville

Rabbi Yossi and Mrs. Malkie Korik formed Chabad of Roseville in 2005. Operating out of their home and rented facilities, the two have developed a vibrant Jewish community in Placer County. Now, though, Chabad’s many educational offerings and social activities will have a new home: a former South Placer Fire District outpost.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Dorset Jewish Community Celebrates Opening of New Chabad Centre

Chabad’s Rabbi Yossie and his wife Chanie Alperowitz have just completed a million pound project, the new Chabad Centre in Bournemouth.

| News | Tuesday, July 14, 2009

First Person: A Graduate Reflects

It is not easy to attend a university and receive an education that prides itself on liberal, intellectual, and unbiased humanist values, while at the same time delving into the meaning and wisdom of the Torah, and gleaning guidance and spirituality for a Jewish life. To me, Torah life and teachings very often seemed to be in contradiction to the more universalist undertones, which pervaded the classes and culture of the university system, and set aside religion as an arcane belief for the weak of mind.

Jamie Zebrak | News | Friday, July 10, 2009

The Boys From Brooklyn

For Rabbi Chaim Shmaya Wilhelm , a son of Portland, returning to his hometown for a summer of study is only natural. This August, Wilhelm and six young rabbis will descend on America’s greenest city with Talmudic tracts and Torah books, ready to study with local businessmen, students, and professionals. The much-anticipated Oregon Yeshiva Experience attracted 60 students last year; this year Wilhelm hopes to push the number to 100. With promises of “study with Moses, Maimonides, and a couple of guys from Brooklyn,” Wilhelm is setting up yeshiva-shop in this northwestern city.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, July 9, 2009

Australia's Governor-General visits Sydney Yeshiva

The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Ms. Quentin Bryce AC , paid a visit last week to The Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters in Sydney.

| News | Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Buenos Aires Center Unites Women in Study, Sport, and Celebration

Music piped through the hallway mingles with sounds of aerobics and dance classes and the beautiful décor is evocative of an exclusive country club. Open from nine in the morning until nine at night, Beit Jana’s days are packed with stimulating classes and hundreds of ladies.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Israel's President To Chabad: You Give Life to the Living

“I have no idea when the dead will come back to life, but I am certain,” said Israel’s President Shimon Peres, “that your work that gives life to the living, is no less important.”

Miriam Davids | News | Monday, July 6, 2009

Russia Denies Right of U.S. Courts To Rule On Chabad Claims To Confiscated Library

(lubavitch.com) In a surprise announcement filed with the federal court in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2009, Russia declared that it has decided "not to further participate" in the much drawn-out case in which Chabad is seeking to recover part of its historic library.

| News | Thursday, July 2, 2009

School's Out, Chabad Campus Emissaries In For Annual Conference

Esther Stein began her religious journey in Lima and continued it in Brooklyn where she studied at a women’s yeshiva. During her time in America, Stein’s mentor, Rabbi Uri Blumenfeld, kept in touch with her and her teachers, gave her money to purchase warm clothing for the cold New York winter, visited regularly, and introduced her to her future husband.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, July 2, 2009

Bar Mitzvah Celebration for Israel's Orphans [Photos]

107 Israeli orphans were honored at a moving bar mitzvah ceremony Monday, at the Western Wall. Colel Chabad’s annual Bar Mitzvah Project sponsored the gala bar mitzvah with a full reception at the Jerusalem Convention Center, marking the boys’ right of passage in dignity and celebration.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Israel's President Peres Meets With Azerbaijan Jewish Leaders

(lubavitch.com) On a historic first state visit to Azerbaijan, Israel’s President Shimon Peres’s itinerary included a visit to the local Jewish community.

| News | Monday, June 29, 2009

Dominican Republic Welcomes Chabad Rabbi

Rabbi Shimon Pelman , Chabad emissary to the Dominican Republic, was formally welcomed to the country in a meeting Thursday with President Leonel Fernández Reyna at the National Palace in Santo Domingo.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, June 29, 2009

Jewish Learning Instructors: Students For A Day

For one full day, the teachers became students. Clad in their distinctive black hats and suits, they listened attentively, raised their hands to ask questions, and passed the occasional note (via text-messaging, of course).

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, June 29, 2009

Chabad Campus Reps Prepare for New Academic Year

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-on-Campus representatives convened yesterday at Lubavitch Headquarters for a special session with Mr. George Rohr .

| News | Thursday, June 25, 2009

IN CONVERSATION WITH RABBI ADIN EVEN YISRAEL STEINSALTZ[Video]

June 25th marked the 15th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. In honor of the occasion, lubavitch.com interviewed Rabbi Adin (Even Yisrael) Steinsaltz. Rabbi Steinsaltz, a noted rabbi, scholar, philosopher, social critic and a prolific author of books on a wide scope of Jewish topics, is most commonly known for his popular commentary and translation of the Talmud into Hebrew, French, Russian and Spanish. A Chasidic scholar as well, Rabbi Steinsaltz has translated the Tanya, the primary source text of Chabad Chasidism, into English and written numerous works on Chasidic and Kabbalistic themes.In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, Israel's highest honor, for Jewish studies.

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, June 25, 2009

Still the Rebbe Reaches Out

Excerpt of an editorial viewpoint in New York Newsday, April 15, 1994, by Rabbi Michael Paley. The Rebbe passed away two months later, on June 12. Rabbi Michael Paley is scholar-in-residence and director of the Jewish Resource Center of the UJA-Federation of New York

Rabbi Michael Paley | News | Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Dear Rebbe, I Have A Story For you

The following letter was sent to the Lubavitcher Rebbe probably in the early 1980s, and brought to the attention of the Wellsprings journal by the Rebbe’s secretariat. To protect the identity of the individuals involved, the writer’s name, and that of her partner’s were changed.

| News | Wednesday, June 24, 2009

50,000 To Visit Rebbe's Resting Place in Queens

Residents of quiet Cambria Heights, Queens, are watching neighborhood traffic swell this week as visitors begin to stream through the little house at the corner of Francis Lewis Boulevard, leading to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s resting place at the Old Montefiore Cemetery.

B. Olidort | News | Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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El Al Passengers Stranded in Thailand, Do Shabbat With Chabad

Extra places were added to the Chabad of Thailand Shabbat table this past weekend after mechanical problems delayed the takeoff of an El-Al flight to Israel and caused the company to cancel the trip to prevent Shabbat desecration.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Bielski Brothers Survivors Raise Funds for Jewish Camping

In 1942, the Jewish community was entrenched in the ghetto and Sarah Koll had the dire (and accurate) premonition that life was about to get much worse. She instructed her eight-year old daughter, Paula to take care of her younger brother, should bad come to worse.

| News | Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Israel's PazGaz Gas Company Partners With Chabad

Needy children in the Israeli coastal city of Yavne had much to cheer about last week thanks to an unsolicited generous donation from the PazGaz natural gas company to Chabad Computers for the Needy program.

| News | Monday, June 22, 2009

Kosher Comes to Wimbledon

(lubavitch.com) For the first time in its 122 year history, there will be kosher food at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Half a million people are drawn to Wimbledon's two-week tennis tournament every year.

| News | Sunday, June 21, 2009

Drug Rabbi Gets High Award

(lubavitch.com) Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 83rd birthday last week with a parade in her honor (moved several months beyond her actual birthday due to weather concerns). As she does every year, the Queen announced a list of birthday honors commending the most prestigious achievements of her subjects. Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin , Chabad’s representative to Ilford, was nominated and chosen to become a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

R. C. Lundy | News | Sunday, June 21, 2009

Atlanta Yields A New Crop of Rabbis

Since 2005, the Atlanta Smicha Program has ordained 32 rabbis (including this year’s crop of eight students) in a unique combination of rigorous personal study and community instruction. In addition to standard Jewish law and ethics, the students also completed a course of “practical rabbinics,” including public speaking, fundraising, and counseling.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, June 18, 2009

Vatican Responds to Yad L'Achim Appeal

The Vatican responded this week to a request from the Yad L’Achim organization for action on “hidden Jewish children” of the Holocaust. Archbishop Antonio Franco’s written response, the Vatican’s first official acknowledgement of the issue, called it a “very delicate” and “complex” matter on which the Pope had already taken some action.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, June 18, 2009

Jewish South Florida Leads in World Unity Awareness Event

“Unity is necessary for receiving the Torah. It is the condition for our survival,” asserted Rabbi Israel Meir Lau , survivor of Buchenwald and former Chief Rabbi of Israel.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Far Right Gains Shock Hungarian Jewish Community

In a shift unheard of since pre-Nazi Europe, multitudes of Hungarians took to the polls last week in support of an extreme neo-Nazi party. As often happens in times of economic meltdown and general woe, far-right parties (representing anti-Semitic and racist views) come out on top.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, June 15, 2009

Southern California Communities to Mark Rebbe's Yahrzeit

Chabad of Orange County invites friends and supporters to an evening exploring the unique relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Israel’s Leaders.

| News | Friday, June 12, 2009

Love the Cause, Hate the Dinner? Farbrengen With Chabad!

WEST ORANGE, N.J., Monday, June 01, 2009 – Lubavitch Center of Essex County announced the launching of a Chasidic farbrengen style evening to be hosted in honor of the 15th yahrzeit of the Rebbe's passing, at Crystal Plaza In Livingston, NJ on Monday evening June 22.

| News | Friday, June 12, 2009

Northwest NJ Jewish Community Dedicates New Chabad Educational Center

Some 300 guests, among them community leaders, members and well wishers turned out last Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the new Chabad Educational Center of Northwest NJ.

| News | Friday, June 12, 2009

At Tulane, Jewish Student Life Grows With Chabad Family

Tulane itself has done remarkably well since Katrina. Unlike the city itself, which has not rebounded because of poor leadership, Tulane’s president, Scott Cowen, rebranded in the aftermath of the hurricane. He had a real vision, and he used the opportunity to revamp the school, closing down departments that weren’t so successful, and recruiting a more serious element of students.

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, June 11, 2009

New Synagogue to Rise in Derbent

Derbent’s Jewish community recently celebrated a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction a new synagogue. Home to one of Russia’s oldest Jewish communities, the city counts some 8000 Jews today, under the leadership of its Chief Rabbi Ovadya Isaakov, a Chabad-Lubavitch representative.

| News | Thursday, June 11, 2009

Troye Sivan "Tell Me Why" in Memory of the Mumbai Victims [Video]

On Monday, June 8th, over five hundred people attended Chabad of the Valley’s dinner celebrating its 36th anniversary. Its first center was opened in 1973 by Rabbi Joshua B, Gordon, Spiritual Leader of Chabad of Encino and Executive Director of Chabad of the Valley. Currently, the organization has 23 centers servicing the greater Valley area.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Israel's Foreign Minister Takes Time With Chabad on His Birthday

Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, met with U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, on Tuesday. It was also Lieberman's birthday, so despite his intense schedule, he took time out to visit with Chabad Rabbi Levy Edry, a personal friend, and ponder the spiritual meaning of a birthday.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Laugh Tracks Chabad's Funny Side

A sold-out crowd of 700 Montrealers, all in search of a good belly laugh, will pile into the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall Sunday. The Jewish Comedy Fest, to aid Chabad of NDG and the Loyola campus, will feature two Jewish comedians and a world-renowned mentalist. Montreal’s own Joey Elias will share the stage with Yisrael Campbell from Jerusalem and Marc Salem , direct from Broadway. Chances are, it will be a funny night.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Scholarship Requests Soar As Chabad Camps Try To Meet Demand

Bonfires at overnight camps throughout the country will have spare marshmallows and graham crackers this summer. Day camps are scrounging for campers and parents are searching for scholarships.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, June 8, 2009

Shoes for Children through IFCJ and Shaarei Tsedek

The Shaarei Tsedek Charity Center in Moscow successfully completed a humanitarian aid program that distributed children's shoes to many of the community’s most needy children. The sponsor of this project was the Fellowship Foundation, headed by Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein and also known as the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

| News | Friday, June 5, 2009

Kosher Food Online In Moscow

Moscow’s renowned Kosher Market.ru food store has launched an exciting new project that is certain to be a big hit with local Jews and even visitors to the Russian capital. This latest development makes Kosher Market.ru the first online kosher food store in Russia, offering customers the convenience of home delivery.

| News | Friday, June 5, 2009

Israel's Welfare, Social Services Ministry Exhibit in Kfar Chabad

Close to 400 social workers, teachers, program directors, immigrants, parents and students were at the Ohr Simcha Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad last week for the Welfare and Social Services Ministry’s annual exhibition fair of programs and services.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, June 5, 2009

Kfar Chabad: It Takes A Village . . .

Five miles south of Tel Aviv and near Ben Gurion airport is Israel’s modern day version of Anatevka, complete with agricultural fields, milk cows, numerous educational institutions, more than 8,000 Chasidic Jews, and the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in the Holy Land.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, June 4, 2009

Statement By Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters

Regarding recent comments made by Rabbi Manis Friedman in response to a question posed by Moment Magazine, we vehemently disagree with any sentiment suggesting that Judaism allows for the wanton destruction of civilian life, even when at war.

| News | Wednesday, June 3, 2009

"Defiance" Survivors Help Send Kids To Camp

Until he was three and a half, Isaac lived with 10,000 other Jews in the Nowogrodek ghetto. His father Zev Wolfe , a successful farmer, was licensed to provide the prisoners with wheat and potatoes from his nearby farm.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Chabad's Rabbi S.B. Gourarie of S.A Passes Away

Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Gourarie , a notable Rabbi in South Africa and a Chabad Shliach, passed away Tuesday morning at age 77.

| News | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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Passenger of Air France 447, Member of French Jewish Community

While the investigation into the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 continues, and inquiries about the 228 passengers and crew members abound, the Jewish community of Paris has confirmed knowledge of one of the passengers.

| News | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Chabad Remembers Israel's Efraim Katzir

Efraim Katzir , Israel’s fourth president who served from 1973 to 1978, internationally recognized biophysicist, and Zionist activist, died Saturday evening in his home at the Weizman Institute in Rehovot. He was 93.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Tashkent First Graders Celebrate Siddur Party

First grade students at the Ohr Avner-Chabad School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan performed for family members, showed off their Hebrew language skills, and received their own prayer books at a traditional Mesibat HaSiddur ceremony to mark an important milestone in Jewish education – achieving basic Hebrew proficiency.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Summer Traveler: Kosher in Vancouver

Chabad of Vancouver is opening a kosher catering service to serve thousands of Jewish tourists traveling through Vancouver during the summer.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Monday, June 1, 2009

IDF Soldiers Stationed in Hebron Find A Home With Chabad

When they’re not monitoring Hebron’s network of anti-terrorist security cameras and gathering intelligence, female soldiers of the (IDF) stationed here love to hang out with Batsheva Cohen . The dynamic Chabad representative bakes challah with the soldiers, explores questions of Jewish identity, and infuses their tour of duty here with a joyfully Jewish experience.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, June 1, 2009

Shavuot with Chabad: It's a Kid Thing

“Who wants to be a Torahnaire?” is playing Friday at Chabad of Port Washington. Throughout the live game show featuring Shavuot related questions (“what do we decorate the synagogue with on this holiday?”), parents will “socialize and laugh and kids will get an education,” says youth director Rabbi Ilan Weinberg.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Supreme Court Nominee Ruled In Favor Of Public Menorah Display

President Obama named Judge Sonia Sotomayor the new Supreme Court Justice. If confirmed by the senate, Sotomayor, 54, will succeed retiring Justice David Souter, becoming the first Hispanic ever appointed to the Supreme Court.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Chabad Reaches Out To Japan's Jewish Inmates

It’s two days before Shavuot, and Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich has just returned from visiting several prisons in Tokyo. “I’ve got one more to go today.” he tells lubavitch.com in a phone interview. At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, he needs to be at another prison, to advocate on behalf of a Jewish prisoner’s religious needs.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Couple of Volunteers

He met Sheva and her husband over a traditional Shabbat dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. By the time dessert was cleared, Sheva had a hunch that Michael Corwin , 29, was a perfect match for Julie Ames , a fellow volunteer. Though he had never dated someone through a matchmaker, and later admits that he only followed through “to be agreeable,”Corwin and Ames are now engaged. Sheva, he says, was on the mark.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, May 25, 2009

Chabad Unveils New Website on Maimonides

(lubavitch.com) Commemorating twenty five years since the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, proposed that all Jews commit to a daily study of Maimonides’s Code, Chabad Lubavitch unveiled this past Wednesday a new website on Maimonides.

| News | Friday, May 22, 2009

A Jerusalem Landmark: Chabad's Tzemach Tzedek Shul

Figuring largely in the history of Jerusalem’s Old City and its reunification after the 1967 Six Day War, is Chabad-Lubavitch’s Tzemach-Tzedek Synagogue .

Joel Haber | News | Friday, May 22, 2009

Russian President Intervenes On Behalf Of Jewish Students

In a meeting Monday between Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and President Dmitry Medvedev , Russia’s Jewish students were granted permission to postpone upcoming state exams conflictingly scheduled for the first day of the Shavuot holiday.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, May 21, 2009

Chabad at Cannes Film Festival

Chabad’s mitzvah-smart mobile was a sight in contrasts at last week’s Cannes Film Festival. During the week-long event, the city’s normal population numbers of 70,000 swells to 200,000. Many were pleased to meet up with Chabad, and welcomed the offer to do a mitzvah and take a few minutes to reflect amid the endless partying.

| News | Thursday, May 21, 2009

Sderot on Alert Once Again

After two months of relief from the constant barrage of Hamas launched rockets, Sderot’s silence was shattered and Israel’s south went back on high alert late Tuesday afternoon when a Kassam rocket landed in a residential neighborhood, lighting injuring a resident and sending people into shock.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Chabad Rabbi Delivers Invocation At CMU Graduation [Video]

Over 10,000 people including graduates, family, and friends gathered in the Geisling Stadium for Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) 2009 Commencement.

| News | Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Jewish Communities Complete Maimonides Study Cycle

Thousands are expected to converge Wednesday evening at the gravesite of Maimonides in Israel’s northern city of Tiberias to celebrate the completion of the annual study cycle of Maimonides’s (the Rambam) Jewish legal compendium and magnum opus, Mishna Torah .

| News | Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Business Unusual: A Chabad Rabbi Helps Businesses Grow

R. C. Lundy | News | Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Encountering Chabad at Hanover Israel Day Festival

Sunday’s fourth annual Israel Day Festival in Hanover, Germany drew more than 1000 local Jews and featured Jewish, Israeli, religious and cultural attractions, including a popular booth from Chabad-Lubavitch of Hanover.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The Good Rabbi At Sydney's Crisis Centre

When 19-year old Jonathan failed at a suicide attempt in 2008 and ended up in the emergency room of a busy Sydney hospital, Rabbi Mendel Kastel was there to greet him. When, at various points during the last year, Jonathan destroyed his family’s house, tried to kill himself during Shabbat dinner, and needed a temporary place to live, Kastel was there, mediating, counseling, and providing a home.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Utah Governor Huntsman Returns From Trade Mission to Israel

| News | Monday, May 18, 2009

New Website Helps Russian Jews Track Ancestors

(lubavitch.com) A new Russian language website – www.Jekl.ru – is helping Jewish families discover their ancestors and visit their gravesites in St. Petersburg’s Preobrazhenskiy Jewish Cemetery.

| News | Sunday, May 17, 2009

Levi's Torah

Levi Yitzchak Wolowik was nine years old when he passed away suddenly on Shabbat morning, February 28th. The son of Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolowik , shluchim to the Five Towns of Long Island, Levi was a dedicated shliach-in-training and a lover of sports and study.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, May 14, 2009

Lag B'Omer With Chabad In Israel

| News | Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Graduates: Jewish Alumni To Keep Ties To Chabad

Mortarboards and congratulations will sail across the air at university campuses nationwide throughout May, as students take the big leap from studying the unknown to being there.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Israeli, Iranian Children Get Acquainted At World Chess Championship

After the trophies and closing ceremonies at last week’s World School Chess Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Israeli and Iranian teams met with their coaches and local Chabad Rabbi Yoel Kaplan to talk chess and peace.

Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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Two Chabad Schools in Florida Receive Accreditation

Representatives of two prestigious education accreditation programs visited two Chabad Florida schools last week. Representing the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was a former superintendent of Miami-Dade County.

Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Photos: Lag B'Omer Celebration In Sydney Australia

| News | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Photos: Lag B'Omer Parade In Moscow Russia

| News | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Governor Paterson Meets With Chabad Leaders On Education

(lubavitch.com) At a meeting in the Governor’s office last Thursday, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky , Chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch Educational and Social Services divisions spent the better part of half an hour speaking with New York State Governor David Paterson about Chabad-Lubavitch educational activities in the State.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, May 11, 2009

Lag B'Omer: Of Mystics and Merriment

More than a million people visit annually, but it is during the 24-hour period of Lag B’Omer that the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai really gets rocking. From Monday night until Tuesday, vibrations will echo through the hills as over 400,000 Jews converge in Meron to pray and party.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, May 11, 2009

400,000 Head to Mt. Meron for Lag B'Omer

Every 20 seconds, another bus arrives at Mt. Meron in Israel’s Upper Galillee. Lag B’Omer, which begins Monday night, is one of the liveliest days in Israel, and Miron, where the second century mystic, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar , who died on this day was buried, becomes a magnet for some 400,000 visitors.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, May 11, 2009

Israeli Delegates to Eurovision With Chabad in Moscow

| News | Monday, May 11, 2009

Israel's French Jews: Making the Most of A Second Chance

More than 150 French Jews filled the Chabad Center for French Speakers in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday night to celebrate the Second Passover and its message of “It’s never too late” with Rabbi Yitzchok Chaviv .

Zalman Nelson | News | Sunday, May 10, 2009

With Gunman in Custody, Wesleyan Students Begin to Grieve

(lubavitch.com) After a tense 24 hours during which the Wesleyan University campus was under lockdown, students and faculty are relieved to learn that the gunman who shot and killed a fellow student Wednesday night, is now in police custody.

| News | Friday, May 8, 2009

Jewish Organization Implores Pope To Help Identify Hidden Children of Holocaust

(lubavitch.com) Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled visit to Israel May 11-15 is eliciting mixed reactions among Israelis. But Chabad Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz hopes the visit will help him in his efforts to save lost souls.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, May 7, 2009

As Manhunt Continues Chabad Works to Keep Wesleyan Students Safe

Following the shooting Wednesday of a student at Wesleyan University, Chabad's Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky has been inundated with calls and emails from students.“The campus is basically in lockdown, and students on campus must wait this out in their rooms,” says the Chabad rabbi. “Some of them are quite worried and frantic and need to hear a familiar voice that is aware of what is going on.”

| News | Thursday, May 7, 2009

Chabad at AIPAC: A Capitol Experience

Chabad representatives from around the nation were among the 6500 guests at this year’s AIPAC Conference, which concluded Wednesday, in Washington D.C.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, May 7, 2009

Remembering Chabad's Emissary to Morocco

(lubavitch.com) Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of the passing Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin , Chabad emissary to Morocco for more than 44 years.

| News | Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Israeli Community Marks 30-Day Mourning Period

The Israeli settlement village of Bat Ayin near Jerusalem completed thirty days of mourning over the weekend for 13 year old Shlomo Nativ who was murdered on April 2 by an axe-wielding terrorist.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Chabad's Rohr JLI Offers Retreat to Self

The world’s most comprehensive adult Jewish education program will host the fourth annual National Jewish Retreat this August. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will present a plethora of Jewish ideas over five days at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut. Of the 400 expected participants, some arrive with little Jewish background while others have completed a formal yeshiva education. With dozens of sessions to choose from, there is literally something for everyone.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Rebbe's Views Cited In Israel's Supreme Court Landmark Decision

Working parents can deduct childcare expenses from their taxes, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a landmark decision which upheld a Tel Aviv District Court decision.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, May 4, 2009

Victory in Cooper City

In a landmark case heralded by religious rights activists, Cooper City, Florida was forced to admit its unlawfulness in preventing Chabad of Nova from opening its center. Five years in the making, this victory is particularly sweet as Rabbi Shmuel and Chaya Gita Posner have been looking for a permanent home since 2004 when they moved here to serve the 600 Jewish students of Nova University. Until this decision, that home remained elusive.

C. R. Lundy | News | Monday, May 4, 2009

Building Jewish Futures in Reno, Nevada

(lubavitch.com) Three mornings a week, Tracy Kutler straps five-year old Griffin into the family car for the 45-minute drive from Truckee, California to Reno, Nevada.

C. R. Lundy | News | Sunday, May 3, 2009

Hatzolah Ambulance Now Serving Moscow Jewish Community

(lubavitch.com) The recently-established Hatzolah Volunteer Ambulance Service has begun operating in Moscow. In particular, Moscow Hatzolah is available to respond to emergency calls in the Sofrino and Marina Roscha neighborhoods, as well as the vicinity of Bolshaya Bronnaya Street where the Agudas Chasidei Chabad Synagogue is located.

| News | Sunday, May 3, 2009

Chabad Rabbis In Singapore Host IRCC

At least 100 community representatives from districts and faiths across Singapore participated in a government sponsored seminar on the fundamentals of Judaism and Jewish practice presented by the local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, May 1, 2009

Yeshiva Boys' Small Gesture Makes Big Difference

| News | Thursday, April 30, 2009

Online Calendar To Help Jewish Women's Observance of Mikvah

(lubavitch.com) An age-old facet of Jewish life, mikvah usage has seen a tremendous upswing in recent years. Today, women observing the rituals of Jewish family laws, can dip in 1600 mikvahs around the world, halakhically constructed pools of rainwater that are frequent examples of artful and sensitive design

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, April 30, 2009

Diamond in the Rough

It is early on Monday morning and the bus is rolling into the Chabad House parking lot on Aintree Avenue. Forty senior citizens, from across the city and surrounding suburbs, enter the center. For the next several hours, these men and women will study various aspects of Jewish thought and tradition. After learning, they will enjoy a hot, catered lunch.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, April 30, 2009

No Cop-Out: Minnesota Police Stand in Solidarity with Israel

A rabbi, a priest, and 15 police officers step off an airplane at Ben Gurion Airport. This sounds like the first line of a corny joke. But for Rabbi Mayer Rubinfeld , this yarn bears all the trappings of a great story.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, April 30, 2009

Florida Governor Signs Bill Removing 'Shylock'

(lubavitch.com) On Monday, Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill removing the words "shylock" and "shylocking" from the Florida statute books, a term offensive to Jews.

| News | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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Books: Meditations on Mitzvot

In this advance review, Shmuel Klatzkin looks at Channeling the Divine and Feminine Faith, Chasidic works written by the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch .

Shmuel Klatzkin | News | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

VIDEO University of Illinois Chancellor Grateful to Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Chabad at University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, celebrated its fifth year on campus at a gala celebration Sunday evening. University Chancellor Richard Herman received the Founding Award.

| News | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Photos: Sinai Scholars At Princeton University

Sinai Scholars Society, a joint program of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and Chabad-on-Campus seeks to promote greater engagement in Jewish education for college students. Students are admitted by application process to its intensive, semester-long Jewish study program that offers in-depth levels of Jewish education and follow-up study opportunities like this conference.

| News | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Father of Slain Mumbai Victim Says He Joined Israel's Family of Bereaved

Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg , father of Rifka Holtzberg who was murdered alongside her husband Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg during the attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai last year, addressed a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

At US Colleges, Students Explore Traditional Jewish Values

(lubavitch.com) “In this essay, I examine how my understanding of G-d affects how I should live my life. I ask, ‘what is God, where is God and what does He have to do with me?”

S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Amid Swine Flu Panic, Chabad in Mexico Remains Open

A deadly strain of the Swine Flu, originating in Mexico and erupting in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, has caused death, illness, and travel restrictions across the globe. Though public events and schools have closed throughout the country, two Mexican Chabad centers remain open, and alert.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, April 27, 2009

Yeshiva For A Day At Binghamton University

What’s it like to study in a yeshiva setting? Some 30 students at Binghamton University got an approximation of the traditional yeshiva model of Talmud and Jewish philosophy study this past Sunday as they paired up with rabbinical students from the central Chabad yeshiva in New York, and split hairs over Talmudic minutiae.

S. Fridman | News | Monday, April 27, 2009

Scotland's Rabbi Jacobs Speaks in Parliament

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendel Jacobs, Scotland’s only Scottish Rabbi and Minsiter of Synagogue -Shul In The Park, who is also Chabad emissary, visited the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh this week to lead the Time For Reflection for the Parliament.

| News | Friday, April 24, 2009

Chabad of France To Convene National Conference

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in France will convene for the first national conference, Sunday-Monday, April 25-26.

| News | Friday, April 24, 2009

My Space/Your Space: Teens Hash It Out

What is a woman’s responsibility to her unborn child? Is it her right not to birth the infant? Is it her obligation to care for her child?

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, April 23, 2009

Torah Scroll Completed, Installed in Cracow Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) A Torah scroll was completed and dedicated Monday at the historic Rema Synagogue in Krakow, Poland. In recent years, the ancient synagogue dating back to 1553, did not have its own Torah. That changed at the behest of a descendant of Rabbi Moshe Isserles , for whom the famed shul is named.

| News | Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Zelda: Remembering an Israeli Poet

(lubavitch.com) Among the poets in Israel’s literary circle, many quietly remembered Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky on Tuesday (April 21) 27 Nissan. That Zelda, as she was simply called, died on the same day designated by the state of Israel as Holocaust Remembrance day, is in itself poetic; her poetry, for which she received the Bialik Prize in literature, speaks of death and darkness but also of renewal and transcendence.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Remembering Every Day

Communities in Israel and around the world are commemorating the deaths of six million Jews on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the steadily dwindling generation who survived those horrific years, Holocaust Remembrance is a daily experience.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Jewish Participants Find A Welcome Antidote to Durban II

(lubavitch.com) Tensions fomented inside the UN conference in Geneva on Monday when delegates walked out as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the platform to condemn Israel and the West. Outside, Jewish students and diplomats found a blessed antidote to the Iranian president’s hatefulness, as they were greeted at The Jewish Welcome Center.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, April 20, 2009

Photos: Passover in Mumbai

The seders in Mumbai were part of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Passover campaign funded by the support of philanthropists, including Mr. George Rohr and Mr. Guma Aguiar . A special grant for the Indian seders was made by Australian philanthropist, Rabbi Joseph Gutnick .

| News | Monday, April 20, 2009

At Pratt University, Students Design Chabad's Jewish Center

(lubavitch.com) Construction is set to begin on a 2,000 square foot storefront which will serve the 5,000 Jewish students enrolled at five downtown Brooklyn colleges. The largest of those schools, the prestigious Pratt Institute, with 1,000 Jewish students, has the third highest percentage of Jewish students in the nation.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, April 19, 2009

Blessing the Sun On the Congo River

| News | Sunday, April 12, 2009

Expelled From Russia, Chabad Rabbis Lead By Remote

(lubavitch.com) Following their recent expulsion from Russia, several rabbis have been working across phone lines and emails guiding their communities in Passover preparations.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Passover Seders With Chabad in Mumbai

(lubavitch.com) There will be seders in Mumbai this Passover. Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students arriving from New York in the days before the holiday, hit the ground running. The city’s streets are hot and stuffy and crowded. People are friendly, but trust is tricky. For security reasons, publicity for the seders is by word of mouth only.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, April 6, 2009

President Obama Proclaims Rebbe's Birthday as Education & Sharing Day USA

| News | Sunday, April 5, 2009

The Way Things Were: Reflections On The Rebbe's Birth Date

(lubavitch.com) Where were you the last time the Jewish people assembled to bless the sun?

Baila Olidort | News | Sunday, April 5, 2009

SOBER SEDER: Chabad Seders For Recovering Addicts

Next Wednesday, 100 recovering addicts will celebrate the holiday of freedom in Boca Raton, Florida. Like Jews everywhere, they’ll raise their glasses four times in the course of the even

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, April 3, 2009

Passover Kitchen Confessions: Behind the Scenes With Chabad on Campus

The refrigerator truck is winding its way north along the six-hour route from Los Angeles to Berkeley. Inside are 250 pounds of chicken, 100 pounds of meat, and 60 pounds of turkey. Flanking that are 18 cases of wine and another six of grape juice. A crunchy 70 pounds of matzah are making the trip as well.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Mrs. Libby Shifman, Chabad Representative in Safed, Passes Away

(lubavitch.com) Chabad emissaries mourn the death of 44 year old Mrs. Libby Feigele Malka Shifman of Safed, Israel today after she suffered a severe stroke on Monday morning.

| News | Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Guma & Jamie Aguiar Provide Major Funding for Chabad's 2009 Passover Seders

(lubavitch.com) Some 570 rabbinical students will soon be traveling to any of 285 locations worldwide where they will conduct communal seders this Passover, April 8. New on the list of exotic locations slated for Chabad’s seders is Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

lubavitch.com staff writer | News | Monday, March 30, 2009

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Jerusalem Mayor Barkat: Chabad Public School Exemplary

(lubavitch.com) As part of an inspection of local schools and educational initiatives his administration hopes to implement as they tackle the city’s scholastic challenges, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and several members of his staff made a three hour visit to Chabad’s Ir Ganim - Jerusalem school last week.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, March 30, 2009

Take Two: Chabad at the Movies

When the lights dimmed at Congregation B’nai Avraham Sunday night, the audience settled in with fresh popcorn and coke, for a night at the movies.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, March 30, 2009

Ukrainian Government Returns Torah Scrolls to Jewish Community

KIEV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian government recently agreed to transfer Torah scrolls stored in government archives to Jewish communities in Ukraine.

| News | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Irkutsk Jews celebrate the city's renovated Synagogue

IRKUTSK, Russia – Coinciding with the 130th anniversary of the Irkutsk Synagogue founding, Irkutsk Jews gathered to celebrate the opening of the community’s newly restored Synagogue. The move to restore the synagogue to its original beauty came after a major fire in July 1994.

| News | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Fire Damages local Chabad Mikvah

A fire that broke out in the suburb of Edgware, London, last week, spread to a nearby Chabad House causing great damage the mikvah and storage room on the property. Chabad Rabbi Levi Sudak and his family watched as firefighters put out the fire. According to Sudak, there was extensive damage, but no one was injured.

| News | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Challenge Aspen Chabad Project Welcomes Disabled Israeli Soldiers

On June 21, 2002 Israel soldier Kfir Levy’s Givati unit was operating in the Gaza strip, responding to terrorist rocket strikes and artillery fire, when a rocket-propelled grenade designed for use against armored vehicles and buildings struck him directly in the face.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, March 27, 2009

Canadian PM Harper Dedicates Chabad Centre Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper sported a blue kippah tonight as he helped cut the ribbon at a new Lubavitch synagogue in Toronto, which has been more than 20 years in the making.

lubavitch.com Staff Writer | News | Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sunrise . . . 112 Years Later

Back in 1897, when two Lower East Side rabbis tried to bless the “new sun”—a once-in-28-years Jewish ritual event—they got in trouble with the law. According to a report in the New York Times dated April 8, 1897, a local police officer became alarmed by a crowd of “Hebrews” that had converged on Tompkins Square at 8 a.m. without a permit. The rabbis, transplants from Europe, were unsuccessful in their attempts to explain this obscure tradition in broken English to an Irish police officer, leaving him more suspicious than curious.

| News | Thursday, March 26, 2009

Indian UN Ambassador Visits Chabad Officials, Holtzberg Family

India’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Nirupam Sen , visited the Holtzberg family in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon to offer his condolences. The Ambassador said it was important for his country that a representative of the Indian government extend personal condolences to the family of Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg , murdered last November in the Mumbai terror attacks.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Survivor of the Gulag

In a small apartment on a busy Crown Heights intersection you can find 92-year-old Reb Mottel Lifshitz. Affectionately known as "Reb Mottel the Shochet," he spends his days quietly studying, writing, and ... still enjoying herring. Born during the final years of Czar Nicholas II’s reign, Lifshitz not only survived two world wars, the Russian gulag, and Communist rule, but also lived to see his enemies perish.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, March 25, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc

From the way Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc greets an endless stream of visitors to the Chabad center and the Kabbalah Café in Ft. Lauderdale, one would never guess that the 45 year old father of five, among them children with special needs , has twice battled cancer and continues to struggle with his own health while working creatively to build and grow Jewish life in the area.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Celebrates Goldie's Torah

How do parents of a severely challenged 12 year old girl celebrate their daughter’s bat mitzvah? The question was poignantly relevant for Rabbi Moshe Meir and Pnina Lipszyc, Chabad representatives to Ft. Lauderdale, who have cultivated a lively Jewish community over nearly two decades while raising their special needs children under extraordinary circumstances.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, March 24, 2009

New Computer Center for Moscow Seniors

The Chabad-Lubavitch Sharei Tzedek charity center in Moscow launched a new state of the art computer center on Wednesday, adding internet, email and computing to a list of 30 programs offered daily to hundreds of elderly day program participants. 50 staff members, participants and volunteers joined the grand opening for a tour and computer class demonstration by instructor and computer room manager Iliya Varligen.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, March 20, 2009

Jewish and Loving It: Counting Down to Total Immersion Summer Camp

Snow still covers the campground on Perch Lake Road, but for Rabbi Yitzchok Steinmetz , summer is already underway. The director of Camp L’man Achai has been gearing up for the camp season since October and now finds himself in a flurry of applications. The camp, which recently earned ACA accreditation, offers a unique niche in a world where there are camps to fill every interest.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, March 19, 2009

Birkat HaChamah, The Blessing of the Sun, 2009

"This country, with God’s help, can be self-sufficient in energy. The problem lies in the failure to utilize God’s gifts to their fullest... There is one energy source which can be made available in a very short time. Solar energy is non-polluting, cheap, and inexhaustible…it can power individual homes as well as giant factories. The United States has been blessed with plentiful sunshine, especially in the south… God has blessed this country richly, and it is our duty to use those riches to their fullest."

Rabbi Dr. Julian (Yedidya) Sinclair | News | Wednesday, March 18, 2009

CHABAD OF KOREA TO OPEN LIBRARY AT THE NEW JCC

A new Jewish community center opened last week in Seoul. The new center will also include a Jewish Library.

Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Dnepropetrovsk City Establishes Memorial For Former Chief Rabbi

Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Schneerson (1878-1944), the former chief rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, on Sunday became Ukraine’s first spiritual leader to have his life commemorated with a public memorial during a ceremony at his former home in downtown Dnepropetrovsk. Schneerson was the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of blessed memory.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, March 17, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan , Director of the education office of Merkos L'inyonei Chinuch, was recently elected President of the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA), the umbrella organization for accrediting agencies of private schools in the U.S. from early childhood through grade 12.

| News | Monday, March 16, 2009

PM Harper To Chabad: Canada A Defender of Jews, Israel

(lubavitch.com) Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted Chabad-Lubavitch Canadian representatives Thursday, denouncing anti-Semitism and promising to repudiate it wherever it surfaces.

| News | Friday, March 13, 2009

Russia's President Medvedev: Government Should Not Interfere With Religious Life

At a meeting Wednesday with religious leaders in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev promised to instruct his staff and heads of security regarding policies of foreign clergy in Russia.

| News | Thursday, March 12, 2009

Purim Break for Jewish Inmates

(lubavitch.com) Along with the three-cornered hamantashen and heaps of candies, Purim gives children one raucous day during which they can express their alter egos in masquerade.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Purim Spring Break

Sun. Surf. Scuba. Nightlife. Ancient Mayan civilization. Ancient Persian history. Ancient Persian History? Well yes, if you are spending Purim with Chabad in Cancun.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, March 9, 2009

Purim Thoughts: The Donkey, The Foal and The Pig

A donkey, her foal, and a pig lived in a barnyard. The foal complained to her mother that the pig was fed generously although it did nothing all day, while she and her mother worked hard all day bearing heavy burdens yet received more moderate amounts of food. “Do not be jealous,” said the donkey.

Chana Silberstein | News | Monday, March 9, 2009

Purim In Israel: No Holds Barred

The Jewish festival of Purim begins sundown on Monday, but the celebrations and preparations in Israel have been underway since the start of the month. Candy displays and colorful costumes of characters, modern and ancient have filled the shop windows for weeks. Days before the holiday, young and old costumed characters—pirates, superheroes, princesses and cowboys—take to the streets with parades, parties and carnivals.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, March 9, 2009

Purim Gifts Come Early In Dnepropetrovsk

In places like Dnepropetrovsk, where the financial crisis has hit the 55-plus population hardest, the city’s Jewish community is reaching out with help. Earlier this week, thousands lined up at the Central Golden Rose Synagogue to receive Purim food packages distributed by the Jewish community.

| News | Friday, March 6, 2009

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Mezuzah Mystery

According to a new report, leaked Friday by London’s Jewish Chronicle, properties bearing mezuzahs on their doorposts are selling for 10,000 pounds more than their equivalents without the parchments.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, March 6, 2009

Sister Talk

In the aftermath of Rabbi and Mrs. Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg’s murders last November, the grieving Jewish community was intent on learning everything they could about the lives of these two heroes. Those of their colleagues who knew them personally shared their memories with their fellow Chabad representatives in every corner of the globe.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, March 4, 2009

In Conversation: Russia's Chief Rabbi On Russia and the Jews Today

Even by western standards, Moscow’s Jewish infrastructure is impressive. In the Marina Roscha part of the city, a complex of buildings houses the community's comprehensive social and educational institutions catering to Moscow’s Jewish population.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, March 2, 2009

In Late Life, Isolated Holocaust Survivors Find New Friends

It is nearly 70 years since the start of the systematic, state-sponsored murder of over six million European Jews. Today, with anti-Semitism on a global rise and Holocaust deniers stridently espousing their hate, survivors are facing their own enemy: loneliness and depression.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, March 2, 2009

First Chabad Center Opens in Canberra, Australia

These aren’t easy times for Chabad to be opening new centers, but Australia’s capital city, Canberra, welcomed its first Chabad representatives this week. Rabbi Dan and Mrs. Naomi Avital moved into their new home Tuesday, after a pilot trip and meetings with the city’s lay leaders last month.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, March 1, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Sudden Death of Levi Wolowik

Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries mourn the sudden death Saturday, of 9-year old Levi Wolowik, of Five Towns, NY.

| News | Sunday, March 1, 2009

After 22 Years, Netherlands Names Chief Rabbi

( lubavitch.com ) In an official ceremony earlier this week at the Arnhem Synagogue in Holland, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was formally given the title of Inter-Provincial chief rabbi with the responsibilities for Jewish life in 11 out of 12 of Holland’s state provinces.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, February 27, 2009

Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters "Deeply Disturbed" At Russian Court's Decision To Expel Rabbi

A Russian district court on Wednesday overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, Rabbi of the Primorye region in Russia's far east.

| News | Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Appeal Denied, Rabbi of Russia's Primorye Region To Be Deported

A Russian district court on Wednesday, February 25, overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to deport Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein , the Primorye region’s Chief Rabbi, for misrepresenting the purpose of his stay on his most recent visa application.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Anti-Semitic Incitement, Poor Economy Have Kherson's Jews Worried

City council member Sergey Kirichenko’s bid to replace Kherson’s Jewish mayor has turned into a wild anti-Semitic incitement campaign, blaming Jews for the country’s economic downturn and accusing them of plotting genocide.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Once in a Rare Sun: Birkat Hachamah

The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewish life. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar to Jewish children even as preschoolers who learn to welcome the new moon with regular Rosh Chodesh celebrations. In a popular depiction by Jewish painters, a minyan of men stand outside the shtetl shul and bless the new moon under a dark sky

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Coming Back for Seconds: Friday Nights with Chabad on Campus

Students on 340 college campuses worldwide say that a highlight of their (stressful) week is Friday night at the local Chabad. While the current economic crisis is causing some Jewish campus organizations to cut back and charge for their meals, Chabad is continuing to provide the same service, at the same price: free.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, February 23, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Temporarily Appoints Representatives to Mumbai

(LNS/lubavitch.com) In the interests of maintaining activities in Mumbai for the benefit of Jewish residents and travelers, Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters has temporarily appointed the sister and brother-in-law of Rivky Hotlzberg, Rabbi Yakov Dovid and Sara Leiter from Israel, to serve as representatives in Mumbai for a three-month period.

| News | Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Arts: Special Needs Interest Comes to the Big Screen

With the growing awareness and greater education about autism and other disorders that once condemned children thus afflicted to lives of isolation and loneliness, come bold attempts to push the envelope and uncover possibilities for creative achievements few imagined exist among this misunderstood and marginalized segment of the population.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, February 22, 2009

In FSU, Chabad Schools Educate Students in Living Jewishly

Zhitomir, Ukraine--Their grandparents were forced to hide their Jewish identity, and their parents didn't know details of an identity to hide. But increasingly, students at Chabad Schools in the Former Soviet Union are wearing theirs like their western counterparts: proudly.

Miriam Davids | News | Friday, February 20, 2009

Books: Ethics to Live By

Kehot Publication Society , the Lubavitch publishing house, recently announced the publication of Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers With a New Commentary, Anthologized from the works of the Classic Commentators and the Chasidic Masters, translated and compiled by Rabbi Yossi Marcus .

Zalman Abraham | News | Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .

When Fiddler on the Roof made its 1964 debut under the bright white lights of Broadway, theater-goers and reviewers hailed it as a period piece with rich nostalgic value, but little relevance to contemporary society.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Penn Dems and College Republicans unite for dinner

The Penn Democrats and the Penn College Republicans broke bread and ate traditional Shabbat food together at the Lubavitch House last Friday evening.

Ted Koutsoubas | News | Tuesday, February 17, 2009

On Jewish Women, Education, Philanthropy

Excerpts from Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky’s address at the International Conference of Chabad Women Representatives.

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky | News | Monday, February 16, 2009

On Faith and Fortitude: Jewish Women Speak At Chabad International Conference

(lubavitch.com) The International Conference of Shluchos (f. representatives) concluded Sunday at the gala banquet at the New York Hilton. As 2,900 women poured into the hotel, they greeted old friends and relatives warmly. And at each person’s place, the joyful faces of Rabbi Gavriel and Mrs. Rivkah Holtzberg , adorning the latest issue of Lubavitch International, smiled up at them.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, February 16, 2009

Remembering the Life of a Jewish Feminine Role Model: Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson

( lubavitch.com ) Greatness comes in many forms. Often we imagine the character of a giant as someone who influences an entire world, forgetting the silent majesty of those who make such greatness possible.

| News | Monday, February 16, 2009

Chabad Conference Initiatives: Rivkah's Tent

(lubavitch.com) The Midrash in Bereishit Rabbah 60 speaks of the candles that burned and the challah that remained fresh from week to week in Sarah’s tent. These, and the cloud of glory that rested above, disappeared upon her passing. They were only to return when her daughter-in-law, Rivkah, arrived and married her son.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, February 15, 2009

Hitting the Books: Shluchim Take Their Study to the Web

If he is not affixing a mezuzah to a doorpost, lighting a mega-menorah, or frantically picking up last-minute groceries for a large Shabbat dinner, a typical shliach can often be found teaching a class or comforting the bereaved.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, February 15, 2009

Special Needs Children's Program Helps Eliminate Stigma

Today, 14 years later, the Friendship Circle model has been adopted in 74 locations worldwide. 11,000 teenagers from the U.S. to Australia dedicate time every week to help 4500 special needs children and their families live richer lives.

| News | Thursday, February 12, 2009

International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos Begins Wednesday

The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos begins Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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Traditional Yeshiva Embraces Women's Career Ambitions

Jenna Domber , a recent Ithaca College graduate with work experience in marketing and communications, used to “look into the observant world” with the belief that “women seem to be oppressed and have fewer rights.”

Sarah Bronson | News | Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Chabad House Damaged Family OK

| News | Monday, February 9, 2009

Google Earth Brings Exodus Story to Life

Flying virtually around mountains and over seas, Adult Jewish education students in Carmiel are experiencing the Torah’s account of the Exodus from Egypt from a bird’s eye view using the interactive, three dimensional maps of Google earth.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, February 9, 2009

300 Communities Unite in Shabbat Observance

Concerns about the future of Jewish life and its continuity keep many community leaders, philanthropists and Jewish census professionals preoccupied. Overwhelmingly, it seems most agree that “the Jewish future can only be secured by ensuring the continued existence and flourishing of practicing, believing, involved Jews.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, February 5, 2009

Flashback 1950s: A Meeting With the Rebbe

In the summer of 1956, after our return from the Soviet Union, I made a visit to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneirson, better known as the Lubavitcher Rabbi.

| News | Tuesday, February 3, 2009

CHABAD 2.0: The Next Generation

With the arrival of the new first family and the 44th president of the United States into the White House last month, came a new email system. Also gaining residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was President Obama’s souped-up PDA.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Got Question? Askmoses Website Counts More Than 1 Million Questions

(lubavitch.com) Askmoses.com , possibly the largest online Jewish knowledge base, took its one millionth chat session recently.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Timeless Perspectives on Timely Problems Rohr JLI Course Examines Civil Law Through Jewish Principles

The Talmud documents rabbinic discussions regarding Jewish history, law, and ethics. Written over 2,000 years ago, it continues to occupy and engage Jewish students. It is, according to Silberstein, “the pinnacle of Jewish intellectual creativity, incorporating the essence of morality and legality: the two timeless questions of ‘whose is this’ and ‘is it fair?’”

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, February 2, 2009

Hard Times Don't Stop Opening of New Jewish School

With the difficulties that Jewish communities everywhere are facing as philanthropic resources dry up, the completion this week of a new school building in the Ohr Avner network in Orenburg, Russia, was good reason for a celebration. The project reached its successful goal with the help of Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, local officials, supporters and parents.

Zalman Nelson | News | Friday, January 30, 2009

Justice Scalia, Talmudic Scholars On Privacy, Free Speech

Gossip columns may plaster the internet and paper newsstands. But is this commerce of secrets permissible according to Jewish or American tradition?

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mumbai Relief Fund Names Director

International Committee members of the Mumbai Relief Fund under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters named Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of Mosocw, Russia, to serve as its director.

| News | Wednesday, January 28, 2009

COUNTERVIEW of THE VIEW

As an actress and a Jewish woman, I can tell you that if I’d have been given that script, I never would have agreed to play in that movie [Loving Leah]. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to produce something that feeds the worst stereotypes of religious women. To be sure, if it were an African-American film perpetuating the worst stereotypes, there’d be an uproar.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Body of Israeli Tourist, Chabad House Frequenter, Located after Hiking Accident

(lubavitch.com) The Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 26-year-old Israeli tourist, Ohad Dotan, was killed in New Zealand on Tuesday after falling from a height of close 200 meters at Cook Mountain. The body was found close to morning after an extensive search discovered his car parked at the beginning of a well known hiking trail.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Judge Orders Russia To Report on Status of Chabad Library

In the case of Chabad-Lubavitch vs. Russia , US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth today accepted Chabad’s request to deny Russia’s legal counselors release from the case.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Mr. Eduardo Elsztain Named Chairman of WJC

At Monday's 13th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem, Mr. Eduardo Elsztain was named Chairman of the Board of Governors, succeeding Matthew Bronfman.

| News | Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Torah Study, Then and Now

For all the blessings of the internet age—and they are enormous—this generation may spell the end of certain social conditions vital to the existential experience.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, January 26, 2009

In View of Mumbai: JUDAISM A VOICE OF HOPE

UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to CNN about Chabad-Lubavitch and the idealism of its Mumbai representatives.

| News | Sunday, January 25, 2009

US Judge Orders Russia to Preserve Chabad Texts

[AP] — A federal judge is ordering Russia to preserve sacred religious documents that members of a Hasidic Jewish movement fear could be headed to the black market.

Nedra Pickler - AP | News | Thursday, January 22, 2009

Rabbi David Hollander: Oldest Full-Time Pulpit Rabbi

The Jewish community united in mourning Tuesday, upon the passing of Rabbi David B. Hollander. Rabbi Hollander, who at his death was the leader of the Hebrew Alliance in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, also served as rabbi at the Mount Eden Synagogue in the Bronx and was the former president of the Rabbinical Council of America. The 96-year old was the oldest full-time pulpit rabbi in the world.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Photo Gallery: IDF Soldiers Write A Torah

(lubavitch.com) Hundreds of the IDF's Givati soldiers on duty outside Gaza participated in a grand Torah dedication ceremony on Tuesday. The event, made possible by Aguda L'maan Hachayal, sought to recognize the soldiers and their dedication

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Chabad of Wall Street to Launch Fundraiser With New Torah Scroll

Chabad-Lubavitch of Wall Street has disclosed plans to launch a fundraiser and dedicate the writing of a new Torah scroll in memory of the late Mrs. Charlotte Rohr, of blessed memory, matriarch of the philanthropic Rohr family.

Miriam Davids | News | Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Welcome To A New President

The idea of “e pluribus unum” (out of many - one) that appears on U.S.currency, sums up the American democratic process. A government is installed when the "pluribus," the many, participate in free and true elections, thus ensuring a smooth transition of power from one administration to the next. The entire purpose of any election is the unity that will be its consequence; for once the majority has expressedits choice, even the dissenting minority must unite behind that decision.

| News | Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Reflections: Return to Mumbai

What had changed since last August, when I had first visited Mumbai? The Indian Army squad in a sandbagged position in front of the Knesset Eliyahu Synagogue, where Gabi Holtzberg had served as rabbi.

Shmuel Klatzkin | News | Monday, January 19, 2009

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz To Lead Jewish Unity Lectures

With Israel at war, the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks, and other threats facing our people, Jewish unity has emerged as a potent theme and a wake-up call, challenging Jews to unite across every divide.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, January 18, 2009

At Argentine Consulate, Hundreds Bid For Art and Orphans

(lubavitch.com) Thursday night’s frigid temperatures did not factor in at all at the Argentine Consulate of New York City, where hundreds of guests mingled happily with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres for an evening dedicated to art and a good cause.

S. Fridman | News | Friday, January 16, 2009

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Korean Prime Minister Thanks Chabad at Buy Korea 2009

Korean Prime Minister Han Seung Soo , attending the exhibition at the COEX exhibition center where some 1000 international businesses were represented, personally greeted Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Korea, Rabbi Osher Litzman , thanking him for accommodating the needs of observant Jews.

| News | Friday, January 16, 2009

New Uniform Makes the Grade At Fashion Conscious Lyons School

(lubavitch.com) Under sultry beats of café jazz and club electronica, a string of young women strutted down the catwalk, as lithe and stone-faced as contestants on "America's Next Top Model." They wore playful confections made of gauzy fabric and delicate trim. The bohemian chic skirts and couture-style gowns they modeled looked well suited to the fashion week tents of New York or Milan.

Jennifer Bleyer | News | Thursday, January 15, 2009

Evening Learning Group Members Bring Torah to the Soldiers

As part of his efforts to share Chasidic philosophy with Israel’s many yeshiva students, Rabbi Moshe Shilat created the Lev Ledaat network of evening learning programs.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Community Rallies in France; Chabad Remains Open

The Chabad center in St-Denis, France was attacked with nine Molotov cocktails on Sunday night, breaking a window and charring the walls of a pizzeria on the bottom floor. Rabbi Mendel Belinow and other people were inside the synagogue when the fire broke out, but no one was injured.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Son of Chabad Representative, Newlywed, Injured in Gaza Operation

The fighting in Gaza hit very close to home today when IDF Corporal Nechemia Rubin and his commander, IDF Combat Officer Aharon Karov , were wounded early Tuesday morning when a mine exploded in a house they were searching for terrorists. Nechemia is the son of Rabbi Yehuda Rubin , director of Chabad of Alon Moreh.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Into the Depths: Jewish Women Find Self Through Study and Snorkel

People use the expression ‘out of this world,’ and I never understood it before,” says Lauren Kraft, a senior at Arizona State University. “But this was definitely an out of this world experience: it was like an eight-day Shabbat.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, January 12, 2009

Three Years Later, Israel's Evacuees Dodge Rockets, Long to Return

The IDF’s incursion into the Gaza strip has many in Israel taking a painfully hard look at Israel’s disengagement from the area three years ago and its failure to herald peace.

Zalman Nelson | News | Sunday, January 11, 2009

Editorial: Where Wills Collide, Israel Survives

In these sobering circumstances, Israel has no choice but to live by the sword. But it is by miracles that this indefatigable lamb among the lions survives, and it will be, I believe, I pray, by miracles that Israel will ultimately prevail.

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, January 8, 2009

Rockets Rain on Israel's North, Residents on Alert

Four Katyusha rockets slammed into the northern coastal city of Naharia Thursday morning, one of them landing directly on a senior citizens’ facility.

Zalman Nelson | News | Thursday, January 8, 2009

Chabad in Action as Grad Rockets Slams into Gedera

A three-month-old girl was injured by shattered glass and several people were treated for shock Tuesday morning when a grad rocket struck the city of Gedera. Miraculously falling in between two homes full of people, it represents the longest-range attack to strike southern Israel in the Gaza war.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Arson Attempt Latest in Antwerp's Anti-Semitic Response to Gaza War

On Saturday night, unknown perpetrators shoved rags with lighter fluid into the mailbox of a Chabad family’s home in Antwerp, Belgium and lit them on fire. Luckily the fire did not catch on and the home sustained only minor smoke damage.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, January 6, 2009

In Five Towns, Jewish Community Rallies Behind Chabad

Sometimes it takes a little darkness to shed light on something so remarkable. News reports on December 25 spoke of the wreckage that a BMW X3 caused when it plowed through the windows of Chabad of the Five Town’s annual Chanukah Wonderland.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Visit to Israel Confirms Mayor Bloomberg's Support of Israel's Strike Against Hamas

Returning from a solidarity visit to Israel Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference with the media and representatives of Jewish organizations on Monday, in which he shared his impressions and personal feelings about the situation in Israel.

Miriam Davids | News | Monday, January 5, 2009

Chabad Gives IDF Soldiers An Inspired Sendoff

As IDF soldier's prepare to enter Gaza, Chabad representatives give them an inspiring sendoff with gifts of food, extra clothing, and specially printed prayer books designed to fit in their uniform pockets.

| News | Monday, January 5, 2009

As Gaza Ground War Intensifies, Chabad Steps Up Support Activities

(lubavitch.com) As Israeli Defense Forces began the long anticipated ground operation to end rocket fire into the Southern communities, its soldiers are penetrating Gaza's dangerous interior and Chabad representatives are intensifying their own support efforts both for the soldiers and Israel's southern residents.

Zalman Nelson | News | Sunday, January 4, 2009

Editorial: And the living shall take heart . . .

The tragedy in Mumbai made headlines, and was followed by millions. But for the immediate families of the victims, it is a devastatingly personal, private calamity.

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky | News | Thursday, January 1, 2009

Under Rockets and Sirens, A New Baby Is Welcomed in Ashkelon

How does one plan a brit milah under the rain of mortar shells? Who will manage to get a minyan together, a mohel , let alone a festive meal, under the cacophony of red alert sirens and rockets that explode at random?

Miriam Davids | News | Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Israelis Targeted in Danish Shopping Mall

Two Israelis were shot Wednesday, while managing their booth at a shopping mall in Odense, Denmark.

| News | Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Chabad Centers in Beer Sheva, Ashkelon Double as Bomb Shelters As Children, Adults Wait Out the War

Following a quiet night of silent and empty streets in Beersheva and Ashkelon, residents woke to the terrifying sound of rockets that continued intermittently throughout the day. An influx of reserve soldiers in both locations helped prevent chaos on the streets as countless numbers of locals flocked to Chabad centers for support.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, December 31, 2008

As Missile Attacks on Israel Intensify, Residents, Municipalities, Turn to Chabad

Despite the worst barrage of rockets since the Gaza Operation began, Rabbi Zev Pizem of Sderot is in his office and on the streets, continuing his efforts to support the city’s remaining residents, many elderly, who are stuck at home out of fear, and are now running out of food.

Zalman Nelson | News | Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Chabad House in Sderot Sustains Heavy Damage, Lives Spared

It was a clear miracle that protected Rabbi Chananel and Tzivia Pizem of Sderot, when missile hit their home Tuesday morning.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Child of the Holtzbergs Dies of Severe Illness

The global Jewish community joins the extended Holtzberg and Rosenberg families in mourning, Tuesday, following the death of Dov Ber Holtzberg.

| News | Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Israeli Arabs Attack Local Jewish Neighbors As Air Strikes Continue

Well beyond the reach of rockets, Israelis throughout the country are on higher alert after several local terrorist attacks including one in which an Arab worker yesterday stabbed his Jewish manager and stabbed several other residents in Kiryat Sefer.

Zalman Nelson | News | Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Chabad Stays Open, Reliable, As Gaza Responds With Rockets

Israel’s air strikes on Gaza, aimed at bringing relief and restoring some kind of security to the country’s southern residents, have been greeted with an onslaught of more than 150 rocket attacks, chasing many residents out of their homes and cities, and confining the rest to bomb shelters.

Zalman Nelson | News | Monday, December 29, 2008

Menorah Lights Glow With Hope and Promise at Terror Site in Mumbai

Five flames danced in defiance Thursday evening against the Indian sky, as the Chanukah menorah was lit at the Gateway of India, Mumbai’s most famous monument.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, December 25, 2008

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Father of Slain Terror Victim Kindles Menorah on Liberty Island

(lubavitch.com)-- Freezing temperatures and icy winds whipped Liberty Island off the New York harbor Tuesday night. Hardly a night for a boat ride with the kids, and several hundred adults and children, plus distinguished city and state officials came out into the cold to celebrate a unique Chanukah lighting.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Chabad Rabbi's Seminars Help Unemployed Find Authentic Life Passion

Usually, when the pink slip blues get former financial services whiz, Fran Gerrish of Aurora, CO, down, she phones a buddy from work, another former VP flung off the corporate ladder by the dismal economy.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Zoning Board Approves Disputed Plans for New Chabad Facility

After much intense debate, the Jewish community of the Shoreline won approval Wednesday night by the local Planning and Zoning Commission for plans to build a new Chabad center in Guilford

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, December 22, 2008

Lightning Up Chanukah

(lubavitch.com) Some 500 Jewish fans noshed on Glatt kosher hot dogs Thursday as Tampa Bay Lightning and the Colorado Avalanche played an intensely tight game

| News | Sunday, December 21, 2008

For Chabad Representatives to Bangalore, A New Baby

If Israeli backpackers spurn Bangalore in favor of spicier locales in India, why is Chabad opening its next outpost there?

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, December 18, 2008

Volume 29 of Rebbe's Correspondence Published

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch Publishing House, announced the publication of the 29th volume of Igrot Kodesh , “Holy Epistles,” by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

| News | Tuesday, December 16, 2008

In Mumbai, A Ray of Light Punctuates Great Sadness

Tears, songs and resolve permeated Shabbat meals hosted by Chabad of Mumbai in undisclosed locations this past weekend.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, December 16, 2008

UNITE THE LIGHTS: Jewish Organizations Coordinate Chanukah Memorial Lighting Campaign

(lubavitch.com) “Unite the Lights,” a grassroots, nationwide menorah lighting campaign will honor the memory of the Mumbai terror victims this Chanukah.

| News | Monday, December 15, 2008

Remembering Chabad's Beginnings, 210 Years Ago

Today, the Jewish calendar date of 19 Kislev, marks the Chasidic New Year. It is the date on which, in 1798, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Chasidism, was released from Czarist imprisonment.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, December 15, 2008

New Rabbinical Yeshiva To Open in New York City's Financial District

Chabad-Lubavitch of Wall Street will be opening a yeshiva in the world financial district this week. The new international Yeshivat Hakedoshim, named for the targeted victims of the recent Mumbai tragedy and those of 9/11, is set to open with 10 students who will train for the rabbinate.

Miriam Davids | News | Monday, December 15, 2008

Chabad Community Mourns Passing of Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Kotlarsky

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Kotlarsky , who fled the Nazi invasion of Poland via Lithuania and Imperial Japan, and went on to serve as chief administrator of the United Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn, passed away Monday in Brooklyn, NY. He was 91.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, December 12, 2008

US SENATE CONDEMNS TERROR ATTACKS IN MUMBAI Senate Passes Casey-Voinovich Resolution

T he U.S. Senate late last night passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and George Voinovich (R-OH) condemning the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

| News | Thursday, December 11, 2008

Clarification Regarding Chabad Mumbai Relief Efforts

(lubavitch.com) In response to inquiries about the fund established in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack: Lubavitch Headquarters in conjunction with the Holtzberg/Rosenberg families, have set up the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund to assist in the care of the children of Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivka Holtzberg, may G-d avenge their blood, and/or the rebuilding of the Mumbai Chabad House.

| News | Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Chabad Tries to Maintain Services in Riot Crippled Greece

(lubavitch.com) Despite nationwide rioting that has destroyed businesses, government property, and private assets, it is business as usual for Rabbi Mendel and Nechama Hendel of Athens, Greece. “Chabad’s programs and activities will continue,” he says resolutely.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Young Energy Magnate Promises 'Taking Care of Chabad A Priority'

(lubavitch.com) Shattered by the murders in Mumbai, one energy magnate is picking up the pieces by making a significant contribution to a Florida Chabad center.

EJ Tansky | News | Tuesday, December 9, 2008

I'm Still Waiting For You, Rivki

C hani Lifshitz , Chabad representative in Katamandu, Nepal, wrote a letter to her close friend, Rivkah Holtzberg , following the tragedy in Mumbai. Lubavitch.com presents a translation from the Hebrew that appeared in the Israeli paper, Yediot Achronot.

Chani Lifshitz | News | Sunday, December 7, 2008

THOUSANDS REMEMBER CHABAD'S GAVRIEL AND RIVKAH HOLTZBERG: Vow to Continue Holy Work

A huge crowd of about ten-thousand people gathered in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Tuesday afternoon to remember the lives of Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg

Sarah Bronson | News | Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Jewish Victims Come Home

The IAF plane carrying the remains of the six Jews murdered in Mumbai landed at an army near Ben Gurion airport in Israel at 11:30 Monday night for a private State ceremony.

| News | Monday, December 1, 2008

For Gabi and Rivki, In Blessed Memory

Just minutes ago I heard the terrible news that five Israeli hostages were found dead inside the Chabad House in Mumbai. Although the media hasn’t officially confirmed their identities yet, it seems quite certain that they are Chabad Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his wife Rivka, an Israeli couple, and another Israeli.

| News | Monday, December 1, 2008

Shabbat Candle Lighting Revival in Wake of Chabad Mumbai Tagedy

In his press conference following receiving confirmation of the killings in Mumbai last Friday, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman, of the worldwide Educational and Social Services arms of the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement

| News | Monday, December 1, 2008

Mumbai Jewish Community, Survivors, Grieve For Victims

Jewish community in Mumbai, Israeli delegation hold ceremony in memory of men, women murdered by terrorists at Chabad center. Victims' bodies to be flown to Israel on IAF plane. Chabad emissary's father says prayer for casualties, thanks Indian nanny for saving his grandson's life.

Ronen Medzini/YNETnews | News | Monday, December 1, 2008

Condolences: We Mourn Together With Chabad

Letters of condolence continue to fill the lubavitch.com inbox.

| News | Sunday, November 30, 2008

"I Didn't Know Them Personally, I Knew the Work They Were Doing . . ."

The following letter was written by someone who did not know the Holtzbergs, but was inspired by their dedication to call upon her friends.

| News | Sunday, November 30, 2008

A Last Shabbat With The Holtzbergs in Mumbai

(lubavitch.com) Responses and condolences from people worldwide continue to fill the inbox of lubavitch.com's email. Some, like Olga Daniela Bakayeva, a nurse at Seattle's Children's Hospital, had the privilege to visit the Chabad House in Mumbai. Below, Olga shares the experience of the Holtzbergs' memorable hospitality.

| News | Sunday, November 30, 2008

Jews Stranded in Bangkok

(lubavitch.com) With the Bangkok’s airport shut down by anti-government protesters, Chabad of Thailand is prepared to host a greater number of visitors, mostly Israelis stranded in the country.

R.C. Berman | News | Sunday, November 30, 2008

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Chabad Representatives To Be Buried In Israel

(lubavitch.com) Three days of intense fighting and fear ended in grief late Friday when the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were confirmed in Mumbai, India. Reports indicate that Mrs. Holtzberg was killed Thursday, while her husband was killed shortly before the ordeal was over.

Dvora Lakein | News | Saturday, November 29, 2008

Confirmed: Chabad Emissary Couple Killed in Mumbai

Just a short while ago, we received the definitve news confirming the brutal murder of two of our finest, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg.

| News | Friday, November 28, 2008

Statement from Lubavitch World Headquarters

Statement on the situation in Mumbai

| News | Thursday, November 27, 2008

Mumbai Update

| News | Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Chabad Does Thanksgiving

(lubavitch.com) Though a popular grade-school history lesson, and a much-anticipated festival with all the trimmings, the story behind Thanksgiving remains a bit sketchy. Regardless of its provenance, Americans appreciate a good celebration, and Thanksgiving has been a national holiday for almost 400 years.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, November 26, 2008

When Shluchim Come Marching In: Gala Banquet Concludes Chabad-Lubavitch Conference

(lubavitch.com) As temperatures in New York City dipped to unseasonably low digits Sunday night, the atmosphere inside Pier 94 heated up. Well over 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim, lay leaders, and supporters filed into the 175,000 square ft. hall for the highlight of the International Conference of Shluchim: banquet night. Attendees have been participating in workshops, round-table discussions, and informal meetings all weekend, but it is the banquet that brings it all together for a dramatic finale.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, November 24, 2008

On Campus, A Females-Only Shabbat With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Friday, November 21st is Michelle Bentsman ’s 19th birthday. It will be her first birthday as a student at the University of Chicago. And she has chosen to spend it with Chabad.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, November 20, 2008

International Conference of Chabad Representatives to Lead With Theme of Jewish Unity

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Shlomo Silverman is the new campus rabbi at Carnegie Mellon University. He and his wife arrived in late July, a mere few weeks before the new academic year began. With several successful student programs up and running already, the young Chabad representative is bursting with energy to do more.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, November 20, 2008

Downturn an Upturn for Searching and Study at Chabad

(lubavitch.com) How much is silver lining going for these days? As 401 Ks plunge, attendance at Chabad center programs across the United States is surging.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Slain Professor Librescu's Widow, Son, Students Honored At NCFJE Dinner

(lubavitch.com) In his opening remarks at Sunday night’s annual dinner of the NCFJE (National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education), Executive Director Rabbi Sholom B. Hecht told a story

Miriam Davids | News | Monday, November 17, 2008

Economic Woes and All, Hundreds of College Students Flocked and Rocked At National Shabbaton

(lubavitch.com) Going into the Chabad-on-Campus International Shabbaton in Brooklyn, I didn’t think that Chabad could attract enough students to match the success at last year’s Shabbaton. After all, our country is suffering from economic troubles.

| News | Friday, November 14, 2008

In Sderot, Chabad Offered Voters Thick Walls and Neutrality

(lubavitch.com) Municipal elections were held in towns and cities all over Israel on Tuesday, and in the beleagured town of Sderot, near the Gaza border, the local Chabad center was considered safe enough, and politically neutral enough, to serve as a polling station.

Sarah Bronson | News | Thursday, November 13, 2008

Chabad Women on Campus Defy Stereotype of "Rabbi's Wife"

(lubavitch.com) Now that the votes have been counted and barriers have been shattered on one front, will 2012 be the year of the woman?

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Jewish Life in Germany 70 Years After Kristallnacht

Survivors of Kristallnacht will tell you that they remember the flames. Fires shot out of the roofs of synagogues and the smell of burning Torahs mingled with the sound of splintering glass. It was the sinister brightness of the dark night that etched itself into the memories of German Jews.

Dvora Lakein | News | Saturday, November 8, 2008

Jewish Life On Campus Grows With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Jamie Zebrak , a senior at the University of Oregon, has seen Jewish involvement on campus grow five-fold since she started here as a freshman.

Miriam Davids | News | Thursday, November 6, 2008

Lost in The Andes, Found by Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Roey Sadan , a 26-year-old old Israeli, was looking for adventure after he had finished his mandatory three years in the Israeli Army. Looking to explore the world and to expand his horizons, he took a job to pay for his travel expenses.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, November 5, 2008

How Elena Met Rami or The Chabad-Lubavitch Network: A Model of Causality

(lubavitch.com) Elena Lourie and Rami Kafarov never would have met let alone married in Oslo this summer were Chabad-Lubavitch no more than a bunch of affiliated synagogues and rabbis doing what they do, without the Shluchim's trademark passion for a greater vision.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, November 3, 2008

After A Polarizing Election, Jewish Women To Share A Shabbat of Unity

(lubavitch.com) On December 5, Jewish women from zip codes across America and from diverse backgrounds will participate at a Shabbat retreat in Boulder, Colorado.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, October 30, 2008

A Menorah Is Stolen From Holocaust Memorial Site in Ukraine

| News | Wednesday, October 29, 2008

TEACH ME, MASTER: Bankers and Businesspeople Become Today's Talmudic Students

(lubavitch.com) The study of Talmud is high on the list of skills, most adults say ruefully, that you either got as a young yeshiva student, or not at all. Not so, say developers of a successful Chabad Talmud study program for adults that is gaining popularity in Jewish communities worldwide.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Appointed to Florida Governor's Faith Based Advisory Board

| News | Monday, October 27, 2008

Photos: "And You Shall Bless the Children of Israel

| News | Sunday, October 26, 2008

In Ravaged Gori Jewish New Year Began On A High Note

(lubavitch.com) Tensions continue to flare up between Georgia and Russia, with Gori still a city in shambles where many wait in refugee camps for Red Cross food drop-offs, and bombed houses color the landscape.

| News | Thursday, October 23, 2008

SHE COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT Joy & Fervor On the Happiest Day of the Year

(lubavitch.com) The festivities of Simchas Torah, one of the happiest days on the Jewish calendar, begin Monday night. In communities around the world, people will celebrate the completion and subsequent resumption of the Torah cycle, by literally giving the Torah feet and dancing it around the synagogue.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, October 20, 2008

New English Translation of Genesis With Commentaries by Kehot

(lubavitch.com) Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house and Chabad of California have released a new translation of the Book of Genesis. The translation reflects classic and contemporary scholarship and research in a single, reader-friendly text.

| News | Thursday, October 16, 2008

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Chabad of Columbus Opens LifeTown for Developmentally Disabled Children

(lubavitch.com) Justin Swan has a busy day ahead of him. After getting his annual check-up at the doctor’s office, this developmentally disabled 17 year-old must make a deposit at the bank, stock up on snacks for his golden retriever, and return books to the library. Only when those errands are complete, can he relax at the cinema with friends.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, October 12, 2008

Tuesday The Rabbi Was Late

(lubavitch.com) It was a beautiful Tuesday afternoon in Austin. The sun beamed overhead in a cloudless blue sky, and throngs of Austinites were outdoors enjoying the balmy temperatures.

Malka Phillips | News | Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Leading Chabad Rabbi in France, 85, Mourned.

(lubavitch.com) Jewish communities and individuals worldwide joined French Jewry in mourning the passing of a leading Rabbi, Rabbi Hillel Pevzner.

| News | Sunday, October 5, 2008

Pinellas County Jewish Community Celebrates Completion of Mikvah

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch of Pinellas County and Young Israel of Clearwater launched this Florida county’s first-ever mikvah, Sunday.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, October 5, 2008

New Bill To Allow Condo Owners to Post Mezuzahs

(lubavitch.com) A new bill in Congress will seek to ensure that condo dwellers enjoy the same religious freedoms that others do.

Dvora Lakein | News | Sunday, October 5, 2008

Chabad Reaches Out to Israel's Terror Victims on Rosh Hashana

| News | Sunday, September 28, 2008

Smart Publicity and Messages of Empowerment Draw Greater Numbers To Chabad's Rosh Hashana Services

(lubavitch.com) Wall Street bailouts, iPhones, and stratospheric gas prices are bringing more marginally affiliated Jews to Rosh Hashanah services say rabbis across the United States.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Sunday, September 28, 2008

Corp! Magazine Selects Chabad Program As Diversity Champion

(lubavitch.com) Corp! Magazine, the state’s largest business magazine, chose The Friendship Circle of Michigan Thursday, as a “Diversity Champion.”

| News | Thursday, September 25, 2008

After 80 Years Jewish Community of Stavropol Gets New Torah

(lubavitch.com) The Jewish community of Stavropol welcomed its first Torah in almost 80 years. High on Rabbi and Mrs. Tzvi Hershcovich’s to-do list, upon arriving here last November, was to establish a synagogue and acquire a Torah. They have achieved both goals.

| News | Thursday, September 25, 2008

Chabad Opens New Mikvah in Redondo Beach

| News | Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Maharal Institute Opens in Prague

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch of Prague launched the Maharal Institute last week, dedicated to the legacy of Rabbi Yehuda Loew , the Maharal of Prague.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, September 25, 2008

Chabad Opens Center For Jewish Life for Memphis Jewish Community

(lubavitch.com) As in years past, two Memphis day schools and the community high school will be slicing and polishing rams’ horns as they participate in Chabad’s pre-Rosh Hashana Shofar Factory. Unlike year past, this time the students will be making their shofars at Chabad’s own building.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Director of Children of Chernobyl Dies at 55

(lubavitch.com) The greater Chabad-Lubavitch community mourned the sudden death, Sunday, of Rabbi Yossie Raichik , director of Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl (CCOC).

| News | Monday, September 22, 2008

At Norther Arizona University, Students Remember 9/11 With Mitzvahs

| News | Monday, September 22, 2008

Within Chabad, A New Year Brings New Ideas In Jewish Education

(lubavitch.com) Fully 13% of the 230,000 students in American Hebrew schools are enrolled in Chabad-run programs, a recent study found.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, September 22, 2008

As Jews Leave South Africa, Chabad Stays Put

(lubavitch.com) Some 1000 Johannesburg Jews participated at a recent community event where Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky , Chairman of the Lubavitch Educational and Social Services divisions, met with them and spoke to their concerns about the situation in South Africa today.

| News | Monday, September 22, 2008

Israel Cultural Center Donates Libarary to Or Avner School

(lubavitch.com) The children at the Or Avner School of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine have a lot of reading to do. The Israel Culture Center donated its library to the school on Wednesday. Rabbi Meir Ostrovsky , principal, leafed through the selection with glee. “I am happy,” he said.

| News | Friday, September 19, 2008

With New JCC, Dniprodzerzhinsk Now Full-Fledged Jewish Community

(lubavitch.com) A new Jewish Community Center and Synagogue with familiar facade dedicated in Dniprodzerzhinsk Wednesday, breathes a welcome burst of fresh air into this industrial port city noted for its poor air quality.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A Sweet Beginning for Ukraine's Senior Citizens

| News | Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Lubavitch Headquarters To Launch Mentoring Program for Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) Chabad representatives are givers: of time, of advice, and a home-cooked meal. More commonly known as shluchim, the representatives—also referred to as emissaries or envoys—teach Judaism on a global scale. Now, an innovative program is turning the tables and putting them on the receiving end.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Bangkok Air Now Serving Kosher Meals

(lubavitch.com) Kosher observant travelers flying Bangkok Air out of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok can now enjoy dinners prepared by the airline’s caterers under the supervision of a Chabad-Lubavitch representative.

| News | Tuesday, September 16, 2008

JDC Study Finds Education Gap Among Argentina's Needy

| News | Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Chabad-Lubavitch Accepted in Israel's Tal Law

| News | Monday, September 15, 2008

Perm Jewish Community Loses Family In Plane Crash

(lubavitch.com) The Perm Jewish community is in grief after a Jewish family of four was killed among the 88 victims of Sunday's Aeroflot 737 plane crash.

| News | Monday, September 15, 2008

Chabad Jewish Student Center Dedicated at Binghamton University

(lubavitch.com) The Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life was inaugurated Sunday as 600 students, professors, and supporters looked on.

| News | Monday, September 15, 2008

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Chabad of West Coast's "To Life" Telethon Generates $8 Million-Plus

(lubavitch.com) With heartfelt appeals and joyful performances from a diverse group of celebrity guests, the 2008 Chabad "To Life" Telethon generated more than $8 million for the charity.

Bradford Wiss | News | Monday, September 15, 2008

Boston CJP Delegation Visits Sister City in Ukraine

(lubavitch.com) The Boston-Dnepropetrovsk model is one of the most productive partnerships between two Jewish communities dedicated to helping a former communist city rehabilitate after decades of languishing under soviet restrictions.

| News | Friday, September 12, 2008

Chabad of Wall Street Moves On, Does Not Forget 9/11

(lubavitch.com) “When Ground Zero is four blocks away from home, you don’t wait until 9/11 to remember 9/11. It's in a corner of your heart always.”

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Oklahoma City Celebrates First Jewish Center in 50 Years

(lubavitch.com) Hundreds of city locals looked on as the state’s Attorney General joined rabbis and cut the ribbon on the first Jewish building to be constructed in Oklahoma City in the last half century.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Photos: Chabad Universo

| News | Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Anonymous Donor Doubles Chabad Presence at UK Universities

(lubavitch.com) At the start of the UK academic term, six new Chabad representative couples will be greeting students at freshers fairs at some of the country's top universities. The expansion more than doubles Chabad on Campus UK’s previous scope.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, September 8, 2008

Delaware Jewish Community on Senator Joe Biden

(lubavitch.com ) After hearing from Alaska's Jewish community on Governor Palin, lubavitch.com caught up with its Chabad representative in Delaware to learn about the Democratic candidate for vice-president, Senator Joe Biden , and his relationship with the local Jewish community.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, September 8, 2008

Daily Minyan, Kosher Box Lunches For Jewish Guests in Twin Cities

(lubavitch.com) The streets of Saint Paul this week are filled with both convention participants and protestors. Whoever they are, says Chabad representative Rabbi Mendel Feller , “We are here to serve them.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, September 4, 2008

Employees At Largest Jewish Non-Profit in Argentina: Proud to Belong

(lubavitch.com) Like millions of administrative employees everywhere, Gabriela Cohen , a secretary at the Wolfsohn Tabicinik School in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, pulls full days answering phones, taking messages and contributing to the smooth functioning of the school’s administrative division.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, September 4, 2008

At U.S. Campuses, Jewish Students Break The New Year In With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) As millions of college students packed up their IPODS and laptops and headed back to school, Chabad-Lubavitch campus representatives nationwide waited to welcome them.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, September 3, 2008

At South Florida Jewish Day School, Children With Special Needs Love to Learn

(lubavitch.com) Eight year-old Jason Popick is not like most kids. The back-to-school banners that garner groans from most kids, elicited his delightful enthusiasm.

Hadassah Backman | News | Monday, September 1, 2008

Alaska's Jewish Community on Palin Selection

(lubavitch.com) Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin , a relative unknown to most Americans until she was named McCain's running mate this Friday, enjoys wide popularity in her home state and the respect of the broader Jewish community there, Rabbi Yossi Greenberg , Chabad’s representative to Alaska’s Jewish community told Lubavitch.com.

M. Phillips | News | Saturday, August 30, 2008

In Serbia, Bosnia, Jewish Numbers Dwindling, Say Chabad Rabbis

(lubavitch.com) Bosnian and Serbian Jews see the war crimes trial of former president Radoyan Karadzic , which continues in The Hague this Friday, as a sign their country is moving on toward a more stable future. If only that was the case for war weary Jewish communities in the Balkan region.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, August 28, 2008

Award Winning Novel for Teens Based on Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) A young adult novel that explores the clash of cultures and budding understanding between a beach-going teen and her Chabad relatives won an important Jewish book award.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Photos: Jews Rock At Sighet Festival

| News | Monday, August 25, 2008

Portland Jewish Community Sets Sweet Precedent

Baila Olidort | News | Friday, August 22, 2008

Portland Chabad Rabbi Wins Right To Hold Prayer Services At Home

(lubavitch.com) Faced with an outpouring of support from a very diverse group, Maine’s zoning board voted unanimously Thursday night in favor of allowing a Chabad rabbi to hosting a prayer group in his home.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, August 22, 2008

Photos: Shabbat With Chabad in S. Bernardo

| News | Friday, August 22, 2008

Oregon's Chabad Families At Home With The Governor

| News | Thursday, August 21, 2008

Rocking With Chabad At Sziget's Summer Festival

(lubavitch.com) For twelve years, fans have paused in their rock, punk, and reggae binge at one of Europe’s largest summer music festivals and lined up at the Zsido Sator, the Jewish tent, to ask a rabbi a question. This was the first year, however, that the crowds came to hear the rabbi rock the house.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, August 21, 2008

Beijing Remembers Murdered Jews At Munich Olympics

| News | Thursday, August 21, 2008

In the Mortgage Business, People Break for Daily Prayers

(lubavitch.com) Being in the mortgage business today takes stamina. In Melville, NY, one national mortgage banking organization is finding prayer to be a source of strength.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Tbilisi's Jews Anxious But Hopeful

(lubavitch.com) Within Georgia's Jewish community, many have fled to Tbilisi, others got aboard planes evacuating Jews to Israel, and still others, on vacation in other parts of Georgia when the fighting erupted, cannot get back to Tbilisi.

M. Phillips | News | Monday, August 18, 2008

Young, Jewish and Unaffiliated: South American Jews Revisit Jewish Identity

(Lubavitch.com) In a country where the intermarriage hovers at 75 percent, every excuse to promote Jewish marriage becomes an opportunity that Chabad-Lubavitch representatives seize upon with enthusiasm.

Naomi Grossman | News | Sunday, August 17, 2008

Lakers' Farmar: A Slam Dunk For Tefillin on Campus

| News | Friday, August 15, 2008

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Jewish Academic Society Now At 44 Universities Nationwide

(lubavitch.com) In 2007, a Jewish academic society quadrupled its affiliated campuses and saw a record number of students complete its intensive course of study. Taking these accomplishments to the next level for Jewish college students is the focus of Sinai Scholars Society’s conference held at Princeton University August 12-13.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Chabad Registry Helps Account for Jews in Georgia

(lubavitch.com) Amid panic and worry, Georgian Jews were either scrambling for papers at the Israeli embassy in Georgia or for a confirmed place on one of four flights that the Israeli government scheduled Tuesday, for evacuating Jews from Georgia.

M. Phillips | News | Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Chabad to Open New Center in Kazakhstan

(lubavitch.com) Karaganda, the second largest city in the Kazakhstan republic, will soon benefit from full time Chabad representatives.

Naomi Grossman | News | Monday, August 11, 2008

Photos: Israel's President Peres With Chabad in Beijing

| News | Monday, August 11, 2008

Books: On The Chabad Chasidic Wedding

(lubavitch.com) A mysterious part of the Chasidic Jewish wedding ceremony became a lot easier to understand with a new publication from Chabad-Lubavitch’s publishing house.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, August 11, 2008

Portland Community Member Says: Thank You Rabbi Wilhelm

| News | Thursday, August 7, 2008

Chabad Library Makes 16th Century Books Now Searchable Online

(lubavitch.com) Two thousand Jewish books, most from the 16th century, are now available online in a searchable, printable format at www.ChabadLibraryBooks.com .

R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Oswego: On Small Town Campus, Chabad Draws Jewish Students In

(lubavitch.com) Chemistry major Lenny Breindel has a hard time believing that nearly one of out of every eight of the 8000 SUNY Oswego students in upstate New York is Jewish.

Dora Chernock | News | Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Mezuzahs and More For Jewish Delegates and Athletes at Beijing Olympics

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch representative in Beijing, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich , blessed the Israeli Olympic team Monday, with success and safety as he hung mezuzot on all the apartments in the Olympic Village where the Israeli athletes and delegation will be staying.

Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Ukraine: Construction Begins On World's Largest Jewish Community Center

(lubavitch.com) Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city within a city, a showcase for a Ukrainian industrial backwater waking up to boom times in Jewish and civic contexts

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, August 4, 2008

At Mayo Clinic, Chabad A Steady Presence For Patients and Families

(lubavitch.com) Mayo Clinic, 10 p.m. At her mother’s urging, a pale eighteen-year-old girl lies perfectly still on an exam table. Her heart condition is so severe and complex that she and her mother flew in from Tel Aviv for surgery.

RC Berman | News | Thursday, July 31, 2008

For Israeli Visitors, Moscow Itinerary Stirs the Soul

(lubavitch.com) “For the first time in my life, a sense of Jewish pride fills my heart . . .”

Y. Jacobs | News | Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Wiki Platform Reinvents Torah Teaching in the Classroom

(lubavitch.com) An international group of Jewish teachers is setting out to change how Torah is taught, and if you can wiki, you can join them.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, July 28, 2008

Chabad of St. Paul To Host Jewish Participants At GOP Convention

(lubavitch.com) With hotels in Minneapolis/St. Paul booking rooms for the Republican National Convention, Sept. 1-4, Chabad-Lubavitch of Minnesota is offering hospitality to Jewish participants.

| News | Thursday, July 24, 2008

Trenton Thunder Defeats Fisher Cats, But Jewish Community Takes Home the Prize

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, July 24, 2008

Chabad Rabbi First Non-Catholic Ever Offers Prayer at America's Freedom Festival

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Benny Zippel, Director of Chabad of Utah , became the first non-Catholic clergy to offer the invocation at America’s Freedom Festival recently at the Brigham Young University in Utah.

Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Senator Obama Meets With Chabad Rep in Sderot

| News | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

National Geographic Explores Chabad In Portuguese Edition

(lubavitch.com) This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, through a close examination of the Chabad yeshiva in Brazil.

Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Hebrew Day School Educators Explore Alternative Teaching Techniques

(lubavitch.com) One hundred twenty teachers from Chabad Lubavitch yeshivas and day schools across North America tackled strategies that will allow them to better address the learning needs of the class that awaits them, pencils sharpened, this September.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Jewish Life in Michigan Booming At the 50 Year Mark

Rabbi Berel and Batsheva Shemtov set off a driving force for Jewish life that, at the half century mark, has no signs of slowing down. From very humble beginnings, Chabad centers in the state can now be found in 18 cities under the direction of 30 representatives.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, July 21, 2008

Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Grows Vibrant in Bulgaria

(lubavitch.com) Three milestones of Jewish revival in Bulgaria were feted in grand style by dignitaries, the Chief Rabbi of Israel and hundreds of well wishers at the Rohr Chabad Jewish Community Center in Sofia this week.

EJ Tansky | News | Friday, July 18, 2008

Chabad Opens New Center in Bangalore

(lubavitch.com) India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the fourth one in India.

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, July 17, 2008

Chabad Rabbi: "A Black Day for Israel"

(lubavitch.com) After two years of speculation about the condition of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah terrorists on the Israel-Lebanese border in the summer 2006, the remains of E hud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were transferred to Israel earlier today.

| News | Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Court Rules In Favor of Condo's Right to Remove Mezuzah

(lubavitch.com) A federal court ruling that denied a Chicago condo resident’s right to hang a mezuzah on her front door incensed a local legislator and surprised area rabbis.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Chabad Retreat in Salt Lake City Draws Jews from Boise, Plano, Missoula . . .

(lubavitch.com) Nadine Veibell is still looking for words to adequately capture her experience at the National Jewish Retreat over the Fourth of July weekend at a resort in Park City, Utah.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, July 14, 2008

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With iCamp Robotics, Gan Israel Campers Get Hi-Tech, Hi-Jewish Camping

(lubavitch.com) Levi Stein is a Chabad rabbinical student from Michigan. Neil Voss is studying finance at a college in Fresno, CA. This summer they are sharing their two areas of expertise – Judaism and technology – with campers at Camp Gan Israel of Westminster.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, July 14, 2008

Marshall Islands, Cartagena, Colombia On Chabad Rabbis' Itinerary

From the lone backpacker in the Peruvian Andes to bustling tourists along Sardinia's Mediterranean shores, the rabbis will seek out even the solitary Jew, no matter the distance.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, July 10, 2008

On Summer Travels, Jewish Tourists Pack Chabad Directory

(lubavitch.com) Eco-tourism, adventure travel, leisure cruise—for every kind of tourist there’s a travel plan. With the ubiquity of Chabad centers, travelers can just about choose any location on the globe for their summer travels and find a link to Jewish life that adds interest to their visit.

Dora Chernock | News | Wednesday, July 9, 2008

New Focus On Jewish Teens To Keep Them From Slipping Away

(lubavitch.com) Can religion be cool enough for teens? Chabad’s new teen initiative is working to make the answer “yes” – in a very big way.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Australia's Jewish Community Mourns Passing of Leading Rabbi

(lubavitch.com) The Jewish community of Australia, and Chabad-Lubavitch at large, were saddened to learn of the passing yesterday, July 6, of Rabbi Yitzchok D. Groner , the most senior Chabad Rabbi in Melbourne, Australia.

| News | Monday, July 7, 2008

Of Love and More on 3 Tammuz

So much has been written, and more said, about the Lubavitcher Rebbe whose 14th yahrzeit is marked on the third of Tammuz, this year July 6.

| News | Sunday, July 6, 2008

Children From Sderot Arrive in U.S. To Summer With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) 70 children from Sderot, israel, were given a heroes' welcome Wednesday, as they arrived at JFK International Airport for a summer in the U.S.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, July 2, 2008

In S. Petersburg, A Text Message Leads To Life Changes

(lubavitch.com) For many of the 100 S. Petersburg teenagers celebrating at an elaborate mass bar and bat mitzvah, their journey to the Jewish rite of passage began with a text message.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Differences Wash Aside In Chabad's Iowa Flood Relief

(lubavitch.com) News crew trucks have reeled in their satellite feeds and driven off to the next big story, but Iowans will be spent the weekend dragging the remains of their waterlogged homes to the curb, coping with the aftermath of the 2008 floods.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, June 30, 2008

A New Crop of Students To Receive Rabbinic Ordination

(lubavitch.com) As college graduates flung mortarboards skyward and clutched their diplomas in hand, young men from Chabad rabbinicall yeshivas sweated out the demanding oral and written exams that would transform them from yeshiva student to rabbi.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, June 26, 2008

Extreme Adventure Camping With Chabad For Jewish Teens

(lubavitch.com) Michael Harari arrived in Seattle Tuesday morning. After stashing his camping gear in the bowels of a 46-passenger school bus, he settled in the driver’s seat for the 14-hour trip to San Francisco, 809 miles down the coast.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Chabad's SOS Raises Awareness, Activism for Elderly

(lubavitch.com) There’s something funny about Don Rickles , 82, headlining at the first annual Chabad-Lubavitch sponsored Smile on Seniors “Joy and Laughter” event on June 29 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, June 23, 2008

In Sao Paulo, Thousands Line Up for a Kosher Big Mac

(lubavitch.com) They flipped 10,000 burgers at the local McDonald’s last Sunday, and Ronald McDonald was doing his usual thing. But this time, he was greeting kids in yarmulkas, and the beef was glatt kosher. No cheese.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, June 20, 2008

Andy Statman to Perform With Chabad at Chicago's Center for Performing Arts

(lubavitch.com) As summer music festival season begins to fill parks and parking lots with sweet harmony and raucous chords, Illinois’s Lubavitch Chabad community is celebrating its 31st anniversary with an evening of authentic Chasidic music.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, June 19, 2008

New Chabad Center Opens In Serbia's Airport City

At a formal inauguration Wednesday, Serbian Jewish leaders and residents celebrated the official opening of the country’s first Chabad-Lubavitch center in Belgrade.

| News | Wednesday, June 18, 2008

New Chabad Reps Join Lauder Business School Faculty

| News | Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Bio-Piracy in the Amazon A Topic of Concern at Chabad-Affiliated Lauder Business School

(lubavitch.com) When genetic code from rainforest plants gets patented and sold, how much profit goes to local tribes who conserved and cultivated the plant for years?

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, June 16, 2008

Dancing in the Rain At the Staten Island Russian Fest

| News | Monday, June 16, 2008

Chabad on Kauai Island Celebrates Giving of Ten Comandments

If you think that the secluded island of Kauai is the last place on Earth that a crowd would gather to hear the Ten Commandments read…

R.C. Berman | News | Friday, June 13, 2008

As Food Prices Soar, Chabad Food Banks Work To Meet Growing Demands

(lubavitch.com) Soaring food and gas prices that are forcing working people to seek help to feed their families are also putting the squeeze on food banks. In these tough times, Chabad run food banks are employing creative strategies to feed those in need.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, June 5, 2008

UNICEF Releases Book on Chabad's Ieladeinu Child Care Program

UNICEF leaders, human rights experts and community representatives joined Chabad-Lubavitch of Buenos Aires on Tuesday at the Centro Cultural Borges arts center to formally announce publication of a UNICEF funded book.

Dora Chernock | News | Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Takes Ben Franklin Award For Book on Going Kosher

lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Goldstein took the Ben Franklin IPBA 's book award in the religion category last week, for GOING KOSHER IN 30 DAYS!

| News | Monday, June 2, 2008

In Ukraine: Jewish Community Opens New Mikvah

| News | Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Chabad Rabbinical Students Remember Israeli Professor Killed In Adis Ababa

(lubavitch.com) Jechezkel Shoshani life’s work, unraveling the biological mysteries behind the great African elephant, was cut short when a minibus exploded as he made his way home from Addis Ababa University.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, May 26, 2008

Aleph's New Home To Help Jewish Inmates Build New Lives

(lubavitch.com) Pennsylvania, home of the U.S.’s second highest number of federal prisons, right after Texas, sees more than seven out of ten inmates return to prison after release.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, May 26, 2008

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Southside Jewish Community Breaks Ground for Area's First Jewish Facility

(lubavitch.com) Southside community members and leaders turned out Thursday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the area's first Jewish institution, a new Chabad-Lubavitch center.

D. Lakein | News | Friday, May 23, 2008

Lag B'Omer

| News | Thursday, May 22, 2008

Jewish Federation of Greater Ohio Awards Chabad Representative For Creativity

(lubavitch.com) At a ceremony hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Ohio earlier this month, Devorah Leah Mangel, co-director of Chabad of Dayton was feted with the coveted Jack Moss Creativity Award.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, May 22, 2008

Chabad Inaugurates New JCC in Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach evokes images of NASCAR’S most prestigious race, the country’s largest motorcycle rally, and college students’ first choice for spring break.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, May 20, 2008

17 Year-Old Publisher of Girls' Magazine Selected As Finalist For Small Business Grant

(lubavitch.com) Seventeen-year-old Chabad student Leah Larson , founder, editor, and publisher of YALDAH magazine has been selected from over 700 applicants as a semi-finalist in the running to receive a $1,000.00 small business grant from IdeaCafe.com, a top-rated website for small business.

| News | Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway Meeting Do Shabbos With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) It’s the largest business meeting in the world, counting no less than 31,000 shareholders who participated at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha, earlier this month.

| News | Sunday, May 18, 2008

Chabad And The Orthodox Union to Host Shabbaton for the Deaf

(lubavitch.com) Motivated by an ideal that aims to make Jewish life accessible and meaningful to all, Chabad-Lubavitch is a natural fit for outreach to any segment of the Jewish population.

| News | Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Actor Jon Voight In Solidarity With Sderot

(lubavitch.com) It’s not every day that an American film actor hangs out with somebody else’s children, let alone children living in a danger zone. That’s what Jon Voight did Tuesday.

| News | Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Avi Chai Selects Chabad-Lubavitch Representative for Fellowship Award

Among the first recipients selected for the Avi Chai Fellowships formally disclosed on Monday, is a Chabad-Lubavitch representative, Rabbi Menachem Schmidt, of Philadelphia.

| News | Monday, May 12, 2008

Chabad To Open Kosher Restaurant in Christchurch, NZ

A kosher restaurant in Christchurch, New Zealand? You bet, says Chabad’s Rabbi Mendy Goldstein of New Zealand.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, May 12, 2008

Photos: Minnesota Governor Pawlenty Meets With Chabad at Israel Fair

| News | Sunday, May 11, 2008

Chabad Center Opens in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

The Mendelsohns have opened the first Chabad-Lubavitch center in Jackson Hole, giving the Cowboy State’s Jews the benefit of full time Chabad representatives.

| News | Friday, May 9, 2008

At the IDF, Soldiers Remember the Fallen Heroes With Tefillin

| News | Friday, May 9, 2008

From Rejection to Love . . . of Israel, Chabad Inspires Israelis Who Leave

Born, raised and drafted in Israel, Tzahi Itzhak Armoni made his first visit to the Cave of Matriarchs and Patriarchs, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, a few months ago when he accompanied the rabbi from Chabad Israel Center in Los Angeles.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, May 8, 2008

Who Was the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Father?

(lubavitch.com) Every now and then, the world is blessed with a leader of such rare character as to inspire a following that seems to outlive his physical lifespan. What makes these rarefied individuals stand apart also makes them a subject of endless curiosity.

| News | Wednesday, May 7, 2008

On State Dept. Missions, Nuclear Scientist Checks in With Chabad

Whether his plane lands in Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, or Russia, Gitomer makes a point of spending Shabbat with Chabad.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, May 5, 2008

Australian PM Visits Chabad NSW Headquarters

Australia’s Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP, visited the Yeshiva Centre - Chabad NSW Headquarters in Bondi, on Friday afternoon.

| News | Sunday, May 4, 2008

Florida Synagogue and Social Services Center Target of Vandalism

Worshipers at Chabad of Parkland, a vibrant synagogue in North Broward were greeted Wednesday with swastikas and other anti-Semitic symbols sprayed onto the walls of their building.

| News | Thursday, May 1, 2008

Accra, Esquel, Pervoo . . . Jews Connect Despite Distance

(lubavitch.com) It was a rocky start for two of the hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students dispatched by Merkos, the Lubavitch educational division (with the support of regional Chabad centers) to create a Passover experience for Jewish people in some 150 locations exotic and obscure. Among them: Esquel, Argentina; Nipawin, Canada; Hong Kong; and Pervoo, Finland.

| News | Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Poland: Chabad Seders in 8 Cities, President Receives Matzah

(lubavitch.com) Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski recently took time to learn about the holiday of Passover and its rituals from his country’s director of Chabad activities, Rabbi Sholom B. Stambler .

| News | Friday, April 25, 2008

Chasidic 1906 Treatise On Divine Service Now In Translation

Is there a point to keeping the commandments if their logic is not clear? A new translation and annotation of a 102-year-old Chabad Chasidic text probes the question.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, April 24, 2008

Book on Kosher Observance Named Finalist in PMA 2008 Ben Franklin Awards

| News | Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Chabad Synagogue Destroyed By Fire, Rabbi Pledges To Rebound

Police and fire fighters are investigating a fire that completely destroyed a Miami Beach Chabad synagogue late Monday night.

| News | Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Students at 500 Campuses Celebrate the Seders With Chabad

Earlier this week, Chabad Chevra of Hartford University in Connecticut offered a case study in keeping the message of Passover from getting lost in the matzah crumbs.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, April 22, 2008

A Proud Day For Warsaw's Jews 65 Years Later

Israel’s President Shimon Peres was joined Thursday morning by Warsaw’s Chabad Jewish community leaders at Poland’s Belvedere Presidential Palace as he inscribed the final letters in a new Torah scroll.

| News | Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Celebrating A Vision: A Chabad Representative Reflects on the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Legacy

Lubavitch.com invited Rabbi Eli Silberstein , Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Cornell University, to share his own reflections on this day.

| News | Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Seoul's Jews Invited to First Civilian Passover Seder

South Korea’s Jews, which number about 250, are responding to colorful invites showing up in their inboxes, to the first civilian Passover Seder there by their new Chabad representatives.

| News | Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Israel's President To Carry Torah for Warsaw JCC From Poland's Belvedere Presidential Palace

(lubavitch.com/lns) Israel’s President Shimon Peres will meet with Poland’s Chabad-Lubavitch representatives Thursday at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, where he will inscribe a letter in a Torah scroll to be dedicated to the city’s Chabad Jewish Community Center.

| News | Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Passover in Quito, Guayaquil, Banos, Montanita . . .

Chabad representatives to Ecuador, Rabbi Tomer and Rivka Rotem are expecting about 100 to join them at their Seder in Quito. The couple has been reaching out to the country’s Jewish population with distribution of matzah in Quito, Guayaquil, and other cities.

| News | Monday, April 14, 2008

From Ethiopia to Estonia, From Pulpit to Potatoes, Chabad Students Toil for the Seder

Two hundred eighty three young rabbis updated their passports for their Passover assignments that will see them producing Seders in Goa, India; Varna, Bulgaria; Dresden, Germany, and 150 cities in between and beyond.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, April 14, 2008

Chabad Honors High Ranking US Marine Corps General

Several hundred packed the hall at the Crystal Gateway Marriott last Sunday, April 6, celebrating the revival of Jewish activity to the Alexandria-Arlington area, inspired by Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi Mordechai and Yehudis Newman .

| News | Monday, April 14, 2008

Uruguay: Biggest BBQ Event Begins With Kosher Beef

(lubavitch.com/lns) As 20,000 Uruguayans participated Sunday in their country’s record breaking barbeque, Chabad-Lubavitch gave many of them a first exposure to kosher meat.

| News | Sunday, April 13, 2008

500 Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical Students Set Out On Passover Tour

(lubavitch.com/lns) As part of its traditional Passover outreach, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Lubavitch Headquarters, is sponsoring the itineraries of 500 rabbinical students who’ve been accepted to arrange and lead seders in designated locations worldwide.

| News | Sunday, April 13, 2008

Passover With Chabad Round the World

| News | Friday, April 11, 2008

Netanyahu Speaks to JLI's Mission To Israel

(lubavitch.com/lns) A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just returned from the ultimate field trip.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, April 11, 2008

Jewish Soldiers in Russian Army To Receive Passover Provisions From FJC

In the days leading up to Passover, the FJC is reaching out to tens of thousands of Jews in 15 states of the FSU, with holiday provisions, literature and actual physical help in koshering the homes of people who’d like to observe the holiday.

| News | Thursday, April 10, 2008

Kew Gardens Conservative Synagogue Revived As Chabad Orthodox Shul

It’s been a decade since Kew Gardens Anshe Sholom Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue, could justify opening its doors for Friday night services.

| News | Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Polish PM Supports Chabad's Jewish Religious Activity in Poland

On a state visit to Israel, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, Wednesday where he was greeted by the site's Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich , and Chabad’s representative to Poland, Rabbi Sholom Ber Stambler .

Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Ukraine: Children, Adults Get Passover Crash Course with Touring Chabad Rabbis

Rabbi Shmuly Brown of Tzivos Hashem in Dnepropetrovsk, trains Chabad rabbinical students before they embark on a 3,700 kilometer tour in Ukraine, with the model matzah bakery.

| News | Wednesday, April 9, 2008

In New Hampshire, Kids, Parents Prepare for Passover With Chabad

An article in the Nashua Telegraph Tuesday on Chabad’s model matzah bakery in New Hampshire, by Dean Shalhoup featured a lively profile of New Hampshire’s Rabbi Levi Krinsky in action.

| News | Tuesday, April 8, 2008

In The Serengeti: Chasidic Adventures With Chabad

David Abramson is a successful real estate broker in London’s white-hot restaurant scene. He’s well schooled in the plush perks of luxury travel, but in May he’ll be camping out in the Serengeti, in a hut, walking miles through wild grasslands with 14 other men on a Chasidic adventure trip.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, April 8, 2008

New Hagaddah For Russian Jews Who've Outgrown Communal Passover Seders

As the director of Friends of Refugees from Eastern Europe, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossie Mishulovin has seen Michigan’s estimated 5000 Russian Jews grow in sophistication and understanding of the holiday, and that’s bringing new challenges.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, April 7, 2008

UPenn Politicos Break for Bi-Partisan Shabbat With Chabad

Passions are running high as Pennsylvania’s presidential primary nears. Pundits are squabbling. Campaign lackeys are slinging mud. But at Chabad-Lubavitch House at Penn, Penn Democrats and Republicans set aside their differences to share Shabbat meal.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, April 4, 2008

Yiddish Still Spoken (And Taught) Here

(lubavitch.com/lns) Lovers of Yiddish call it by the nickname Mameloshen. The English equivalent is “mother tongue,” but something’s lost in translation.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Chabad Buys New Space in Denver's Booming South Metro

With Denver’s South Metro Jewish population up from 4,300 to 10,000 in the last decade, Chabad’s closing on a 1.2 million building last week came at an ideal time.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, April 1, 2008

At USC, Jewish Fraternities And Chabad, "Natural Partners"

All twenty pledges at USC’s newest fraternity turned their first Friday night as brothers into Shabbat at Chabad last week.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, March 31, 2008

Video: Rabbi Jacobson's Address To U.S. Military Chaplaincy

| News | Thursday, March 27, 2008

At UIC, Chabad Restores Jewish Pride to Chicago's Maxwell St.

When Chabad representatives Rabbi Bentzion and Chani Shemtov moved into the neighborhood five months ago they came to serve the 2000 Jewish students at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, March 27, 2008

Images: Looking Out For Israel's Neediest

As Passover nears, Israel's largest food bank, Colel Chabad, prepares holiday provisions for 25,000 families in the country. For the full story, click here.

| News | Thursday, March 27, 2008

Images: Purim With Chabad Round the World

As Chabad Houses from San Francisco to Sydney continue to send us their photos, it's clear that Purim falling on Friday this year, didn't slow the partying with Chabad one bit.

| News | Thursday, March 27, 2008

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Photos: Operation Message in A Matzah For US Army Troops Abroad

| News | Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Largest Food Bank in Israel Prepares To Feed 25,000 Families

Volunteers in a Kiryat Malachi warehouse are busy packing canned goods, fruits and vegetables, oil, matzah, and wine into hundreds of thousands of boxes. Within the next few weeks the Blavatnik Colel Chabad Food Bank

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Baking Matzah for US Troops at the Jewish Children's Museum

Visitors to the Chabad-Lubavitch affiliated JCM, will have the opportunity to hand-bake Passover matzah for US troops abroad, “sending our troops a little ‘home’ to the ‘front’,” said a JCM spokesman.

| News | Tuesday, March 25, 2008

After 45 Years, A Jewish Community Breaks Ground For New Mikvah

Chabad of the Upstate, under the leadership of Rabbi Adam and Chani Goodfriend , has launched a campaign to bring a mikvah back to the Greenville area.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, March 25, 2008

American Jewish Suburbanites See Israel Up Close and Personal

A Chabad-led tour of Israel gave a group of American Jews from the Midwest an up close perspective on the extremes of daily life in Israel when their visit coincided with the terrible massacre at Yeshiva Merkaz Harav on March 6.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, March 24, 2008

Chabad Draws Thousands To "The Biggest Jewish Party in LA--Ever"

Two thousand students from four southern California colleges partied to a live band and snapped up Purim mitzvahs until 3 AM at a Chabad sponsored mega event that earned its billing as the “biggest Jewish party in LA – Ever.”

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, March 24, 2008

Chabad Rabbi First Rabbi Ever to Address U.S. Military Chaplaincy

In a speech hailed by one priest as the most inspiring talk since Martin Luther King Jr ., Chabad Rabbi Yossi Jacobson addressed the Chief of Chaplains Senior Leader’s Training Conference on March 6, 2008.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, March 21, 2008

Novosibirsk: Purim Will Be Joyful Despite Anti-Semitic Posters

Authorities in Novosibirsk have yet to determine who was behind the anti-Semitic posters put up on the doorways of residential buildings earlier this week.

Miriam Davids | News | Thursday, March 20, 2008

Taglit-BirthrightIsrael:Mayanot First Tour For Special Needs Visitors

By joining Taglit-Birthright Israel: MAYANOT’s first trip for individuals with special needs, he’s overcome another barrier and is spending ten days in Promised Land.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, March 20, 2008

When Purim Meets Shabbos . . .

Shabbat as a day of rest goes head to head with Purim parties this year. Chabad centers the world over are working creatively so Jewish people do not miss an opportunity to participate in the holiday.

R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Croatian Govt To Change Law To Protect Jewish Graves

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad’s Rabbi Pinchas Zaklos met Monday with Croatian President Stjepan Mesi, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and Zagreb’s Mayor Milan Bandi .

| News | Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Women, Children of Arab/Jewish Intermarriages Seek Help From Chabad

While the topic of how to reach out to children of intermarried couples animates discussion in communities, synagogues and schools, it’s a whole different brew—with danger and hostility thrown into the mix—when the children are the product of a Jew and an Arab.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, March 18, 2008

History of Chabad in New YIVO Encylopedia

| News | Monday, March 17, 2008

Jewish Day School Teachers Impact Students' Life Choices

Dr. Joel Wein is looking for the Lubavitch teacher who changed his life. As a youngster eager to earn a Cub Scout religion badge, he asked his Hebrew School teacher, a young Chabad-Lubavitch woman in her early twenties, for a synagogue where he could attend services.

| News | Monday, March 17, 2008

Australian Jewish Leaders Convene for Annual Conference

| News | Sunday, March 16, 2008

Photos: Shabbat With European Jewish Leaders

| News | Saturday, March 15, 2008

Israeli Expats Strengthen Jewish Identity in Diaspora

As the Israeli government launches a dynamic campaign to lure expatriates back, many are conflicted as to which country they wish to call home.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, March 14, 2008

Chabad Places Mezuzahs on Doors Of House Majority and Minority Leaders

Mendy Hecht | News | Thursday, March 13, 2008

On Campus: Chabad's Purim Bashes Draw In the Shy and Wary

Purim, more than any other holiday, say Chabad-on-campus representatives, brings in crowds of students who otherwise keep a safe distance from anything that feels too Jewish. It’s the time of year to reach the unreachable, like Jewish students living in fraternity and sorority houses.

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, March 13, 2008

Chabad Partners with First Aid Emergency Services To Open New Division in Sderot

| News | Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Rocky Mountain Collegian Congratulates Chabad on Campus

The university's 3-year-old Chabad organization has spent the entirety of its existence fighting with the City of Fort Collins and the university for bits and pieces of recognition and Friday night they got anther one.

| News | Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Challenge Aspen Works With Chabad To Welcome Israeli Soldiers

In the end, it’s the soldiers and their families who pay the price of their sacrifice. After two years of intensive hospitalization and rehabilitation, Gary suffers from significant neurological impairments and blindness in his right eye. Worst of all are the nightmares that plague him.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, March 11, 2008

UJA Awards Chabad's Friendship Circle Leaders

Friendship Circle Ontario coordinators, Chabad's Mrs. Esther Grossbaum and Mrs. Chaya Perman , were recently honored with the distinguished UJA Federation Inclusion Initiative Award.

| News | Monday, March 10, 2008

Chabad Hebrew Day School Goes Green

Soaking up the brilliant California sunshine, 189 new solar panels atop the roofs of Chabad's Hebrew Academy in Huntington Beach are teaching students a living lesson in going green and cutting the school’s energy bills.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, March 10, 2008

A New Building for Chabad in Tokyo

Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan has announced that its long search for a new building has come to a happy end.

| News | Sunday, March 9, 2008

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New York Times Frugal Traveler Visits Chabad in Cancun

| News | Saturday, March 8, 2008

Editorial: Yet Again Jerusalem Mourns

Yesterday’s murder of innocent students at a Jerusalem yeshiva evoked flashbacks to the Hebron massacres of 1929 . . . to the Chabad-Lubavitch village of Kfar Chabad 1956 . . . Maalot 1974 . . .

B. Olidort | News | Friday, March 7, 2008

Children With Special Needs and Their Parents Applaud Chabad's Friendship Circle

“A model for a Jewish People unified by shared goals and ideals,” is how Dr. Talya Fishman describes Friendship Circle of Chabad of the Delaware Valley.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Taking A Closer Look At Judaism's Universal Laws

In modern times, the Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe spoke often about the “climate of increased moral consciousness” that made now the right moment to spread word of “a Divine moral code, one that predates all human codes, and the only one that has timeless and universal application for a good, moral civilization.”

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, March 3, 2008

Bloom's Kosher Deli: Open On Shabbos . . . With Chabad

Beginning this Friday night, the landmark restaurant’s Edgware location will open for Shabbos with Chabad’s Rabbi Leivi and Feigi Sudak hosting.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, February 28, 2008

Business Guru Michael Gerber Offers to Streamline Chabad Centers' Operations

Small business guru Michael Gerber’s E-Myth Revisited sold over 1,000,000 copies, and is licensed in 16 languages. His consulting firm has coached 50,000 small businesses in 145 countries. But Gerber told Lubavitch.com that his success and experience was “only practice” for his work with Chabad.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Driven to Stop Delinquency, Awarded

On Thursday, February 21, Chabad's Rabbi Leivi Sudak received a public award in recognition of his “outstanding citizenship.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Chabad Reaches Jewish Students at Commuter Colleges

Chabad representatives at campus centers have discovered innovative ways to reach Jewish students at commuter schools, and involve them in Jewish life.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Of Heroines and Beauty: Women's Purim Pageant To Explore Jewish Themes

The upcoming holiday of Purim celebrates the heroics of Queen Esther, and Chabad of Eugene is determined to give Esther her royal due.

Dora Chernock | News | Monday, February 25, 2008

While Qassams Keep Falling, Sderot Citizens Are Abandoned

Recently a concerned friend, Rafael Rabinovich , started a Facebook page titled, “Chabad Sderot Relief Fund.” Moneys donated go directly to American Friends of Chabad of Sderot

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, February 22, 2008

Australian Prime Minister Rudd Salutes Chabad and Pledges Support for Jewish Schools

At his first opportunity to address the Jewish community since becoming Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd saluted Chabad’s Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia, and the social and humanitarian programs that have been developed under the leadership of Rabbi and Mrs. Pinchus and Penina Feldman

| News | Thursday, February 21, 2008

On Campus: 600 Students Observe Shabbos, Some Say For Keeps

“What a credit to Chabad that 500 Jewish students from around California devoted a weekend to learning about Judaism and Jewish commitment."

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, February 21, 2008

Paraguay's Jewish Community Tries To Cope With Yellow Fever Outbreak

“There’s a serious shortage of the vaccine,” Chabad’s Rabbi Leivi Feigelstock told Lubavitch.com in a phone interview, explaining that the threatening situation is provoking demonstrations and violence. The government has declared a national emergency last week.

M. Phillips | News | Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Russia's Chief Rabbi Decries Church's Possible Intrusion In Public School

Rabbi Lazar, who is also head Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Russia, elaborated: “The Church is pushing strongly for this, but we believe that if religion is taught in public schools, it must be done with full consideration for every child and their respective faith.”

| News | Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Chabad of Greater Boynton To Open Satellite Center in West Lake North

Rabbi Sholom Ciment , Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton, announced today the installation of Rabbi and Mrs. Bentzion and Chaya M. Singer as the new official representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch to West Lake Worth.

| News | Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Building Houses, Doing Mitzvahs: Ramaz Students, Chabad-Lubavitch and Habitat for Humanity

President’s Day Weekend is off time for most high school students, but in York, PA, a group of sixteen Ramaz students got down and dirty, hacking away as they volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and then, spontaneously, for Chabad of Lancaster.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, February 19, 2008

On College Campuses, Purim Partying Begins Early This Year

Counting down to spring break cheers sleep-deprived and paper swamped college students. But the timing of the vacation has some Chabad campus representatives pulling sleepless nights.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, February 18, 2008

In U.S.A. Chabad Habla Espanol!

It’s not bagels and lox at La Sinagoga de Jabad de Coral Springs brunch. Here the fare is arepas and cheese pies, a taste of the old country shared by regulars and newcomers at this Spanish Chabad center.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, February 18, 2008

Following Shooting, Students at NIU Turn to Chabad Reps for Help

Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, Chabad representative at nearby University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, began fielding calls. While there is no Chabad Center on NIU’s campus, several neighboring Rabbis, including Rabbi Tiechtel, visit and learn with students there as well as host them for Shabbos.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, February 15, 2008

On Tour in the U.S: Two Rabbis and A Barrel of Kosher Pickles

The recipe is a secret but Rabbi Mendy Margolin will reveal the trick to a good kosher pickle—no authentic kosher pickles contain vinegar. When pressed, Rabbi Shmuel Marcus , Chabad representative in Cypress, CA, is quick to assert that “there is no exact recipe—it is an art.”

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, February 15, 2008

Brandeis Student Dinner, A First, A Success

Neither icy roads nor blinding sleet deterred 90 students from stepping out in formal wear to fete Chabad at Brandeis University during the first annual Gala Student Dinner on February 10.

| News | Thursday, February 14, 2008

Why Is Hollywood Calling?

For a long time now, Chabad, along with many others concerned about the subtle and not-so-subtle influences of pop culture, has been unequivocal about tv watching as a harmful, mind-numbing pastime.

Mordechai Shinefield | News | Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Through Study and Stipend, Chabad Program in CIS Increases Jewish Marriages

Maria Karetina, 23, lives in Vladivostok, Russia. Since completing university last year, she has been working as a French-English translator for a large firm. Until last month, she was engaged to a non-Jew, and could have well been the poster girl for assimilation trends across the Former Soviet Union. But three months ago Karetina joined the STARS learning program. That’s when a new circle of friends opened up to her. Jewish ones.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, Halachik Authority, Passes Away

The international Chabad-Lubavitch community mourns the passing early Monday morning, of Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein , 79, of Cincinnatti, Ohio.

| News | Monday, February 11, 2008

Increasingly, American Adult Jewish Males Request Ritual Circumcision

To circumcise or not to circumcise? Usually it’s a parent’s prerogative. When the decision falls into the lap of grown American Jewish men, a good number of them choose to enter the covenant with help from Chabad.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, February 11, 2008

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Dimona Survivors Return to Site of Attack

Working together with the Chabad Center in Dimona and Dimona’s municipality, CTV’s Director, Rabbi Menachem Kutner invited the survivors to inscribe a letter in the Torah scroll that is being written specifically for the memory of all of Israel’s terror victims.

| News | Monday, February 11, 2008

A Lubavitcher Turns Troubled Inner City H.S. "Into A Different Place"

“Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just over two years when [Chabad-Lubavitch] Shimon Waronker was named the seventh.”

| News | Friday, February 8, 2008

"Chabad Changed the City," Says Cannes Mayor Brochand

Hundreds of guests, among them political, civil and religious figures, participated in the inauguration earlier this week of the new Chabad day school building in Cannes, France.

| News | Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Chabad in Beijing Prepapres for '08 Olympics With a Second Kosher Eatery

Dini’s Kosher Restaurant, the only one in China’s capital city, will open a second location in the Olympic Village in Northern Beijing in time for the 08 Olympics, Chabad representative to Beijing, Mrs. Dini Freundlich , told Lubavitch.com.

| News | Wednesday, February 6, 2008

In Some Cities, Chabad House-Cum-Restaurant Draws People In

In Buenos Aires, Nice, Iowa and other cities, Chabad representatives are opening much needed kosher restaurants. But at the end of the day, these entrepeneurs factor in a spiritual component to their bottom line that gives soul food a whole new meaning.

Dora Chernock | News | Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Jewish Revival Greets Young Jews Moving to the Lower East Side

Introducing Jews on the Lower East Side to a Jewish experience that packs a meaningful alternative to the faded memories of kitsch yiddishkeit portrayed in popular films, are Chabad-Lubavitch representatives.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Chabad Invites Youngest of Schindler's Saved Jews To Speak

Chabad-Lubavitch of El Paso will be featuring a lecture by Leon Leyson , the youngest survivor known to have been saved by Oskar Schindler .

| News | Tuesday, February 5, 2008

In World of Chabad, Young Women Train for Leadership Through Internships

In reality, young women in their late teens and early twenties from Chabad Lubavitch backgrounds shoulder significant leadership roles assisting Chabad representatives all around the world.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, February 5, 2008

In Russia, Prison Attitudes Change to Accommodate Religious Practice

Sergey K ., whose last name is withheld for legal purposes, is a 48 year-old inmate serving a long sentence in a Russian penitentiary near Kazakhstan. His only regular visitor, it seems, is Chabad’s Rabbi Goel Mayers , Rabbi in Orenberg.

Alexander Lakshin | News | Monday, February 4, 2008

Chabad of Arizona Reaches Out . . . To Everyone

That’s when NFL coordinators called Rabbi Sholom Lew , director of Chabad of the West Valley in Glendale. As a Brit unfamiliar with the American day of worship known as “Superbowl” whose wife and co-director Chana Lew brought a baby boy into the world last week, Rabbi Lew scrambled to get his playbook ready for the crowds.

EJ Tansky | News | Sunday, February 3, 2008

Chabad Representative Addresses Council of Europe

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad’s Rabbi Mendel Samama joined 47 European ambassadors at the Council of Europe to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27.

| News | Friday, February 1, 2008

International Mikvah Website To Be Revamped

The online Chabad resource for Jewish family life will apply the grant to revamping a website that currently includes a Global Mikvah Directory, Mikvah Photo Gallery, Mikvah Mall, and Speakers Bureau, as well as educational essays and articles on Jewish family life. T

| News | Friday, February 1, 2008

At Brandeis University, Students To Host Gala In Support of Chabad

The dynamic at Chabad on campus is typically a simple one: Campus Shluchim give and give, and then give some more. A warm home where students can always find someone willing to listen, someone ready to teach, Shabbat dinners, holiday celebrations, and whatever else comes up for students living on campus pining for a place to call home.

R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Chief Rabbi of Russia Speaks at World Economic Forum

Chabad Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, called on the participants in the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos to take a strong stance against the use of religion for political purposes.

| News | Wednesday, January 30, 2008

A Once Derided Jewish Ritual Now In High Vogue

Bronya Shaffer, a Chabad woman who lectures on women’s issues, spirituality and relationships, remembers when she was invited to a Jewish women’s group in the early 1970s.

B. Olidort with Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Chabad Representative to Cracow At Auschwitz-Birkenau

| News | Monday, January 28, 2008

Port Washington: Jewish Life is Booming Here

You don’t find many storefront houses of prayer in Port Washington, NY. A modest home carries a $1 million price tag, double that for a place on the water. Residents are not likely to be calling out to a Higher Power to fill the void left by economic insecurity.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, January 28, 2008

Rabbinic Response to Intelligent Design Debate in New Volume of Science/Torah Periodical

Jewish educators and scholars struggling to reconcile scientific thought with Torah views, will find the recently published volume of B'or Ha'Torah Journal of Science, Life and Art in the Light of Torah, an invaluable resource.

| News | Thursday, January 24, 2008

EU Commissioner of Education Meets With Chabad Representative to Slovakia

| News | Thursday, January 24, 2008

Chabad's Jewish Learning Institute To Probe Fundamentals of Faith

These ponderous questions are the impetus for a new course by Chabad's Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI). Beyond Belief: Reflections on Jewish Faith, Reason, and Experience , is scheduled to begin in early February.

| News | Wednesday, January 23, 2008

37 Years Later, Survivor Meets Her Hero

Chabad’s Terror Victims Program in Israel is in the process of writing a Torah scroll that will have letters inscribed by family members and survivors of all of Israel’s terror victims of recent years.

| News | Wednesday, January 23, 2008

International Conference Draws Chabad Women in Leadership To Study

Perusing the instructions a Chabad leader leaves behind before she attends the annual Shluchos Convention in New York is exhausting.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Review Essay: The Grammar of Women's Spirituality

The following is a review essay by Chana Silberstein , Chabad-Lubavitch representative at Cornell University, of Bread and Fire, Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday , a new book edited by Rivkah Slonim , Chabad-Lubavitch representative at Binghamton University. (Urim Publications, 454 pp)

Chana Silberstein | News | Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Chabad Opens Medical Clinic For Moscow's Jewish Community

| News | Monday, January 21, 2008

In Remote Halifax, A Jewish Community Comes Into Its Own

Thirteen years ago, Chabad representatives Rabbi Mendel and Bassie Feldman and one month old Zevi moved to Halifax to stay.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, January 21, 2008

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Mayor of Buenos Aires Visits the Children at Chabad's Perla Rohr Home

| News | Thursday, January 17, 2008

A Million Mitzvahs . . . And Still Counting

The Million Mitzvahs Campaign, was launched in June 2006 by The Shul, a Chabad center in Surfside, FL, with the idea of making the world a better place and bringing Jewish people together as they worked toward a common goal of 1,000,000 mitzvahs.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, January 17, 2008

Poland's Lech Walesa Visits With Chabad in Israel

Former Polish President Lech Walesa visited Tuesday with Chabad Chasidim and Chabad institutions in Kfar Chabad, Israel.

| News | Tuesday, January 15, 2008

As Kosher Awareness Grows, More Make the Switch Even When Eating Out

The Paskoffs were first attracted to the idea after joining their local Chabad Shul run by Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Grossbaum .

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Matchmaking Online: Chabad Reps Give the Brides Away

Around the world Chabad centers have created websites crafted to avoid the pitfalls endemic to Internet dating.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, January 14, 2008

Senator Lieberman to Visit Chabad of Boynton Beach

Senator Joseph Lieberman will be making a special appearance this Wednesday at The Synagogue in Greater Boynton, Florida.

| News | Sunday, January 13, 2008

Judge Rules in Favor of Chabad Synagogue

A federal judge in Miami ruled Friday that it is illegal for Cooper City to ban a Chabad synagogue from its commercial district.

| News | Sunday, January 13, 2008

While Jewish Birth Rates Lag Chabad Encourages Growing Families

Unwilling to wait for acts of Congress to up the Jewish birthrate, Chabad representatives have been celebrating the joys of bringing Jewish children into the world, and their community members have followed.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Chabad at UCSB Receives Funding from Students Finance Board

Among those six was Chabad of UCSB. While Chabad asked for $18,470 for its 5th Annual West Coast Intercollegiate Shabatton, the group received only $12,320.

| News | Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Chabad of Greater Boynton To Expand and Open New Satellite Chabad Centers

Many credit Chabad’s Rabbi Sholom Ciment with contributing to the changed demographics of this area once considered a retirement community in the suburbs of southern Florida.

Jill Shayna Brody | News | Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives The Object of Philanthropist's Largesse

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) The Bogolubov Simcha Fund, established with an initial $10 million by Ukrainian billionaire, Mr. Gennady Bogolubov , has begun disbursing grants to Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim for family related expenses.

| News | Monday, January 7, 2008

New Hampshire Primaries: Chabad Opens In Downtown To Serve Jewish Staffers

Rabbi Krinsky is Chabad representative to New Hampshire, where the first presidential primaries take place this Tuesday. Observant Jews working the campaigns of the candidates are calling him to find out whether there’ll be a minyan for daily prayers, and about kosher food availability.

| News | Sunday, January 6, 2008

Chabad Opens Mikveh At Penn State

Chabad at Penn State recently inaugurated a mikveh, the culmination of three years of planning, and $160,000 of donations.

| News | Sunday, January 6, 2008

Brazil: Chabad Activities Focus on Intermarriage Prevention

The 15 year-old Brazilian considered what he would be doing if he weren’t enjoying a Chabad sponsored trip that mixes Judaism, touring New York and skiing in Canada.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, January 4, 2008

The Economist On the Impact of Russian Immigrants on German Jewish Life

The story focuses on Berlin and is topped by a photo of the highly profiled opening of the Chabad Center there last summer.

| News | Thursday, January 3, 2008

Good for the Palate, Good for the Soul: Kosher Cuisine Grows Up

Lubinsky credits the Lubavitch movement with opening up supermarkets to kosher because of their influential presence in far-flung locales. In some cases the impact can stem from a single Chabad family.

Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, January 3, 2008

The Road To Haditch (Gaditch)

January 2nd 2008 corresponds to the Jewish calendar date of of 24 Tevet, 5768 which marks the 195th anniversary of the passing of Reb Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Known as "The Alter Rebbe," Reb Schneur Zalman authored the Tanya, the foundational text of Chabad Chasidism.

| News | Wednesday, January 2, 2008

11th Pan American Macabbi Games Ending Today, Went Kosher, Did Shabbos With Chabad

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad of Argentina ensured that athletes and coaches—several thousand—who participated in the 11th Pan American Maccabi Games in Buenos Aires, dined strictly kosher for the nearly week-long competitive sports that ended Wedensday, January 2.

| News | Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Chabad Flagship Yeshiva: A Winter Break Destination

David Altman figures he’s in for a lot of vacuuming when he gets home. His wife, Alicia, pregnant with their fourth child, gave him the go-ahead to spend December 24 through January 3 at Chabad Lubavitch’s flagship yeshiva, and he’s really, really grateful.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Chief Rabbi of Ukraine's Largest Jewish Community Named Among Top Foreigner

(lubavitch.com/lns) The latest, New Year edition of Focus Magazine, a Ukrainian publication, named Chabad’s Shmuel Kaminezki , Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, one of the 15 “powerful foreigners” in Ukraine.

| News | Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Mayanot Yeshiva Opens Women's Division in Jerusalem

The graduating senior has had her last Chabad on campus Shabbat dinner; the birthrightisrael experience is over. But the idea is to keep that enthusiasim for Jewish education alive, and to sustain active interest and further Jewish growth. So what now?

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, December 31, 2007

In Argentina: Chabad Child-Care Program Earns UNICEF, UNESCO Acclaim

The only thing about it all that astonishes Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt , head Chabad representative to Argentina, is how IELADEINU, a Chabad sponsored agency, has evolved, from an impromptu appeal to a judge, on behalf of two Jewish children back in 1999.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, December 31, 2007

Baptist Church Helps Raise Funds To Replace Stolen Torah

Nearly three months after a preciousTorah scroll stolen was stolen from the Chabad Yeshiva High School of Twin Cities, it raised $35,000 of the $50,000 needed for a new Torah.

| News | Sunday, December 30, 2007

Chabad Unveils Talmudic Study Program In 15 Cities

Yeshiva boys typically crack their first Talmudic sugiya (problem) at a young age. The dense Aramaic text, the endless back and forth of argument and counter-argument, are daunting, and starting them young gives them a lifelong edge: mastery over a daf , or page of gemara that leaves many adults feeling they’ve lost an irretrievable opportunity.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, December 28, 2007

Governor Corzine Surprises Guests At Chabad NJ Dinner

New Jersey Governor John Corzine made a surprise appearance at a Chabad dinner in Northwest NJ, last week.

| News | Thursday, December 27, 2007

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Kosher Certification Most Sought On Food Labels

| News | Thursday, December 27, 2007

In Nuremberg: Jewish Community Works With Chabad To Restore Traditional Jewish Life

Arno Hamburg , chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, has been helping Chabad of Nuremberg’s leader, Rabbi Eliezer Chitrik gain the support of a publicly funded Jewish community council.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, December 27, 2007

Almost There: Librescu Jewish Student Center Seeks Final $100,000.00

Chabad-Lubavitch of the Virginias is approaching the finish line in its campaign to secure a property on the Virginia Tech campus.

M. Phillips | News | Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Russian Jews in Germany to Benefit From Chabad Translated Jewish Living Guides

FREE Publishing House, the world's first publisher of authentic Judaic literature in modern Russian, has collaborated with Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim in Germany to re-publish its famous Mezuzah Guide in Russian, with a press run of over 100,000 copies.

| News | Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Announces Partnership With Bramson ORT

Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, announced the establishment of a new Jewish vocational training school in partnership with International Bramson ORT.

R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, December 26, 2007

On Stem Cell and Other Matters: A Conference Explores the Torah-Science Nexus

Is Judaism’s belief in free will compatible with concepts of genetic predestination? Are there links between contemporary neuroscience and Kabbalistic concepts of consciousness? A Chabad sponsored Torah and Science Conference explored these and other questions.

| News | Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Feeling Jewish, Feeling Comfortable, On the Night of the 24th

For Jewish people, standing out on December 24th doesn’t mean standing alone. Chabad centers across the country fling open their doors, bringing Jewish people together for a night of unity, games – and Chinese food.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, December 24, 2007

Dnepropetrovsk Synagogue Automates Daily Charity-Giving

Those old tin can pushkas—collection boxes, sitting at the entrance to every shul, may soon be on their way out. The plastic’s good enough for everything else and it sure beats fishing for loose change every morning, so why not for tzedaka?

| News | Monday, December 24, 2007

Kosher Cooking Bible Turns Thirty, Inspires Lifestyle Changes

(Lubavitch.com) Thirty years since it was first served up, Lubavitch women’s kosher cookbook has sold 160,000 copies worldwide. That’s no small potatoes. But it's for affecting lifestyles beyond the kitchen that sets The Spice and Spirit Cookbook apart on the culinary bookshelves.

EJ Tansky | News | Friday, December 21, 2007

150 Year-Old Melbourne Synagogue Appoints Chabad Rabbi

The recent appointment of Chabad Rabbi Dovid Gutnick opens a new chapter for the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation's synagogue.

| News | Friday, December 21, 2007

Putin to Award Chabad Rabbi For Bravery

President Vladimir Putin will soon confer a state award on Chabad Rabbi Yitzhak Kogan and son Yosef .

| News | Wednesday, December 19, 2007

A Jewish Burial, Even for Those Who Can't Afford

It’s expensive to die in the United States, and especially in California where real estate and population booms have jacked up funeral price tags to the $10,000 mark.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, December 19, 2007

While Tunisian Jewry Dwindles, Many Recall A Leader With Love and Awe

In the eyes of census takers, the Jews of Tunisia are circling the drain. Since 1948, they’ve experienced a 99% population drop, with fewer than 2000 Jews left today, mainly in Tunis and on the island of Djerba.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, December 18, 2007

New JCC Nears Completion in Ufa

"It will become not only a center for spiritual development and religious services, but will also constitute the center of Jewish life in the city," said Chabad Rabbi Dan Krichevsky .

| News | Monday, December 17, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Represents Judaism at Singapore's IRO

(Lubavitch.com) When 10,000 individuals from different religious groups, including Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong , convened at the Singapore Expo last Sunday for a celebration sponsored jointly by the Lorong Koo chye Sheng Hong Temple and the Inter Religious Organization’s (IRO) dinner, they enjoyed unusual exposure to Judaism.

M. Phillips | News | Monday, December 17, 2007

Princess Anne Visits Chabad Menorah in Leeds

Rabbi Reuven Cohen and Rabbi Yirmya Angyalfi , Chabad-Lubavitch representatives to Leeds, England, welcomed Princess Anne , the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth, to the public Menorah in Leeds last week. This Chanukah, the city celebrated 25 years of the first giant Menorah in Europe.

| News | Sunday, December 16, 2007

Chabad of Upper Midtown Launches Building Campaign

On a chilly Sunday night last week, just across the street from the U.N., New York City moms and dads and their preschoolers, museum patrons and smartly attired professionals--listened intently as Rabbi Shmuel and Raizy Metzger talked with them about Chanukah and its timeless message.

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, December 13, 2007

10,000 At World's Largest Chanukah Festival

| News | Thursday, December 13, 2007

Update: London's Mayor Celebrates With Anglo Jewish Community

“If ever we get tired of the name London it actually would enshrine a lot of what make s London a great city if we renamed it Chanukah," said Mayor Ken Livingstone when he lit the Chabad city commissioned menorah in Trafalgar Square.

M. Phillips | News | Thursday, December 13, 2007

Update: Chabad Raises Jewish Profile in Poland

In an event rich with implications for Jewish life in Poland, Chabad-Lubavitch introduced the tradition of Chanukah's menorah lighting to the Polish Parliament this Chanukah.

| News | Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Governor Corzine Celebrates Chanukah With Hoboken's Jews

Miracles were on NJ Gov. Jon Corzine’s mind when he kindled Chabad of Hoboken’s 6-foot tall menorah at City Hall before a crowd of 300 on Sunday.

| News | Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Menorah's Light Warms the Antarctic Chill

As a Jewish pilot on a four month mission to facilitate scientific research in Antarctica, David Wakil has broken many records in the past two months of his assignments.

| News | Tuesday, December 11, 2007

EU President Pottering Meets With Chabad Reps

The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering met early this week with Rabbi Levi Matusof at the EU center in Brussels. Chabad rabbis representing the Jewish communities of Milan, Italy; Vienna, Austria; London, England and Munich, Germany, were part of an entourage that visited with Mr. Pottering.

| News | Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Chabad to Light Menorah In Arvada

Two of the menorah’s eight lights will be kindled Tuesday evening, the last night of Chanukah, during Chabad’s public menorah lighting in Arvada, as a memorial to the victims killed in local churches early Sunday morning.

| News | Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Russia's Chief Rabbi Meets With Putin Successor

| News | Monday, December 10, 2007

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Chanukah Makes Friends: London's Mayor Reaches Out To City's Jews

According to London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone ’s office, which is co-sponsoring the event with Chabad-Lubavitch of Hendon, 5,000 are expected to attend as he joins Chabad’s Rabbi Gershon Overlander on the cherry picker.

M. Phillips | News | Monday, December 10, 2007

Menorah Lights Kindled in Omaha

| News | Friday, December 7, 2007

Chabad To Light Menorah In Polish Parliament (Sejm)

Yet another addition to the roster of public and prominent spaces now displaying giant menorahs, Chabad-Lubavitch of Warsaw will be conducting the first menorah lighting in the Sejm, or the Polish Parliament on Monday.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, December 7, 2007

Chabad Celebrates Chanukah With Special Needs Children

Fifty children with various developmental delays and physical challenges and seventy-five teenage volunteer buddies will craft menorahs, played dreidel games and sing together at at a Chanukah party at Chabad of Greater South Bay’s Friendship Circle on Sunday.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, December 6, 2007

6 Year old Pianist, Musician and Composer to Perform at Gulfstream

| News | Thursday, December 6, 2007

Rome Municipality Posts Chanukah Billboards City-Wide

City officials plastered Rome with 500 signs wishing all of its citizens, Buon Chanukà, proclaiming the holiday’s dates and urging everyone to attend Chabad’s 20th public menorah lighting in the central Piazza Barberini.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, December 6, 2007

Senior Chabad Representative to Tunis, Dies

Rabbi Nissen Pinson , Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Tunis since 1960, died Monday in Nice, France, at age 89.

| News | Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Chabad Now In Goa

The scenic beauty of this Pearl of the Orient is a magnet for 50,000 Jewish travelers a year, giving Chabad-Lubavitch as many reasons to open a center in Goa, and create a Jewish infrastructure.

M. Phillips | News | Monday, December 3, 2007

With Chabad in Basel: A First Torah Dedication

Five years after Chabad-Lubavitch opened in Basel, the city celebrated its first ever Hachnosat Sefer Torah in its first ever, soon-to-be completed Chabad center under the leadership of Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Vishedsky.

| News | Monday, December 3, 2007

Menorah-Topped Cars A Growing Trend

Like chocolate coins in plastic mesh bags, Chabad rabbis driving around with menorahs strapped atop their cars are familiar sights during Chanukah. A surprising trend is the many “civilians” who follow suit.

R. C. Berman | News | Sunday, December 2, 2007

In Nepal, Israelis Examine Jewish Identity

Dhulikhel, a resort village with panoramic views of the famous Himalayan mountain ranges, is an idyllic setting for soul searchers. Here, Chezi Lifshitz , the Chabad shliach to Nepal, devotes three days per month during peak season, to an intensive exploration of the mystical layers of Judaism together with Israeli travelers.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, November 30, 2007

Tampa Bay Lightning to Host Jewish Heritage Night on Chanukah

| News | Thursday, November 29, 2007

500 Join Chabad in Auction for Alaska's Jewish Museum

What's the Alaska-Jewish connection? Author Michael Chabon found one, and Chabad of Alaska found enough to make it worthy of a Jewish museum.

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, November 29, 2007

Macy's and JCM Bring A Chanukah Wonderland to Children

| News | Thursday, November 29, 2007

Chanukah Food Aid To Reach 15,000 Jewish Families in Moscow

| News | Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Says Chabad Asserts Mission of Jewish People

In this season of political endorsements, none was more surprised than the 700 people attending Rabbinical College of America 50th anniversary dinner last month when Newark Mayor Cory Booker endorsed not only the mission 51-year-old school, but also the mission of Chabad-Lubavitch and Judaism itself.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Chabad of California Takes Chanukah On the Road

Commuters gnashing their teeth in traffic on the 405, the 5, the 101, the 134 or anywhere from Sacramento to San Diego will have reason to lighten up this Chanukah, because Chabad of California’s going on a road trip.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Chabad at University at Madison, Wisconsin, To Open New Building on Campus

Recently, a young UW student approached Chabad's Rabbi Mendel Matusof with a request for private study sessions. The student’s father had studied a book in college that “gave him enthusiasm for Judaism ever since,” and the student wanted to try it out.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, November 27, 2007

World's Largest Dreidel at Chabad

| News | Monday, November 26, 2007

With Chabad of Rome: A Shabbat of Healing for Israel's Survivors of Terror

In a country that cannot afford to grieve, Chabad-Lubavitch reaches out to victims and survivors of terror negotiating lifelong healing.

Staff Writer | News | Monday, November 26, 2007

The UJC and Chabad-Lubavitch Partner for Jewish Continuity

At the UJC’s General Assembly, Chabad's Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz executive director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and Baltic States . . .

Dora Chernock | News | Friday, November 23, 2007

Groundbreaking at Kansas Chabad Torah Learning Center

“We’re finally getting the women out of the kitchen” said Victor Bergman , a prominent Kansas attorney and Chairman of the Lubavitch Torah Learning Center in Overland Park, Kansas.

Fay Kranz-Greene | News | Thursday, November 22, 2007

Partnering for Jewish Continuity: The UJC and Chabad-Lubavitch

At the UJC’s General Assembly, Chabad's Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz executive director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and Baltic States . . .

Dora Chernock | News | Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Chabad Chanukah Coca Cola Challenge

| News | Tuesday, November 20, 2007

PM John Howard Reaches Out To Chabad in Australia

Sydney’s Chabad-Lubavitch head representative, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman , was among the city’s Chabad rabbis invited to meet with Australia's Foreign Minister, Mr. Alexander Downer .

| News | Tuesday, November 20, 2007

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Thanksgiving Dinner Panic? Chabad Women Cook for 300 Every Week

This week, Nechamie Silberberg , Chabad-Lubavitch representative to University of Western Ontario will be serving somewhere between 175 to 250 ravenous college students.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, November 20, 2007

In Denmark, Chabad-Lubavitch Draws Assimilated Jews Back In

Of the 30 children who will be attending Copenhagen’s Chabad-Lubavitch Vinter Lejr, winter overnight camp, a good many will arrive a day late, after December 24, because their parents want them home for the holiday.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, November 19, 2007

Chabad Promotes Chanukah With Help of American Gothic Couple

The famous “American Gothic” couple that once stood staunchly for Midwestern ideals has now, with the help of Rabbi Yisroel Rubin--Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Albany, NY, and to University Art students--launched a massive Chanukah promotion in 200 cities across the US, Canada and England.

Rabbi Israel Rubin | News | Friday, November 16, 2007

Russian-Language DVD Facilitates Torah Study

A new DVD series recently initiated by the Shiurei Torah Organization of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, makes Torah study readily accessible to Jews of Russian origin worldwide.

| News | Friday, November 16, 2007

A Time to Build

"May it be an everlasting edifice." It's one of the sweetest and most meaningful blessings we give to young couples creating a home together. The images on the following pages tell a story of people all over the world working together to create beautiful Jewish communities. These new buildings continue a growth pattern of Chabad Houses and Centers worldwide, each of them a home of Jewish life, warmth, and joy.

| News | Thursday, November 15, 2007

Chabad to Bring Chanukah Light to Recovering Substance Abusers

A close working relationship that Rabbi Yosef Lipsker , a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi with a pulpit at Shomrei Habrith in Reading, PA, has with the Caron Center has brought Chanukah light to Jewish men and women facing their darkest days.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, November 15, 2007

Soldiers and Civilians With Chabad in Hebron

Danny Cohen , Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Hebron with his wife Bat-Sheva , insists that if you want to experience Hebron, you must come for Shabbat.

B. Olidort | News | Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Philanthropists Pledge to Sponsor 150 New Shluchim

The cavernous space at Pier 94, last night draped in black velvet with hundreds of tables elegantly decked out to serve 4,300 dinner guests, and more than a dozen 30-ft flat screens that allowed the guests to follow events on the podium, offered an illustration in brilliant contrast.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, November 12, 2007

Interview: Lev Leviev, Guest Speaker at International Conference of Chabad Shluchim

Guest speaker at Sunday night’s banquet session of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim was Mr. Lev Leviev. What follows is an interview by the editor of Lubavitch.com, with Mr. Leviev.

| News | Monday, November 12, 2007

One of First Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives Passes Away

Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, the first Chabad-Lubavitch representative to take up an outreach position on behalf of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away Saturday night. He was 91 years old.

| News | Sunday, November 11, 2007

Chabad Shluchim Visit the Ohel

A preeminent moment of the International Conference of Chabd-Lubavitch shluchim is the visit at the Rebbe's resting place at the Old Motifiore cemetery in Queens, New York.

I Bardugo | News | Friday, November 9, 2007

Chabad Conference Initiatives: Jewish Adult Education Goes Online

Jewish Learning Institute, Chabad’s highly regarded adult education program with 250+ satellite locations, announced the development of an e-learning JLI program, and launched a pilot version of JLI Online courses.

EJ Tansky | News | Friday, November 9, 2007

Cracking the Talmud, New Curriculum Solves 500-Year Conundrum

Chabad's new curriculum to be launched at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim, is on its way to cracking the Talmudic code for yeshiva students and adult learners.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, November 8, 2007

Board of Park Commissions Rewrites Policy to Allow Chabad Menorah

| News | Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Initiatives at the Chabad Conference: Smile On Seniors (SOS)

Chabad’s new “Smile On Seniors” approach to bonding with the elderly is a spry young program, getting ready for it’s breakout moment at the International Chabad-Lubavitch Convention.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, November 7, 2007

8th Day Sings With Chabad for The Children at CBS

Some 350 people from Studio City and its neighboring areas showed up Sunday evening at the CBS Studio Center for a Chabad sponsored Community Concert featuring the dynamic music of the 8th Day.

N. Margolis | News | Tuesday, November 6, 2007

A Mezuza in Place of a Swastika, Says Chabad Rabbi At Columbia University

| News | Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Jewish Children in Public School: Chabad to Combat Assimilation

At this week’s International Shluchim Convention, Chabad-Lubavitch representatives will be sharing strategies for making the problem – public school – part of the solution.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Editorial: In the Courtyard of the Rebbe

Once a year, Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim are offered a bird’s-eye view of their collective creative output. Once a year, they get to feel the reverberations of their aggregate energy, and see the dazzling mosaic they complete, unveiled for just a few moments before they move on to a new challenge.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, November 5, 2007

A School, A Community, Grows with Chabad in Houston

Torah Day School of Houston (TDS), the school of the Chabad Lubavitch Center—Texas Regional Headquarters, was one of the trail-blazers. Having opened its doors in 1977, TDS is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Rivkah Lewin | News | Friday, November 2, 2007

Jew, Gentile, Everyone's Sitting At Chabad's Kitchen Table Down Under

Chabad of New South Wales, under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchus and Pnina Feldman since 1968, built the kitchen to give community groups a place to prepare meals for the hungry, give cooking lessons to the poor, and cater their own events.

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, November 1, 2007

Down Under, Chabad Builds A Kitchen, Everyone's At the Table

Chabad of New South Wales built Our Big Kitchen to give community groups a place to prepare meals for the hungry, give cooking lessons to the poor, and cater their own events.

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, November 1, 2007

Chabad School in Kiev Burns

| News | Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Chabad On The Bar/Bat Mitzvah: It's Your Jewish Birthright

In a recent editorial, Reform leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie criticizes the willingness of Chabad to allow any child a bar mitzvah.

Chana Silberstein | News | Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Chabad Center Offers YouTube "Soul Nosh"

| News | Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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Young Readers, Jewish Day Schools, Gear Up for Kehot's (Chabad) 2007 Book-A-Thon

With one in four children growing up in homes with few or no Jewish books, Kehot, the publishing arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, is taking the proactive approach to promote reading.

N. Margolis | News | Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Gabe's Journal: A Student Reports On Chabad-on-Campus's Mega Shabbos in Brooklyn

For Jewish college students, making the decision to show up to a Friday night service and meal held at their local Chabad on Campus is probably the easiest decision they’ll ever have to make during their years in University.

Gabe Rosenthal | News | Sunday, October 28, 2007

Hundreds of Weary Firefighters Sleep, Shower, Regroup at Chabad

Streams of firefighters caked in soot and sweat made their way up to Camp Gan Israel (Kiryas Schneerson) at Chabad of Running Springs, where they found food, hot showers and a place to sleep

EJ Tansky | News | Sunday, October 28, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Responds To Attack on Talmud

| News | Saturday, October 27, 2007

Shabbaton Happy, College Students Deepen Jewish Identity With Chabad

Wth the prevalence of Chabad student centers on campuses nationwide, a development of recent years made possible by the Rohr Family Campus Initiative the Chabad-hosted Shabbaton has become a fixture of the Jewish student experience.

RC Berman | News | Friday, October 26, 2007

Chabad Relief Now To Focus On Returning Evacuees

As evacuees make their way back home, Chabad’s thirty representatives in the San Diego area are shifting gears from their initial scramble to offer shelter and distribute kosher meals at Qualcomm stadium.

R. Rosenthal | News | Thursday, October 25, 2007

In Memoriam: Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr

Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim worldwide mourn the passing of Mrs. Sarah ( Charlotte ) Rohr .

| News | Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Chabad Representative to S. Petersburg Leads Community in Aid to City's Homeless

| News | Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Chabad Opens Student Center At Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, joined rest of the Ivies and exclusive colleges this week when Rabbi Shlomo and Nechama Rothstein were named Chabad-Lubavitch campus representatives.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Firefighters Find Help At Chabad of Running Springs

With the overhead roar of DC-10s and Super Scooper planes, and with water helicopters hovering over the swimming pool at Chabad-Lubavitch of Running Springs, Rabbi Yosef Brod can barely hear himself speak.

E. Davidson | News | Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Senior Representative to Nashville

The international Chabad-Lubavitch community mourns the passing earlier today of Mrs. Risya (Didi) Posner of Nashville, TN.

E. Davidson | News | Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Provides Shelter to Evacuees of California Wildfires

As the wildfires burning out of control in Southern California forced all of San Diego County’s 250,000 residents to evacuate, Chabad-Lubavitch representatives there mobilized immediately.

E. Davidson | News | Monday, October 22, 2007

PROFILE: Rabbi Dovid Okunov, Noted Chabad Personality Remembered

Risking his life to become a Torah scholar, a rabbi, and a Chabad-Lubavitch chasid, Okunov went on to teach others in underground classes.

Rivkah Lewin | News | Monday, October 22, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi To Teach at Russia's Military University

| News | Monday, October 22, 2007

Russia's Largest Welfare and Medical Center Opens in Moscow

| News | Sunday, October 21, 2007

On Campus with Chabad at UW: No Matzah Ball Soup Here

Chabad on Campus at University of Washington has a new home, room for seventy guests on Shabbat dinner, a library and a joint project with a Jewish frat on campus coming up, but no matzah ball soup.

EJ Tansky | News | Sunday, October 21, 2007

EJC President Nixes Ukraine Visit

In recent weeks, three Chabad Rabbis were violently attacked in Zhitomir, Cherkassy and Sevastopol, and the home of the rabbi of Uzhgorod was set ablaze.

| News | Thursday, October 18, 2007

A Chabad Tradition Takes Off in Daytona

How a city known for NASCAR, Harley Davidson rallies, and spring break shenanigans came to need a 25,000 square foot Chabad-Lubavitch center is quite a story.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Florida Governor Installs Mezuza on Office Door

The Governor, who put up the mezuzah with the help of Rabbi Schneur Oirechman , director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle,

| News | Wednesday, October 17, 2007

107 Year-Old Political Cartoonist Celebrates Birthday

| News | Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Chabad Boosts Jewish Activity in Small Suburbs

Anne Arundel County in Annapolis is one in a new generation of Chabad centers opening in smaller cities and suburban outposts nationwide. Only a reasonable drive from Baltimore’s big time Jewish population, it’s way too far for most families busy with careers and carpools to establish ties.

R.C Berman | News | Monday, October 15, 2007

Chabad Leaders Support Illinois Law Mandating Moment of Silence

The vote Thursday by Illinois lawmakers to require public school students to begin their day with a moment of silence came as good news to the state's Chabad leaders who supported lobbying efforts to pass the law.

| News | Saturday, October 13, 2007

Chabad Representatives Evaluate Creative Efforts in Sukkot Outreach

With the booths used on the holiday on their way back into garages and sheds, Chabad representatives from Dayton, OH, to Toronto and Winnipeg are among the thousands of centers now evaluating the impact of their innovations.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, October 12, 2007

Chabad "Heightens Spiritual, Moral Consciousness of City," Mayor Says

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, October 11, 2007

Traveling to Timbuktu? Find the Nearest Chabad Center Here

The official news website of Lubavitch World Headquarters, Lubavitch.com has launched a new, high powered center search that will make it easier than ever for Jewish travelers to find the nearest Jewish address on their travels.

| News | Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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Torah Scroll Stolen From Yeshiva

| News | Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Millions in Kazakhstan Learn About Jewish Life

| News | Tuesday, October 9, 2007

New Search Engine Makes Finding Chabad Centers Fast, Easy

Lubavitch.com, the official news website of Lubavitch World Headquarters, has launched a new, high powered Center Search feature offering users the most up-to-date, comprehensive directory of Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world.

| News | Monday, October 8, 2007

Jewish Athletes Recieve Warm Welcome at Shanghai Special Olympics

When the Special Olympics foundation needed a way to make Jewish athletes feel welcome at the 2007 games in Shanghai, they contacted the Israeli Consulate who passed the torch to Chabad.

R. Rosenthal | News | Sunday, October 7, 2007

Arson at Chabad in Transcarpathian Oblast

The home of a Chabad rabbi in Uzhgorod was torched and ransacked over the Simchat Torah holiday.

| News | Sunday, October 7, 2007

Tzipi Livni Meets With NY Police Commissioner at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue

| News | Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Chabad Representative Target of Anti-Semitic Attack

| News | Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Sukkot Images

| News | Monday, October 1, 2007

On Campus: After Katrina, Chabad Builds New Student Center At Tulane

A new 6,000 square foot Rohr Chabad Student Center, with all the comforts of home, opened on the New Orleans campus in time for Rosh Hashana.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, October 1, 2007

Ottawa's Largest Sukkah Expands

Ottawa’s largest sukkah, part of the Chabad Jewish Youth Library, has now expanded its walls to include a living room and fireplace to bring warmth to the city's Jews during the Festival of Sukkot.

R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Tefillin Bank Opens New Branch in Brazil

| News | Monday, September 24, 2007

Local Government Funds Chabad School In Siberia

The government of Omsk, Siberia funds the building of a Chabad Or Avner Jewish day school as an example of multi-cultural cooperation.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, September 24, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Helps Locate Victim's Photos

| News | Monday, September 24, 2007

Chabad to Bureau of Prisons: Restore Jewish Books to Prison Libraries

| News | Sunday, September 23, 2007

President of Brazil Meets Chabad Delegation

| News | Sunday, September 23, 2007

At Johns Hopkins Chabad: Students and Non-Students Come For Yom Kippur

On Yom Kippur, it's not only students who come to Chabad at Johns Hopkins University. Non-students who want to experience meaningful Yom Kippur services will make their way to Chabad's of Johns Hopkins services at the Inn at the Colonnade. . .

R. C. Berman | News | Friday, September 21, 2007

Chabad in Israel To Welcome Unaffiliated To Special Yom Kippur Services

| News | Thursday, September 20, 2007

Chabad Rabbi on List of Exceptional Individuals

| News | Thursday, September 20, 2007

Chabad Prepares 40 Mobile Sukkahs For Jews of New York State

| News | Thursday, September 20, 2007

A First for Jewish Inmates in a Texas Prison: High Holy Days Plus Sukkot

Rosh Hashanah kicked off what should be a year of great progress for religious expression in Stringfellow. Chabad rabbis conducted prayer services and traditional kosher, Rosh Hashana meals for the Jewish inmates. Friday, they return for Yom Kippur services, and next week, a sukkah hut will be built on the prison grounds for the weeklong holiday of Sukkot.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Chabad Offers Women of Bucks County Reprieve From The Mommy Wars

Lubavitch of Bucks County, 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia, has an egalitarian approach to moms and the needs of Jewish women.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Chabad of Peoria is Finalist in RK Dixon's $30,000 Makeover

| News | Monday, September 17, 2007

Muslim, Mormon and Jew Cooperate to Recover Torah Ark

| News | Monday, September 17, 2007

New Jersey Chabad Rabbi Uses YouTube to Mark High Holy Days

| News | Monday, September 17, 2007

Inspired by Rosh Hashana, Children Carve Shofars for Yom Kippur

| News | Monday, September 17, 2007

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UPDATED: Bodies of Six Israelis Killed in Thai Plane Crash Returning to Israel

Rabbi Nehemia Wilhelm, Chabad representative in Thailand, is at the crash site in Phuket, waiting for Zaka experts and Israeli forensic specialists to arrive from Israel, to facilitate identification on the bodies of Israelis killed in the plane crash.

| News | Monday, September 17, 2007

Inside Chabad: A Big Brother Program To Nurture Children of Shluchim

Chabad-Lubavitch representatives growing up far from large Chabad communities miss out on the total immersion experience of yeshiva life. Now, a program developed by educational division of Lubavitch Headquarters addresses this challenge.

N. Margolis | News | Monday, September 17, 2007

In Small Brazilian Neighborhood, One Thousand March With Chabad Rabbi To Tashlich

Less popular than the apple-dipped-in-honey and other Rosh Hashana traditions, Tashlich resonated well with 1,000 Jews in a small Sao Paulo neighborhood, who walked with their local Chabad-Lubavitch representative to act out the symbolic gesture of beginning the new year afresh.

N. Margolis | News | Sunday, September 16, 2007

Frankfurt Police Make Arrest in Stabbing of Chabad Rabbi

| News | Sunday, September 16, 2007

Chabad Rabbis Bring Rosh Hashana Services to Antigua

| News | Wednesday, September 12, 2007

In Odessa, Chabad-Lubavitch Prepares for 2,000 At Rosh Hashana Services

Chabad-Lubavitch of Odessa attracts Jews en masse to its activities. Municipal authorities will be closing streets off to accommodate thousands who will be coming to the Chabad center to hear the shofar, among them local Jews, students from the country's first Jewish University recently opened by Chabad, and children from the Chabad orphanage.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Chabad Introduces Torah Behind Bars

| News | Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Chabad to Reach All Jewish Soldiers in Russian Army

| News | Monday, September 10, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Brings Rosh Hashana Preparations To A Small New England Town

Even a small town like Sudbury, MA, deserves to have Rosh Hashana given a proper welcome. Chabad-Lubavitch reps to the city are teaching adults and children how to greet the Jewish new year.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, September 10, 2007

New Charity to Help Donetsk's Jewish Needy Prepare for Rosh Hashana

| News | Monday, September 10, 2007

First Brit Milah in Russian City

| News | Monday, September 10, 2007

Chabad Telethon Viewed By Millions, Garners Millions

Millions watched the popular, annual Chabad Telethon by Chabad of California. Actor Jon Voigt and numerous personalities graced the stage in support of the work of Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, head representative to the State of California.

| News | Monday, September 10, 2007

Chabad Expands Jewish Communities in Tennessee's Top Three Cities

The Jewish communities of Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville are each experiencing dramatic growth, reflected in the recent expansion of each city's respective Chabad-Lubavitch center.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, September 10, 2007

A Time to Share

A New Year Message from the Rebbe | News | Sunday, September 9, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Representative Violently Attacked On The Streets of Frankfurt

| News | Sunday, September 9, 2007

"What if I Marry Someone Who Isn't Jewish?" Chabad-Lubavitch Responds Proactively

Jewish leaders decry the high rates of intermarriage. Chabad-Lubavitch employs preventive educational programs that ensure Jewish girls appreciate the importance of marrying Jewish well before they are ready to marry.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Sunday, September 9, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch of Peoria Makes Top Five Finalists in RK Dixon Contest

Chabad-Lubavitch of Peoria makes it into first round of RK Dixon's Make My Non-Profit Run Smoother prize.

| News | Saturday, September 8, 2007

After Thirty Years, Nicaragua's Jews Have a Torah

| News | Thursday, September 6, 2007

Movie Theater Shuts Down, Chabad School Gets Building

| News | Thursday, September 6, 2007

In Prague: Chabad-Lubavitch Takes Judaism Out of the Cemetery

In this most secular European of cities, avibrant hub bursts with authentic Jewish living, where Torah, Shabbat and mitzvot are part and parcel of a warm, inviting family: Chabad[Lubavitch of Prague—Rabbi Manis and Dini Barash , and their children.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Jewish Remains From Middle Ages, Reburied

| News | Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Selichot Prayer Book Now Translated to Russian

| News | Monday, September 3, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Attracts A Young, Booming Community

Boynton’s Jewish community is trending younger as it grows. Being close to Chabad, its new $1 million mikvah, Hebrew school, and adult education programs is part of the attraction.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, September 3, 2007

Berlin Jews Emerge From the Shadows

Berlin's new Jewish community center is celebrated for inspiring the city's Jews to proudly identify.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, September 3, 2007

Berlin Jews, Germany's Foreign Minister, Celebrate Opening of New Jewish Community Center

The opening of a new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish community center in Berlin earlier today, proved a watershed event for a country that once sought to purge its Jews.

| News | Sunday, September 2, 2007

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Kids on Campus: The Surprising Power of Chabad Babies

More than cute camera magnets, the children of Chabad Shluchim on campus are right in the mix of Chabad House action. Even before their first “ga-ga,” these charmers are essential partners in their parents’ activities.

R.C. Berman | News | Friday, August 31, 2007

LAPD Works With Regional ADL and Synagogues To Protect Jewish Population

With a Jewish population of 600,000, Los Angeles will see large concentrations of Jews at any of the city's 140 synagogues, and the LAPD together with the regional Anti Defamation League, are taking precautions against hate crimes, and asking rabbis and area synagogues to do the same.

| News | Friday, August 31, 2007

Friendship Circle Walkathon: Going That Extra Mile for That Special Child

The Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, announced its second annual Walk4Friendship in West Bloomfield, Michigan, to take place Sunday, September 9.

| News | Friday, August 31, 2007

Children Leave Summer Camp With Strong Jewish Identity

The campers enjoyed an American style summer camping experience, made unusual by the dramatic Jewish rites-of-passage that many of the children participated in, including a brit for nine of the children, a bar-mitzvah celebration, a pidyon ha-ben , and a bat-mitzvah celebration for many of the girls.

| News | Thursday, August 30, 2007

FLASHBACK! LUBAVITCHER REBBE DECRIES USE OF "ABRIDGED BIBLES"

Flashback to 1965!

FLASHBACK! | News | Thursday, August 30, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Township of Freehold

In defense of the right of individuals to freely pray and worship in the privacy of their homes, attorneys for The Rutherford Institute , in cooperation with attorney Gerald A. Marks of Marks & Klein, LLP, have filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal district court against the Township of Freehold, N.J., alleging that city officials conducted illegal surveillance of a local rabbi’s home in an attempt to restrict his right to gather with others privately at his home to pray and worship.

| News | Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Chabad of Peoria Competes for RK Dixon's $30,000 Office Makeover

Chabad is one of about 18 organizations, among them the Red Cross and a local chapter of an arthritis foundation, competing for a $30,000.00 makeover.

| News | Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Chabad Offers CIA's Chefs A Sampling of Rosh Hashana

In the run up to Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Hanoch Hecht is preparing to offer the (Culinary Institute of America) CIA’s Jewish Culture Club a sampling of the holiday’s symbolic foods.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, August 28, 2007

While Some Lament The Decline of French Jewry, A Jewish Community in France Blossoms

Few communities with 3500 Jewish families today have no Jewish community center or synagogue. But this relatively new one in France’s 77th District, home to Euro-Disney, had not, until recently, a single denominational synagogue.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, August 27, 2007

NewsBriefs: Popular Jerusalem Yeshiva To Open Women's Division

| News | Thursday, August 23, 2007

NewsBriefs: It's Not December, But Hospitalized Kids Are Remembered Anyhow

| News | Thursday, August 23, 2007

NewsBriefs: Study Connects Longevity to Synagogue Attendance

| News | Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Sziget Festival Counts Losses, Chabad Counts Gains

Organizers of one of Europe’s largest summer events report the weeklong pop music and cultural Sziget Festival which ended last week a major flop. Not so, says Chabad of Hungary.

Erika Snyder | News | Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch To Give Palm Harbor Its First Mikvah

When construction is completed on the “Mei Menachem” mikvah, in the spring or early summer, Pinellas County will have another piece of Jewish life essential to attract and keep young families in the area.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Bagels and Brotherhood: How Guys Grow a Community

At the new members brunch on Sunday, the Jewish Men's Club of Sussex County had more to offer than sesame bagels, lox and vegetable studded cream cheese.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, August 20, 2007

Israelis From Ica to Spend Shabbat with Chabad in Lima

| News | Friday, August 17, 2007

On Campus: Chabad Makes Its Relevance Known To A New Crop of Students

Beginning with a bang is a feat campus Chabad centers strive to pull off every year. Unlike synagogues or Jewish centers serving stable city or suburban communities, campus Chabad Shluchim must make their relevance known to a new crew of people every September.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, August 16, 2007

At Albert Einstein, Med Students Explore Spirituality With Chabad

Today, more than two-thirds of medical schools in the U.S. offer courses on religion, spirituality and medicine.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Guest Editorial: In A World of Falling Bridges, Small Town Leaders Build Them Up

For Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim in small Jewish communities in the United States, these are the best of times and the worst of times.

Rabbi Hesh Epstein | News | Sunday, August 12, 2007

Chabad Rally Rabbi Scores at Giants Game at AT&T Park

Quick: What did the S. Francisco Giants give away during last Wednesday’s Jewish Heritage Night at AT&T Park?

Fay Kranz-Greene | News | Friday, August 10, 2007

Chabad School Embraces Multiage Classroom Model

Chabad continues to push the envelope of the possible. While large Chabad schools are important education providers in major cities, Chabad centers increasingly sustain schools in communities most would consider too small for any Jewish education beyond the afternoon, Sunday school models.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Jewish Pride Night With the Fisher Cats

A first-ever kosher food concession in the stadium, supervised by Chabad, served kosher hot dogs, hamburgers, falafel and other goodies to a cheering crowd of 500 Jewish children and adults.

Fay Kranz-Greene | News | Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Before the Bullying Begins: Chabad Educators Explore Character Development

Not a topic normally associated with nice Jewish kids, bullies have garnered a lot of attention lately.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, August 6, 2007

News Brief: Chabad of the Poconos Takes A Critical Look At Critical Issues

With so much emphasis on egalitarian values, lines of important distictions are often blurred to a fault.

| News | Sunday, August 5, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Tragic Death of Young Woman

Members of Lubavitch World Headquarters are shocked and saddened by the tragic car accident that claimed the life of Toby Eagle , 21, of Baltimore, MD, who was traveling to visit former campers in Camp Gan Israel of Myrtle Beach, SC.

| News | Friday, August 3, 2007

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Breaking News: Chabad Columbia Jewish Day School First in State to Receive NAEYC New Standards Accreditation

After successfully meeting 425 rigorous criteria, Chabad of South Carolina received word yesterday that its school is the first in the state to receive a prestigious accreditation.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, August 2, 2007

News Brief: Chabad's Friendship Circle Receives Prestigious Award

They are the founders of the wildly successful Friendship Circle with numerous chapters in 20 cities across the country and growing fast.

| News | Thursday, August 2, 2007

Spiritual Children of Chabad Now Reach Out To Others

By now, Bracha Sara Leeds’s degree from UC Berkeley would have paved her way to medical school. But she’s chosen a different road: life as a Chabad representative on her alma mater’s campus.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, July 31, 2007

New Chabad Representatives Broach Intermarriage Directly

The toughest challenge for the new Chabad representatives to Santa Fe, in Rosario, Argentina, is to dispel mistaken notions about Jewish identity pervasive to this community of 1500 Jews.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, July 30, 2007

LUBAVITCH INAUGURATES JEWISH BOOKMOBILE

Flashback! to 1963

FLASHBACK! | News | Monday, July 30, 2007

Shabbat in an Altoids Tin

R.C. Berman | News | Friday, July 27, 2007

"Not Kosher" On the Jewish Camping Menu?

Few overnight camp directors could have missed a small news item about a whopping 11.2 million dollar gift to the Federation of Jewish Camp (FJC) last week.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, July 26, 2007

Numbers Count

In an interesting news item published by the University of Manchester, a recent study finds that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population will constitute a majority of Jews by the year 2050.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, July 26, 2007

Chabad's Jewish Learning Institute Comes to the University

It was developed as an educational program that would provide adults in Jewish communities the essentials of Jewish literacy.

| News | Thursday, July 26, 2007

Camp Gan Israel, the Chabad Camping Network

| News | Thursday, July 26, 2007

Jewish Living Comes to Cancun

It’s not the first time that Chabad representatives are setting up home in the vacation villages of the world.

| News | Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Jerusalem In Berlin

In an interesting architectural improvisation, a precise replica of Jerusalem’s Western Wall is coming to Berlin’s 12,000-member Jewish community.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Chabad Shluchim In Profile: Offbeat and Unconventional in Oregon

Corkscrew willow branches twist in serpentine curves, quite an unusual wood to use for fence-building, but Aviva Spiegel selected it to create a gate around the Chabad House of Eugene, OR.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Tisha b'Av: Making It A Meaningful Fast Day

Cut off shorts, t-shirts, flip-flops: Israeli backpackers in Thailand don’t shed their travel uniforms when they join Chabad for the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, and that suits Rabbi Yosef Kantor just fine.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, July 24, 2007

A Bar Mitzvah in Brooklyn

Monday morning, at a shul in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, a Russian Jewish boy was called to the Torah in honor of becoming a Bar-Mitzvah.

| News | Monday, July 23, 2007

New Chabad Center Opens To Serve Overlooked Segment

Chabad's slogan, "No Jew Left Behind," is gaining new currency with its recent investment of resources to a senior segment of the Jewish population, most recently with the opening of Chabad's Jewish Senior Center in South Broward.

| News | Sunday, July 22, 2007

New Campus for Jewish Education to Open in Heart of LA

Chabad of California today announced the acquisition of a 23,000 square foot building on La Cienega Boulevard that will become the new campus of the Cheder Menachem elementary school, named after the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.

| News | Sunday, July 22, 2007

Russia's Federation of Jewish Community Participates in Prisoner Outreach

Recent years have brought remarkable change to Russia's citizens, especially to its Jews.

| News | Sunday, July 22, 2007

On Campus: Chabad Couple Named To New Virginia Tech Librescu Chabad House

In an exclusive interview with Lubavitch.com, Rabbi Yossel Kranz, executive director of Chabad of the Virginias, named the young couple who formally accepted the offer to head the new Chabad House opening next month at Virginia Tech.

R.C. Berman | News | Sunday, July 15, 2007

A Picture Perfect Friday Night

On the first Friday of the month, hundreds of culture hounds out to sniff and sneer at contemporary paintings and sculptures catch a whiff of Shabbat at Old City Jewish Arts Center in Philadelphia.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Financing the Fun

Shimmering above the weatherman’s smile is a headline forecasting “Deadly Heat.” Next week’s weather predictions for Glendale, AZ, sizzle between 108 and 111 degrees.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, July 9, 2007

South Korea, Taiwan, on Chabad's Summer Itinerary

Before the ink dried on a free trade deal between U.S. and South Korea, a first-time ever import arrived in Seoul: two young Chabad rabbis.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn: America Is No Different

The 12th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, this year corresponding to July 4th, marks the date 82 years ago, that Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of blessed memory (1880-1950), sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, was liberated from Soviet prison.

| News | Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sderot Residents Tread Nervously

Less than a month ago, Sderot’s streets were deserted. Most of the city's residents remained indoors, afraid of the barrage of kassams that has turned this once sleepy, working class town into a flash point of Israeli politics, fear, and turmoil.

Erika Snyder | News | Monday, June 25, 2007

Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Elected Vice President of NCPSA

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan , head of the education department of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, Chabad Lubavitch headquarters was elected Vice President/Vice Chair of the National Council foe Private School Accreditation, NCPSA, at the group's summer meeting in Washington D.C.

| News | Thursday, June 21, 2007

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Exclusive Interview: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on the Lubavitcher Rebbe

In honor of the 13th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Lubavitch.com presents excerpts of an interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and the editor of Lubavitch.com. Rabbi Steinsaltz is at work on a biography of the Rebbe.

| News | Tuesday, June 19, 2007

At the Ohel

At 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard, in Cambria Heights, Queens, a small, single story cape house on a tree-lined residential street, preparations are in high gear. Over a 24-hour period beginning Monday evening, an estimated 25,000 visitors will arrive here from every part of the world.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, June 18, 2007

Chabad of NOVA Celebrates Sixteen Years

When Chabad of Northern Virginia celebrated their 16th anniversary with a black-tie dinner and concert, two weeks ago, more than 350 people came to pay tribute to the honorees and to Chabad for transforming Jewish life in Northern Virginia.

Fay Kranz-Greene | News | Sunday, June 17, 2007

Jewish Educational Media Releases 35-Year Old Video Recording of Rebbe

The younger generation of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives barely knew the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

| News | Friday, June 15, 2007

Chabad Campus Rabbi Takes Award For Book on Comics

“For most of my life I’ve lived a Clark Kent existence . . . my desire to assimilate required no less.”

Shoshana Olidort | News | Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A Brit in Mormon Country

A brit milah in Providence, Utah?

Stacey Kalish | News | Wednesday, June 13, 2007

French Jews Find A Sunny Home in Miami Beach

When French Jews bid au revoir to their country’s laissez faire attitude toward anti-Semitism, where do they go?

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, June 11, 2007

From Orphan Child to Beaming Bride, A Jewish Wedding in Vilnius

Without Chabad of Vilnius, the bride would have walked down the aisle alone. Or maybe, she wouldn’t have married Jewish altogether.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Plans To Reopen Mikvah By Rosh Hashana

When congregants arrived at Chabad-Lubavitch of Ft. Lauderdale for Shabbat services this past Saturday, they found themselves in the dark.

LNS Staff Writer | News | Monday, June 4, 2007

Chabad Expands Focus on Jewish Adult Education Services

Following a recent initiative to expand the adult education services offered by Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide and abroad, Lubavitch Headquarters disclosed today through Lubavitch.com the names of 20 additional cities that have been approved for the program.

Baila Olidort | News | Saturday, June 2, 2007

A Six-Day War Inspiration: Forty Years Later, And Still Binding

In the months before the Six Day War earned its name and blazed into the history books as an open miracle, pundits were predicting a decimation of Israel, a second Holocaust.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Half Million Jews Observe Tefillin at Western Wall

FLASHBACK! | News | Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Lubavitcher Rebbe Proposes Summer Time Be Used for Fortifyting and Expansion of Jewish Education

FLASHBACK! | News | Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Shabbat With Chabad at the Cannes Film Festival

The International Cannes Film Festival, emblematic in all ways of material girls (and boys), seemed a most unlikely venue for a spiritual encounter.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, May 28, 2007

Chabad Mourns Untimely Passing of Rabbi Avraham Levitansky

Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, Chabad's longtime representative in S. Monica, passed away at his home this morning at the age of 67 following a lengthy illness.

Brad Wiss | News | Sunday, May 27, 2007

Guest Editorial: "Rabbi, I'm A Bad Jew!"

Why do people lie to their dentists? You know, "So, Jim, have you been flossing?" "Yeah, kind of, sure...well, last couple of weeks it was tough because we were in Cuba and we ran out of..."

Rabbi Yossi Marcus | News | Monday, May 21, 2007

Asleep at Sinai? Chabad Raises Shavuot Awareness

What if the Torah threw a party and nobody came?

R.C. Berman | News | Sunday, May 20, 2007

Estonia: New Synagogue Rises in Country Once Declared "Judenfrei"

"You can burn down a building but you can't burn down a prayer," Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday at the inauguration ceremony of the first synagogue to open in Estonia since WWII.

LNS Staff Writer | News | Thursday, May 17, 2007

At Year-End: Despite Statistics, Chabad on Campus Deepens Jewish Commitment

When Ethan Samuels clutches a freshly printed diploma in his hands in a few weeks, he will be among the tens of thousands of college students whose university years have been shaped through involvement in Chabad-Lubavitch on campus.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Informs Court Decision on Kosher Privileges for Inmates

The judge asked Rabbi Krinsky about the orthodox Jewish reaction to kosher backsliders.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, May 10, 2007

Teenagers Take Charge

During Zoe Pinter’s freshman year in Frankel Jewish Academy she absorbed notebooks and textbooks full of knowledge, but she learned even more from Matthew.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Lag B'omer 2007

Always a children's spectacular, it's especially grand when Lag B'Omer falls on a Sunday, as it did this year.

| News | Sunday, May 6, 2007

Stanford University Celebrates Opening of New Rohr Chabad House

When he first met Rabbi Dov and Rachel Greenberg , Amichai Magen doubted that he, a self-described “Yitzchak Rabin Fulbright Scholar who grew up in the secular, Zionist heartland, would have much to do with the Chabad.”

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, May 3, 2007

"Chabad At Stanford . . . Knowledge, Courage and Commitment"

| News | Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Jewish Outreach: A Lifelong Calling

By the time Rabbi Levi and Brynie Stiefel were old enough to follow their dreams of becoming Chabad representatives, all the major, easily accessible cities had thriving Chabad-Lubavitch communities.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, May 1, 2007

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Ida Crown Academy Honors Chabad Representative

“It’s quite a feat for one woman to be able to change an entire family’s lineage, but Rebbitzen Michla Schanowitz is capable of just that.”

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, April 26, 2007

Guest Editorial: Random Kindness in the Face of Random Terror

Up until the morning of April 16, things were pretty much happening as they should on most American campuses at this time of year.

Rabbi Dov Wagner | News | Monday, April 23, 2007

Chabad of Brandeis: Success Invites New Challenges

For 85 Brandeis University students, Sunday night marked the end of an experimental semester of seminar style Jewish classes.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, April 23, 2007

A Brighter Shabbat for Students on Campus (video clip)

This past Friday night, Jewish women on college campuses across America participated in an initiative to dispel some of the darkness experienced by events of the Virginia Tech shooting.

| News | Monday, April 23, 2007

Facilitators of Tahara

The glamour of Jewish professions are predictably with the pulpit rabbi and the cantor, whose skills may reward them with generous salaries, prestige and recognition.

Baila Olidort | News | Friday, April 20, 2007

New Chabad House To Open At Virginia Tech

Lubavitch of the Virginias, headed by Rabbi Yossel Kranz , will be opening a new Chabad House at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va, to serve the university’s Jewish students, announced Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky of Lubavitch World Headquarters today.

| News | Thursday, April 19, 2007

A Time To Cry, A Time To Act

Virginia Tech students sat quietly, some weeping at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center’s brief prayer service Tuesday night, too overcome, too emotionally exhausted to do much more than answer ‘amen’

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, April 19, 2007

Tefillin At Auschwitz

| News | Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Victim of Virginia Tech Shooting To Be Flown to Israel Wednesday

In the course of the coming week, students, faculty, family and others connected to those killed will bid farewell to their loved ones

| News | Tuesday, April 17, 2007

In Hamburg: Holocaust Remembrance Every Day

In Germany, civil authorities choose to honor the memories of the 6 million on the anniversary of Kristallnacht and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, April 17, 2007

From the Archives: In Transition

A delegation of Lubavitch from the US shown here with survivors and officers sometime in 1947, at the Poking DP camp in Germany.

| News | Sunday, April 15, 2007

The "Release Time Program" Historical Album

In the 1940s and 50s, before the proliferation of Jewish day schools, most Jewish children went to public schools.

| News | Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Bringing the Spirit of Freedom to Israel's Neediest

During the weeklong holiday of Passover, when crisp flatbread represents freedom and horseradish roots the bitterness of slavery, Chabad’s activities can be viewed as so many bridges across Israel’s many divides:

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, April 5, 2007

350-Year-Old Synagogue To Become Krakow's Chabad Center

A monumental 350-year-old synagogue, ransacked by the Nazis, will become Chabad of Krakow’s headquarters during the Passover holiday.

R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Chabad Seders Around the World: 4,340 And Counting

Back in 1998, Israeli-born Shachar Zefania felt drawn to return to trekking the Himalayas, where he backpacked after his mandatory army service seven years earlier.

Lisa Alcalay Klug | News | Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Guest Editorial: A Community of Successful Malcontents

Some time ago, a group of people appeared in our Chabad Center on a Friday night; they were new faces, always a nice surprise. Together with a friend—one of our regulars—I approached to welcome them.

Rabbi Mendy Herson | News | Monday, March 26, 2007

Honoring the Rebbe's Birthday

The 11th of Nissan, this year corresponding to today, March 30, marks the 105th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.

| News | Sunday, March 25, 2007

Combating Anti-Semitism Through Education

Three months after a local university student drove a swastika emblazoned knife into a tree outside the Ulyanovsk Chabad house, another student fell under suspicion for spray-painting anti-Jewish slurs on a bus shelter.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Fire Destroys Chabad House in Staten Island

| News | Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Russian Jews and The Matzah Factor

It’s a yearly ritual that has a mysterious tug on hundreds of Russian Jewish families across New York City.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, March 18, 2007

Preparing for Passover: Hands-On For the Little Ones

It's matzah-baking season and Jewish children around the world are lining up for their chance to mix and knead, roll and bake.

| News | Thursday, March 15, 2007

New CD To Train Congregational Prayer Leaders

When a young boy faces the prospect of leading the congregation prayer on Saturday mornings, the excitement is palpable but it may be dwarfed by the utter enormity of the task.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A New Home for One of FIU's Largest Student Organizations

FIU President Modesto A. "Mitch" Maidique told the overflow crowd of 200 that he knew students felt at home at the Rabbi's house and he wanted the Rabbi to know that the presidential home, “our home, is your home as well.”

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, March 12, 2007

One Million-Plus Pounds of Matzah To Be Distributed in FSU

(FJC.RU) More than one million pounds of matzah and 150,000 bottles of wine are being distributed to Jewish communities of the fifteen republics.

| News | Sunday, March 11, 2007

Speaking About Persia With A Heavy Accent

Sporting a bright red top hat, a gold chain and a star painted on his face, Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah certainly did not look like your typical rabbi last Saturday night.

Jon Gold | News | Thursday, March 8, 2007

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Second Generation Russian Jews: Serious About Judaism

As Chabad-Lubavitch was born in White Russia, it’s tempting to look at the slick covers of the new published fourth volume of Russian translations of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s talks “Likutei Sichot” and surmise that the movement has come full circle.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, March 8, 2007

Midnight Masquerade: Columbia Students Purim All Night

It was hi-style partying for Columbia University students this Purim. Stretch limousines parked outside the Chabad Student Center on W. 113th street, whisked them across town to the Park East Grill

Shoshana Olidort | News | Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Lubavitch Reaches In To Those Reaching Out

“Why should I eat matzah?” “What are those funny strings hanging out of your pockets?” At a tender age, the children of Chabad couples around the world develop keen talents for relating to and teaching unaffiliated Jews.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Purim's Sweet Revenge

For all its mirth and merriment, the lightness of Purim, practically speaking, has probably a lot to do with the fact this holiday—unlike most others—is a one-day affair.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, March 5, 2007

Rabbi in Profile: The Frisco Kid, the Grateful Yid, The Rally Rabbi

Back in the mid-70's, rock 'n' roll concert promoter Bill Graham, a secular Holocaust survivor, partnered with a few Lubavitch rabbis to create the first public menorah lighting outside Israel.

Lisa Alcalay Klug | News | Saturday, March 3, 2007

Hate Crimes in Germany: "Not A Jewish Issue"

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, members of the parliament and ministerial representatives attended a local synagogue prayer service Thursday afternoon to show their support for the Jewish community following the attack over the weekend against a Jewish kindergarten.

Oliver Bradley | News | Friday, March 2, 2007

A Once-Obscure Holiday, Purim's Popularity Soars

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Jewish Kindergarten Target of Anti-Semitic Attack

Vandals attacked a Jewish school on Sunday, throwing a smoke bomb through the window of the Berlin kindergarten and spray-painting swastikas and neo Nazi graffiti on the exterior walls of the building.

| News | Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Agents of Change: Community Leaders and their Special Needs Children

All through her pregnancy with twin girls, Chaya Perman successfully juggled her roles as director of Chabad of Caracas,

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, February 26, 2007

New Student Center To Be Dedicated at Florida International University

The Chabad Jewish Student Center at Florida International University, known to students as ChabadFIU

| News | Sunday, February 25, 2007

Extreme House Makeovers by Local Teens

Lara Foxman’s dreamed of converting her garage into a safe play area for two daughters, ages three and five.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, February 22, 2007

Emotional Celebration in Romania

| News | Thursday, February 22, 2007

New Center To Ease Transition for Asian Emigres

(JTA) As a slender violinist with flowing black hair played Oseh Shalom to an audience peppered with at least a dozen long-bearded rabbis, Bukharian Jews in this capital city ushered in a new era.

Dinah A. Spitzer | News | Tuesday, February 20, 2007

For Jewish Recovering Addicts, 12 Steps Plus Shabbat

Karen Z. just doesn’t fit the stereotype of an addict, but when the crisply articulate New York City professional needed help breaking her use-abuse cycle, she checked into the Caron Treatment Center in out-of-the-way Wernersville, PA.

R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Chasidic Tunes Inspire Rockers

The last few years in mainstream music have seen an explosion of bands influenced by Eastern European melodies and songs.

Mordechai Shinefield | News | Sunday, February 18, 2007

From Tunis to Tokyo: Chabad Women Compare Notes

The sea of 1,000 women in tailored dresses, elegant jewelry and neatly applied make-up didn't look like a crowd of hardcore survivalists.

Jennifer Bleyer | News | Thursday, February 15, 2007

On Campus: Shabbat for 1000 Draws 1100 Plus

There was no microphone at the Carnegie Mellon’s Weigand Gymnasium last Friday evening, and those responsible for the plans to host 1000 college students for a three hour Shabbat dinner knew there’d be none.

B. Olidort | News | Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Yeshiva Study Program For Jewish Inmates

Swaying as he pores over a translation of the Talmud, parrying questions with more questions posed to his rabbi, Jonathan, paunchy and silver-haired at 52, could pass for the average Jew in a late-blooming search for his intellectual heritage.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, February 12, 2007

West Coast Students "Shabbatoned" High

The news came late to some students, so when all 450 chairs set up for a Friday night dinner with Chabad at the San diego State University campus were taken, another 100 students waited outside to get in.

| News | Thursday, February 8, 2007

An Idyllic Place to Live, And Now, To Grow Spiritually

North of Seattle, a mass of stunning land ten hours to drive end to end, Vancouver Island (pop. 723,000) is no forgotten smudge on the atlas,

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, February 7, 2007

United Kingdom's Chief Rabbi Opens New Chabad Center

“This is the one Jewish space in the midst of the city, that is not a synagogue, that is here for you to relax, unwind, refresh physically and spiritually,” said the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, as he opened Friends of Lubavitch UK’s Gaon Club in London’s West End.

| News | Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Project Six Keeps Teens Active in the Jewish Community

Keeping teenaged girls excited about Judaism is the goal of Project Six, six weeks of Jewish oriented activities to keep the girls involved and active in the Jewish Community.

E. Silberstein | News | Monday, February 5, 2007

A Club for Jewish Professionals Opens in London

British Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathon Sacks will be the guest of honor at the opening of Chabad’s Gaon Club in London on Wednesday.

| News | Monday, February 5, 2007

Women Leaders Convene at International Conference

The idea of women in leadership positions may seem antithetical to common conceptions of female piety and Torah observant lifestyles. Not so in the world of Chabad. This week, representatives of Jewish communities worldwide--women all--convene at an annual conference.

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, February 5, 2007

Jewish Holidays Come Early at Aleph

As snow drifts pile up on sidewalks and sudden frosts devastate citrus crops, thoughts of the springtime’s Passover celebration may be far from the minds of most.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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Out of the Mouths of Babes . . .

In the world of Chabad-Lubavitch, children take center stage. Last week, our photographer, Yisrael Bardugo, visited the Geulat Yisrael Chabad school in Sarcelle France, and caught the faces of our future.

| News | Tuesday, January 30, 2007

From Humble Beginnings, A Global Achievement

Today, the 10th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar, is honored by Chabad-Lubavitch chasidim worldwide as a watershed in the movement's history.

| News | Monday, January 29, 2007

When Jewish Children Go Off To College . . .

Matt Epstein of Tarzana, CA, says that his alma mater, Pomona College, one of the exclusive Claremont Colleges, was a great place for higher learning.

R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, January 25, 2007

In Search of Jewish Roots?

Mysterious postcards written in Yiddish. Gravestone rubbings. Grandma’s deathbed confession.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Chabad Alerts Students and Community to Proselytizers' Techniques

On Saturday afternoons, Messianic missionariescan be seen strolling around in their Shabbat best: yarmulkes on their heads . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, January 21, 2007

Chabad's Rep to New Mexico With Governor Bill Richardson

New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson earlier today with Chabad's Rabbi Berel Levertov,

| News | Thursday, January 18, 2007

Chabad Launches the First Online International School For Jewish Children

Eyes glued to the screen, seven-year-old Devorah S . listens intently to her teacher’s voice through her head set.

E. Silberstein | News | Wednesday, January 17, 2007

A Light Unto the Nations: Rabbis, Scholars and Leaders Have Their Say

Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey’s annual night of learning revolved around the Jewish obligation to serve as a light unto the nations.

R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, January 16, 2007

"Stars" Students Celebrate Bar Mitzvah

An educational program directed at college aged students, “Stars” offers a monthly stipend to the students who follow a guided curriculum with qualified Jewish educators.

E. Silbersetin | News | Sunday, January 14, 2007

Chabad Provides Assistance For Sderot Terror Victims

With serious injuries sustained all over the bodies, the two teenaged victims, Adir Bassad and Matan Cohen are facing extensive medical treatment

E. Silberstein | News | Sunday, January 14, 2007

From South America to New Jersey for An Authentic Yeshiva Experience

One hundred Brazilian and fifteen Argentine young adults ditched beachside vacation plans and skipped Carnaval carousing for weeks of study in the frosty environs of New Jersey’s Rabbinical College of America (RCA) and New York’s Machon Chana Women’s Institute.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Sunday, January 14, 2007

Defying Her Tormentors: A Survivor's Legacy

The passing yesterday, of 106-year old Maryasha Garelik was reported in news outlets internationally.

B. Olidort | News | Friday, January 12, 2007

106 Year-Old Chasidic Matriarch Passes Away

Maryasha Garelik, known to many in the international Chabad-Lubavitch community as Bubbe Maryasha, passed away late Wednesday night in Brooklyn.

| News | Friday, January 12, 2007

News Briefs: Orthodox Jews and Muslims Join To Fight Drug Abuse

Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin of Chabad of Redbridge, UK is teaming up with Imam Haroon Rashid Patel of the Balfour Road Mosque Muslims to help provide an interfaith drug support line for the surrounding communities.

E. Silberstein | News | Thursday, January 11, 2007

Keeping Pace With A New Generation of Russian Jewry

As a young generation of Russian-American Jews grows up, one organization makes changes in the way it reaches out.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Jewish Camp Experience For Sunnyvale Children

Field trips and camp activities in an inspired Jewish setting left the campers brimming with Jewish pride and some mitzvoth to take home.

E. Silberstein | News | Monday, January 8, 2007

News Briefs: Jewish Students Explore Judaism at Ski Resort

Jewish students on winter break took in some intensive exploration at Running Springs, California, during a Ski and Learn Retreat organized by the Chabad on Campus National Foundation.

E. Silberstein | News | Monday, January 8, 2007

Opportunity in Romania Lures Growing Numbers of Israelis

Ideally, Chabad representatives to Romania would like to see Jews return to Israel. But for the growing numbers who opt to stay, Bucharest is experiencing a Jewish revival.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, January 5, 2007

Jews Who Marry Out Slip Away, Studies Say. Now What?

In an age of inclusiveness, can Jewish leaders afford to be coy in countering intermarriage? Studies on the pernicious consequences of intermarriage are conclusive. The response of Chabad, underscored in a new book, is unequivocal.

Shoshana London Sappir | News | Wednesday, January 3, 2007

For Young Jews in Germany, Jewish Identity Is Joyful

When Sandra Habermann fished for a topic for her senior thesis, she hit upon a subject that she was sure no one in her Munich gymnasium, public high school, would select: “Neshama – The Journey of the Jewish Soul.”

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, January 2, 2007

News Briefs: Charity Box Display for Educational Programs

Artists in the Miami Valley of Ohio are decorating tzedakah boxes as part of a tzedakah box display that is being sponsored by Chabad of Greater Dayton.

E. Silberstein | News | Monday, January 1, 2007

News Briefs: Colel Chabad Assists Housebound Residents In Snow

When snowfall in Northern threatened to leave disabled and elderly residents stuck at home without food, Colel Chabad was ready to help.

E. Silberstein | News | Monday, January 1, 2007

In the Wake of Tragedy, A Call for Unity

Within Chabad-Lubavitch communities internationally, shock and grief over the deaths of three young Chabad students two weeks ago have now given way to a more introspective focus.

| News | Monday, January 1, 2007

Chabad House in Russia Target of Anti-Semitic Threats

At twilight on December 26, unidentified thugs plunged a swastika-engraved dagger through a note that threatened: “We should kill the Jews or teach our children to kill them” into a tree just outside the Chabad house in Ulyanovsk, Russia.

EJ Tansky | News | Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Chabad Solves Peru's Kosher Flour Dilemma

Two hundred kosher challah loaves are sold each week from Chabad of Lima’s newly refurbished bakery. That’s one loaf for every thirteen Jews in Peru.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, December 26, 2006

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This Chanukah, How Many Saw The Light?

Editor's Note: There's no way of gauging how many were reached these past eight days of Chanukah. In addition to Chabad's public menorah displays, rabbinical students and high school girls from Chabad Lubavitch schools everywhere hit the pavement distributing chanukah menorah kits with candles, literature and other holiday materials, facilitating the participation in the holiday celebration by countless passersby.

Julie Subrin | News | Monday, December 25, 2006

News Briefs: Flying Challahs Spread Jewish Traditions in Upstate NY

Rabbi Yossi Rubin of Clifton Park, followed by Rabbi Abba Rubin of Saratoga Springs, have started a weekly tradition of surprising Jewish residents with a freshly baked challah before Shabbat.

E. Silberstein | News | Sunday, December 24, 2006

As the Last Day of Chanukah Nears, Lights Grow More Intense

Cautiously conservative estimates put the number of Chabad’s Chanukah events and menorahs worldwide at 2,600.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, December 21, 2006

News Briefs: New Jewish Community Center Opens in Siberia

Many public figures, reports FJC.ru, including Deputy Vassily Kuzubov, Mayor Petr Pimashkov as well as representatives from nearby Jewish communities and other religious leaders attended the opening ceremony for one of the biggest Jewish community centers in Siberia.

E. Silberstein | News | Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Three Chabad Students Killed in Car Accident

Chabad communities in Israel and beyond are mourning the tragic death of three of its students killed earlier today in a car accident in Israel.

| News | Wednesday, December 20, 2006

News Briefs: Chanukah Lights in Jail

Jewish inmates in the Harris County Jail are making history this Chanukah.

E. Silberstein | News | Tuesday, December 19, 2006

News Briefs: Peaceful Protests in Favor of Public Menorah

The citizens of Fort Collins, CO responded with a campaign of support when Rabbi Gorelick, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado, was once again denied the right of displaying a menorah on city property.

E. Silberstein | News | Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Menorah: A Symbol of Religious Freedom

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that placing Chabad-owned menorahs in public spaces did not violate the establishment clause, it set a slab of precedent for Chabad centers to rest their menorah requests upon. But as seen with the hullabaloo over Seattle-Tacoma Airport’s menorah, the Supreme Court’s ruling, as well as numerous other federal and state decisions in favor of the menorah, is no magic bullet.

R. Berman | News | Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Chanukah Photo Feature

Chabad reaches millions with the light and warmth of Chanukah as thousands of menorahs illuminate public spaces in cities and towns nationwide and around the world.

| News | Monday, December 18, 2006

Mega Events Look to Reach Mega Numbers This Chanukah

Long famous for lighting giant menorahs in public squares, Chabad has, in recent years, taken the experience a step further with mega-events that bring the light of Chanukah to thousands in amusement parks, on stage and screen.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Rapper's Lyrics Spawn Interest in Chasidic Texts

After a long day of research and lab work, Jewish students in elite universities are pumping up the volume on Matisyahu’s reggae hits and digging into the Chassidic mysteries behind the lyrics in new Chabad on-campus courses.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, December 7, 2006

Chabad May Sue To Recover Library, Says Federal Judge

Earlier this week, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States ("Chabad") to recover sacred, irreplaceable Jewish books and manuscripts from the Russian Federation and other defendants.

| News | Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Chabad Rabbi Delivers Invocation at Inauguration of Linda Lingle

Rabbi Itchel Kransjanski , Chabad representative to Hawaii, delivers the invocation yesterday at the swearing-in ceremony of Governor Linda Lingle 's second term.

| News | Monday, December 4, 2006

New Mikveh in Florida To Be Wheelchair Accessible

For the 900,000 American women who use wheelchairs, there are barely more than ten accessible mikvehs that allow them to immerse in the Jewish ritual bath with a measure of independence.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, December 3, 2006

It Takes A Partnership: Boston and Dnepropetrovsk

There’s an elderly Jewish woman named Anna Shevelev living in the lap of luxury, in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Jewish School in Vienna, Target of Vandalism

Police arrested a man suspected of causing widespread damage by smashing windows and other glass surfaces at a Jewish school in Vienna early Sunday using an iron rod, a spokesman said.

Source: Ha'aretz | News | Monday, November 27, 2006

Patent Pending

To all appearances, the Chabad representatives in the group photo—an annual rite at the Conference of Shluchim—look very much alike.

B. Olidort | News | Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Answers: 24/6

AskMoses.com, which offers live chat 24/6, now launched SMS mesaging.

| News | Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Two by Phone

| News | Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Reaching Out to First Time Moms

A recently published study by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis, identified a new demographic, of interest to Jewish outreach activists: first time mothers.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, November 22, 2006

A Time to Build

A photo presentation of some of the new Chabad Centers around the world. Click left to view photos.

| News | Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Chabad Outreach: Not About Personal Fulfillment

“We do what is best for the mission, not what is fulfilling for the messengers.” That was how Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, Chabad’s representative to Thailand and keynote speaker at last night’s Banquet dinner of the Shuchim Conference, assessed the differentiated nature of Chabad Shluchim.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, November 20, 2006

International Conference of Shluchim 2006

Representatives of Jewish communities around the world convene at Lubavitch Headquarters November 15-20 for the annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim.

| News | Sunday, November 19, 2006

International Conference of Shluchim Convenes

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, November 16, 2006

A Primer on Intermarriage for Europe's Jewish Students

Why Marry Jewish?” author Doron Kornbluth had better like planes. And crowds. Over a jam-packed, 14-day tour, the popular writer, lecturer and thinker will be touching down in 12 European cities.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, November 14, 2006

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A Sixty Year Anniversary for Jewish Education

American cultural icons like Dr. Seuss and basketballs were born in Springfield, MA

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, November 10, 2006

Abandoned in Life, Dorothy's Memory Now Inspires

It took a tragedy as heart-wrenching as Dorothy Schwadron’s, but someone’s finally listening.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, November 6, 2006

Kiddush, Candles, Hip Hop and Reggae

| News | Sunday, November 5, 2006

In the Andes or the Himalayas: Backpackers Get Closer to Jewish Roots

Seeking sun, sand and samba lessons, 20,000 Israeli backpackers a year wind their way through the ancient ruins and beachside paradises of South America.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Sunday, November 5, 2006

Where Lenin Was Born, A Rebirth of Jewish Life

Every day Rabbi Yossi Marozov passes Lenin’s birthplace, elementary school and high school on his way to his new Chabad center in Ulyanovsk.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, October 30, 2006

After Disquiet and Doubt, A Jewish Community Grows Again

Today six children engage in the hard work of learning through play and exploration at Chabad of Table View’s new Jewish Montessori preschool. Their next lesson: learning to share. At the beginning of next term, in January, seventeen new children will join the school.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, October 26, 2006

Spielberg Urges Jews: Return to Roots

If you want to ensure continuity of Ukrainian Jewry, Stephen Spielberg told an audience of 2,000, a majority among them Jewish, you must “return to your roots.”

Mark Rubin | News | Sunday, October 22, 2006

Jewish Teens: Chabad Keeps Them From Opting Out

A frisson sizzles through Chabad of Flamingo as 90 teens swivel in their seats to see how their Torah for Teens rabbi will handle a high school senior’s challenge about why Judaism’s so uptight about tattoos.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Saturday, October 21, 2006

Olmert Visits with Russia's Chief Rabbi

Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on an official state visit to Russia, visited yesterday at the Marina Roscha Jewish Community Center

Mark Rubin | News | Friday, October 20, 2006

Children Key to Rebuilding Jewish Life in Uruguay

Every month, hundreds of students from Montevideo’s acclaimed Jewish schools participate in a Chabad-run learning experience.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Jewish and Muslim Communities Cooperate to Pass US's First Kosher-Halal Law

Over eleven million Americans will buy kosher food this year, according to LUBICOM, a marketing and consulting group for kosher interests. Up from six million in 1990, the trend represents an explosion of kashrut consciousness across the United States. Of this figure, one million Jews and three million Muslims consume kosher for religious reasons, while the rest do so believing that they are getting higher quality products. But despite the widespread prevalence of kosher food, confusion abounds as to what exactly makes something kosher.

Mordechai Shinefield | News | Monday, October 16, 2006

Translation of 100-year-old-Chasidic Text Published

Spiritual seekers are delighted with Overcoming Folly as it is reintroduced in a new and improved format recently published by Kehot Publication Society. Revised to suit the modern reader, this 100-year-old Chasidic text presents the human struggle to overcome materialism--the drive to live a spiritual life.

| News | Thursday, October 12, 2006

Photo Feature: Sukkot Round the World

In most of the world, Sukkot comes just as the leaves are turning and early autumn chills prompt us to pull our sweaters out of winter storage. It’s still usually pleasant enough to enjoy sitting around the table in the Sukkah. Not so in Siberia or Alaska, where outside temperatures are well below the freezing mark.

| News | Thursday, October 12, 2006

A "Tent of Peace" On the Korean Peninsula

North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea are not in duck-and-cover mode. With Uncle Sam’s blessing, they’re out in the sukkah Chaplain (Col.) Jacob Goldstein built on the Yongsan Military Base in Seoul.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Fun and Festive After Praying and Fasting

The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the makeshift huts that the Jewish people dwelled in for forty years in the desert. Alternatively, it's the clouds of glory that protected the Jews during their travels. Either way, the idea is to spend time in the Sukkah, and take meals there throughout the eight-day festival.

MORDECHAI SHINEFIELD | News | Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Davening With the Stars

Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the spotlight when CBS Studios hosted Chabad of Studio City’s High Holiday services.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, October 5, 2006

Yom Kippur Joy?

When the day of fasting and contrition was nearly over, after all the prayers had been exhausted, the pages now wet with the hot tears yearning for forgiveness, for blessings of life and redemption, the Rebbe turned towards the congregation. His face covered with the tallit, he began to sing a traditional, triumphant melody. Soon thousands of voices joined in the singing. In those few exalted moments, one achieved a catharsis beyond anything that the fasting and praying of Yom Kippur produced. And then, the shofar was sounded.

| News | Sunday, October 1, 2006

Personal Reflections: Yom Kippur Baby

Asher Scherer-Smokey will have to wait until nightfall for a birthday cake, but that’s life for a Yom Kippur baby

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Saturday, September 30, 2006

Trends: College Campuses Dedicate Their Own Torah Scrolls

Slipping from USC fight song into the Jewish pride anthem “David Melech Yisrael” threw trombone player Nathan Tiras for a few beats. He and nine other members of the famed USC band regained their musical footing in time to march the Chabad at USC’s Torah to its new home in style.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, September 28, 2006

Canoe Team Member Chooses Rosh Hashana Over Race

To build the abs, the muscle and cardio endurance it takes to cross 41 miles of Pacific blue in an outrigger canoe race, Karen Dunai maintained a punishing fourteen hours a week training regimen, but a spiritual crisis that pitted her sport against Rosh Hashanah nearly pushed her to the limit.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, September 25, 2006

Open Door Policy Draws Newcomers To Shul

Sometimes it takes 40 years for Chabad’s open door, no tickets required policy on the High Holidays to bear fruit. Critics argue that freebie seats are for penny pinchers, and do not guarantee continuity. Not so, says Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, September 21, 2006

Going Kosher Grows in Boulder

Smoky sweet pastrami, lamb and pine nuts, couscous spiked with kosher harissa flown in from a Parisian suburb and more filled the air with piquancy atypical of kosher events. But then the Kosher Taste of Colorado hosted by Chabad of Boulder was indeed, an atypical event.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, September 19, 2006

1300 Turn Out for Walk4Friendship

At the Walk4Friendship, where 1,300 participants walked, wheeled, rolled and strolled to raise close to $200,000 for the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, MI, there were two finish lines.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, September 15, 2006

Chabad Educator Wins National Award

Rabbi Meir Muller, Chabad-Lubavitch representative and director of the Columbia Jewish Day School, has been named as a national early childhood professional of the year, a top national award program recognizing early childhood educators.

| News | Wednesday, September 13, 2006

In the Trenches, From Illinois to Kiryat Shmona

With putty in his ears to protect them from the roaring report of mortar fire, Morton Friedman of Wilmette, IL, supported Israel during the war from the frontlines.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, September 11, 2006

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Tales from the Suburbs of the Diaspora

Jews scattered by the winds of exile tend to land in metropolitan clumps or at least in suburban splotches. But then there are those who follow their hearts to the heartland, their dreams of financial success or adventure to the crannies of the country, the nooks of the nation.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, September 7, 2006

On Campus: Students Support for Israel Strong

After a summer-long diet of one-sided media reports and images favoring Lebanese suffering and ignoring that to Israeli civilians and cities, many college students are now returning to their campuses with skewed ideas about the war.

EJ Tansky | News | Monday, September 4, 2006

A Year After Katrina: A Jewish Community Grows

Chabad of Louisiana’s new normal is a balance between realism and positive action: building for tomorrow, bringing a community together, sharing strength.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, August 29, 2006

An Innovative Yeshiva Opens in Twin Cities

Wrapping tefillin on strangers at the airport, climbing into cherry pickers to scale jumbo menorahs, Chabad’s creative zeal for returning Jews to the fold is legend. Now, with the new Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities being readied to open after Labor Day in Cottage Grove, MN, Chabad is adding a new wrinkle to keep observant teenagers in touch with their Chassidic upbringing.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, August 27, 2006

Jewish Learning 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level

Ed Brown covered over 970 miles of blacktop and jaw-dropping mountain passes to make his way to the first annual National Jewish Retreat from his home in Missoula, MT.

Rivka Chaya Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union

Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,” set the stage for an evening of celebration in Jerusalem’s largest party hall last Thursday evening.

Baila Olidort | News | Sunday, August 20, 2006

Jewish Festival A First for Shoreline Community

On the Guilford Green, where colonial settlers’ cattle once grazed and where thespians from Shakespeare on the Shoreline would take the stage later that evening, Chabad of the Shoreline, CT, attracted a crowd of 1000 to the first annual Jewish Shoreline Festival on August 14.

EJ Tansky | News | Friday, August 18, 2006

Jewish Identity Grows Among Lithuania's Gan Israel Campers

Statistics compiled by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry project that of the 60 singing, cheering Jewish girls, who piled onto the bus to attend Camp Gan Israel of Vilnius, only six will marry Jewish men.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, August 17, 2006

Editor's Journal: "My Heart, My Heart, Over Their Slain..."

You don’t get very far in Israel without coming across a marker of a soldier who gave his life in defense of the land, of its people. So much of Israel is hallowed ground; I tread upon its worn stones and walk its hilly neighborhoods, conscious with every step, of the price exacted so that I may have the privilege.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Israel File: The Day After

Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a nebulous outcome instead of what they hoped would be a definitive triumph over terror. Some are emerging from the shelters gingerly, still shaken by their month-long ordeal.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Israel File: Punctuated Grief

Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel the stress: the constant death announcements, the funeral notices, the shiva calls... In all cases, lives are turned upside down. Without a groom, there can be no wedding. Without a father, what kind of bar mitzvah can a boy have? Once in a while, however, the grief is punctuated by moments of bittersweet joy.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, August 14, 2006

Chabad Educators Meet At National Conference

One hundred teachers and principals from across North America bade an early farewell to summer, and headed to Newark, NJ, for the annual conference hosted by Education Office – Merkos Chinuch – of Chabad-Lubavitch.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, August 11, 2006

Las Vegas Jewish Community Booms

Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing, the American Jewish Committee’s projected 2010 census of 100,000 Jews.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, August 10, 2006

Israel File: Living in the Moment...

On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. Twelve of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar Giladi.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes

The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. The physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will haunt their dreams for years. . .

Baila Olidort | News | Friday, August 4, 2006

Experimental Camp A Success

“You are the pioneers of this camp; you are the cornerstone for an innovative future in the Jewish camping world”. These were the opening words to the children seated in the plush grounds of Camp Gan Israel on South Padre Island, Texas for the 2006 summer session.

| News | Thursday, August 3, 2006

Anti-Semitic Acts Raise Concerns

As Israel’s battle against Hizbullah attacks enters its third week, Jewish communities around the world are reacting with caution and calm to a spike in anti-Semitic incidents.

EJ Tansky | News | Wednesday, August 2, 2006

In the Throes of Grief, IDF Unit Finds Solace

The elite combat unit that lost nine members in last week’s battle at Bint Jbail had only a few days to mourn their dead.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Knitting A Community of Concern for Israel

Deborah Brody could not sit back and watch terrifying news from Israel in her quiet Summit, NJ, home and do nothing. For the past year, the she and a dozen others have been clicking needles, purling and cabling . . .

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Saturday, July 29, 2006

Israel File: A Spiritual Sendoff to the Battlefield

Here in Israel, a country that depends on the courage of its young men, many still in their teens, for its day to day survival, every soldier is a hero. He is also everyone’s son. When one of them is lost, the grief is widespread, the heartache, pervasive.

Baila Olidort in Jerusalem | News | Thursday, July 27, 2006

Chabad Rallies Worldwide Support for IDF

Moments after the first of Israel’s soldiers began fighting in Lebanon, Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world rallied their respective communities to devote more time daily to prayer, Torah study, charity giving, and too, to the mitzvah of tefillin for men.

Mark Rubin | News | Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Jewish Life Booms In Conejo Valley

From a one-desk office in Westlake in 1979, Chabad of Conejo Valley has grown up, centers multiplying almost as quickly as the pristine Spanish tile and stucco, mini-chateaux tract homes that have attracted 40,000 Jews to the area.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Sunday, July 23, 2006

Israel File: With the IDF On the Battlefield

IDF choppers roared overhead as tanks rolled out of the Kerem Shalom border crossing where Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Against this backdrop, some 400 soldiers of the IDF’s elite Golani Brigade, breaking from a 48 hour shift in claustrophobic tanks on anti-terrorist missions in Gaza, were laying tefillin .

| News | Friday, July 21, 2006

Israel File: Children to Children

Thousands of children in northern Israel are spending their days and nights in bomb shelters. They are restless, they are bored and they are anxious.

| News | Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Israel File: Keeping The Morale High

Nine thirty p.m., Tuesday, in Akko, where homes have been barraged by katyusha attacks, Chabad representatives, Rabbis Natan Oirechman, Yosef Makmel and Avi Harosh gather round a desk for their nightly meeting at the Baal Shem Tov synagogue.

EJ Tansky | News | Wednesday, July 19, 2006

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Israel File: United in Israel, United With Israel

Israel is a country at war, but the determination among all of its normally quibbling factions to end its vulnerability to terror makes it a country now dominated by a prevailing unity.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, July 17, 2006

Searching Jews

Bisbee, AZ, (population 6,000) whose saloons once buzzed with miners, boisterously carousing over finds in copper lodes, is where rabbinical student Yehoshua Lustig went digging for Jews last summer.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Lost to a Suicide Bombing, Parents Fight to Memorialize Their Son

Eli ’s life was wrenched from him on the Egged bus along with 17 others, on March 5, 2003, but his story did not end there. Recently, representatives from Chabad’s Terror Victims Project helped his parents

EJ Tansky | News | Sunday, July 9, 2006

A New Torah Comes To Umhlanga Rocks

A strapping Zulu tribesman, garbed in sheepskins and colorful, woven cloaks, resplendent in his five-foot tall headdress of cattle horns, feathers dyed blood red and black, furs and mirror-studded mosaics led the parade in honor of a new Torah to be housed

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, July 6, 2006

Camp Gan Israel: A Model of Love

Convincing 120 Jewish boys from ages 6-17, many of whom live in an orphanage during the year, to clamor for seconds of Jewish learning and life requires devotion, and Yeka's staff achieves it in a trademark, off-the-wall fashion. First step: none of the staff is paid. Not a cent.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, July 5, 2006

A Mystical Covenant

Tonight marks the 12th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. The last 12 years have produced prolific narratives offering personal testimony to the imprint of a leader.

| News | Wednesday, June 28, 2006

A Harvard Phenomenon

For Jewish parents of Harvard-bound students, the feeling is all too familiar. Proud that they've been accepted to one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the world,

| News | Sunday, June 25, 2006

New Chabad House Opens in Vietnam

Market watchers on the look out for the next Asian tiger economy are not the only ones with Vietnam in their sites. This summer, Vietnam's first Chabad house will open in Ho Chi Minh City.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, June 22, 2006

New Initiative Advances Adult Jewish Education

In a statement to Lubavitch.com early this morning, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky , Vice Chairman of the Lubavitch educational arm,

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, June 19, 2006

Hertzberg Family Gifts Judaic Collection To Lubavitch

Family and close friends of the late Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg convened for a private reception at Lubavitch Headquarters this past Sunday.

| News | Monday, June 19, 2006

Turning Up The Heat at the NBA Finals

It was a night of miracles. The American Airlines Arena in Miami was jam-packed this past Tuesday as the NBA '06 finals went into game three at Dallas 2, Miami 0.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Friday, June 16, 2006

Chabad in London, UK, Leads In the Fight Against Drug Abuse

Two thousand students a month, at 52 London area schools, ask their darkest questions about drug use to educators from Chabad Lubavitch Ilford Center's Drugsline.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, June 14, 2006

1,000,000 People To Make A Difference

Launched in May 2006, the Million Mitzvahs Campaign initiated by The Shul, a Chabad Lubavitch institution serving Bal Harbour, Surfside, Bay Harbor

E.J. Tansky | News | Monday, June 12, 2006

From A JNet Chavruta Student: The Stranger On The Plane

I have not seen him in a month, and in that time, the cancer that is chasing my son's body has paralyzed his entire left side and he is rapidly losing mobility. In a mere four weeks, Ryan has gone from dancing at his wedding to being confined to a wheelchair, unable to perform the most basic of functions unassisted.

| News | Thursday, June 8, 2006

Torah Study Gains Popularity With New Program

With a long days practicing law as a government attorney, Jill Gerstenfield of Rockville, MD, could not envision waking up at six a.m. for the rabbi's daily Talmud class. But the tractate of Sotah fascinated Gerstenfield

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, June 8, 2006

Synagogue Memorializes Slain Weston Teen With Torah Scroll

A single letter of a single word lovingly inscribed on parchment Sunday gave birth to a holy scroll that will memorialize a Weston teenager who died after a Tel Aviv suicide bombing.

Jon Burstein/ South Florida Sun Sentinel | News | Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Chabad and The UJC: Partners in Rebuilding

If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take to raise a community? Ask the Jewish community of New Orleans, and they'll probably say that it takes tremendous patience, goodwill and achdut Yisrael or unity. They know. They've been at it for nearly a year now, trying to rebuild what Katrina destroyed.

| News | Sunday, June 4, 2006

As Popularity of Mikvah Use Grows, So Do Standards

Of the 200 mikvahs in the United States, 90 exist under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch centers. With another ten Chabad mikvahs to break ground within the next twelve months, Chabad's stake in maintaining the ritual central to Jewish family life, already monumental, is growing.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, May 29, 2006

Chabad Center Wins Architecture Award

When Chabad-Lubavitch of Bucks County bought a building right in the heart of the historic district and refurbished it into the Glazier Jewish Center , it won an Adaptive Reuse Award from the Historic Architecture Review Board (HARB).

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, May 24, 2006

JLI Presents A Summer Smorgasboard

Come August 16-21, the soundtrack of the off-season in Colorado's picturesque vacation village will be the engaging hum of Torah study, conversation and laughter, as Jews from around the U.S. challenge each other to new intellectual heights.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, May 19, 2006

Parades and Picnics Mark Lag B'omer Round the World

Police escorted Chabad of Sweden's parade of 200 marchers, carrying signs urging onlookers to give charity and light Shabbat candles. Banging drums with as much abandon as Swedes can muster, the parade turned heads, and proclaimed a "revolution" in Jewish attitudes . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Power of Three

Coming from the Rabbi's pulpit or the weekly editorial, the oft touted virtues of Jewish unity and ahavat yisrael elicit the predictable yawn. But experienced in real life, they are fresh and affirmative tangibles that take the edge off even unyielding skeptics.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, May 15, 2006

Boulder Children Get a Hi-Tech Headstart

Matan Bilavsky , who turns ten later this month, has already built robots that can climb ramps and sumo wrestle with other 'bots. So has Nathan Hill, and he's only six.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, May 14, 2006

Got Question? AskMoses!

Questions about spiritual matters, from featherweight to wrenching, are answered through live chats on the AskMoses site 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. With "millions of chats logged," according to site Director Rabbi Simcha Backman , AskMoses scores among the most popular Jewish sites.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Volunteering Teenagers Do Better All Around

Moe Levin of Thornhill, Ontario, doesn't think it's right that teenagers are stereotyped as "sitting around playing videogames." Not that Moe and his friends don't hang out.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Sunday, May 7, 2006

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Chabad Rabbi Represents Jewish Faith in the White House

"America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray," said President George Bush today.

| News | Thursday, May 4, 2006

Summer Break: Students Leave, But Ties Remain Strong

Chabad on Campus representatives have devised their own ways of not saying ?goodbye' to graduates as summer rolls around, keeping cherished connections strong.

E.J. Tansky | News | Thursday, May 4, 2006

A New Center for Beijing's Jewish Community

Opening the mikveh within the next few weeks caps off the 10,000 square foot Rohr Family Community Centre . Filled with classrooms painted in warm tones, the Centre is the new heart of Jewish life in Beijing.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, May 1, 2006

Maccabi Team Celebrates Shabbat in Prague

It was an opportunity that Chabad would not pass up, and Rabbi Manis Barash of Prague arranged for a traditional Shabbat celebration for the team members and hundreds of fans.

| News | Saturday, April 29, 2006

Merkos Book Finalist at National Jewish Book Awards

Judges selected The Last Pair of Shoes as a finalist in the category of illustrated children's books, for skillfully drawing the readers in and managing to "convey the moral value" without "being preachy."

E.J. Tansky | News | Thursday, April 27, 2006

Israelis in the Diaspora: Seeking a Jewish Identity

The arterial gush of Israelis backpacking or moving far from home has driven the creation of Chabad-Lubavitch activities where Hebrew is the lingua franca in Argentina, Republic of Congo, New Zealand and beyond.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Passover is Over: Now What?

What is it about this particular holiday that makes otherwise unaffiliated and non-observant Jews care-enough to go out of their way to honor the holiday?

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, April 24, 2006

Passover In Cuba: A Tale of Two Synagogues

Editor's Note: The Passover holiday is now over, but if the news reports on this widely celebrated holiday are any indication, Chabad's worlwide Passover Seders have brought numerous far-out and "forgotten" Jewish communities into the limelight. In places like China and Ghana, in Bolivia and Tasmania, Chabad's rabbinical students and representatives conducted Seders that generated spirited joy and numerous stories. The following, on the Seder in Cuba, appeared in the Jerusalem Post.

Jaron Gilinsky, The Jerusalem Post | News | Thursday, April 20, 2006

Seders in Moscow

On each of the seven floors of Marina Roscha, Moscow's hulking, modern Jewish Community Center, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted a communal Seder, each catering to a specific segment of Russia's Jewish community.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Around the World, Countdown to the Seder . . .

With passports in hand and suitcases filled with matzah and kosher meat, 700 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are making a mass exodus from their yeshivas and teaching positions to bring Passover to the far corners of the world.

E.J. Tansky | News | Monday, April 10, 2006

104 Years Ago Today

Today, 11 Nissan, Chabad-Lubavitch marks the 104th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson , of righteous memory. In a tradition started by the Rebbe, the birthday became a day for celebration, stock-taking and new resolutions.

| News | Sunday, April 9, 2006

A Seder in the Land of Midnight Sun

Most of the Seder with Chabad will be conducted in English, but the sixty or so guests of Finland's polyglot Jewish community will all feel at home as they hear Finnish, Russian, Hebrew and English around the Seder table.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, April 5, 2006

A New Place for Jewish Students at Columbia University

"Chabad has given me confidence," Ari Goldman told his colleagues last Thursday at an intimate reception for the launching of the new Chabad House at Columbia University.

Shoshana Olidort | News | Monday, April 3, 2006

Children . . . Rolling in Dough

In the weeks before Passover, there's a Chabad representative firing up a 700-degree oven in nearly every time zone. One of the many innovative staple-programs of Chabad Houses, the Model Matzah Bakery has become a traditional pre-Passover event for thousands of children worldwide.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, April 2, 2006

Passover Joy Begins Early in Nepal

This tiny mountaintop kingdom has one of the largest Passover Seders in the world, with more than 2,000 guests. But getting the Passover goods onto the table is usually an ordeal with all the elements of a hi-suspense drama and breathless, 11th hour resolution.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, March 30, 2006

Monroe's Jewish Community Mourns

As 70 friends of the Chilean tour-bus crash victims converged for a memorial service at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe Township, NJ, the only sounds breaking the formal moment of silence were the muffled sobs of a community in shock.

| News | Monday, March 27, 2006

Women Lead--But Not As Men

Aurah Landau of Juneau, Alaska, tinkered with the itinerary of her business trip to the lower-48 to sleep in Seattle for a women-only Shabbat retreat hosted by Washington Chabad's Women's Learning Circle.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, March 24, 2006

Kosher BBQ in Rancho Mirage: A Torah Oasis

If you're in California's desert off Highway 10 on a Tuesday, and find yourself getting hungry for some kosher food- you're in luck.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Milan's Mayor Visits With Israel's Survivors of Terror

As the world turns to the chaos of insurgencies and menace in other corners of the world, Mayor Albertini, a member of the European Parliament, pledged not to forget. "I feel honored that you came to share your grief with me," said Mayor Albertini.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, March 20, 2006

Rohr Chabad House: A Cozy Place at Cambridge University

Last week, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Minister of State came to dine at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Rohr Chabad House at Cambridge University.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, March 17, 2006

Purim at University of Pennsylvania

Purim is a natural one for campuses, and at the University of Pennsylvania Purim was everywhere, thanks in part to students who gathered in the front of the freshmen Quadrangle and handed out 400 packets of Mishloach manot to freshmen.

| News | Thursday, March 16, 2006

Purim In Lithuania

This year's Purim in Vilnius, Lithuania, will long be remembered by the city's Jewish community.

| News | Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Happy Purim!

It's that time of year when seriousness gives way to partying, and partying is taken seriously.

| News | Monday, March 13, 2006

Purim for Children With Special Needs

Autism, cerebral palsy, Asperger's syndrome, Down syndrome, and ADHD are no longer obstacles to Purim fun as Friendship Circle programs sponsor events for children with special needs.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, March 8, 2006

A Silver Anniversary for Chabad of Palo Alto

From a rented, 600 square foot room in the Jewish Community, Chabad has grown to include centers in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and at Stanford University. The summer camp began with 35 children and has grown to 250 children . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, March 5, 2006

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300 Women In Lithuania Find Reason to Sing

Last weekend, Chabad representatives Rabbi Sholom Ber and Nechama Dina Krinsky hosted a Shabbat retreat for 60 families from Klaipeda, which was followed by a Jewish women's concert on Saturday night that attracted an audience of 300.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, March 2, 2006

Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor's Bar Mitzvah

A survivor of the Holocaust, Herman Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi concentration camp. He never had a bar mitzvah, never put on tefilin , until this month when Chabad of Mineola, NY, hosted a ceremony in his honor.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News | Monday, February 27, 2006

A Special Moment for Harvard's Jewish Community

Under the hammerbeam trusses and stenciled ceiling of Harvard's Annenberg Hall , in the soaring space where all Harvard freshmen dine, the tables were set with white roses and crisp tablecloths in honor of the Shabbat dubbed "Shabbat 1000."

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, February 23, 2006

Doing it All, Doing it Well: Women in Leadership

"You are the most potent force in the Jewish world today," said Diane Abrams , guest speaker at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, Sunday evening.

| News | Tuesday, February 21, 2006

International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women in Session

The 18th annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, known more simply as "the Kinus," is in session at Lubavitch Headquarters. With more than 1700 women registered for tonight's main event, the banquet dinner at the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel . . .

B. Olidort | News | Sunday, February 19, 2006

Chabad Representative Offers Invocation To Albany Legislature

It's just about that time of year in Albany, when legislators might be heard wishing for money to grow on trees. Tu-B'sehvat, the New Year for Trees, is celebrated around the time lawmakers return from the holiday recess and settle in to shape the budget.

E.J. Tansky | News | Wednesday, February 15, 2006

A New Chabad Centre for Oxford Students

Amit Pundik began lugging a satchel of books and paper around Oxford University four months ago when he arrived to study law. Excelling in an environment populated the world's finest minds, requires discipline. . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Lawrence H. Summers At Shabbos for 1000

Munching on gefilte fish and challah, more than 600 Harvard affiliates packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath.

Sam Teller for The Harvard Crimson | News | Monday, February 13, 2006

Tu B'Shvat: Fruits and Trees, and the Human Being

Pomegranates were on Leah Brackman 's mind. The fruits, a splash of ruby against the muted tones of the winter-scape, were not the only exotics on Chabad of Westminster, Colorado, representative Brackman's shopping list.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, February 13, 2006

Seniors Get A Second Wind With Chabad Programs

As more and more boomers get their welcome kit from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), Chabad programming for seniors is experiencing a boom of its own.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, February 12, 2006

Remembering January 20, 1950 (Yud Shevat)

The 10th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, corresponding to today's date, marks a transitional period in the history of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

| News | Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Even in New Orleans: A Time for Joy

When Mendy Traxler slipped the gold ring on Rachel Kaufmann 's finger under the wedding canopy last night, and when he crushed the glass underfoot to cries of "Mazel Tov!" sentiments ran the gamut of relief and joy and gratitude. And for those who've lost so much in Hurricane Katrina . . .

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, February 7, 2006

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| News | Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Jewish Children of Rome Get A New Preschool Facility

With a continuous presence of Jews from classical times to today, Rome's Jewish community may well be the oldest one in the world. At approximately 15,000, its numbers constitute less than 0.4 percent of Rome's total population of three million.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, January 30, 2006

Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives

When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given into the care of a local church-run children's shelter, Chabad representatives Rabbi Yossi and Chana Turk made a decision that altered the course of their lives.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Aventura Teens Spend Shabbat With Chabad in New York

Bat Mitzvah Club offers a year of well-planned experiences and lessons that help girls grow into their Jewish womanhood with an understanding far deeper than that provided by frantic planning of a thematic bash. At Club meetings, members do more than holiday crafts.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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| News | Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Stranded in the Brutal Cold: Chabad to the Rescue

It was at about three a.m. during one of these frigid nights last week that 10 Israelis traveling along an isolated road got stuck when their car broke down. The group of two families were on a pilgrimage to the tombs of Chasidic Rebbes buried in remote, Russian backwaters.

Miriam Davids | News | Monday, January 23, 2006

170 Chabad Representatives Gather at West Coast Convention

More than 170 Chabad rabbis and emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson , of blessed memory, gathered in Long Beach, California over the last two days for the annual West Coast Chabad Lubavitch Convention of Shluchim.

Bradford Wiss | News | Wednesday, January 18, 2006

New Orleans Day School Reopens

When 26 students trickled back into Chabad-Lubavitch of New Orleans's Torah Academy on January 5, the only thing that looked familiar was the school building and the smiling faces of their teachers. Everything else had been washed away by Hurricane Katrina.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Jewish Community of Mission Viejo Celebrates 10 Years With Chabad

Angela Khalil drives a half hour to bring her sons, Nathan and Ethan , to Chabad Jewish Center's Hebrew school. "I love it. They are the best. I come all the way from Tustin because I fell in love with the program. " said Khalil.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Chabad and birthright: Israel: Partners In Jewish Awareness

For Adam Rothblatt , a senior at UPenn pursuing a degree in International Relations, the small-scale moments of the Israel trip--his first--made indelible impressions, and left Rothblatt hungry to meet more "people in Israel at the grassroots level."

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, January 13, 2006

Russia's Chief Rabbi: Synagogue Attack A Wake-Up Call

MosNews --Russia's chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told the Itar-Tass news agency that the main conclusion to be drawn from the incident was that it's too late to talk about fascism. "It's here. It is fascism", Berl Lazar said in an official statement.

| News | Thursday, January 12, 2006

Moscow Stabbing Likened to 'Pogroms of Old'

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky , Chairman of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch educational and social services divisions, decried the attack, saying it is "reminiscent of the pogroms of old." But he said he is encouraged by the vigilance of law enforcement agencies in Moscow and by President Putin "against acts of antisemtism."

| News | Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Eight Wounded in Attack on Moscow Synagogue (UPDATED)

INTERFAX Eight people have been wounded in an attack at a synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya street in downtown Moscow Wednesday evening, Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev has said.

| News | Wednesday, January 11, 2006

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College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up

They were the second of two groups who spent winter break at Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana scooping muck, carting out moldy furniture, gutting waterlogged homes as part of Chabad on Campus 's ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, January 8, 2006

Chabad Rabbi Awarded by the Jewish Community Professional Association

For his quarter-century long commitment to high quality Jewish adult education, Rabbi Yosef Landa was selected from among 600 Jewish communal professionals to receive the award from the Jewish Community Professional Association (JProStL).

Rivka Chaya Rosenthal | News | Thursday, January 5, 2006

Chasidic Mapquest

Chemists looking for solutions to chemical mysteries keep an eye on the periodic table of elements. Now Kehot Publication Society has released a Tanya Map poster to serve the same purpose for students of Chabad Chasidic philosophy who wish to solve spiritual quandaries.

EJ Tansky | News | Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Chabad of South Broward Tops Ekaterinburg's 6,000!

With its December 28 posting of a 6,000 person turnout at a Chanukah celebration in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Lubavitch.com challenged Chabad Shluchim worldwide to top that number next year. It didn't take a year, but merely a day, for Chabad of South Broward to up the stakes with 8,000 people . . .

Reuven Arazi | News | Monday, January 2, 2006

Chanukah Chabad Style at Camp Victory

The U.S. Army took control of Al-Faw several years ago, but there's still something surreal about the idea of a grand Chanukah celebration at Saddam Hussein's palace. Yet that's precisely what happened on the first night of Chanukah, when 70 troops celebrated around a 12 foot menorah in the palace.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, December 29, 2005

Top This: Six Thousand Attend Chabad Chanukah Celebration

Will Chabad Shluchim top this one?Chabad representative to Ekaterinburg, Russia, Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi , reported to Lubavitch.com that 6,000 people attended Chabad's Chanukah event yesterday.

| News | Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Chabad Gives Chanukah 2005 Greatest Exposure Ever

Grabbing spotlights for Chanukah menorahs may not sound like a very Jewish thing to do, but it is actually the point. Striking a match and lighting the menorah is expressly for the purpose of publicizing the miracle of Chanukah

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, December 27, 2005

From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Great Wall of China: Chabad Lights Up the Skies

It's hard to litigate against light, which explains why despite scattered attempts around the country by church and state purists to take down the eight-armed menorahs from public spaces, America's skies are illuminated with the Chanukah lights beginning tonight, the first night of Chanukah.

B. Olidort | News | Sunday, December 25, 2005

Governor Schwarzenegger Joins Chabad's Chanukah Celebration

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger performed a symbolic menorah lighting at the State Capitol today as part of the 12th annual Chabad Chanukah celebration. The Governor joined with Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin , Director of West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch.

Bradford Wiss | News | Thursday, December 22, 2005

Chabad Opens Yeshiva in Poland

The arrival of ten Yeshiva students last month from the Chabad Yeshiva in Montreal to the newly formed branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Warsaw is a milestone by any measure, particularly for a city so badly scarred by recent history.

Raizel Metzger | News | Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Chabad Schools Chosen For Pilot Program in Childhood Education

Two Chabad preschools have been chosen to participate in a new pilot program aimed at creating models of excellence in Jewish childhood education.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, December 19, 2005

Menorah Lights Triumph Yet Again

In Shrewsbury, MA, a Chanukah miracle took place when the town Board of Selectmen voted to reverse their original vote to deny the Chabad Jewish Center permission to light the menorah on the town common.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios

Will the ten thousand people who flood Universal City Walk's cinema square to witness Chabad of the Valley's menorah lighting and watch the giant Astrovision screen beam scenes from Chanukah around the world on Tuesday, December 27, from 5-9 p.m., know where to look first?

E.j. Tansky | News | Monday, December 12, 2005

Tzivos Hashem Celebrates 25th Anniversary

A biting wind whipped down Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, across the courtyard of the Jewish Children's Museum, but that's not why the 450 people who came Sunday to celebrate Tzivos Hashem-Jewish Children International's 25th anniversary got goose bumps.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, December 8, 2005

Science and Torah: Conflict or Complement?

The instruction of evolution vs. the theory of intelligent design, the role of DNA testing in determining identity, the Terry Schiavo case, and the unity of the universe, will be among many placed under the multiple microscopes of Halachah, Science, Kabbalah . . .

Raizel Metzger | News | Monday, December 5, 2005

New Chabad Centers Open at University of Kansas and Cal State Northridge

By the time students at University of Kansas and California State University, Northridge, return from holiday break, they will meet the two newest members of the 19 representatives Chabad on Campus sent to college this year.

E.J. Tansky | News | Friday, December 2, 2005

New Chabad House Opens In Warsaw

The opening of the first full-time center in Poland under the direction of Rabbi Shalom Ber and Dina Stambler was made official at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim last Sunday.

Raizel Metzger | News | Thursday, December 1, 2005

Major Revolution on Campuses Stimulated by Chabad, Declares Alan Dershowitz

"Whenever I hear people talk about the diminution of yiddishkeit around the world, I wish they could be here to experience this."

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, November 28, 2005

A Most Unusual Event

Shoppers, fresh from the streets of a city mad with holiday glitter swept into the lobby of the New York Hilton and found themselves in a different world.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, November 28, 2005

Shluchim Conference: A Time for Taking Stock

In establishing some of the foundational values of Chabad, their teacher, Rabbi Schneur Zalman, eschewed any aspirations to the ethereal that might preclude involvement in the corporeal as it pertains to others.

| News | Friday, November 25, 2005

International Representation of World Jewry Convenes at Annual Conference

Conference organizers at Lubavitch Headquarters are expecting a record-breaking attendance.

B. Olidort | News | Wednesday, November 23, 2005

New Center to Rise in New Jersey

Two hundred people celebrated the best kind of growing pains when Chabad Center of Northwest New Jersey broke ground for its new 12,000 square foot home.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Celebrating 30 Years in Vancouver

Thirty years ago this month, when Rabbi Yitzchak and Henia Wineberg arrived in Vancouver, B.C. to establish a Chabad presence, there was little to be said for Jewish growth in Vancouver.

Raizy Metzger | News | Sunday, November 20, 2005

From New Orleans to New Jersey: A Torah Is Welcomed

As Eric Sion prepared to read from the Torah at his bar mitzvah, he could not have imagined that he would be reading from the last surviving scroll of a historic synagogue devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Tefillin Bank: Every Jew A Pair to Call His Own

Most banks give out complimentary pens. Generous banks give out toasters. But the Kushner International Tefillin Bank has given out 2,500 pairs of tefillin--for free--in the past six months.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Saturday, November 12, 2005

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Terror Survivors in Israel Offer Thanksgiving

It's usually the drama of tragic stories that make the news. Here's one where near-tragedy turns to joy, and a family gets a second chance to count their blessings.

Raizy Metzger | News | Thursday, November 10, 2005

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower

Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of consensus emerged in almost all of the presentations.

| News | Wednesday, November 9, 2005

A New Home For Chatsworth's Jewish Community

For Yolanda Richman, there's no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there's no place like Chabad of Chatsworth, CA,'s new home.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Reaching for the Infinite: Scholars At NYU On the Rebbe

" Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life," said Elliot Wolfson , a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. "To speak of him is fraught with danger."

| News | Sunday, November 6, 2005

Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad

Hundreds of students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted to the art of the party, are making their way to Brooklyn, NY,

E. J. Tansky | News | Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift

After Hurricane Katrina and Rita, it seems few tears are left to be shed for the plight of these victims, thousands trapped in their homes, suffering without food, clean water and medical care.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again

Stuart Katz , general manager of IsraAir, never thought he'd spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that's what happened on Thursday night.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, October 28, 2005

In the Aftermath of Terror: Chabad Reaches Out

When terror strikes in an Israeli city, throwing untold numbers of lives into painful chaos, it's often hard to know precisely in which ways to help.

Raizy Metzger | News | Friday, October 28, 2005

Jewish Students Bond With the Torah

Minutes to midnight on University of Pennsylvania's fraternity row, as the 'Sox were on their way to trouncing the Astros in overtime, the guys at Sigma Nu got a knock at the door.

E.J. Tansky | News | Thursday, October 27, 2005

Celebrating Simchat Torah, Hurricane and All

As Hurricane Wilma walloped Hallandale, Florida, the local Chabad weathered the storm without wavering from their Simchat Torah holiday plans.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News | Monday, October 24, 2005

Lulav, Etrog, Sukkah--Familiarity With The Festival Grows

Again, this Sukkot, branches of Chabad- Lubavitch spread out far beyond the comfort of their centers to offer Jewish people, wherever they may be, an opportunity to get in touch with their Jewish roots.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, October 24, 2005

Sukkot at the IDF Bases in Israel

With its mobile Sukkahs, Chabad in Israel visits IDF bases countrywide, to offer soldiers the opportunity to participate in the holiday, and celebrate together.

| News | Thursday, October 20, 2005

United Jewish Communities Partners With Chabad

United Jewish Communities allocated over $38,000 to Chabad-Lubavitch for its hurricane relief efforts.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, October 16, 2005

Peru's First Lady Marks Yom Kippur

Over traditional fare including chicken soup with kreplach-a version of meat-filled tortellini, and with Peru's First Lady, Eliane Karp de Toledo in attendance, Rabbi Moshe Garelik , spoke about Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, also the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

| News | Thursday, October 13, 2005

New Educational Complex Opens In Moscow

Some 500 community members, sponsors and local dignitaries crowded a former bus depot in Moscow yesterday, celebrating the opening of the city's newest site for Jewish education.

Raizy Metzger (fjc.ru contributed to this report) | News | Monday, October 10, 2005

Rosh Hashana in Monroe, Louisiana

As humanitarian organizations and individuals scramble to adequately provide for the many needs of a displaced population, Louisiana's Chabad Rabbis came through this Rosh Hashanah with something only they could offer: a sense of community.

Raizy Metzger | News | Sunday, October 9, 2005

From Darkness to Light and a Sweet Year to All

Jewish tradition ascribes a direct correlation between destruction and renewal, pain and growth, loss and gain. At the close of a year that has thinned out populations, dislocated others, and disbursed grief in generous measure, this is more than a comforting thought.

| News | Monday, October 3, 2005

Home for the Holidays

In cities ravaged by the natural disasters of recent weeks, synagogues will be empty this Rosh Hashanah, their congregants scattered across various states--bereft of home, possessions and all the familiar signs of the approaching holiday.

Raizy Metzger | News | Monday, October 3, 2005

It Takes A City . . .

It takes a village, they say, to raise a child. What then would it take to build a school in which to raise several hundred, nurturing their physical needs, their Jewish souls and their innate curiosity in the world around them?

Raizy Metzger | News | Thursday, September 29, 2005

Chabad to Terror Survivors: We Won't Forget You

Over one thousand families of terror victims in Israel will be receiving a pre-Rosh Hashanah visit this week, courtesy of Chabad in Israel's Terror Victims Division.

Raizy Metzger | News | Thursday, September 29, 2005

Antidote to Rita: Umbrella of Kindness

After Hurricane Rita's winds killed the electricity at Rabbi Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff 's Houston home on Friday night, the only other drama came when a few paper napkins drifted into the Shabbat candle flames. It could have been worse, much, much worse.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Bakersfield Welcomes New Chabad Facility

California may not be known for its Bible Belt, but it has one, and the city of Bakersfield is right at its buckle. Chabad of Bakersfield added a new--rather different--notch to the Bakersfield's belt when it opened its new center.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Simon Wiesenthal: Endorsed Chabad's JLI Holocaust Program In Final Days

Although Simon Wiesenthal , the "Conscience of the Holocaust," has been laid to rest, his endorsement of the Jewish Learning Intitute's Holocaust course in his final days assures that his legacy lives on.

E.J. Tansky | News | Friday, September 23, 2005

Striving for Excellence at Chabad Preschool

Josh is on the waiting list to get into Chabad of S. Mateo's brand new Chai Jewish Preschool of Excellence, but he doesn't know it. Josh is six months old. Although the school only had its first open house on August 7, all twelve places have filled . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, September 23, 2005

President Bush Salutes Chabad's Rescue Efforts

Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition 's 20th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, President George Bush applauded the Jewish community's participation in Hurricane

| News | Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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A New PreSchool Building for Staten Island's Jewish Community

Speculation about the fate of Chabad of Staten Island's preschool ended when the school reopened in a brand new facility this school year.

Rivka Chaya Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Chabad Relief Efforts: Mississippi Focus

The Army Corps of Engineers stretched a blue plastic tarp over the gashes left in Steve Richer 's roof by the three trees that could not withstand Katrina's 150 mph winds.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News | Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Israeli President Participates in Historic Groundbreaking In Tallinn

Israeli President Moshe Katzav 's began his visit to Estonia yesterday with a meeting with Arnold Rüütel , and children from the Talinn Jewish day school.

| News | Tuesday, September 20, 2005

American Children Give To Orphans In Ukraine

Chana Luzhetskaya 's mother was not there to celebrate her daughter's birthday party, but Chana was not forgotten.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, September 19, 2005

Mining Treasures

Perm--the region's capital city and namesake--is home to about one million people, approximately 8000 of whom are Jewish.

Raizy Metzger | News | Friday, September 16, 2005

Protocol Established To Respect Jewish Dead

After intense discussions with the recovery and burial teams, the Chaplain of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office told Lubavitch.com that Jewish bodies would be treated with absolute regard for Jewish law.

| News | Wednesday, September 14, 2005

A Jewish Community Plants Roots in Cyprus

In a Jewish landscape as new and untouched as the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, practically every day marks another historic milestone for the Jewish community.

Raizy Metzger | News | Tuesday, September 13, 2005

ORT Joins With Chabad in Argentina

The Governor of Tucuman province and top level ORT International leaders gathered last week to inaugurate a new school of technology and Jewish studies center, a joint project of Chabad and ORT, an educational charity with vocational schools around the world.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, September 12, 2005

Search and Rescue Efforts Shift Gears

It's the stuff of a real-life drama unfolding on the streets of New Orleans along perilously thin lines of life and death . . . Yesterday, Chabad's rescue teams pulled another five people from their homes to safety.

Baila Olidort | News | Friday, September 9, 2005

A New Mikvah To Open In Oregon

Three hundred miles. That's the distance from Chabad of Ashland, Oregon, to the closest traditional mikvah. Ashlander women who wished to keep the mitzvah of mikvah would endure a real drag of a road trip, and with gas prices topping the three dollar mark, it was enough to keep all but the most dedicated from following through - until now.

Rivkah Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, September 8, 2005

Chabad Search and Rescue Effort Grows

Chabad's Rescue and Relief mission is working round the clock to locate and rescue hundreds of individuals who have not made it out of New Orleans. Of the 35 individuals thus far rescued, most were elderly with medical conditions.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, September 6, 2005

In the Face of Katrina: A Community Persists

The indiscriminate invasion by Hurricane Katrina into the lives of its victims leaves in its wake dislocation and trauma across the board. And yet the damage

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, September 5, 2005

Community Celebrates Return of Jewish School Building in Rostov, Russia

One hundred and twenty years ago, it was a Talmud Torah. Then it was confiscated by the communists and turned into a sports center. But last year, the Russian government officially restored the building to the Jewish community.

| News | Monday, September 5, 2005

A Chupah In Rosario, This Week, Next Week, The Week After . . .

In this city, Argentina's second largest, traditional Jewish chupahs have been dominating the landscape recently, bringing Jewish residents together in song and celebration of age-old traditions. "This week, it was a Torah; in the next three weeks,

Raizy Metzger | News | Thursday, September 1, 2005

Lubavitch Establishes Hurricane Relief Fund

Lubavitch World Headquarters announced that it has established a disaster relief fund to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina

| News | Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Anti-Semitic Elements in Ukraine Out of Control: Statement by Rabbi Y. Krinsky

In response to yesterday's vicious attack on two yeshiva students, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Lubavitch

| News | Monday, August 29, 2005

Yeshiva Student Fighting For Life After Skinheads Attack In Kiev

A group of neo-Nazis stabbed two Kiev yeshiva students on an underpass Sunday evening, while on their way home from the yeshiva.

| News | Monday, August 29, 2005

Chabad Honors Champion in Quest for Sacred Texts

These are more than just words on documents," said U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. "There is a very powerful and special meaning that they have. That's why I'm so devoted to the cause of returning the Schneerson documents from Russia."

| News | Thursday, August 25, 2005

Former Refuseniks Return To Ukraine As Chabad Emissaries

In the attempt to beef up its number of native Russian-speaking rabbis in the former Soviet Union, Chabad has opened a rabbinic seminary in Moscow sponsored by the Or Avner Foundation.

| News | Wednesday, August 24, 2005

A Yeshiva In Jerusalem Turns Out Literate Jews

In 2001, Kevin Shurack , had a job contract to teach English in South Korea. But while on a Birthright trip to Israel, he had a change of heart and decided to spend time in Jerusalem studying Torah.

B. Olidort | News | Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Morality and Ethics at Boy Scouts Jamboree

Over 1,000 Jewish Boy Scouts attended the National Boy Scout Jamboree held July 25 to August 3, 2005 at Fort A.P. Hill near Bowling Green, Virginia. Every four years, the Jamboree brings together more than 42,000 Scouts from across the United States for a week of adventure and fellowship.

Allie Vered for the Richmond Jewish News | News | Thursday, August 11, 2005

Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk Visits Jews of Mongolia

Last Sunday, Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk and Chabad Lubavich emissary Aaron Wagner paid a visit to Jews residing in Mongolia, which is situated just south of the border with Russia's Siberian region.

| News | Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Educators Conference A Success

Every Individual is a Whole World was the theme of two-day conference that drew some 100 educators in the Chabad-Lubavitch school system, nationwide and Canada.

| News | Sunday, August 7, 2005

Chabad of Lithuania Closes A Circle

"Cast your bread upon the waters . . ." It's in this spirit of largesse that Chabad Shluchim do their work. They teach, they care they give without any promises of payback. No one offers guaranteed results, and the Shluchim never ask.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, August 4, 2005

Chabad: Sent As Angels To Watch Over Us

This summer, hundreds of young terror victims-either survivors of terror or children who've lost a parent or sibling in terror attacks-are benefiting from a diversion from the terror they have experienced, as they participate in at any of Chabad of Israel's 230 Gan Israel camps.

Miriam Davids | News | Tuesday, August 2, 2005

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A Healing Gift of Love and Generosity

When the limo pulled up at JFK's airport terminal, it was the first time Alina Lubhetzkaya , 13, smiled in a long while. Her mother died this spring while Alina attended Tzivos Hashem of Ukraine's sleepaway Passover Camp, leaving her and her brothers behind.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Friday, July 29, 2005

Ohr Avner Student Brings Home A Win

A student of the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dnepropetrovsk has returned home from Israel with a significant victory to his name. During his visit to the Holy Land, Matvei Tsiryulnikov became the Champion of the Olympiad on Israel's History.

| News | Friday, July 29, 2005

Chabad Preschool In N.C. Gets Highest Possible Ratings

The North Carolina Division of Child Development recently awarded The Jewish Preschool on Sardis a rating of five stars - the highest score a preschool or child care center can receive. The rating is based on three different areas:

| News | Wednesday, July 27, 2005

JLI To Launch Holocaust Studies Series

The Jewish Learning Institute ( JLI ) will reach its widest audience yet when it launches its new course, "Beyond Never Again: The Holocaust Speaks to Our Generation," this fall. Program coordinators anticipate that some 10,000 students will take the six-lesson course in their 160 affiliate sites around the world.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, July 26, 2005

'Zero tolerance' for anti-Semitic crimes

AP--French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed "zero tolerance" for anti-Semitic crimes during a visit on Monday to a Jewish school targeted in a weekend acid attack.

Associated Press | News | Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Chabad Students Plant Seeds: Opatija, Obuda or Oregon . . .

The forgotten. The isolated. The uninvolved. These are the Jews reached by Chabad-Lubavitch's annual Merkos Shlichus -- or Jewish Community Enrichment Summer Program . This year, some 300 students fanned out across six continents to reach hundreds-possibly more-of communities.

EJ Tansky | News | Thursday, July 21, 2005

Remembering The Struggle for Russian Jewry

Seventy-eight years ago today, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn (1880-1950), sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the leader of Russian Jewry at the time, was freed from Soviet-imposed exile.

B. Olidort | News | Tuesday, July 19, 2005

DISCLOSURE: New Facts Found In Chabad's Quest For Sacred Texts

Important new evidence regarding the Soviet persecution of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn , has come to light as a result of the lawsuit filed by Chabad in U.S. federal court to reclaim the Schneerson Collection from Russia.

Bradford Wiss | News | Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Anti Semitism To Remain Marginal In Russia

How has Russia changed in the eyes of Jews living both inside and outside Russia? These and other questions are treated in an interview with Interfax-Religion by one of the direct participants in and witnesses to the revival of Jewish life, Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar .

| News | Monday, July 18, 2005

Amid the Pain, A Reason to Celebrate

Shabtai Machpod should have been there last week when Matan was called to the Torah. But ten years ago, when he drove to work on a routine morning, Shabtai passed the Beit-Lid IDF intersection-a soldier's depot-as a suicide bomber exploded himself . . .

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Rewards of Jewish Reading

When Sholom Ber Rice of San Rafael, CA, saw the sleek lines of the computer offered as a prize for Kehot Publication Society's Book-A-Thon, he got straight to work. He found sponsors and fulfilled his pledge to crack open and read Jewish books for the two-week program.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Postcards From Camp Gan Israel

The Gan Israel Day Camp network began its 40th summer with hundreds of camps around the globe. One of the largest and most dynamic networks of summer camps, a Google search on the words "Camp Gan Israel" yields 21 pages of Gan Israel camp websites from Contra Costa, CA, to Berlin and beyond.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, July 7, 2005

Editorial: A Different Kind of Faith

In a recently published account of personal meetings between the Rebbe and a London businessman, the Rebbe strongly advised him against a certain consideration. As he did so, the Rebbe said, "No one is trying to force you.

| News | Thursday, July 7, 2005

Live-and Learn At Bat Mitzvah Camp

Last week when 25 girls, ages eleven to fifteen, stepped into inflated rafts and navigated them on a frothing whitewater river, they were learning more than survival skills; they were discovering what it means to become a Jewish woman . . .

E.J. Tansky | News | Tuesday, July 5, 2005

A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston

Chabad of the North Shore, which began in 1992 with a small office in the oceanside town of Swampscott , has become a powerful force for Jewish life north of Boston.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Sunday, July 3, 2005

Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin--A First Since Holocaust

In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe's Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon be heard.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, July 1, 2005

New Biography of Baal Shem Tov Published

The Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov offers English speakers a comprehensive understanding of the man who first dared explain a new dimension of Jewish mystical concepts to the masses.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Father's Day With Chabad At USC

Under the smiling Southern California sun, the Wagners welcomed 70 USC Trojans and their families to an end of year barbecue. The Wagners dished out barbecue fare and renewed ties with Jewish students past and present.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Jewish Children's Museum Expects Steady Summer Tours

Since opening to the public during the Passover holiday, when some 5,500 visitors crawled through, twanged, and punched buttons on the interactive exhibits, the Jewish Children's Museum staff has gotten smart to the art of crowd control.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Friday, June 24, 2005

Little Girls Make Lots of Light

At Mindel and Sara Yaffe 's third birthday party, they didn't blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five grown women follow suit.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Wednesday, June 22, 2005

A Mecca for Special Children

The six boys, ages five to eight, who follow their soft spoken teachers' instructions and are happily swabbing tempera paint on their latest holiday-themed art project were not welcomed in any other Hebrew school.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, June 19, 2005

Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life

As the only Jewish university in Continental Europe to offer combined graduate and undergraduate degrees in International Marketing and Management , the Lauder Business School draws students from South America, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany and other parts of Europe.

B. Olidort | News | Sunday, June 12, 2005

A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado

More than 120 people, community members, local dignitaries, and Jews from neighboring areas came to show their support and tour Chabad's new prayer space, which is situated in the basement of the ranch house that sits on 2.1 acres of emerald green grassland.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, June 9, 2005

Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Home Services

On June 3, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in favor of an Orlando Chabad rabbi's right to host prayer services in his home.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, June 7, 2005

A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding

Since its opening, Machon Chomesh-a board-of-education accredited institution providing degrees in a wide range of disciplines, as well as training in Judaic studies-has become home and hearth to hundreds of Jewish women.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, June 6, 2005

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Banner Year for Chabad on Campus

Chabad's impact on today's college students can be felt in the personal ways each Chabad center on campus reaches out to its students.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, June 2, 2005

Community Defends and Celebrates Preschool

After city officials forced children out of their preschool at Chabad of Staten Island, NY, the long-planned inauguration of its new building turned into a massive show of support for Chabad's activities.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, May 30, 2005

Lag B'Omer in Har Chevron, Israel

Two hundred children from five settlements joined Chabad's Lag B'omer festivities in Har Chevron.

| News | Monday, May 30, 2005

Lag B'omer in East River, Connecticut

Chabad: East of the River celebrated its fifth annual Jewish Family Fair in Glastonbury, CT, timed to coincide with the auspicious day of Lag B'Omer.

| News | Monday, May 30, 2005

New Chabad Reps to Azerbaijan

New Chabad representatives, Rabbi Matityahu and Chaya Mushka Luis have taken up residence in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

| News | Sunday, May 29, 2005

Forward, March, Together!

To Jewish boys impatient for the chance to beat a drum in a marching band, and little girls who fancy twirling a tasseled baton, Lag B'omer could not come soon enough.

Miriam Davids | News | Friday, May 27, 2005

Shabbat Dinner in London Draws Hundreds

Friends of Lubavitch are being asked to arrange regular Friday-night social events after 300 young Jews attended a lively Shabbat dinner last weekend at a top London venue.

| News | Friday, May 27, 2005

Jewish Children Come of Age in the FSU

In the grand finale of a comprehensive Bar Mitzva project, more than 100 boys and girls celebrated their coming-of-age at a joyous celebration at the Great Choral Synagogue.

| News | Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Prayer Services at Home? A Supreme Court Test Case

Chabad of South Orlando's neighborhood zoning woes may become a Supreme Court test case of a landmark religious freedom act signed by President Clinton.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

Anatoly Shevchenko said that maintaining warm relations between Jews and Cossacks and collective initiatives for the sake of Ukraine would smooth the deep wounds caused by Cossacks against local Jews so many years ago in the history of this Eastern European region.

| News | Monday, May 23, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

Anatoly Shevchenko said that maintaining warm relations between Jews and Cossacks and collective initiatives for the sake of Ukraine would smooth the deep wounds caused by Cossacks against local Jews so many years ago in the history of this Eastern European region.

| News | Monday, May 23, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Riverside, California

Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Fuss of Brooklyn, New York, were appointed Chabad representatives to Riverside, California.

| News | Thursday, May 19, 2005

Want To Pray, But Can't Get To The Synagogue?

People with Gilat's VSAT terminals can watch prayer services, read prayer books, and even shop for religious products.

Shirley Yom Tov for TheMarker.com | News | Thursday, May 19, 2005

Finding Judaism On Waikiki Beach

Alongside the strip of sand where flaming tiki lamps and tourist kitsch shops predominate, Honolulu Chabad has carved out a niche of spiritual serenity with all the accoutrements of a mainland synagogue . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, May 19, 2005

Contemporary Conundrums Addressed at Conference on Judaism and Medicine

In the hotly debated area of stem cell research, a noted scholar stated unequivocally that from a Jewish perspective, stem cell research is permitted by Jewish law.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Tuesday, May 17, 2005

New Center for London's Jewish Community

Chabad-Lubavitch of London announced the construction of a new Center adjacent to the existing Lubavitch House of London.

| News | Monday, May 16, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Essex, England

| News | Monday, May 16, 2005

Reaching for the Heavens in Nepal (Photo Essay)

Mountain trekkers who experienced the Passover seders with Chabad in Nepal, come back for more. Here against the backdrop of Nepal's breathtaking scenery, they explore the mysteries of the Jewish soul with Chabad's Rabbi Chezi Lifshitz.

| News | Friday, May 13, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Prospect Heights

| News | Friday, May 13, 2005

Remembering the Annihilation of Bogdanovka

Among the hundreds of monuments that form the stark and moving Sheepshead Bay Holocaust Memorial - monuments bearing familiar names like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Babi Yar - one stone, the most recently engraved, stands out. It stands out because you have never heard of the village that it memorializes.

| News | Thursday, May 12, 2005

Remembering Our Heroes

Sixty years after WWII came to an end, communities Europe-wide conducted ceremonies of solemn remembrance this week.

| News | Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Chabad at the College of New Jersey in Ewing

In a small meeting room at Paul Loser Hall on the campus of the College of New Jersey in Ewing, an ancient Jewish ceremony was unfolding for the first time.

Marilyn Silverstein | News | Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Synagogue Burns Down In Moscow

A fire roared through a synagogue in a Moscow suburb early Tuesday, burning down much of the wooden structure in an incident that Jewish leaders blamed on anti-Semitism.

MARIA DANILOVA, AP Writer | News | Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Maccabis Take Euroleague Title and More . . .

When the Maccabis scored their winning shots at the Euroleague Final Four games on Sunday, a chant of yesh Elokim, "G-d exists" could be heard above the din of 13,500 fans and spectators in the Olympiski Arena in Moscow.

| News | Monday, May 9, 2005

120 Communities Participate in Chabad of Thailand's Toy Drive

Ayelet Hematian and Chantal Keypour of Port Washington, New York, did not understand a word of the Thai pop tunes that pulsated through the air at Chabad of Thailand's "World of Good" fun fair in Phuket today, May 8.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, May 8, 2005

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300 Members of Congress Press Putin for Return of Schneerson Collection

Today, over 300 Members of Congress led by Representatives Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), and Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for the return of the Schneerson Collection .

| News | Thursday, May 5, 2005

New Jewish Center To Open in Florida's State Capitol

Chabad of Tallahasse's brand new 3,000 square foot building on two acres of prime Florida real estate will soon resound with the melody of Jewish study, and bubble over with the scent of laundry detergent.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, May 4, 2005

A Passover Camping Experience

In an unusual camping experience, some 150 campers were exposed to a new dimension to Jewish living.

| News | Monday, May 2, 2005

Chabad Prepares for the Final Four in Moscow

The Israelis are coming to cheer for the Maccabis , a frequent Final Four team at these games. For Rabbi Yakov Fridman , director of Chabad activities for Israelis in Moscow, it's a windfall.

| News | Sunday, May 1, 2005

Countdown to The Seder: Passover With Chabad

Lubavitch is on a search for that fifth child. Indeed, one of the more intriguing aspects of Chabad's Passover outreach program is the exotic locations where Chabad rabbinical students travel to find Jewish people who would otherwise not be at a Passover seder.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, April 21, 2005

A Birthdate to Remember

During his lifetime, thousands celebrated the Rebbe's birthday at an all night farbrengen , a Chasidic gathering. Seated at a table decked in a white cloth, the Rebbe's mellifluous voice commanded the cavernous, crammed hall at 770 Eastern Parkway.

| News | Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Post Tsunami Pesach in Thailand

It is 5:00 a.m. and dawn has not yet broken in Bangkok. The typically teeming streets are bathed in the stillness of morning and there is nary a soul astir... except for Rabbi Yosef C. Kantor , the Chabad representative to Thailand.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Monday, April 18, 2005

Children Come of Age in Vilnius

Seventeen boys and girls-most of whom were students at one of Chabad of Vilnius's educational programs, were the center of attention at Hotel Sarunas in Vilnius .

| News | Sunday, April 17, 2005

For Israelis . . . in Moscow

"More than 400 Israelis have reserved places for the Passover Seder in Moscow planned specifically for Israelis," says Rabbi Yakov Fridman , "and we've yet another week to go."

| News | Thursday, April 14, 2005

A Palpable Passover Experience

Clad in "Egyptian" attire, the children are transported through time as they visit scenes of our slavery in Egypt, to the ten plagues, the splitting of the Red Sea and the founding of a nation at Mount Sinai.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Mansichewitz and Chabad Reach Thousands in Lithuania, Ukraine and Beyond

A gaggle of teenage girls are packing up their sleek holiday skirts into small valises in anticipation of the Passover holiday. But they won't be spending the Passover Seder meal slurping down their grandmother's chicken soup or sunning at a popular European resort. They will be at school.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, April 13, 2005

New Haggadah Keeps It Simple

New Haggadah follows the innovations included in the highly acclaimed Annotated editions of the Siddur and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Machzorim.

| News | Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Passover Programs to Reach 437 Communities in the FSU

As in years past, the the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS is implementing a comprehensive Passover campaign designed to facilitate observance of this festival among Jews in the Former Soviet Union.

| News | Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Center To Teach Life Skills To Children

A decade in the making, the new Ferber Kaufman LifeTown Building offers real-life, hands-on situations for children of all levels.

Eileen McCarville | News | Thursday, April 7, 2005

Purim In The Emerald Isle

Chabad's representatives in Dublin, Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Lent learned that planes chartered to fly jet set Irish soccer fans to Tel Aviv would be returning near-empty to the Emerald Isle. They found travel agents willing to sell them the open seats for a few Euros and the promise of a great good deed . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, April 7, 2005

Helsinki Commission Urges State Department to Seek Return of Schneerson Collection

According to Senator Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota), this is the "first issue I know of to have won bi-partisan and bicameral support." Coleman, who raised the matter with Condoleezza Rice . . .

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, April 7, 2005

Purim at Cambridge Takes An Orwellian Turn

Six-foot tall roosters, a charming butterfly and dancing cows lumbered through Chabad of Cambridge's backyard barnyard for their Animal Farm Purim celebration.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Bringing the Joy of Purim to Lithuania

It's all part of a dramatic revival of Jewish life in this region, where Chabad's religious, educational and social outreach programs are inspiring Jewish people to become involved and experience a Jewish triumph of their very own.

| News | Monday, March 28, 2005

Purim at University of Pennsylvania

The festivities began at Marbar with a Megillah reading at 8pm and subsequent ones later in the evening attended by the owner and manager of Marbar and the students. Hundreds of students came out to hear the BAAL SHEM TOV band and DAVE LINDENBAUM perform. Many arrived in costume.

| News | Sunday, March 27, 2005

1300 Students Celebrate Purim With Chabad at Columbia U

"Judaism's all about breaking barriers, transcending limits, and that's really the idea here behind my music," said Matisyahu , renowned Hassidic-reggae singer, to a crowd of some 1,300 students on Thursday night, at Columbia University's knockout Purim celebration.

Shoshana Olidort | News | Sunday, March 27, 2005

Chabad Representative Named Among Top 25 Influential Community Leaders

The Acorn, an Agoural Hills, CA, community newspaper named Chabad-Lubavitch representative, Rabbi Moshe Bryski one of this year's top 25 influential community leaders. The following is an excerpt from The Acorn's March 23 feature.

| News | Friday, March 25, 2005

Senator Boschwitz Gets A Sweet Sendoff

Boschwitz is chairman of Friends of Merkos Lubavitch of Minnesota and a long time contributor to the Upper Midwest Lubavitch.

| News | Wednesday, March 23, 2005

A Queen, A King, A Hero and a Villain: Purim Celebrations Abound

As Purim revelers in Branford, CT, munch on sour pickles with enough punch to provoke puckers, they will be stepping back in time at Chabad of the Shoreline's Purim-in-the-Shtetl celebration. Down the coast in South Broward, FL, Chabad's Purim . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Chabad Representative Awarded Prestigious Edmond Tenoudji Prize

Though Toulouse is a seven-hour-plus drive to Paris, community members came by the carload to witness Chabad's representative to Toulouse receive the prestigious Edmond Tenoudji prize for excellence in Jewish education.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, March 20, 2005

West Coast Representatives Open Senate Session

When Rabbi Shlomo Cunin opened the senate session Monday morning (March 14), he told the senators that 40 years ago, he met with a young Governor Ronald Reagan .

| News | Monday, March 14, 2005

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Sharansky Visits Lauder Chabad Campus in Vienna

The day following Natan Sharansky's visit, the city's largest circulation newspaper ran a headline with a quote: "The best place to begin my European tour is speaking to youth in Jewish schools."

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, March 14, 2005

Jewish Education on the Rebound in Argentina

South America's largest Jewish community is keeping its eyes peeled on the Wolfsohn School, which opened this week under the auspices of Chabad-Lubavitch as the Centre de Education Judaica Menajem M. Tabacinic .

| News | Friday, March 11, 2005

Chocolate Factory Reverts To Synagogue

Where chocolate, toffees, nut brittle and other sticky confections were once created and sold, the sweet sounds of Jewish prayers will soon be heard--once again.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Tuesday, March 8, 2005

New Jewish Pre-School Opens In Potsdam

Jewish roots run deep here in this city, where Stalin, Truman, and Churchill signed the Famous 1945 Potsdam agreement. But so does assimilation.

Mimi Weiszner | News | Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Concert Fundraiser for First West Coast School for Special Needs Children

When a concerned mother of three approached Rabbi Yossi and Esty Marcus of Chabad of S. Mateo , California, with a dilemma, they had no idea what big things were about to transpire.

Mimi Weiszner | News | Thursday, March 3, 2005

Chabad Begins to Ship Food for World's Largest Seder

While Maoist rebels clash with Nepal's army, Chabad of Nepal is preparing for its legendary Passover seder.

| News | Tuesday, March 1, 2005

New Chabad Center On Phuket Island

The beaches of Phuket Island, Thailand, sparkling with fresh sand flung ashore by the tsunami, stretch out against blue skies so gorgeous it's easy to forget about the tsunami.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, February 28, 2005

Governor Jeb Bush to Head Tribute Committee for Chabad's Gala Event

| News | Monday, February 28, 2005

Conejo Jewish Day School Celebrates Dinner

| News | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Chabad of South Broward Celebrates 25 Years of Jewish Community Service

| News | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

700 Celebrate at Friendship Circle Dinner

Wendy Ashenberg | News | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Shabbaton With Chabad: Jewish Students Nationwide Pledge Greater Involvement

For a Jewish student on an American college campus today, the possibilities run the extremes from total alienation to a heightened Jewish awareness.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Chabad's Tidal Wave of Goodness

A CNN reporter once stood in the famous "dollar lines" that formed every Sunday outside of 770 Eastern Parkway. When his turn came and he stood before the Lubavitcher Rebbe he asked, "What is your message to the world?"

Mimi Weiszner | News | Saturday, February 12, 2005

Discovering Judaism At The University of Oregon

Known for vegetarians, animal rights activists, and liberal minded thinking, this is the last place you expect to find a Chabad couple. Yet, Rabbi Asi and Aviva Spiegel chose to settle in Eugene specifically because of its liberal demographic.

Mimi Weiszner | News | Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Chabad-Lubavitch And NOVA To Certify Teachers

A new project by the Chabad Education Office, or the "Chinuch Office" as it is widely known, fills a gap that promises to make a difference for the teachers and institutions in the Chabad educational network.

Mimi Weiszner | News | Friday, February 4, 2005

Chabad Women's Conference : A Commitment to Jewish Education, Light, Compassion

The main reception hall at the Brooklyn Marriott was filled to capacity last night, in the culmination event of the five-day Annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos (emissaries).

Shoshana Olidort | News | Monday, January 31, 2005

Three New Centers in Washington State

Mimi Weiszner | News | Thursday, January 27, 2005

New Chabad Centers in Mass.

| News | Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Lubavitch Headquarters Gears Up for Women's Conference

A good percentage of Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim makes up the 40-something demographic. They've been at their work for 25 years now, and can't help recall, perhaps a bit wistfully, a level of energy that once seemed endless.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, January 24, 2005

In Retrospect: 55 Years Ago Today

The 10th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, corresponding to today's date, marks a transitional period in the history of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, January 20, 2005

Restored Torahs Give New Life

In a wonderful partnership between college campuses and the Sandra Brand Torah Project, precious scrolls are being lovingly repaired, restored and revitalized. Then the old scrolls are paired with their "brides," . . .

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Friday, January 14, 2005

New Volume in Chasidic Heritage Series Published

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch Publishing House, has just released Transforming the Inner Self , the fifteenth volume in its ever-expanding Chasidic Heritage Series.

Tova Berenbaum | News | Thursday, January 6, 2005

Ancient Jewish Community Embraces Full Time Rabbi

The city of Derbent in Dagestan, Russia, home to one of the most ancient Jewish communities with an estimated population 5-8,000 Jews, welcomed its first resident rabbi in seventy years.

| News | Monday, January 3, 2005

Chabad Dedicates Resources to Tsunami Relief Effort

Chaos and confusion are rampant on the island of Phuket, as the magnitude of Sunday's tidal wave registers with survivors and relief workers. Rabbi Nechemia Wilhelm, who has spent the last four days searching and helping to identify bodies-many that have deteriorated in the water-is in the vortex of this turmoil.

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, December 30, 2004

TSUNAMI: Chabad Centers in Southeast Asia Main Address for Jewish Relief Effort

Representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch, the only Jewish service agency in Thailand, with centers in Bangkok, Chang Mai and Ko Samui , and Chabad of Bombay, India, have been working round the clock in the wake of the tsunami disaster that has reportedly left more than 50,000 dead.

Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, December 28, 2004

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Chabad Houses in Thailand Become Crisis Centers For Israelis

Following the earthquake and tsunami that have destroyed hundreds of seaside towns in Asia and Africa leaving thousands dead, relatives of Israelis touring Thailand are anxious to hear about their loved ones.

| News | Monday, December 27, 2004

All For Roza From Cracow

A full-page ad by Lubavitch World Headquarters appeared in the A-section of today's New York Times . The ad describes the massive scope and reach of Chabad-Lubavitch's Chanukah campaign, pointing out the vast numbers and geographic distances penetrated by Chabad this past Chanukah.

| News | Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Sweden's Court Rules In Beit Menachem Case

A stunning ruling by Sweden's Supreme Court yesterday brought to a close the two year struggle of a Jewish couple fighting to keep a small school open against impending closure by the government.

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, December 16, 2004

Governor Bush Celebrates Opening of 101st Chabad Center in State of Florida

It was not a typical scene in the office of Florida Governor Jeb Bush last Friday, when the governor danced the Hora with rabbis wearing black fedoras.

| News | Thursday, December 16, 2004

Chabad and Chanukah: How Many Saw The Light?

How many people worldwide during the past week, were reminded that it was Chanukah? To get a rough estimate, we'd have to add up every one of Chabad's public menorahs-and there were at least 1,843 of them in 559 cities in 65 countries worldwide.

Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, December 15, 2004

At Israel's IDF Bases: Getting Into the Spirit of Chanukah

This Chanukah, Chabad of Israel intends to cover all its bases. Fanning out the length and breadth of Israel, Chabad Shluchim are bringing the light of Chanukah to IDF soldiers with Chanukah menorah lightings, hot donuts and dancing.

| News | Sunday, December 12, 2004

Hundreds Watch As Tallest Menorah in Ukraine is Kindled

They were tears of joy shed by many among the 400 who gathered at Lenin Square in Dneproderzhinsk on the first night of Chanukah.

| News | Thursday, December 9, 2004

Chabad Honors the Reagan Legacy with a Fiery Tribute

An estimated 1500 people attended "The Triumph of Freedom - Chanukah and the Reagan Legacy," a pre-holiday, last Sunday, December 5 at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley.

| News | Thursday, December 9, 2004

Chabad Lights the Menorah at Brandenburg Gate

When Rabbi Yudi Tiechtal , Chabad representative to Berlin, sought permission to put up a large public menorah at the Brandenburg Gate, the response he got was that "only things relevant to the German nation are permitted here."

B. Olidort | News | Tuesday, December 7, 2004

There's A Menorah Lighting Near You!

| News | Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Illuminating Poland With the Lights of the Menorah

Cracow, Lodz, Warsaw -cities synonymous with vibrant Jewish populations that would find their bitter end in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek , draw thousands of Jewish visitors today.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, December 6, 2004

Chanukah Festivities from the Sublime to the Spiritual

The Chanukah programs being offered this year are a multi-hued and colorful kaleidoscope of the old, the new and the new-fangled. From New Hampshire to Texas and from Connecticut to California . . .

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Thursday, December 2, 2004

Kindness Plan Wins Top Gong

The Sydney Morning Herald --A creative campaign to persuade primary and high school children to perform acts of kindness won the nation's premier multicultural marketing award in Sydney last night.

Linda Morris | News | Wednesday, December 1, 2004

New Chabad House at Florida International University

Rabbi Levi and Sashie Friedman , the newly appointed directors of Chabad at FIU, bring a unique warmth and enthusiasm to their post and are using the upcoming Chanukah holiday to jumpstart their ambitious agenda.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Chanukah On The River

"Chanukah On The River" a much-anticipated annual event will be staged once again this year on December 12th, the fifth day of Chanukah and will bring almost 1,000 people to the beautiful downtown riverfront area for a menorah boat ride, menorah lighting and Chanukah concert.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Chabad and Chanukah: Let The Sparks Fly

With its celebratory spirit toward Jewish life and a penchant for partying, Chabad-Lubavitch and Chanukah are a perfect pairing. Admittedly, this is not an occasion for nuanced outreach, and Shluchim mine the possibilities of this eight-day festival, delivering bold, high impact messages of Jewish warmth and spiritual illumination.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, November 29, 2004

Professor Lectures on Laughs at Skokie Chabad House

A diverse crowd of about one-hundred thirty people crowded into Chabad of Skokie, Illinois, on Friday night to hear humorist Dr. Stephen Z. Cohen expound on the history and significance of Jewish comedy.

Tova Bernbaum | News | Thursday, November 25, 2004

Chabad and The Reagan Library: Celebrating Triumph of Freedom This Chanukah

On Sunday, December 5, 2004, a unique event billed "The Triumph of Freedom - Chanukah and the Reagan Legacy" will be held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

| News | Tuesday, November 23, 2004

New Center in Bucks County

When William Penn purchased a vast tract of land in Pennsylvania from the Indians, about 350 years ago, it is a safe bet that his vision for the area did not include a Chabad center that would practice what Penn preached in theory.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Friday, November 19, 2004

Chabad To Open Jewish Center in Colorado's Horse Country

When Rabbi Benjy and Leah Brackman moved to Westminster in September of last year to head Chabad programs in the NW Metro area they dreamed of purchasing a horse property that would to serve as a Chabad Community Center .

| News | Monday, November 15, 2004

International Conference Of Shluchim 2004

Chabad-Lubavitch representatives worldwide number somewhere around 4,000 today. But with new positions continuously being filled by young couples, the numbers grow by the week, with no sign of the momentum letting up.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, November 11, 2004

Alaskans Warm to Chabad Rabbi On Religious Beliefs

The campus bookstore at the University of Alaska Anchorage was a haven for tolerance and peaceful discussion when a trio of local religious leaders, including Rabbi Yosef Greenberg , spoke about "Religious Beliefs Surrounding Life, Birth and Death."

Tova Bernbaum | News | Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Former Terrorist Addresses Community

A decade ago, Mr. Walid Shoebat would have considered those listening to him "the devil." After all, he was educated to hate "even harm" those who did not agree with one specific form of Muslim fundamentalism.

| News | Monday, November 8, 2004

First Regional Congress for Jewish Women A Success

It was an eye-opener for one thousand women who flocked yesterday to Dnepropetrovsk, host city for the First Regional Congress for Jewish Women.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, November 8, 2004

Hundreds of Jewish Students To Celebrate Shabbat at USC

More than 400 Jewish collegians from twenty five schools in California and Arizona, representing every major university on the West Coast, will be converging on the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Southern California . . .

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Friday, November 5, 2004

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School Case Is Heard in Sweden's Supreme Court

Emerging from Stockholm's National Court a few hours ago, Rabbi and Mrs. Alexander Namdar reported to Lubavitch.com that the court will issue a decision on December 2 regarding Jewish Day School Beit Menachem vs. Skolverkert .

Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, November 4, 2004

Jewish Learning Institute Opens Internationally In 120 Cities

Call it a university without walls or call it the next wave in Jewish adult education - the fact is that the Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is like a wish come true for anyone who wants a sophisticated and authentic entree into the world of Jewish learning.

Tzivia Emmer | News | Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Richmond Celebrates New Mikveh

Three years in the making, the Mei Menachem/Sterling Mikveh , incorporates the latest in spa-like design and attention to detail, including the lavish use of Jerusalem stone.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Tuesday, October 26, 2004

New Reps to Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires

| News | Monday, October 25, 2004

Gala Man-of-the-Year Ceremony in Russia

| News | Monday, October 25, 2004

New Chabad Reps to Annapolis, Maryland

| News | Sunday, October 24, 2004

Gala Parade To Celebrate Restoration of Two Torah Scrolls

Two Torah scrolls, kept hidden through the years of communist rule in Russia, were restored use and to their new home, Sunday, October 24.

| News | Thursday, October 21, 2004

Freedom of Religious Education: On Trial in Sweden

Early next month a young Jewish couple will travel from their home in Gothenburg to Sweden's Supreme Court in Stockholm, where they will stand before a judge as defendants in Jewish Day School Beit Menachem vs. Skolverkert , and plead their case for freedom of religious education.

| News | Tuesday, October 19, 2004

New Representatives to Prague

| News | Monday, October 18, 2004

From Izbiza to Mequon: Jewish Life Triumphs

A rock from the rubble of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in Izbiza , Poland, more than a half century ago, has become the cornerstone for a new Chabad synagogue campus that promises to ensure Jewish life and continuity in America's heartland.

Fay Kranz Greene | News | Sunday, October 17, 2004

New Representative to Plano, Texas

| News | Friday, October 15, 2004

Going Kosher in the Hofburg Palace

The royal tableware at the Hofburg Palace is taken out of storage only several times a year. On official state visits or other such occasions, the antique silver soup tureens and sterling cutlery of Emperor Franz Josef (1830-1916), are carefully polished and set on tables fit for a king.

B. Olidort | News | Thursday, October 14, 2004

New Representative to Tomsk

| News | Wednesday, October 13, 2004

The Priest In The Sukkah

| News | Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Jewish Students at Duke University to Pre-empt Negative Publicity

The remains of a civilian passenger bus bombed by terrorists in Israel this year will be publicly displayed on Duke University campus this week by Chabad, a Jewish campus organization.

| News | Monday, October 11, 2004

. . . and For Those Who Couldn't Come . . .

| News | Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Bikers Take To The Lulav

Jewish bikers identifying as The Tribe Motorcycle Club (DC), Chai Riders (NY), Hillel's Angels (NJ), The Stars of Davidson , King David Bikers (FL) and the S.O.B's - Semites on Bikes (MD) all met at the largest Harley dealership on the east coast - Mikes' Famous Harley in New Castle, Delaware, yesterday.