Getting A Head Start On Rosh Hashana With Chabad

Rosh Hashana is probably the best known and most widely observed Jewish holiday. And, with hundreds of thousands of free seats available and prayer services

C. R. Lundy | News | Thursday, September 2, 2010

Released Time Bolsters Jewish Identity of NY Public School Students

Every Wednesday during the past year, 230 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students instructed more than 1,110 students from 114 public schools across New York City in Jewish education.

Dvora Lakein | News | Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Nevada’s Jewish Day School Opens New Building

As schools across the country open their doors this September some 180 students of the Desert Torah Academy will be entering a brand new, state-of-the-art school building in Southern Nevada

Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, August 30, 2010

Chabad-on-Campus Opens New Center in Rittenhouse Square

For the first time ever, Jewish students studying at any of the cluster of arts colleges in Center City, Philadelphia, will have their own Jewish student organization

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Kotel Siddur: A Better Experience at Israel’s Western Wall

In addition to comprehensive translations and transliterations, the Kotel Siddur offers explanations and insights into the spiritual meaning of the site.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, August 25, 2010

After 60 Years, Óbuda Synagogue To Open Its Doors For Rosh Hashana

Sixty years after it was emptied of its Jewish worshipers, the Óbuda synagogue in Budapest—the oldest in Hungary, will open its doors to services this Rosh Hashana.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Raising the Bar At Jewish Preschools

This September the Olam Academy of Basking Ridge, New Jersey will open its doors to welcome 16 students into its inaugural kindergarten

Sarah Lehat | News | Tuesday, August 24, 2010

OK in the UK: As College Students Grow, So Do Chabad Services

University students heading back to school in the United Kingdom will find their Chabad centers on campus expanding....

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, August 23, 2010

Former Governor and Senator George Allen Addresses National Jewish Retreat

This past Thursday, George Allen, the former Governor of Virginia, gave the keynote address at the National Jewish Retreat in Reston, VA.

| News | Thursday, August 19, 2010

A Year Late, A Sderot Boy Gets His Bar Mitzvah Party

The fourteen year old knew better than to complain to his parents when his milestone birthday went by without celebration. Serving as his parents’ legs and eyes since the age of ten has matured Assaf beyond his years.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, August 19, 2010

National Jewish Retreat Opens in Virginia

Possibly the largest national Jewish study program of its kind, the five-day Retreat this year opens Tuesday, August 17, and will offer an unusual Jewish immersion experience through...

Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Tuesday, August 17, 2010

New: Russian Translated Pentateuch with Rashi Commentary

Russian language readers interested in Biblical Judaic texts can now study the Torah, or the Pentateuch with Rashi's super commentary in modern Russian translation.

Sarah Lehat | News | Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Jewish Community in Sydney Grows Young, Vibrant

A shuttered bankers’ training facility will soon reopen as Chabad’s Jewish community retreat center in Sydney’s North Shore.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, August 9, 2010

On Two Jews

Where do the needs of one Jew stop, and those of the other begin?

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Early Childhood Education Gets a Head Start

Recipients of a Chabad educational program that will open new preschools in the U.S. met Wednesday with Mr. David Slager, the philanthropist underwriting the $5 million initiative.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, July 30, 2010

Blind Date: Two Jews, Two Phones, One Torah

Sanford Rosenthal surfs the web using a talking computer. To find matching clothes each morning, he feels the Braille labels on his shirts. His cell phone announces the number of the caller who is trying to reach him.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, July 28, 2010

In Small Town Viroqua, Jewish Teenagers Explore Identity

Viroqua, on a ridge in the Ocooch Mountains of Southwestern Wisconsin, is 50 miles from the nearest Jewish community, an unlikely venue for a study of Jewish themes....

Sarah Lehat | News | Monday, July 26, 2010

The Stranger On The Plane [Blog]

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...

Donna Powell | News | Monday, July 19, 2010

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Friday, July 16, marks the anniversary of the passing, of Rabbi Isaac Luria on the fifth of the Hebrew month of Av.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, July 16, 2010

Aussie Rabbi Gives Peace a Chance

A Chabad rabbi was one of three representatives sent by Australia’s federal government recently, to an international peace conference hosted by a Muslim non-governmental organization in Indonesia.

R. C. Berman | News | Friday, July 16, 2010

The eighth note!

I remember way, way back in the day, when I was a Yeshivah student, I used to help a certain Chabad House every so often and spend Shabbos with them. It was a marvelous experience every time. I loved the atmosphere, the warmth and the genuine feeling of being welcomed and accepted that the Shliach and his family gave.

Benny Hershcovich | News | Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The Art of the Jew

In a recent conversation I was asked, “how do you see the Jewish people”? I was once told to that to see the soul of a masterpiece, you must step back, you must take it all in. Standing up-close and focusing on details can leave the observer looking at a hodgepodge.

Mayer Preger | News | Wednesday, July 14, 2010

A Boy For All Camps

It’s hard for the average kid to be in two places at once. But Ari Cohen is not your average kid. Last summer, the spunky six-year old became a favorite of 83 Gan Israel day camps around the world. This year, he hopes to make even more friends.

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Chabad Friendship Circles Win $20,000 Each in Chase Bank Giving Campaign

(lubavitch.com) Fourteen Friendship Circle branches across the U.S. have been voted to the top 200 in the Chase Community Giving, winning a prize of $20,000 each.

| News | Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Senior Chabad Representative, Mrs. Rivkah Hecht, 91

Rebbetzin Rivkah (Ruthie) Hecht, a pioneer of the Jewish day school movement and one of the original Chabad emissaries to New Haven, Connecticut, passed away Thursday, July 8 after a lengthy illness. She was 91.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Time Passages

Arie (Lova) Eliav, one of Israel’s most decorated citizens, born in the Soviet Union, in 1924, was a Knesset Member and leader of the Labor party. He served as the First Secretary at the Israeli embassy in Moscow. Eliav died on May 30, 2010, at age 88.

| News | Monday, July 12, 2010

For Israeli Students, Medical Training in Hungary Deepens Jewish Identity

Toasting the new graduates in Hebrew at the Hotel Intercontinental ballroom, 300 guests - proud family and friends from Israel and Budapest’s Jewish community - saluted Chabad’s role in helping the students survive their years of studies and internship. Young docs rose to thank Chabad for giving them a greater appreciation for Jewish life and thought.

R. C. Berman | News | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Old and Wise

I went to see someone in the Hospital ICU. The individual wants to sue the hospital. He’s paid every medical and insurance bill throughout his 90+ years

Mayer Prager | News | Thursday, July 8, 2010

Chabad on Campus Reaches Tipping Point

This past year, on an average Friday night, a combined total of 7,000 students took their seats at Chabad on Campus for Shabbat dinner. Some 3,479 students attended one or more of 408 Jewish study classes

R. C. Berman | News | Monday, July 5, 2010

Fourteen Chabad Centers in the Running for $20k

Some 14 Chabad centers are now within the top 200 most voted for non-profits in the U.S. The votes are accumulating on the Chase Bank Facebook, as charities compete with each other for a share of the $5 million it will be giving away on July 13.

S. Fridman | News | Friday, July 2, 2010

Medvedev First Russian President To Visit Birobidjan

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is the first Russian head of state to visit Birobidjan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. Russia's Chief Rabbi, Chabad-Lubavitch representative Berel Lazar, joined him.

| News | Friday, July 2, 2010

Chabad Opens New, First Mikvah in Seine-et-Marne, France

Some 150 people from the local Jewish community attended the opening on Monday, together with Shluchim from the area.

| News | Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Yeshiva Program Helps Jewish College Kids Gain Torah-Study Skills

In many ways Michael Friedman is no different than a lot of other college students who take a short break before in late spring, after college classes end and before the start of a summer job. This year, instead of going home or on vacation, Friedman decided he’d something different: study in yeshiva.

Amihai Tzippor | News | Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Chabad’s Bais Chana Institute Ranks Second of Top Ten NonProfits Empowering Women

The distinguished educational institution has opened its doors to thousands of women of all ages; now, on the eve of its 40th year, new doors will be opened for Bais Chana.

Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, June 28, 2010

Clark Howard Advises Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries

Every day, 3.5 million listeners tune in on over 200 radio stations nationwide to hear consumer advocate and self proclaimed penny-pincher Clark Howard dispense his timely financial advice.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, June 25, 2010

Local Chabad Center Leads Challah Baking Workshop for Deaf

Fun and tradition know no language barriers, as members of the Jewish Deaf community of Riverside discovered at a recent Challah-making workshop.

| News | Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Coast-To-Coast, Chabad Centers In Shape For Summer Season

Although the U.S. economy is predicted to slow this quarter, more than fifty percent of Americans will be vacationing this summer. And if sunbathing and mountain climbing may seem...

Dvora Lakein | News | Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Rohr JLI 12th Annual Conference Explores New Themes in Jewish Life

Some 350 Chabad rabbis from around the world came together last week for the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute conference held on the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Downtown Brooklyn. Now in its 12th year...

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Chabad Outreach Program Honors 250-Year Yahrzeit of Baal Shem Tov

Four hundred rabbinical students will begin a summer tour of duty that will take them to 2500 cities and over ten thousand communities, where they will reach out to Jewish communities worldwide.

Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Monday, June 21, 2010

In Conversation: New Chabad Representatives To Mumbai

As a rabbinical student, I spent time in Mumbai helping the Holtzbergs. Gabi was a dear friend, and I knew Mumbai and the community. But after five months there, I knew I’d never want to live there. It’s not an easy place.

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Thursday, June 17, 2010

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Appoints Full Time Representatives to Mumbai

Lubavitch World Headquarters has appointed Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman of Israel to serve as full time Chabad representatives to Mumbai.

Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Thursday, June 17, 2010

Editorial: On The Biography of A Tzaddik

Biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who passed away on the third day of Tammuz in 1994, are now making appearances in mainstream bookstores.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, June 14, 2010

Chabad Welcomes Israeli Heroes to the U.S.

Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler welcomed ten Israeli soldiers to the Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side. All ten were wounded in combat and arrived to New York as part of a trip entitled Belev Echad, “With One Heart,”

Levi Margolin | News | Thursday, June 10, 2010

First Jewish Senior Citizens Center To Open in Russia

On Wednesday June 2, several hundred Jewish community members participated at a historic groundbreaking in Vladimir, Russia, where the first Jewish senior citizens center in about 90 years is slated to open.

| News | Thursday, June 3, 2010

Saturday Night Face-Off at Yankee Stadium

Foreman, a Yarmulka clad observant Jew, is part of the IYYUN Chabad community in Brooklyn. He wears Tzizit, and wraps Tefilin daily. He is also studying to become a rabbi and hopes to be finished within three years.

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka

On August 11-12, 1942, German soldiers herded 27,000 residents of Rostov – most of them Jewish citizens – to a secluded area at the edge of the city, where they were summarily executed.

| News | Monday, May 31, 2010

Beating Dyslexia: Michael Zarchin’s Story

In 1960, when Michael Zarchin was six years old, he had yet to learn to speak normally. He could not read, write, or understand basic math. Psychiatric and medical diagnoses ranged from challenged

Amihai Zippor | News | Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Boutique Dairy Farm in Germany Goes Kosher

Germany’s kosher consumers can now enjoy a full line of locally produced boutique cheeses and milk that come from a small dairy farm near the major Northern city of Hamburg

S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jews Concerned, Not Intimidated By Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in Salonica

Chabad representative to Salonica said he refuses to become intimidated after vandals desecrated the city’s Jewish cemetery, spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on headstones and the cemetery’s walls on Friday...

| News | Monday, May 17, 2010

Who Wrote the Bible: Reclaiming The Traditional View

According to tradition, Moses wrote the Five Books after the Sinaitic revelation, as transmitted to him by G-d, and gave it to the Jewish people who passed it on from generation to generation.

R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, May 13, 2010

Dutch Government Acknowledges Failure To Protect Jews

On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland's Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, May 11, 2010

In Conversation: Natan Sharansky

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

| News | Tuesday, May 11, 2010

World Expo 2010 Jewish Visitors at Home With Chabad of Shanghai

Expo fever is raging in Shanghai. The World Expo of 2010—the largest to date—opened Saturday, May 1

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Reaching For Heaven: An Observant Jew Navigates the Skies

n the cockpit of an Air France Airbus 330, about an hour after takeoff, on a flight from Paris to Senegal, with the plane safely on auto-pilot...

| News | Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Catholic Hospital Hangs 270 Mezuzahs on Facility, A California First

When Providence Tarzana Medical Center looked to become the first San Fernando Valley hospital to hang mezuzahs in all patient areas, they turned to Chabad of the Valley for assistance.

R.C. Berman | News | Monday, May 3, 2010

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 festive.

Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, April 30, 2010

Chabad Reps Develop Hebrew Reading Learning Technique

Now children—and adults—can learn to read Hebrew in 20 hours or –less. For real. Chabad representatives in California have formally launched a new Hebrew reading program

Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, April 26, 2010

Machne Israel Development Fund Announces Major Gift

Machne Israel Development Fund announces major gift to establish the Chabad Early Childhood Initiative

Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Chabad of Central Africa Opens First Day Camp

This year, school break in Nigeria coincided with Passover. For Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chief Rabbi of Central Africa, it provided an opportunity too obvious to ignore

Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Remembering Israel's Fallen

Traffic came to a halt and people stood in silence honoring Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror Monday morning as sirens wailed across Israel. Yom Hazikaron, or Israel’s Day of Remembrance

Amihai Tzippor | News | Monday, April 19, 2010

Personal Journeys: A Child of the Holocaust

Dozens of eyes silently follow the slender man on the speaker's dais. The only sound in the hall is his voice, which captivates the audience. World War II, Nazism, Auschwitz

| News | Thursday, April 15, 2010

New Generation of Scholars Ponders Jewish Existential Issues

Is it rational to believe in the historical accuracy and divine origin of the Bible? Can Jews exist as a community without a land of their own? Is the traditional role of women in Judaism an affront to feminism?

Zalman Abraham | News | Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Kyrgyzstan Jewish Community Anxious

Protestors clashing with riot police last Wednesday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, left the small Jewish community in this Central Asian republic feeling particularly vulnerable and anxious

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, April 11, 2010

Hungarian Jews Concerned About National Elections

Hungary's Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on this Sunday's national elections, in which a right-wing extremist group

Chana Katz | News | Friday, April 9, 2010

Chabad Seders in Cusco, Peru

Despite widespread damage in January caused by Peru’s worst flooding in five years, with numerous access roads closed, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted some 700 guests for its Passover Seders in Cusco.

| News | Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Rebbe in 1964: On Jewish Education, Community, Responsibilty

The streamlined jet-age conveyance had flown the writer to New York; and vintage limousine had completed the journey to Brooklyn

Samuel Kaplan | News | Thursday, March 25, 2010

600 Chabad Rabbinical Students Set Out On Passover Tour

Six hundred Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students, itineraries in hand, will disperse to some 280 cities worldwide, in time for the Passover Seders that begin on March 29.

Staff Writer | News | Thursday, March 25, 2010

When Do We Eat?

It may not be one of the four questions, but it gets asked all the same, and this one needs to be answered before the Seder. Where will you be this year on March 29th?

| News | Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Sharansky to Jewish Students: Jewish Identity Key to Freedom

Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, drew some 20,000 listeners as he delivered a Passover web address.

B. Olidort | News | Monday, March 22, 2010

Wellesley-Weston Community Rallies To Support Flooded Chabad Center

(lubavitch.com) In the week since a massive flood devastated the Wellesley-Weston Chabad House, community members have rallied together to help clean up and rebuild.

| News | Sunday, March 21, 2010

Lubavitch.com Hosts Jewish Digerati at SXSW Festival's Kosher BBQ

New among the workshops and panels at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas, was Judaism 2.0.

Staff Writer | News | Friday, March 19, 2010

Paying for Passover

In a tight economy, it takes smarts and efficiency for Chabad representatives to bring Passover to their communities. Purchasing Passover staples, and helping out families in need adds up.

R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Leeds University Students Celebrate a Belated Bat Mitzvah

Jewish girls traditionally celebrate their coming-of-age when they turn 12. But last Sunday, seven women at Leeds University in England played catch-up

Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Volume of Chabad Encyclopedia Published

This newest volume represents just one slice of a monumental project aimed at explaining issues raised in the discourses of the Chabad Rebbes. Although the encyclopedia’s primary function

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, March 15, 2010

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

Purim Journal Part III

| News | Tuesday, March 2, 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 Journal Part II

| News | Monday, March 1, 2010

Purim Journal

| News | Friday, February 26, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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