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Chabad of Tallahassee Plants Trees in Honor of Tu B'Shvat
Chabad of Tallahassee and its community members honored of Tu B’Shvat, the “Jewish Arbor Day” earlier this week. Working with the local Department of Parks and Recreation, Chabad led families and children in planting sapling cherry trees in Lafayette Park.
Rena Greenberg | News | Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Forging Bonds, Jewish Identity At First Arizona Intercollegiate Shabbat Immersion
Some 120 Jewish students converged last weekend at Chabad at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, AZ for the first ever Arizona Intercollegiate Shabbaton.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Chabad Unveils Plans for $7 Million Jewish Russian Community Center in South Florida
Some 350 prominent guests, partnering politicians, and lay leaders attended the Chabad Russian Center of South Florida’s Inaugural Gala at the Surf Club in January, where plans to build a $7.7 million Jewish Russian Community Center in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida where unveiled.
Rena Greenberg | News | Monday, February 6, 2012
EMIH (Chabad) of Hungary To Receive Restitution Funds
The funds, geared towards revival of communal religious life, will compensate the historic religious establishments in Hungary
Staff Writer | News | Thursday, February 2, 2012
Religious Freedom In Sweden Under Threat
On January 26, Rabbi Alexander and Leah Namdar, Chabad representatives to Sweden, were served at their home with a notice by Gothenburg’s school authorities
S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Canadian Govt, Chabad Launch MS St. Louis Commemorative Project
Canada’s refusal, back in 1939, to allow landing privileges to the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 900 Jewish refugees, many of who eventually perished after being forced to return to Nazi Europe.
Neshi Rodin | News | Monday, January 30, 2012
Rohr JLI Launches Russian Chapter
With the launch of the first Russian language Rohr Jewish Learning Institute course February 6, Jews in formerly communist countries will join the ranks of their brethren everywhere else as they participate in a richer Jewish life experience with the benefit of advanced learning opportunities.
Rena Greenberg | News | Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Rabbi Mordechai Meir Bryski, Chasidic Educator and Community Activist, 88
Rabbi Mordechai Meir Bryski, a long-time educator and Brooklyn community activist passed away on January 8, 2012. He was 88.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Space to Grow for Krivoy Rog Children
Rena Greenberg | News | Monday, January 23, 2012
Jewish Community of Zaporozhye Celebrates Return of Community Synagogue
The Jewish community of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, celebrated a milestone in the city’s Jewish renaissance with the dedication January 12 of a central synagogue and community center,
Rena Greenberg | News | Thursday, January 19, 2012
Healing When Bet Shemesh Hurts
After my first visit to Bet Shemesh, when my husband and I were in the contemplation stage of aliyah
R. C. Berman | News | Monday, January 16, 2012
Chabad Rabbi Donates Kidney
A New Jersey Chabad rabbi's kidney donation to an Israeli living on a secular Moshav in central Israel didn’t grab headlines. It wasn't about the tensions between religious and secular Jews, but about a life-giving gesture of indiscriminate love by a Chasidic rabbi for a fellow Jew.
R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Forging Friendships, Preserving Memory
Holocaust survivors are a fast dwindling population. But buried with many a survivor who dies is a story of untold suffering and loss, and also, lessons of an extraordinary will for life.
Chaviva Galatz | News | Friday, January 6, 2012
Statement by Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters
Violent behaviors of individuals or groups who abuse, intimidate and insult others are a flagrant offense to Torah and tzniut (modesty), in both letter and spirit, and deserve to be unequivocally condemned.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Chabad Ontario to Open New $6 Million Overnight Camp
situated on more than 200 acres of Canadian forest with 6000 feet of lakefront property in time for this summer season.
R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Synagogue Opens in S. Petersburg Prison
The small synagogue is equipped with Torah scrolls, prayer books and other books on Judaism in Russian, donated by members of the S. Petersburg Jewish community.
Rena Greenberg | News | Sunday, January 1, 2012
Silence of Jewish Community of Lithuania Conspicuous
We condemn this news item as a vicious, transparent act of anti-Semitism. We implore readers and watchdog agencies to vigorously protest this dangerous provocation.
News | Friday, December 30, 2011
Rabbi Sholom Mendel Kalmenson, Pioneer of Jewish life in Aubervilliers, France, 90
A Jewish activist in the DP camps after the War and a pioneer of Jewish life in Aubervilliers, France, passed away Monday, December 19. He was 93.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, December 29, 2011
Unaffiliated Flatbush Jews Now Have a Center
Nearly half a million Jews call Brooklyn, New York their home. To some the image of Brooklyn Jewry is young Yeshiva boys
Rena Greenberg | News | Wednesday, December 28, 2011
In Photos: Menorah Lighting Ceremony at Utah's Governor's Mansion
150 guests from Chabad Lubavitch of Utah for a Menorah Lighting Ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City
News | Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Blog: Fit and Healthy—End or Mean?
From baseball greats Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax to boxers such as Daniel Mendoza and modern-day champ
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Chanukah With Mayor of Royall Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Councillor Julie Mills, Mayor of the Royall Borough of Kensington and Chelsea helped a child light the shamash. Professor Nechemia Polen of Boston lit the other menorah lights.
Staff Writer | News | Monday, December 26, 2011
Chanukah Warmth On Ice In Central Park
More than 1300 turned out to celebrate the first night of Chanukah on the ice at the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park, possibly the largest Chanukah party in New York City.
News | Thursday, December 22, 2011
Oxford Lights Giant Menorah On Broad Street
Lord Mayor of Oxford, Cllr Elise Benjaminparticipated in a grand menorah lighting on Broad Street,Tuesday evening, thefirst night of Chanukah. More than 150 people joined the celebration organizedby Chabad of Oxford.
News | Thursday, December 22, 2011
Chanukah in Brooklyn Heights with Borough President
Several hundred people celebrated outside Brooklyn Boro Hall's Courthouse, Tuesday night, as Brooklyn Boro President Marty Markowitz kindled the first light of the menorah with the help of Rabbi Aaron Raskin, of Chabad of Brooklyn Heights.
Staff Writer | News | Thursday, December 22, 2011
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Jewish Symbol of Brighton Beach Lit
On Tuesday, December 20th 2011, F.R.E.E. of Brighton Beach's annual grand outdoor Menorah Lighting took place drawing hundreds of families with children and many onlookers in honor of the first night of Chanukah.
Rena Greenberg | News | Wednesday, December 21, 2011
In Photos: National Menorah Draws Thousands
Thousands joined American Friends of Lubavitch for the National Menorah lighting Chanukah celebration.
Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Chicago’s First Jewish Mayor Exchanges Chanukah Greetings With Chabad Rabbi
As people everywhere usher in the first light of Chanukah, Chicago’s newly elected Mayor, Rahm Emanuel hosted Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun...
News | Wednesday, December 21, 2011
First Solar Menorah Lights Up in Woodstock, NY
The small hamlet of Woodstock, best known for lending its name to the Woodstock, now has another mark of distinction: it’s home to the world’s first solar-powered menorah.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Chicago School Children Raise Funds, Build Menorah For Israel’s Survivors of Terror
The rabbi, along with 10 boys in his Cheder class and 14 in his girls class, have gone global. Expanding the volunteer platoon, this year they launched “The World’s Most Caring Menorah.”
Yehuda Sugar | News | Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Flashback: First Public Menorah in San Francisco’s Union Square
Erected by the late Rolling Stones promoter and Holocaust survivor Bill Graham, it was known as the “mama” menorah because of the thousands of others it inspired globally.
Natasha Rosenstock | News | Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Chanukah Comes to Life with “Touch and Feel” Book
Chanukah enlivens all of the senses with its oil, light, and sweet treats. Now, award-winning author Sylvia Rouss brings the holiday experience alive for children in her new book, A Touch of Chanukah.
Chaviva Galatz | News | Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Chabad of Stockholm's Nobel Shabbat Guest
Stockholm, Sweden: The night before Israeli chemist Dan Shechtman accepted his Nobel Prize Medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden..
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, December 19, 2011
Got Lumber? Build Menorah: Home Depot Partners With Chabad In DIY Chanukah Activity
Chanukah begins Tuesday evening, December 20, but shoppers at Home Depot’s St. Louis store got an early start on the Festival of Lights last Sunday
Yehuda Sugar | News | Sunday, December 18, 2011
Worldwide Tanya Study Begins Anew
It is crunch time for students at learning institutions worldwide as they study for finals that mark the end of a school semester. But for students learning Tanya, an 18th century classic Chasidic work, today marks the beginning of a new yearly cycle of daily study.
Rena Greenberg | News | Thursday, December 15, 2011
New Rechavia Center Brings Chabad House Warmth to Jerusalem
There are more synagogues in Jerusalem than Starbucks in Manhattan, still Tully Guralnek is celebrating the opening of Jerusalem's new Chabad of Rechavia center.
R. C. Berman | News | Friday, December 9, 2011
Fear Grips Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech’s Chabad rabbi has been fielding calls since a shooter gunned down a police officer on campus early Thursday afternoon.
News | Thursday, December 8, 2011
Professor Velvl Greene, Leading Figure in the Synthesis of Scientific Advancement and the Torah, 83
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1928, Greene was raised in a Yiddish speaking home with a strong sense of Jewish identity where he cultivated a love for the language
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, December 7, 2011
A New Mikvah In Gothenburg, Sweden
In 1940, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn arrived in Gothenburg, Sweden for what would be the last stop on his harrowing rescue from war-torn Europe.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, December 5, 2011
Kosovo Jewish Cemetery Desecrated
Kosovo authorities are investigating the desecration Tuesday of a local Jewish cemetery. Swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans were sprayed on tombstones of this old cemetery restored less than six months ago.
Staff Writer | News | Thursday, December 1, 2011
New Volume Brings Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Rashi Series to the Public
Studies in Rashi, the first volume in a new series focusing on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s ground-breaking exposition of Rashi’s commentary on the Torah
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Last Chabad Survivor of 1929 Hebron Massacre Passes Away
Rabbi Sholom Ber Goldshmid passed away November 10. He was 86 years old.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Walking the Walk of the Chabad Emissary
Rabbi Sacks’s 30-minute keynote address, packed with pithy lines and weighty ideas, was both an ode to the Rebbe and a powerful primer on Jewish leadership
Baila Olidort | News | Monday, November 28, 2011
Touched By Greatness
Great Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks delivered the keynote address at the banquet session of the 28th International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries Sunday evening.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Monday, November 28, 2011
International Annual Conference of Chabad Rabbis Begins
The 28th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries began Wednesday, November 23, at the movement’s headquarters in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood.
News | Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: JMontreal Expands To Three Cities In The US
Montreal is no Anatevka, but a local matchmaking site is bringing the matchmaker back to town.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, November 23, 2011
2000 At Israeli Expo in Moscow
Representatives of real estate, tourism, health care and hi-tech industries participated at the fourth Israeli Expo in Moscow.
Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Trendsetter: Chabad of Hollywood Lakes, FL Purchases Former Church
A former church building later outfitted as a private residence will now become the “Shul of the Lakes” for the Hollywood Lakes community.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Wall Street Residents Celebrate: A New Torah Comes To Chabad
Only a stone’s throw from Zuccotti Park where protestors clashed with police last Wednesday evening, scores of Wall Street businesspeople...
Jeremy Davis | News | Monday, November 21, 2011
Blog: Jewish Community Assists Thailand Flood Victims
To put things in perspective, understand that some of these people were struggling before the floods. They lived in basic structures, only one floor high, with the bare minimum
Yaacov Behrman | News | Friday, November 18, 2011
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Blog: A Visit to the Ohel
You can barely take a step in the modern world without everyone knowing where you are and what you're up to.
Rabbi Ari Shishler | News | Thursday, November 17, 2011
Penn State Jewish Students Celebrate Unity Amid Scandal
This has been a very crazy week here at Penn State, there are lots of emotions, there are lots of tears, questions, shock...
Staff Writer | News | Thursday, November 17, 2011
First Ever Animated Siddur
Some say that the hardest thing about being Jewish is getting a good handle on Hebrew, which, in its liturgical form, is necessary for prayer and in its modern form is a gateway to global dialogue.
Chaviva Galatz | News | Thursday, November 17, 2011
Chabad in Russia With The Rebbe Rashab (1860-1920)
Thursday, Novemeber 17, the 20th day of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, marks the 151st anniversary of the birth of visionary Jewish leader and chasidic Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, November 17, 2011
Blog: A Crown Heights College Student Shabbaton, Hasidic Style
Men in dark suits brushed shoulders with jean-clad college students. Modestly dressed women strolled through aisles crowded with girls wearing sorority T-shirts and college sweaters.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Mrs. Bassie Azimov, Chabad French Matriarch
Mrs. Bassie Azimov, an important figure in spearheading the Jewish religious and cultural revival in France and senior Chabad emissary to the country, passed away today, November 14. She was 67.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Jerusalem Yeshiva Celebrates 100 Years of Teaching Jewish Leaders and Scholars
Torat Emet has to its credit, produced hundreds of Torah scholars, Jewish rabbis and thinkers. Among its illustrious graduates were the Chasidic rebbes of Lelov...
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Brazil Chabad Wows Kids with High Tech School and Torah Stickers
Alpern is planning to unveil an alternative day school that he believes will radically alter the Jewish education experience
Jeremy Davis | News | Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Rovno Jews Commemorate Massacre
Hundreds of Jewish residents commemorated 70 years since the Rovno Massacre at memorial events around Rovno, Ukraine Monday, November 14...
Yaacov Behrman | News | Monday, November 14, 2011
Chabad Of Palo Alto Showcases $6 Million Building Project
Chabad-Lubavitch of the Greater South Bay area kicked off a $6 million building project with a celebration concert last week at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto. Piano
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, November 14, 2011
International Campus Shabbaton Kicks Off In NYC
Upwards of 850 Jewish collegians will spend this weekend in Brooklyn at an annual Chabad on Campus Jewish Student Shabbaton and Conference.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, November 10, 2011
Seamless Transitions from College to Israel and Back Makes In-Marriage Happen
Atop Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, dancers at Pascale Gozlan's wedding pulsed to a Sephardic middle eastern beat. Grooving along with the radiant groom, Tomer Chazan
Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Thursday, November 10, 2011
Third Chabad Center Opens in Shanghai
Shanghai’s Jewish community turned out en masse to celebrate the formal opening of a new Chabad center in the heart of the city’s downtown area
Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Blog: The Rebbe & The Chinese Censor
His best-selling autobiography, Do Not Raise Your Hand Against the Boy, originally published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, had recently been published in China.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Hundreds Convene in Washington in Support of Lubavitch
Partisan fighting, political gridlock, and a congressional popularity rating of only 9% have become the norm in Washington. But in a rare show of bi-partisanship,
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Trending Topics: Natan Sharansky Praises Work of Chabad at Federation General Assembly
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, November 7, 2011
Hamburg Elects Chief Rabbi
After being without a chief rabbi for three years, the city state of Hamburg formally elected Chabad’s Rabbi Shlomo Bistritsky to the position Monday evening.
Staff Writer | News | Monday, November 7, 2011
Chabad At Western Washington University Purchases New Building
The last phase in a new building project for Chabad of Bellingham, WA was completed last month with the purchase of a 4,800 square foot building located just off campus at Western Washington University.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, November 7, 2011
Hundreds Attend Dedication of New Hospital in Equatorial Guinea.
Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, the Chabad Lubavitch emissary to Central Africa, offered greetings at hospital’s inauguration and affixed a mezuzah on the hospital’s front door.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, November 6, 2011
Chabad of Cannes Greets G20 Guests
Will Greece abandon the euro? Will it leave the EU? Will China invest more in the eurozone bailout? Did Sarkozy appreciate Obama’s joke?
News | Thursday, November 3, 2011
Reaching Souls, Empowering Women: Rabbi Manis Friedman
Few rabbis have had the impact on Jewish women seeking spiritual meaning and direction as Rabbi Manis Friedman whose gift for listening is matched with his gift for teaching in clear, simple, blessedly platitude free terms.
Lubavitch News Service | News | Thursday, November 3, 2011
US Ambassador to Israel Visits Chabad at Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange
On Tuesday, November 1, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro visited the Chabad house at the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange, where he met with Hagai Halevi...
Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Blog: Sukkot and Safari in Kenya
A hundred years after the Kenyan Jewish community built their first synagogue in Nairobi, I celebrated Sukkot there.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Friendship Circle Team To Run In NYC Marathon
After a successful debut in the ING NYC Marathon last year, Team Friendship will run again this Sunday, November 6 to benefit Friendship Circle International
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Rabbi Aaron Chitrik, Renowned Authority on Ancient Manuscripts, 73
a renowned expert on Hebrew manuscripts, tasked with preparing and annotating some 300 volumes of archival documents from Chabad’s Central Library
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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Jon Huntsman Prays At Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Resting Place
News | Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Studies in Rashi
Studies in Rashi, contains 12 complete essays on Chumash Bereishit. The essays are presented, for the first time, in a bi-lingual Hebrew/English format.
News | Tuesday, November 1, 2011
BLOG: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
On its website, Point Lobos is described as the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. That and more is what we found on a recent visit to this Northern California nature reserve.
Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, November 1, 2011
At China's Largest Export Fair, Chabad Provides Oasis
Women count on La-Tweez products to pluck arches to perfection, but at Guangzhou's mega-China Import and Export Canton Fair, it was La Tweez's CEO Eran Israel who raised his eyebrows as he saw hundreds drawn to Chabad's services there.
R.C. Berman | News | Monday, October 31, 2011
A T-Shirt With An Eternal Message
Whether you’re on a plane to Israel, in Brooklyn, or spending time in Central Park in New York City, you can’t miss Rabbi Chayim Boruch Alevsky
Chaviva Galatz | News | Wednesday, October 26, 2011
CSU Student To Be Remembered On Campus At Chabad
Friends of Sascha Julia Franzel wish they could have celebrated her 20th birthday in Chabad's sukkah at Colorado State University.
R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, October 25, 2011
First Times Square Sukkah Inspires Friendship and Goodwill
Move over Broadway. This year New York City’s Times Square district welcomed its first sukkah, offering residents and tourists an opportunity for a temporary change of space and pace.
Yedida Wolfe | News | Monday, October 24, 2011
Israeli Consul to Russia celebrates Gilad Shalit’s Release with Chabad
As word of Gilad Shalt’s release from Gaza broke Tuesday afternoon in Israel, Chabad’s emissaries to the Russian Federation, joined members of the Israeli embassy in celebration. Arriving at the courtyard of the embassy in Moscow, they set up a portable sukkah.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Egypt Balks, But Jewish Community Averts Lulav Crisis
Just weeks before the holiday of Sukkot was set to begin, Egypt announced it would not sell palm fronds (lulavim) necessary for the upcoming Jewish holiday. Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture approached its neighbors for help and built up its own supply.
Yedida Wolfe | News | Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Blog: After the Fast, Food For Thought
As a little girl, I imagined people “doing Teshuva” bent over a workbench pounding away with a heavy hammer to achieve something.
Baila Olidort | News | Monday, October 10, 2011
Staying Attuned on the Day of Atonement
News | Friday, October 7, 2011
At Wall Street Protests, Some Pause to Hear Shofar, Pray for New Year
Thousands of protesters continued to flood the streets of Manhattan's Financial District in what has become the 20th day - which reached the largest numbers to date -- of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, October 6, 2011
EU Parliament President blows Shofar
Last month, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek hosted a reception in honor of the Jewish New Year at the Parliament building in Brussels.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Tuesday, October 4, 2011
INTERVIEW: Choice and Consequence
Chana Silberstein has been the Chabad representative to Cornell University, Ithaca College, and surrounding areas since 1984. She has created and implemented Jewish educational programs in a variety of formal
Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Next Frontier in Chabad Outreach: Young Jewish Professionals
With a bevy of educational and social services dedicated to nearly every Jewish demographic, from preschoolers to senior citizens
Baila Olidort | News | Sunday, October 2, 2011
Editorial: To A Year of Living Courageously
In this din of madness where the discourse about Israel has been hijacked and scripted to satisfy a selective audience, we find leaders who are followers
Baila Olidort | News | Monday, September 26, 2011
At UN, Netanyahu Cites Rebbe’s Advice
Despite the overwhelmingly anti-Israel sentiment that pervaded the U.N. General Assembly today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel
Mendy Rimler | News | Friday, September 23, 2011
Hope Behind the Headlines:A Year of Shake-Ups Inspires Reflection, Action
Japan's 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster six months ago left Chabad of Tokyo representative Rabbi Mendi Sudakevich ...
R.C. Berman | News | Friday, September 23, 2011
Vienna Celebrates Opening of New Synagogue, Jewish Heritage Center
The center, with study halls, classrooms, a library and a kosher kitchen will serve the religious needs of the hundreds of Jewish students attending the Lauder Business School.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Chabad of Yale Breaks Ground on New Building
Members and supporters of Chabad at Yale University, including Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal
News | Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Melbourne, Australia: Chabad Youth, Yeshivah College Complete $6 Million Building
The building, six years in the making, “will finally provide a home for our programs, and a heightened sense of belonging and identity for Jewish youth...
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Blog: Jewish in Cambodia
For about a year, between the summers of 2009 and 2010, I lived in Southeast Asia. Cambodia to be exact. I was hired at a Western-run private elementary...
Bethany Shondark Mandel | News | Monday, September 19, 2011
New Jersey Jewish Legal Symposium Draws Hundreds to Evening of Discussion and Thought
Last week, 500 attorneys and judges from the tri-state area packed the Hanover Marriott in Whippany, NJ to attend the 5th annual Jewish Law Symposium.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, September 18, 2011
Michel Schwartz, 85
Michel Schwartz, a renowned artist responsible for designing some of the Chabad movement’s most iconic imagery, passed away Friday, September 9. He was 85.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, September 16, 2011
Reviving Jewish Life, Pride in Albania and Montenegro
Jewish life in Albania and Montenegro, which has been flat lining since the Holocaust, got a jolt this week. Montenegro took steps to accord Judaism official status
R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Blog: Suncoast Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah
As the tears flooded my eyes, I felt the greatest pride in our Jewish People and in the Bar Mitzvah "boy," 83 years old, chanting his Haftorah for the first time in a life interrupted by Nazi atrocities.
Beverly R. Newman, Ed.D | News | Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The 9-11 Diary: Hitler Vs. Osama
As we approach the 10th anniversary since the 9-11 terror attack on the World Trade Center, I wish to share with you the story of an interesting 9-11 diary.
Rabbi YY Jacobson | News | Thursday, September 8, 2011
Chabad Greets Israeli Delegation To Moscow
Rabbi Yakov Fridman, Chairman of Chabad of Moscow's Division for Hebrew-speakers, met Friday with Israel's Ambassador to Moscow, Ms. Dorit Goldiner...
News | Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Help children with special needs. One click. That was easy!
The generous folks at Tom’s of Maine are currently running a campaign on their website, and are asking members of the public to vote for a worthy cause.
News | Monday, September 5, 2011
Coping with Uncertainty, Working for Unity, Chabad in Israel Greets the New Year
Four out of Chabad's 24 preschools in the coastal city of Ashkelon, a target of Gaza rocket attacks, remain without secure shelters.
News | Thursday, September 1, 2011
Israel's President Peres Opens School Year At Chabad School
Israel’s President Shimon Peres opened the school year in Israel Thursday morning with a visit to Chabad’s elementary school in Ir Ganim, Jerusalem. Accompanying him was Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat.
News | Thursday, September 1, 2011
Themes of Jewish Life and Texts Explored at National Jewish Retreat
The National Jewish Retreat concluded its annual program earlier this week. Hosted at the Hyatt Regency of Greenwich, CT
News | Thursday, August 25, 2011
New Volume on History of Chabad
Kehot Publication Society released a new Hebrew volume on the history of Chabad in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
News | Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Rest Stop: Tourists, Truckers, Soldiers, Seekers Refresh in Chabad's Mack Truck
IDF soldier Matan Cohen, serving at Shimshon base in the lower Galilee, climbs into the trailer of a 16-wheeler truck to wrap tefillin...
RC Berman | News | Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Maccabi Games Conclude in Lower Merion
The 2011 JCC Maccabi games concluded Thursday, August 18, in Philadelphia. The games are designed to provide Jewish athletes the world over the opportunity to share their heritage and customs in a competitive athletic settings.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, August 22, 2011
Jerome J. Shestack, Trusted Devotee of Lubavitcher Rebbe
Chabad-Lubavitch mourns the passing August 18, of Jerry Shestack, a distinguished attorney and outspoken activist for human and civil rights, Israel and Soviet Jewry.
News | Monday, August 22, 2011
A Shattered Peace
The coordinated, multistage attack on Eilat that left seven Israelis dead and more than 10 wounded on Thursday has shaken the tranquility of Israel's southern resort city.
RC Berman | News | Monday, August 22, 2011
Sun, Surf and Shabbos On Spain’s Sun Coast
For the kosher traveler, vacationing often requires more careful packing and planning. Outside of well traveled Jewish destinations, kosher restaurants
News | Friday, August 19, 2011
Chabad Leads New Wave Jewish Outreach
They are not seeking spirituality, but the 400 young professionals who filled the trendy Splash club in downtown Boston Tuesday night know how to enjoy a good party.
News | Thursday, August 18, 2011
As Calm Returns to England, Leaders Consider Roots of Rioting
After nearly a week of rioting and chaos, a sense of calm has finally returned to the streets in cities across the United Kingdom.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, August 15, 2011
First Yeshiva Opens in Central Africa
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), home to the Congo River, the most powerful river in Africa and deepest in the world, now has another source of pride. It has become host to the first Yeshiva in Central Africa.
News | Sunday, August 7, 2011
Roving Rabbis travel across Uruguay
News | Thursday, August 4, 2011
Recovering Lives, And Judaism: Chabad In Utah Reaches Out To Troubled Teens
“Soon after Daniel began camp in Switzerland, we got a message on our phone one Saturday night that Daniel was already on a plane back to America and would be arriving shortly,” says Alan Rubenstien, an accountant.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, August 4, 2011
Kherson Citizens Vote Chabad Rabbi Among Most Influential
News of Kherson readers voted for Rabbi Wolff, Kherson's chief rabbi, from among a list of ten contenders. Earning the other top spots were a security minister, a business mogul who ran for mayor, and a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Biking Rabbis Explore Jewish History of the Deep South
We passed through Jackson, MS on our way to Natchez. Hitting several rough spots on the road, we wore out four tires during the forty-mile stretch
News | Monday, August 1, 2011
At Jewish Education Conference, Teachers Study Today's Child
A child born into a world saturated by the wonders of the internet makes for a student who feels entitled to a highly individualized environment.
R.C. Berman | News | Monday, August 1, 2011
Chabad to Open Permanent Home at Wesleyan University.
With one of the highest proportions of Jewish students at any campus, Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, will finally have its on-site Chabad representatives.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, August 1, 2011
Judge Removes Circumcision Vote From Ballot
Rabbi Gil Leeds, a San Francisco mohel and director of Chabad at Berkeley has been getting a lot of “mazel tovs” since Judge Loretta Giorgi removed the proposal to ban male circumcisions in San Francisco yesterday.
News | Friday, July 29, 2011
IDF Soldiers, US College Students Bond Over BBQ
Elizabeth Ben Abraham saw soldiers everywhere in Israel, toting machine guns in buses, malls, restaurants. Only at a barbecue on an army base did the California State University of Northridge student notice how young they are.
News | Friday, July 29, 2011
Chabad Representatives Launch Worldwide Talmud Study For Leiby Kletzky
Chabad representatives in communities around the world launched a worldwide Talmud study program in memory of Leiby Kletzky.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, July 28, 2011
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Blog: The traveling program teaches the laws of Kosher while pickling and the classic dill.
Grand Performances, an organization reflecting Los Angeles’s culture and community turned the light on the cultural diversity and history of LA's Boyle Heights neighborhood.
News | Wednesday, July 27, 2011
As Israel's Protest Tents Grow, Chabad Rabbis Counsel Calm
Tel Hai College student union organizer Aviad Rosenfeld pitched his tent alongside dozens of others in this Kiryat Shmona protest against soaring housing prices
R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Be'er Sheva's Largest, Newest Jewish Center Draws Crowds
Chabad of Beer Sheva has a new, four story home. Dedicated earlier this month, the interior, tiled in desert palette of neutrals...
R.C. Berman | News | Monday, July 25, 2011
Young Abraham Animated Film Wins Audiences
The last scene in Young Abraham is a showdown between Nimrod, king of Ur Kasdim and biblical Abraham, ending as Abraham emerges from a furnace before a nation of converted idolaters and a repentant King Nimrod.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Detroit Jewish Community Breaks Ground On New Yeshiva Building
Despite sweltering temperatures in Oak Park, MI, more than 300 people turned out Sunday to participate in the groundbreaking of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman Campus.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, July 18, 2011
Israelis Now Dial *3770 For Chabad’s Call Center
Three more workstations in the *3770 corner are waiting to be filled by Chabad representatives. Until then overflow calls bounce to Kirshurit's other call handlers, who access Chabad's database of phone numbers and instant message Rabbi Shmulevitz with tougher questions.
R.C. Berman | News | Monday, July 18, 2011
Site of Holy Ark Uncovered in Excavations of Great Synagogue of Vilnius
News | Friday, July 15, 2011
PM Netanyahu Salutes Chabad of the FSU
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was guest of honor at a Tel Aviv banquet Thursday evening, celebrating 20 years of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, July 14, 2011
Chabad Lubavitch Grieves With World Jewish Community
The Chabad-Lubavitch international community joins the entire Jewish people in mourning the tragic murder of young Leibby Kletzky, of blessed memory.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Thursday, July 14, 2011
Chabad's Got Game
Of his pack of 15 friends, Aviel is the only one who regularly wears a kipa at the Kiryat Haim public high school. Aviel Aviseris, 14, likes standing out from the crowd, but he doesn't want to be a loner.
R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, July 14, 2011
Books: A Petition to Queen Wilhelmina for Jewish Orphans
On March 29, 1948, —approximately three years after much of European Jewry was annihilated—Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, sixth Rebbe in the Chabad dynasty, wrote to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, July 12, 2011
New Anti-Bullying Program Announced At Friendship Circle Conference
A new anti-bullying program titled Defeat The Label (DTL) was announced at the annual Friendship Circle conference last week in West Bloomfield, MI.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Senior Chabad Representative, Rabbi Zalman Kazen, 92
Rabbi Zalman Kazen, patriarch of a well known Chabad family, passed away Sunday at the age of 92. Rabbi Kazen, a Chabad disciple of the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson, and later of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, served as rabbi of the Tzemach Tzedek shul in Cleveland, Ohilo.
By Baila Olidort | News | Sunday, July 10, 2011
Chabad to Open Israel's First Community-Based Friendship Circle
Two weeks ago, Tal Cohen of Kiryat Bialik stood before the Torah and uttered the words common to bar mitzvah boys around the world
R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, July 6, 2011
25,000 To Visit Rebbe's Resting Place
At 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard, in Cambria Heights, Queens, a small, single story cape house on a tree-lined residential street, preparations are in high gear. Over a 24-hour period beginning Monday evening, an estimated 25,000 visitors will arrive here from every part of the world.
Baila Olidort | News | Monday, July 4, 2011
A Jewish Community Grows On Nun's Island
In December 2010, Rabbi Levi and Mushkie Itkin arrived to Nun’s Island in Verdun, QC, where Jewish religious infrastructure was non-existent.
Levi Margolin | News | Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Netherlands Bill Threatens Religious Freedom
Many insist that ritual slaughter is no worse than stunning. Jewish and Muslim groups regard the ban as an infringement on their right to practice their faith.
News | Wednesday, June 29, 2011
As Athens Riots, Chabad Stays Focused
In a scene that is becoming all too familiar, protesters in Athens, Greece, armed with sticks, rocks and tear gas attacked local law enforcement in the square outside of the Parliament building Tuesday.
Jessica Pollack | News | Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Chabad To Open Day Care in Rechavia
Although toddlers are a minority in Rechavia, day care spots are hard to come by. Come September, Chabad's new representatives in Rechavia will ease the crunch by opening a creative day care program.
RC Berman | News | Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Chabad Representative Help Place Evacuees of New Mexico Wildfire
Authorities ordered residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico to evacuate Monday after the fast-spreading 44,000 acre blaze threatened the town.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, June 27, 2011
European Rabbis to EU: Cancel Kosher Labeling Laws
Passing kosher labeling laws will be a devastating blow for Jews on the continent, warned leaders speaking at a conference called by the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) this week.
News | Thursday, June 23, 2011
Chabad of Huntington Launches New Building Campaign
Home to the headquarters of major corporations like Sbarro food chain, Nikon, and now, Canon USA, Melville NY is attracting young families. With the launch of a $3.5 million building campaign...
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, June 20, 2011
Books: Irregular Appearances
Our food comes in plastic shrink packaging; our cars are produced by robots. Appearances count. Stores, gas stations, restaurants, look reliably the same wherever we go. We are put at ease by predictability, and find the cool, standardized perfection comforting
Shmuel Klatzkin | News | Monday, June 20, 2011
Chabad of Tel Aviv: New Awakenings in the City that Never Sleeps
Camp registration in a Chabad center that faces Tel Aviv University's bright white buildings is open, but it's not for kids. Or men.
R. C. Berman | News | Friday, June 17, 2011
Infinite Business: Applying the Breakthrough Thinking of the Rebbe
Domenico Lepore is an anomaly. Like many Jews, he studies the weekly Torah reading, often with commentaries that range from the Maimonidean to the mystical.
Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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Jewish Resident of Rome, Italy, Murdered
About 600 people attended the funeral Wednesday morning, of a member of Rome’s Jewish community who was murdered, his body found outside his home earlier this week.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Dual Quakes Rock New Zealand
The Christchurch Chabad center – located in the cordoned-off section of the city – sustained major damage in the February quake and was marked by officials for demolition. But Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, Director of Chabad in New Zealand looks forward to rebuilding there, pending action by the city.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, June 13, 2011
On the Golan Heights, Jewish Communities Stand Together
Despite the headlines and the number of Syrians rushing at the border fences, Golan Heights residents brush off the suggestion that their part of Israel is dangerous or in danger of being negotiated away.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, June 13, 2011
Anti-Semitism in the UK On the Rise, But Jewish Life Thrives
Last month, a small English city called Leicester grabbed headlines when Rabbi Shmuli Pink, Chabad representative there was targeted by anti-Semitic vandals. In three separate attacks, bricks shattered the windows of Pink’s home and car, shaking the 300 strong Jewish community.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, June 6, 2011
US College Students Deepen Jewish Identity, Israel Advocacy
Rebecca Abeles, a cognitive science major, challenged the rabbi's claims by quoting a thought from the Tanya, a work of Chasidic philosophy written in the 18th century.
R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, June 2, 2011
Ireland's Only Jewish Member of Parliament, Now Minister of Justice, Equality and Defense
Alan Shatter, Ireland's only Jewish member of Parliament, was appointed the new Minister for Justice, Equality and also Minister for Defense. Following last week’s parliamentary election
News | Thursday, June 2, 2011
Dutch Ban on Ritual Slaughter Likely to Fail
Rabbis and lay-members of Holland’s Jewish community are lobbying against a bill now under debate in the Dutch Parliament. If passed, the bill would effectively ban kosher and other forms of ritual slaughter in the Netherlands.
M. Lightstone | News | Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Old City of Jerusalem Landmark: Chabad Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue
Joel Haber | News | Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Michigan Friendship Circle Honors Teen Volunteers
The teens, who are typically between twelve to fifteen years old, are overcoming inertia with initiative by befriending these children
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, May 30, 2011
New Hampshire Jewish Community Breaks Ground on New Center
Upon completion, the Chabad Center for Jewish Living will feature New Hampshire’s first state-of-the-art mikvah, a synagogue, and a library with a stone hearth fire place.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, May 30, 2011
Spiritual, Organic Jewish Living In Bat Ayin
The road to Bat Ayin, about an hour out of Jerusalem, is carved into curvaceous hills. Getting there requires a stop at a checkpoint for a once-over from a young IDF soldier.
R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, May 26, 2011
Chabad in Canberra Secures Building for Jewish Day School
After opening a mikvah last February, Chabad in Canberra is working at a steady clip, building a strong infrastructure for Canberra’s 2,000 Jewish residents
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, May 26, 2011
In Final Countdown To Chase Giving, Chabad Centers Want Your Vote
With only seven hours remaining in Chase’s Community Giving contest, friends of Chabad around the world are rushing to cast votes for their favorite institutions.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Editor's Blog: First Impressions at AIPAC
In recent times, it is not only the predictable UN and Israel’s sworn enemies that paint her with darkness and lies.
Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Blog: Memories of Joplin
It was a duplex in red brick, and we had an island in our kitchen that I loved. When we were looking to move there in the early/mid-1980s
Chaviva Galatz | News | Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Chabad of Sweden Opens Summer Camp for Boys
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, May 23, 2011
Paula Abdul: Shabbat Candle-lighting a Source of Inspiration
JLI’s new course, Oasis in Time; The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World, which launched this spring, has received wide support from celebrities nation-wide. Paula Abdul, popular pop singer..
News | Friday, May 20, 2011
Chabad of San Francisco Raises Awareness About Circumcision
After city officials confirmed Wednesday that a proposition to ban circumcision in San Francisco has garnered enough votes
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, May 19, 2011
Chabad Honors Israel’s Soldiers
Referring to the recent attempts by Arabs to breach Israel’s borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, Aharoni pointed to the soldiers who bodily protected the citizens and the borders of Israel.
Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Chabad Representatives Witness Border Breach
Bracha Leah Sassonkin’s front door stands just over 300 feet from Israel’s border with Lebanon. The view she had yesterday of the attempt by Palestinians pouring out of buses trying to breach Israel’s border was too close for comfort.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, May 16, 2011
New Albany Jewish Community Inaugurates Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center
Some 450 supporters celebrated the inauguration of the Chabad Center in New Albany, Ohio last Thursday.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, May 16, 2011
Mrs. Henya Schusterman, Chasidic Matriarch, 90
Mrs. Henya Chasha Schusterman, a respected member of the Crown Heights Chasidic community and the matriarch of a prominent Chabad family, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2011. She was 90.
News | Friday, May 13, 2011
Dr. Yaacov Hanoka, Pioneer in Alternative Energy and Jewish Campus Outreach, 75
Dr. Yaacov Hanoka, an innovator in green technology and photovoltaic and solar energy, as well as a pioneer in Jewish outreach on campus, passed away Sunday, May 8, 2011. He was 75.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, May 12, 2011
Senior Member of Chabad Leadership, 84.
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, dean of the Central Lubavitcher Yeshivah in Brooklyn, and a senior member of Chabad’s central leadership, passed away yesterday...
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Wednesday, May 11, 2011
A First Since Holocaust: Old Dutch Synagogue Opens for Friday Night Services
While the debate about bill banning kosher slaughter continues in the Dutch parliament, the Jewish community of Amsterdam enjoyed a historic experience when the old Gerard Dou street Synagogue...
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Hate Fests on College Campuses Challenge Jewish Students To Bolster Identity
While Israel celebrates Independence Day today, Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine will have a hard time ignoring
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Chabad Representative At Israeli Embassy In Moscow
At a ceremony Monday marking Israel's Memorial Day on the grounds of the Israeli embassy in Moscow, Rabbi Yakov Fridman, Chabad rabbia nd Chairman of the Committee for Israelis in Moscow...
News | Monday, May 9, 2011
Children at the Shabbos Table: Dreams of A Holocaust Survivor
Time has blurred the A-4890 tattoo on Margot Dzialoszynski arm. At 85, she hesitates before offering details about how she survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Gross-Rosen and Bergen Belsen.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Monday, May 9, 2011
CTeens Prepares for Year End Meet
CTeen – the Chabad Teen Network – is gearing up for its regional year-end celebrations in the Northeast, Southeast, West Coast and Montreal.
Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky | News | Sunday, May 8, 2011
CHASIDIC TEXT OF 1882 PUBLISHED
A new volume in the series of Chasidic discourses by the fourth leader of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn, covering the year 5642/1882, has just been released by the Kehot Publication Society.
News | Friday, May 6, 2011
bin Laden's End: A Moment of Moral Clarity
News | Thursday, May 5, 2011
Blog/Jack Wertheimer: "Chabad Calls A Spade A Spade"
About ten years ago a Chabad rabbi came and set up a Chabad house at Harvard. Chabad is a movement which when I was growing up was more or less non-existent.
News | Thursday, May 5, 2011
Jewish Teenagers, Please Stand Up!
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's teen division has announced a partnership with a Washington, D.C. based consulting group.
News | Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Rabbinical Students To Bike Coast-to-Coast for Friendship Circle
Three rabbinical students will bike coast-to-coast this summer to benefit Friendship Circle International.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Hundreds At March Of the Living Don Tefillin With Chabad
Thousands of participants in the March of the Living marched Monday from the gate of Auschwitz to Birkenau, where a memorial ceremony was held at a monument to the camp’s victims.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, May 3, 2011
BLOG: My Passover Seder in Cusco, Peru
A few weeks before Passover, I logged in to my account on the Lubavitch Headquarters Shlichus placement website, and saw that I’d be going with a few friends to run a Seder in Cusco, Peru.
News | Monday, May 2, 2011
Israeli Documentary on Rescue of Previous Rebbe from Nazi Occupied Poland
From Berlin, the Rebbe and his entourage made contact with Latvian diplomats, who brought them to Riga - and from there to America.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, May 2, 2011
Messod and Michal Wizman Laid To Rest in Jerusalem
Scores attended the Jerusalem funeral of the young couple murdered last week in the Marrakesh terrorist bombing.
News | Monday, May 2, 2011
JLI Course To Examine Shabbat: Disentangling The Wired Self
Senator Joseph Lieberman has contributed a two-page foreword to the upcoming course. Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World, the course examines the possibilities
News | Sunday, May 1, 2011
Chabad Rabbi to Council of Europe: Government Intervention and Silent Prayer Help Interfaith Relations
Government's role in promoting intercultural relations is to ensure that “no religious denomination will bring ideas of violence or extremism to the people
R. C. Berman | News | Sunday, May 1, 2011
Jewish Communities Mourn Murders at Marrakesh Café
Jewish communities on two continents are mourning the murder of a young couple killed in the Marrakesh explosion Thursday morning.
News | Friday, April 29, 2011
Single Moms Find Compassion, Support, at Bais Chana
The reality is a lot harsher, as one-time presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee commented in an interview that set off the media blitz.
News | Thursday, April 28, 2011
Guma and Jamie Aguiar Continue Partnership With Chabad: Make Last Minute Passover Gift to Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters
Gift Honors Maimonides’ Birthday, 14 Nissan
News | Monday, April 18, 2011
Chairman of Fastest Growing Jewish Organization Named Most Influential Rabbi
Newsweek’s Daily Beast named Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational and social services divisions, and the longtime secretary to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
News | Sunday, April 17, 2011
Chabad of Israel Remembers The Fifth Son
It’s 11 p.m., Thursday night before Passover, and Rabbi Menachem Friedman of Chabad in Har Adar, a half hour from central Jerusalem, is still inviting complete strangers to the Seder.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Sunday, April 17, 2011
Ieladeinu Argentina Dedicates New Building
The seven story, $2.7 million facility in Buenos Aires , will also serve as headquarters for the Chabad Foundation a social service that
Mendy Rimler | News | Saturday, April 16, 2011
At Twitter Chat #Exodus11, A Young Woman Finds Passover
Like many Twitter users, twenty four-year old Leslie Gacsalyi joined #Exodus11 last night -- a pre-Passover Twitter chat hosted by @Lubavitch, the official Twitter handle of Lubavitch.com
Mendy Rimler | News | Friday, April 15, 2011
In Conversation With Naftali Loewenthal
Naftali Loewenthal caught my interest about twenty years ago when his book, Communicating the Infinite, was issued by Chicago University Press. The Chabad Chasid, a Ph.D in Jewish history
Baila Olidort | News | Friday, April 15, 2011
Construction of New Visitor Center to Begin at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Perched on a bluff facing the Wall with a view of the Temple Mount, the center will provide guests a quiet space to reflect on their visit to Israel’s holiest site.
Baila Olidort | News | Thursday, April 14, 2011
Major Swedish TV Network Turns A Lens On Chabad, Jewish Family Life
By the hundreds of thousands, Swedes tuned into SVT2, Sweden’s biggest TV network last Wednesday to watch a new TV series, From Sweden to Heaven.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Israel's Bar Mitzvah Orphan Boys Visit With PM
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed to his office on Monday, a group of 13 year old boys celebrating their Bar Mitvah...
News | Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Out of Egypt in 2011
News | Monday, April 11, 2011
Susie Fishbein Demonstrates Passover Cooking At Chabad
With Passover just around the corner, Passover cooks are scratching their heads for a tastier way to prepare the Seder and festive meals despite the holiday’s considerable dietary restrictions.
Mendy Rimler | News | Sunday, April 10, 2011
Statement By Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters
Friday evening, after the onset of Shabbat, authorities confirmed new information about the explosion that occurred Thursday, April 7 near the Chabad House in Santa Monica, leading them to regard this as an intentional incident.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Saturday, April 9, 2011
Ascent in Safed Doubles Size
Ascent, a center for Jewish edu-tourism in Safed, offering mystical Jewish experiences since the early 1980s, signed a mortgage on the nearby Tel Aviv Hotel in time for the Passover tourism rush.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, April 7, 2011
New Book: STAYING THE COURSE
The Lubavitch publishing house, Kehot Publication Society, has just released Staying the Course: a Collection of Discourses by the Chabad Rebbes on the Inseparable Bond between Rebbe and Chasid.
News | Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Dartmouth Student Presents Winning Paper at Sinai Scholars Conference
In a conference room buzzing with the excitement, passion and curiosity of young minds and seasoned scholars, university students and preeminent academics...
Chava Zviklin | News | Tuesday, April 5, 2011
A Community of Leaders: Cteen Takes a Grassroots Approach
This past February, a small group of individuals met in Teaneck, NJ, to talk about launching a new program that would engage local teenagers with community events...
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, April 4, 2011
At American Hebrew Academy, Students Do a Mitzvah for a Friend
Many students also pledged to take on an extra mitzvahs for Zachary, which they recorded on a Facebook page. One student resolved to wear a kippa from now on, said Zachary’s mom Lisa Shporer.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, March 31, 2011
WRITER'S NOTEBOOK : A European Aliyah?
A highlight of the Knesset tour for the JNF-KKL leadership came when Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Reporters Blog: At The JNF Conference, Warm Words for Chabad
Before entering the Knesset screening room, Vice President of the JNF, Women's Campaign, Terry Katz of Bala Cynwyd, PA...
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Budding Coral Springs Community Synagogue Celebrates Its Own Torah
The event was also an exciting first for the Synagogue which did not have its own Torah until now, and 300 area residents came out to celebrate.
News | Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Japan Earthquake: A Personal Account
Shabbat comes once a week here in Tokyo just like anywhere else but because of time zones and the international date line it comes "earlier"
Israel Barker | News | Monday, March 28, 2011
Chabad of Beijing Opens Jewish Museum
In recent years, the Chinese government has renovated several historic synagogues. With this building, said Freundlich, Chabad of Beijing is showing its thanks to the government...
Mendy Rimler | News | Sunday, March 27, 2011
Professor Dershowitz To Norway’s Jews: Take Courage
Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz met with leading members of Oslo’s Jewish community at the city’s Chabad House last week, where he spoke about Norway's extreme anti-Israel, anti-Semitic attitudes.
Baila Olidort | News | Sunday, March 27, 2011
New Haggadah Ideal Seder Companion
With Commentary from the Classic Commentators, Midrash, Kabbalah, the Chasidic Masters and the Haggadah of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was released by Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad Lubavitch publishing house, in time for Passover.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, March 25, 2011
Technology and Teachers: A Happy Marriage At New City Hebrew Academy
Technology is changing the way people socialize and do business, and schools nationwide are investing in more technology in education as well.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Building Jewish Identity @SXSW Festival With Chabad
For the social media and digital crowd, the annual South By Southwest Interactive (SXSW) festival held in Austin, Texas, has become a hot destination.
Yanky Nemon | News | Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Editorial: Of Haman and The Wicked Son
Today, when even the murder of Jewish babies in their sleep fails to garner unequivocal condemnation, it is refreshing to be reminded that it is not only acceptable, but it is a moral imperative to identify and extirpate evil without equivocation.
Baila Olidort | News | Monday, March 21, 2011
Chabad of Tokyo Reopened for Purim, Public Seder Planned
Purim with Chabad of Tokyo usually calls for several parties, multiple megillah readings, and lots of food for Jewish locals, military and embassy workers. Things were different this year.
Rebecca Rosenthal | News | Monday, March 21, 2011
Chabad Brings Purim To Students on Spring Break
For the last three years, the Purim party at Chabad at the University of Texas in Austin has been a major attraction for the school’s 4,000 Jewish students.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, March 18, 2011
SOS Megillah: Chabad in Israel Brings Purim to Shops, Cops, and Soldiers
Can’t find a megillah reading? Residents of Judea and Samaria call the “SOS Megillah” hotline and Rabbi David Dahan, Chabad’s representative in Tekoa...
R. C. Berman | News | Thursday, March 17, 2011
Writer’s notebook: Dimona Detective Says "Chabad is Why My Suspects Smile"
I had been trying to reach Detective Shimon Abutbual, a Dimona resident serving in the Beer Sheva police department, since I started my work on Chabad of Dimona
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, March 16, 2011
In Dimona, Focus on Community Growth
Dimona residents, who share their city with Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center, are following developments in Japan closely.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Jewish Funeral Home Opens in Moscow
In Moscow, a Jewish funeral home has opened for the first time in the CIS. This is a place where burial services will be carried out in full accordance with Jewish law and tradition.
News | Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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JEM Celebrates 30 Years of Jewish Content Production
Jewish Educational Media (JEM), the video archive and multimedia arm of the Chabad- Lubavitch movement, is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, March 14, 2011
Jewish Tourism Professionals in Berlin Get Warm Chabad Welcome
Stas Misezhnikov, Israel’s Minister of Tourism, El Al CEO Eliezer Shkedi took a break from promoting travel to the land of milk and honey to enjoy Chabad’s hospitality at an international tourism convention in Berlin last week.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, March 14, 2011
Chabad Tokyo Rep Says Area Relatively Safe
An 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan, the largest to shake the country in at least one hundred years, and subsequent deadly Tsunami have rocked the island nation on Friday
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, March 11, 2011
Purim Comes Early At NHL Florida Panthers Game
At the NHL’s Florida Panthers hockey game this past Sunday, all 15,685 fans learned something Jewish.
Levi Margolin | News | Tuesday, March 8, 2011
At Maor Art Gallery in Midtown Miami, Art Meets Judaism
Art buffs in Midtown Miami’s chic Wynwood district are discovering something different at Maor, a local gallery dedicated to Jewish themes.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Torah Scrolls Salvaged From New Zealand Center
A New Zealand police detective pulled two Torah scrolls from the Chabad Center practically destroyed in last week’s Christchurch earthquake.
News | Thursday, March 3, 2011
Cisco Systems, Chabad of Ashkelon Partner For Students
Two weeks ago, a well-worn classroom in Chabad of Ashkelon’s high school took on a high-tech sheen. Sixteen computers—a gift from local donors—were installed to be used to train students to earn a Cisco Systems’ certificate as computer network technicians.
R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Chabad of Central Africa To Open New Centers in Kenya and Nigeria
Chabad of Central Africa will be sending full time, permanent representatives to Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria under the auspices of Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chabad’s representative to the region.
News | Tuesday, March 1, 2011
New Generation of Jewish Leaders Tour Chabad Headquarters
A group of graduate students in the Hornstein Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University visited Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brookyn...
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, February 24, 2011
Teen Comic Series Provokes Thought; Sparks Debate
The latest JLI Teens series delves into the heart of the matter, daring students to think for themselves. It explores the difference between blind faith and logic; the debate between religion and science; the authenticity of the Torah; and the meaning of life.
News | Thursday, February 24, 2011
Chabad Launches Skills Training Program for Unemployed in Johannesburg
Job opportunities don’t come often or easy to destitute black South Africans. Adding insult to injury, the depressed economy saw the country’s unemployment rates drop to an astonishing 24 percent.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Trauma Follows New Zealand Quake
Two days after a 6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch, rescuers are still struggling to extricate victims trapped in the rubble. With the number of dead or missing at 400 and growing, relatives of those as yet unaccounted are frantically trying to locate them.
B. Meryl | News | Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Mikvah Excavation Confirms Observance of Ritual Among Early Jews in America
Excavations in Baltimore’s historic Lloyd Street Synagogue, the third oldest synagogue standing in America, have uncovered the oldest mikvah in the country to-date.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, February 21, 2011
Chabad in Canberra Formally Opens Mikvah
They had no kosher butcher or Jewish school for half a century, so the opening of a new mikvah in Canberra last Tuesday was a watershed event for the local Jewish community.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, February 17, 2011
Poetry Review
In the foreword to this remarkable book of poetry, a teacher and friend recalls her first memory of the author, Yehoshua November, as a student in her introductory poetry university course. She had posed an opening question to the budding poets: why do you write poetry?
Shmuel Klatzkin | News | Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Despite Detroit’s Economic Woes, Chabad Yeshiva to Build New Campus
Located in the heart of the Jewish community, the 50,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility will sit on 3.7 acres on Ten Mile Road in Oak Park, MI, in the center of a thriving Jewish community.
Mendy Rimler | News | Friday, February 11, 2011
New Chabad Crisis Center A Lifeline To Substance Abusers
Four years ago Tony*, 43, was at his wit’s end. A twenty-year addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs made a mess of his life. As he would later recount to others, he was “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Former Neo-Nazi Tells of His Return To Judaism
What happens when a Neo-Nazi dedicated to anti-Semitic activity discovers that he is Jewish?
News | Tuesday, February 8, 2011
A Community of Jewish Teenagers Grows in the US
“If you are ready, put your hands in the air,” the Rabbi bellowed over a megaphone as the Queen of Hearts yacht, with some 250 teens, their Rabbis and advisers, departed New York City’s Pier 78.
Shana Attar and Chana Rusanov | News | Monday, February 7, 2011
Rabbi Visits Jewish Burial Sites in Iran
Under a simple brick dome in Hamadan, south of Teheran, are two beautiful wooden tomb-boxes bearing a Hebrew inscription.
News | Thursday, February 3, 2011
Arsonists Strike Synagogue in Tunisia
A synagogue in the village of El Hamma, in the southern Gabes region of Tunisia was set on fire Monday night, its Torah scrolls reportedly burnt.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Yale Alumnus Donates $1 Million to New Chabad Building
Though launching a $6 million dollar capital campaign during an economic downturn presents an obvious challenge, Rabbi Shua Rosenstein at Chabad of Yale is seeing healthy progress.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Jewish Women Celebrate Family At Annual Conference
They left family and fort behind, but for five days of workshops and sessions, these Chabad representatives were exhorted to remember their primary focus: family.
Dvora Lakein | News | Monday, January 31, 2011
Philanthropist Bogolubov Celebrates Birth of Grandson By Giving
In honor of the birth of his grandson, Jewish philanthropist Mr. Gennady Bogolubov will give $500 to every Chabad representative. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Lubavitch Headquarters announced the gift
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, January 31, 2011
Places: Kraków Then and Now
Today, Thursday, January 27, marks the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Bradenton, FL: Chabad Purchases Five Acres as Jewish Life Grows
Bradenton’s Jewish community will finally enjoy a permanent address and a new, comprehensive facility that will allow it to grow and enjoy greater programming and services provided by Chabad.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, January 27, 2011
Empowering Jewish Youth to Stand up for Israel
Nearly one thousand Jewish teenagers worldwide completed the latest JLI Teens course, Israel 3-D: A journey though time, space, and beyond...
News | Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Remembering the Life of a Jewish Feminine Role Model: Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson
Greatness comes in many forms. Often we imagine the character of a giant...
Chabad Lubavitch HQ | News | Thursday, January 20, 2011
Laying the Groundwork: Chabad in Canberra to Open New Mikvah
After more than half a century with no rabbi, no Jewish school or kosher butcher in town, Canberra’s 2000 Jews are beginning to see change.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, January 20, 2011
Chabad Schools In Tunis Close As Rioting Continues
Tzipporah Juarez, a Tunisian expat living in New York, is nervously following the news coming from Tunis.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Transition in Lubavitch: January 28, 1950
Born June 21, 1880 in the town of Lubavitch, Yosef Yitzchak was inducted by his father, the Fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn, into communal work on behalf of Russian Jewry at the tender age of 15.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, January 14, 2011
Jewish Leaders Meet in German Regional Capital
Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries representing 15 communities across Germany met with North Rhine-Westphalia Parliamentary President Eckhard Uhlenberg.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, January 13, 2011
Chabad Reps Assist Jewish Community Members After Brisbane Floods
Chabad representatives in Brisbane, Rabbis Levi Jaffe and Chanoch Sufrin worked quickly over the last few days to establish contact with members of the Jewish community and provide assistance where possible.
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, January 13, 2011
Editorial: Old Fashioned Values, Point Blank
It used to be that when individuals committed violent crimes against others, the rage they acted out was attributed to a deprived childhood.
Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Eighth Grader in Beijing Bakes Cakes To Sponsor Friends
When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They are custom cakes—dolls, police trucks, snowmobiles
Laima Barber | News | Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Argentina: Opportunities for Jewish Engagement Make Small Dents in Intermarriage
There are a quarter of a million Jews in Argentina today. But “seven out of ten are dating non-Jews, and the rate of intermarriage is rising,” says director of Chabad in Argentina Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, January 11, 2011
JNet Study Partners Celebrate Ancient Custom
The bonds of friendship formed by JNet study are a matter of pride for Rabbi Yehuda Dukes, the program’s managing director. “I’m always impressed by the long-term relationships formed by our participants,” he says.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, January 7, 2011
Renowned Teacher, Holocaust Survivor, 94
Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, a survivor of the Nazi invasion of Poland and renowned educator to thousands, passed away Wednesday, December 29 after a lengthy illness. He was 94.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, January 4, 2011
BLOG: 2010 A Banner Year for Russia’s Jewish Community
It is no small irony that while Jewish populations are dwindling in European countries where Jews are made to feel unwelcome, Russia’s is thriving.
Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Jewish Life at Yale Grows As Chabad Expands
Until the early 1960’s, Yale University employed a quota restricting Jewish enrollment to about ten percent. Jewish students..
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, January 3, 2011
Kehot Launches Tanya Tutor for Online Study of Chasidic Text
The Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, has released a new-online edition of the Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad Chasidic philosophy.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, December 31, 2010
Russia’s Chief Rabbi Lazar Meets With Muslim Mufti
The two met at the Chief Rabbi’s offices in the Marina Roscha Jewish Center in Moscow, where they discussed inter-faith relations in Russia and issues of inter-ethnic conflicts.
News | Thursday, December 30, 2010
Despite Anti-Semitism on UK Campuses, Jewish Activity Gains Momentum
Twenty six men and women, Chabad Shluchim representing almost every major campus in the UK, met earlier this week to discuss vital issues confronting Jewish students today.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Stranded Travelers at Chicago O'Hare Get Kosher Meals
More than 200 flights have been canceled at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after a massive snowstorm barreled into the Mideast Sunday, leaving 1,700 travelers stranded in the airport.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, December 29, 2010
New Chabad to Open in Debrecen, Hungary
Rabbi Kotlarsky and a delegation from the Jewish community met with Hungarian President Pál Schmitt. In their hour-long meeting, they discussed the need for increased education to help combat growing anti-Semitism in Hungary.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Eilat Community, Israeli Dignitaries, Dedicate New Chabad Centre
After years of building, a new Chabad centre in Eilat, Israel opened Monday. Rabbi Levi Hecht, director of the new center was joined in a dedication ceremony by Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Minister of Religious Services Yakov Margi, and Rabbi Yosef Hecht, director of Chabad activities in Eilat.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Jewish Entrepreneurs Network in Orange County
As the national unemployment rate looms at 9.8% and that of California at 12.6%, a group of Southern California professionals and entrepreneurs have turned the recession into an opportunity for networking and community building.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Chabad To Open in Haight Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco was ground zero of the counterculture movement in the 1960’s when the neighborhood welcomed the hippies and flower children of the Summer of Love.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, December 27, 2010
Anti-Semitic Comments by Greek Priest Offend Many
A recent anti-Semitic tirade by a high-ranking Greek orthodox priest on the nation’s largest television network has brought international condemnation.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Sunday, December 26, 2010
BLOG: Plumbing WikiLeaks From a Jewish Perspective
Nearly 1,000 years ago, a rabbi instituted a revolutionary ban that would have prevented the whole WikiLeaks shake up.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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Play Now, Pay Later: Lessons From The Madoff Tragedy
With the news of Mark Madoff’s suicide, this family’s ruinous fall has grown to make it worthy of Shakespearean tragedy. Like Macbeth, this is the story of how one man’s greed powered a calamity of epic proportions...
Baila Olidort | News | Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Albania Jewish Community Installs Chief Rabbi
With a small Jewish population of 150 but a long history of Jewish life, Albania finally has a Chief Rabbi to call their own.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Jewish Teens Learn Jewish Pride
300 Cteens in Miami, Florida met at American Airlines Arena for a Chanukah bash and a Miami Heat game, and then got to shoot hoops after full-time.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, December 13, 2010
Remembering Rabbi Levi Deitsch
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Deitsch, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Tysons Corner, Virginia passed away Saturday, November 12. He was 34 years old.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, December 9, 2010
Canadian PM Harper Hosts Chanukah Party
“We are delighted that you could all come to my home today,” Harper said at the party. “This is the first time the Prime Minister’s home has ever been opened for a Hanukah celebration.”
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, December 8, 2010
RCE: Estonia should represent a paradigm for relations between a European government and its Jewish community
The Jewish community in Estonia has a very dark history and was the first country to be declared Judenfrei, completely free of Jews, by the Nazis during WWII.
News | Wednesday, December 8, 2010
In Aftermath of the Carmel Fires, Israelis Struggle to Recover
Depending on where you stand in the Carmel region, the scent of wood smoke is still in the air. If it weren't for the destruction it represents, the scent would be holiday-like, appealing.
R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Judea Lives: The Story of A Chanukah Menorah
It was the eighth night of Chanukah in Kiel, Germany, a small town with a population of 500 Jews. That year, 1931, the last night Chanukah fell on Friday evening, and Rabbi Akiva Boruch Posner, spiritual leader of the town was hurrying to light the Menorah before the Shabbat set in.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, December 6, 2010
Free To Be Jewish . . . Or Free to Assimilate?
Exactly a year to the day since Britian’s Supreme Court overrode Jewish religious law in determining Jewish identity, questions about Jewish identity loom large.
News | Friday, December 3, 2010
Olive Oil: Chanukah's Main Squeeze is Alive and Well in Israel
Dust the color of a summer blonde on a hillside 40 minutes outside of Jerusalem conceals a secret. Caves carved into soft chalky limestone in Beit Guvrin house an ancient olive oil factory that dates back to the times of the Maccabees.
R. C. Berman | News | Friday, December 3, 2010
Rugrats Chanukah Special Screenwriter Turns to Jewish Roots
San Buenaventura, California is a picturesque middle class town draped in Spanish-revival stucco homes and wide, palm-lined avenues. More commonly known as Ventura, the city lies fifty miles west of Hollywood
Chaim Emanuel | News | Thursday, December 2, 2010
Gov. Schwarzenegger Joins Chanukah Celebration at Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and local leaders of the Jewish community today joined Chabad of Sacramento to celebrate Chanukah at the 17thAnnual Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony.
News | Wednesday, December 1, 2010
MDs Explore Medicine and Morals With JLI
The sixth and final lesson of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) fall course series, Medicine and Morals, concludes this week. According to Dr. Chana Silberstein, JLI’s Director of Curriculum Development, the course provides a focal point to ground the Torah’s ethical teachings in the advancements of modern science
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 30, 2010
A Renovated Mikvah for Mumbai’s Jewish Community
The recent work on the Mikvah, which was funded by local business people, is part of the Gechtman’s efforts to resume the work of the Holtzbergs, serving visiting business people, travelers, and the local community.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, November 29, 2010
Agreement Allows Kosher Poultry Slaughter in New Zealand
The agreement, which came in advance of a trial due to begin Monday is a relief for Jewish communities in New Zealand, says Rabbi Mendy Goldstein, director of Chabad in New Zealand.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, November 29, 2010
NCFJE Celebrates 70 Years
Last Sunday, November 21, 700 guests joined the National Committee For Furtherance of Jewish Education at a 70 year anniversary celebration Chelsea Piers Pier 60.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, November 25, 2010
Advocate for Soviet Jewry Passes Away at 80
Rebbetzin Batsheva Silberstein, a pioneering member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Antwerp, Belgium, who fought on behalf of Soviet Jewry...
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, November 25, 2010
Schottenstein Chabad Center To Open in Columbus, Ohio
Residents of historical New Albany, Ohio will soon welcome the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, a stately Georgian structure located in the heart of the quaint village.
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Jewish Kids in Action (JKA) Brings Tradition Alive to Children in Uruguay
When the lights at the Kehila Theatre dim Wednesday morning, it will be show time for some 500 Jewish school children in Montevideo...
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, November 22, 2010
Rabbi Mendy Deren, 36
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deren, director of development for Chabad’s Mayanot yeshivah in Jerusalem, passed away Friday, November 5. He was 36.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Books in Review
Kehot Publication Society, the publishing arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has released new volume in its acclaimed Hasidic Heritage Series.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Wednesday, November 17, 2010
JLI Teens Launches Internship Program
Young, smart, Jewish, they are the children of the baby boomers who cut their teeth on hi-speed internet and the virtual world it placed in their laps while still in the stroller.
News | Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Maple Leaf Madness – Chabad Confronts Anti-Israel Activism on Canada’s College Campuses
Jeremy Izfo may soon be analyzing debt-to-earnings ratios of Fortune 500 companies, but today the economics major at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, is looking at Chabad on Campus's bottom line.
R.C. Berman | News | Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Chabad's 18-Wheel Museum Roaring to Life
Children’s mobile museum drives like a truck, and expands into a 1,000 square ft. space for hands-on Jewish experience.
R.C. Berman | News | Thursday, November 11, 2010
Chabad of Korea Prepares 5-Star Kosher Meals for G20
While the finance leaders of the 20 countries ruminate over the future of the world economy, 50 summit participants will be dining on cuisine prepared by Chabad representatives.
R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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In Conversation: Chabad Representatives to Mumbai, India
This past September, Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman settled Mumbai to resume the work of Gabi and Rivky. The following is an updated interview based on their recent conversation with lubavitch.com. The interview was conducted in Hebrew.
Baila Olidort | News | Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Family First: Chabad Conference Focuses on the Jewish Home
Despite chilly temperatures blowing off the New York Harbor Sunday evening, the ambience at the Gala Banquet of the International Conference of Chabad Shluchim was warm and inspired.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, November 8, 2010
Annual Conference of Chabad Emissaries In Session
The annual Gala Banquet will take place this year in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at Pier 12 in Red Hook. Come Sunday the 4,000 guests will find the pier transformed into a posh banquet hall - replete with video screens, state-of-the-art lighting and carpeting.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, November 5, 2010
Chabad on Campus Opens Jewish Student Center in Manchester
The university has a long history of welcoming Jews to campus. Established in the early 19th century, University of Manchester was originally known as Owen's College.
Rivka Chaya Berman | News | Thursday, November 4, 2010
Holy Letters in the City of the Mystics
The multi-million dollar interactive visitors center situated in the city of Israel’s ancient mystics offers guests a hi-tech illuminating exploration of the tradition of the Jewish scribe, insights to the letters and calligraphy of the Hebrew Alpha Bet...
News | Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Chabad of Northwestern University Menorah Vandalized
According to Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House and Chabad Lubavitch representative to Northwestern since 1985, the event shocked everyone. In his 25 years at Northwestern, Klein claims he has never experienced an anti-semitic act on this scale before.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, November 1, 2010
Despite Disabilities, A Young Couple Finds Love at Mayanot Birthright Israel
When Zak Khazanovich was in middle school, he once drew up a list of goals he planned to reach in the future. Included on his list were many things that other kids might also wish for, but conspicuously missing was the prospect of marriage.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, October 26, 2010
University of Illinois Men's Basketball Team, ZBT Fraternity and Chabad Host Annual Alley Oop for Autism
The children enjoyed an hour-long Basketball clinic with the national ranked team, and an exclusive tour of the locker room. Each child received a gift—a photo of the team, autographed by every player and the head coach.
News | Monday, October 25, 2010
Chabad Rabbi Launches Online Training Program for Rabbis
While this online program makes it possible for students to study at home or in the office, opportunities for lively debate and discussion, it seems, will be compromised. Not so, counters Wilhelm.
Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, October 21, 2010
Australian Chabad Community Celebrates 100 Years Down Under
Chabad representatives of every state in Australia were joined by Member of Federal Parliament Mr. Michael Danby M.P., and Mr. Mordechai Feiglin, Sunday, October 17, at a gala celebrating the centennial year of Chabad in Australia.
News | Thursday, October 21, 2010
A Community of Jewish Teens Grows On Boston’s North Shore
15-year-old Sasha Matusevich grew up on Boston’s North Shore. In many ways, the public school sophomore is your typical American teenager whose love for dancing made her drop out of Hebrew school at age 11.
Rishe Groner | News | Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Jewish Aggies Welcome Torah At Texas A&M Chabad Center
Only three years old, the Chabad center had been using a Torah on loan since it opened in 2007. The new Torah, a gift from the Sandra Brand Torah Project, represents a meaningful milestone for this dynamic Jewish student organization.
News | Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Jewish Public School Children Thrive at Florida Afterschool Program
Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Chabad representative in Highland Lakes, who co-directs the program together with his wife, Layah, says the school has grown by word-of-mouth. Children and their parents seem to love it.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, October 18, 2010
European Dignitaries Discuss Interreligious Understanding with Chief Rabbi of Russia
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar met Wedensday with the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mr. Mevlüt Çavusoglu, who is in Moscow to address interreligious understanding.
News | Thursday, October 14, 2010
Chabad of Manhattan’s Upper West Side Opens Kollel Program
Chabad of the Upper West Side opened its Kollel Erev (evening Kollel) this Monday, adding an authentic yeshiva experience to the variety of opportunities for Jewish engagement at this burgeoning center of Jewish life.
News | Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Blog: A Sukkah Party In the Woods of Maine
A year ago, Yehudah Dukes of the Jewish Learning Network, paired me up with Robert. I lived in Australia and Robert, in the woods of Maine.
Yosef Hazdan | News | Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Mrs. Pessia Matusof, 86
Born in Leningrad, Mrs Matusof was the daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Karasik. Together with her husband, Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, she dedicated most of her years to the service of Moroccan Jewry.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Monday, October 11, 2010
Kosher Culture: Jewish, Muslim Students Cook in Sydney
60 Jewish and Muslim school children cooked side by side Wednesday in Bondi’s Our Big Kitchen, a Chabad run community kitchen in Sydney, Australia.
Mendy Rimler | News | Friday, October 8, 2010
Israeli Campus Paradox: More Jews, Less Shabbat
At Tel Aviv University, future doctor Jordana Hikri was experiencing a classic Israeli paradox....
R. C. Berman | News | Friday, October 8, 2010
Mrs. Esty Cohen, Chabad Representative, Age 33
The daughter of Chabad Shluchim, Esty was born and raised in Albany, NY where her parents, Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Rubin lead Chabad of the Capital District.
News | Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Actor Tony Curtis Remembered By Chabad
Rabbi Mendy first met Tony Curtis after receiving a call from his daughter Allegra Curtis. She felt that it would be good for him to have some spirituality in his life
News | Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Chabad Center in Ho Chi Minh Moves to Larger Facility
Chabad's new, three-story, 3,800 square foot location stands on a busy street in District 1, the most populous section of the city.
R. C. Berman | News | Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Azerbaijani President, Israeli Dignitaries, Inaugurate New Jewish School
A moderate Muslim country and neighbor to Iran, Baku, Azerbaijan will now be home to a new campus in the Ohr Avner school system in the Former Soviet Union.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Books: Rebbe’s Letters From Chabad Archives Released In New Volume
Spanning the years 1913-1947 and seven countries, the book provides a rare and intimate look at the personal life of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok and his children.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, October 4, 2010
After 20 Years, the Sukkah Reunites Old Friends
Schechter noticed a familiar face when he entered the Sukkah with the other guests...
Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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Rome Officials Join Chabad Rep in City Sukkah
On Monday, September 27th, dozens of dignitaries joined Rabbi Yitzhak Hazan, Chabad representative to Rome, Italy, for the "Sukkah of Peace" inauguration ceremony.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Kyrgyzstan Government Promises Security for Jewish Community
The president confirmed that she read Rabbi Raichman’s letter, and “promised appropriate security for the Jewish community,” said Berkowitz
Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, September 22, 2010
New Volume on Chabad History Published
The Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, Kehot Publication Society, has announced the publication of an important new book on the history of Chabad.
Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Portugal Jewish Community To Welcome Full Time Chabad Representatives
The only country in Europe still without its own Chabad representatives, Portugal will soon be welcoming a new addition to its 300-member Jewish community.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | News | Monday, September 20, 2010
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Tauber, Holocaust Survivor, Age 74
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Tauber, 74, a Holocaust survivor and Chabad Chasid, passed away Yom Kippur morning at Sheba Hospital in the Tel HaShomer Medical Center after a long illness.
News | Monday, September 20, 2010
Celebrating Judaism in a Changing Europe
According to Prof. Robert S. Wistrich, head of Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, the Jews of Europe must brace themselves for a new reality.
EJ Tansky | News | Monday, September 20, 2010
Pollinating New Holiday Growth
In Israel, honey jars fly off store shelves during the High Holiday season, when Jews pray for and wish each other a New Year filled with sweetness.
R. C. Berman | News | Sunday, September 19, 2010
Israel’s Two Wheel Yom Kippur Dilemma
The origin of biking on Yom Kippur in Israel is murky, but it is ironically tied to the widespread reverence that Israelis—even secular ones—have for this holiest of Jewish days
R. C. Berman | News | Wednesday, September 15, 2010
New Zealand Chabad House Gets Green Sign After Earthquake
The Chabad House has been inspected and approved by local authorities for use after last week’s major earthquake caused damage to the city’s roads and buildings.
Mendy Rimler | News | Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Kyrgyzstan Govt Must Take Synagogue Bomb Seriously, Says Community Rabbi
Four days after a bomb packed with nails was thrown into the Jewish community synagogue in Bishkek, the police have yet to identify any suspects, says Rabbi Aryeh Raichman, Chabad representative to the city.
News | Monday, September 13, 2010
A Rosh Hashana Moment for Mom [Blog]
Jodi Brody | News | Monday, September 13, 2010
Holtzberg Nanny Receives Israeli ID Card
Sandra Samuel, the Indian nanny who saved the life of Moshe Holtzberg from the besieged Nariman House during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, September 13, 2010
Israel: Secular Kibbutz Members Welcome Torah Study, Prayer
In Kibbutz Beit Alfa’s Children’s House, director Anat Lev is busy planning High Holiday activities with the local Chabad rabbi
R. C. Berman | News | Monday, September 13, 2010
Jewish Philanthropist Celebrates Birth of Baby With $2 Million Gift to Chabad Shluchim
Announced by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Lubavitch Headquarters, the gift was made through the Bogolubov Simcha Fund, dedicated to assisting Chabad representatives during their respective family life-cycle events.
S. Fridman | News | Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Kohelet Foundation Partners With Rohr JLI
With the new school year fast approaching, parents affected by the current economic crisis are facing difficult choices regarding their children’s education.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Hungarian Deputy PM: "Return of Synagogue Symbolic of Communism's End"
It was a dreamlike experience for the Holocaust survivor who grew up in the Jewish orphanage next door to the synagogue after the war...
Staff Writer | News | Monday, September 6, 2010
Thousands Walk For Friendship in Michigan
Some 5,000 people participated in the annual “Walk4Friendship” yesterday, raising close to 500K for the Friendship Circle in Michigan.
Mendy Rimler | News | Monday, September 6, 2010
New Encyclopedia of Religion in America Includes Entry On Chabad Movement
The newly released Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by renowned scholars in the field and published by CQ Press, includes an entry on Chabad-Lubavitch touching on some of the movement’s keystone achievements.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, September 6, 2010
Sage Advice for Netanyahu As New Round of Peace Talks Begin
Prime Minister Netanyahu returned to Israel after meeting with President Obama and Mr. Abbas in the White House, in yet another attempt to restart peace talks.
News | Sunday, September 5, 2010
New Zealand Synagogue Spared Damage by Earthquake
(lubavitch.com) Only a few days before the worst earthquake to hit New Zealand in 80 years struck, renovations on the Canterbury Hebrew Synagogue were completed.
Mendy Rimler | News | Sunday, September 5, 2010
Kohl’s Competition Ends, 11 Chabad Schools Win Most Votes
(lubavitch.com) Eleven out of the top 20 schools garnering the greatest number of votes in Kohl’s Cares school competition, are Chabad-affiliated schools.
News | Saturday, September 4, 2010
Kosher Comes to Bradley University
This fall, Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois will be building two new kosher kitchens—one dairy, and one meat—to better accommodate its staff, faculty and 285 Jewish students.
Mendy Rimler | News | Friday, September 3, 2010
On the Frontlines of Kohl’s-Facebook Fever
A father of young children, Forer is quite past the age where hanging out in Southern California hotspots late into the night is appealing. But he was out because his children’s school Cheder Menachem had a $500,000 prize on the line
R.C. Berman | News | Friday, September 3, 2010
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
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Kehot Releases Special Tribute to Teachers and Educators
The Educator’s Privilege, newly released by Kehot Publication Society, offers guidance and inspiration for educators from the talks and correspondences of the Lubavitcher Rebbe...
News | Monday, August 30, 2010
F.R.E.E. Greets Thousands At Brighton Beach Festival
Thousands who came to the Annual Brighton Beach Festival on Sunday, heard the shofar blasts and took time to learn about the upcoming Jewish High Holidays.
News | Monday, August 30, 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
Larry King to Host Chabad Telethon
CNN television personality Larry King will be hosting the special 30th anniversary Chabad “To Life!” telethon, to be broadcast live from Hollywood this Sunday.
Mendy Rimler | News | Sunday, August 29, 2010
Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community Targets City's 16-30 Year Olds
Poster ads in Dnepropetrovsk’s main drags call on the city’s Jewish 16-30 year olds with the promise of $1000 UAH if they join a one-month Judaic studies course.
News | Friday, August 27, 2010
One Million Jews in Russia
Russia’s Jewish population is at about one million, says the FJC President, Alexander Boroda.
News | Friday, August 27, 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
Australian Premier Says Thank You for Chicken Soup
On Ms Keneally’s last visit to the kosher kitchen, she was suffering from a head cold. The following day she received a package at her office in Governor Macquarie Tower.
News | Monday, August 23, 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
Gan Israel Teenager Administers CPR, Saves Life
A counselor who had just returned from a summer at Camp Gan Israel of Alpharetta, GA came to the rescue at an Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey gas station, when a 19 year old girl collapsed on site.
Mordechai Lightstone | 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
Will Kiwis Kill Kosher?
Now that a New Zealand court has granted a temporary stay on the country’s kosher slaughter ban, chicken soup might return to Rabbi Shmuel and Henna Kopel’s Shabbat table at Chabad of Otago.
R.C. Berman | News | Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Precious Findings: Inscriptions in an old Torah scroll
This summer, the Jewish community of Port Washington welcomed a Torah scroll to the city’s local Chabad center that was begging, it seemed, to be restored to a familiar hearth.
Sarah Lehat | News | Tuesday, August 10, 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
Mezuza Marathon
In most places, it is possible to identify a Jewish residence by the mezuzah on the doorpost. Not so in parts of the FSU, where thousands of Jews live tucked away in small cities and townlets, and have yet to be reached.
News | Friday, August 6, 2010
New Mikvah Construction Begins for Smolensk
Smolensk, the capital city of the Smolensk Region, located on the Dnieper River some 360 kilometers (224 mi) west-southwest of Moscow, home to approximately 5000 Jews, will soon have its own mikvah.
News | Friday, August 6, 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
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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
Queen Elizabeth Meets With Chabad Representative of Canada
(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn was invited on behalf of the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch to an exclusive Garden Party with Queen Elizabeth as well as Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
News | Sunday, July 4, 2010
Big Lots Donates $100,000 to Chabad House
News | Friday, July 2, 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
Republican Challenger, Joel Pollak Inspired by Jewish Values
Joel Pollak, the Republican nominee for Chicago’s 9th district, is thinking big. As a conservative candidate who once fought for a leftist agenda, he believes the country
Amihai Zippor | News | Sunday, June 27, 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
JHP of Pennsylvania Celebrates A Year of Achievements
On Thursday, June 24th, the Jewish community of Philadelphia participated in a cocktail evening with the Steinhardt Neubauer Jewish Heritage Programs at the Hall of Flags, University of Pennsylvania.
News | Friday, June 25, 2010
Chabad Rabbi Teams up with Former DreamWorks Artist
Marc Lumer’s early works have appeared on Warner Bros’ hit shows Batman and Superman. While Lumer was at DreamWorks, his paintings helped create the animated films Prince of Egypt
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
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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
Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, Chabad Representative, Age 49
Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, the Chabad-Lubavitch community, and the Jewish communities of Bethesda and Chevy Chase, MD, mourn the sudden passing of Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, at the age of 49, following a brief illness.
News | Monday, June 14, 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
A First for Ukrainian City: Sumy Municipality Welcomes Torah Scroll
Hundreds of Jewish community residents joined the procession as they danced from the town’s main street to the Jewish community center.
News | Wednesday, May 26, 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
Miriam Peretz Visits With Chabad Reps in Moscow
Miriam Peretz, the Israeli woman who lost a second son in the IDF less than two months ago, accompanied Israel’s President Shimon Peres on a visit to Russia this week
News | Tuesday, May 11, 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
Russian Jewish Community Remembers and Resolves
Holocaust survivors and Brooklyn community members commemorated Victory Day, Sunday, May 9, at the Holocaust Memorial Park on Emmons Avenue in Brooklyn
News | Monday, May 10, 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
Rabbi Pinchus Shmuel Krinsky, Age 82
Rabbi Pinchus Shmuel Krinsky, a pillar of the Boston Jewish community, passed away Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at age 82.
News | Tuesday, May 4, 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 Parade In Moscow Russia [Photos]
News | Sunday, May 2, 2010
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Lag B'Omer Celebration In Sydney Australia [Photos]
400 participants enjoy a concert with music superstar Chaim Dovid.
News | Sunday, May 2, 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
Baku Hosts World Interfaith Summit
Participants in the World Interfaith Summit expressed concern about the recent rise of extremism, terrorist acts committed world-wise, terrorists’ use of weapons of mass destruction
News | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Chernigov Jewish Leaders Congratulate Governor at Inauguration
Vladimir Nikolaevitch Khomenko was inaugurated as the city’s new Governor at a ceremony April 27, at the Chernigov regional administration. The event was attended by religious leaders of different faiths.
News | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Israel Deaf Football Team Does Shabbat With Chabad at Wimbledon
Last Friday night Chabad House at Wimbledon hosted the Israeli Deaf Football Team, who had come to the UK to play Great Britain in the first leg of the European Deaf Football Championships qualifying games.
News | Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Mrs. Chava Devorah Shusterman, Pioneer Chabad Emissary, 89
Rebbetzin Chava Devorah (Evelyn) Shusterman, a renowned educator and matriarch of the Chicago Jewish community, who served, along with her husband, Rabbi Tzvi Shusterman, as a pioneering emissary
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Monday, April 26, 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
From Lodz to Montreal: The Life of Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky
Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, who fled Nazi occupied Poland and continued to help found and run the first Chabad yeshivah in Montreal, Canada, passed away on April 4. He was 94.
Mordechai Lightstone | 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
Founder of Chabad Institutions in Canada, 94
Rabbi Moses E. Gerlitsky, one of the founders of the Rabbinical College of Canada and Chabad in Canada passed away Sunday April 4, 2010 in Montreal, at age of 94.
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
Passover Parade In Chicago
Stocked with Passover Matzos and informative literature, the students worked up a Passover spirit on the streets of Chicago.
Mendy Rimler | 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
North Cyprus: Jewish Adults, Children, Get Ready for Passover
In a first for North Cyprus, Jewish children here worked up a joyful Passover spirit as they rolled up the sleeves and rolled out the dough.
News | Sunday, March 21, 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
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Oldest Synagogue in Siberia
After a long interruption, renovations on the Choral Synagogue in Tomsk, one of the oldest synagogues in Siberia, are well underway.
Staff Writer | News | Wednesday, March 17, 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
French Ambassador Visits Florida Chabad Center
(lubavitch.com) France’s Ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Pierre Vimont, visited recently with Rabbi Yisroel Frankforter, Chabad’s representative to Florida’s community of French Jewish expats.
News | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Chabad Academy Student Wins Regional Spelling Bee
A 5th grader from Chabad Academy in Myrtle Beach won the regional spelling bee Tuesday night and has earned a spot in the national competition of this summer.
News | Wednesday, March 10, 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
Jewish Communities Worldwide Mourn Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet
Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet of Los Angeles, passed away Tuesday night at the age of 65.
News | Wednesday, February 24, 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
Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Activist for Polish Jewry
Rabbi Chaskel Besser, who fled Poland shortly before the Second World War, becoming an active player on the American Jewish scene and leader in the revival of the Jewish community in Poland, passed away on Tuesday February 9. He was 87.
Mordechai Lightstone | 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
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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
Yeshiva College Primary School Bondi Performs Brilliantly in School Rankings
This is an exceptional result for Yeshiva, a school which has won plaudits from the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd and Governor General, Quentin Bryce. Both visited the school and Yeshiva Centre where they received Menorahs.
News | Sunday, January 31, 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
Chabad Rabbinical Students Conclude Annual Conference
Also participating were 3,000 rabbinical students from Chabad yeshivas who convened at Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters in New York. Many came from as far as Venezuela and Australia.
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, January 26, 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
After 80 Years, Key to Baltimore Presented to Chabad
Initially intended to be presented by Mayor William Frederick Broening to the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn
Mendy Rimler | News | Thursday, January 21, 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
British Royal Prince Tours Nariman Chabad House, Donates Funds
Prince Michael of Kent visited the Chabad Nariman house in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, January 20. A first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the grandson of King George V,
Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, January 20, 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
Mayanot Women’s Program Marks Two Years of Growth
Mayanot, a provider of Taglit-Birthright programs and Jewish learning initiatives for college-age students, celebrated the second anniversary of its Women’s Program at a dinner this week, at the Mayanot Synagogue in Rehavia.
News | Tuesday, January 19, 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
Old Mikvah Uncovered in Kostroma Synagogue
During minor construction activities in the kitchen of the Kostroma synagogue, the city’s Chief Rabbi discovered what appears to be an old mikvah.
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
Chabad of Dominican Republic Reaches Out To Haiti Volunteers
Two days after Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, rescue efforts have yet to begin in earnest. As many as 50,000 people are feared dead after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital city of this poor Caribbean nation.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Thursday, January 14, 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
Massandra Winery Produces Kosher Line of Wines
For the first time ever, kosher table wine from the renowned Massandra Winery in the Crimea, known well beyond Ukraine's borders for its quality wine, is being produced under Kosher supervision.
News | Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Bulgarian PM Visits Jerusalem Western Wall
Prime Minster Boiko Borissov of Bulgaria, ended a two day visit to Israel where he met with Israeli Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Israeli MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Visits Mumbai Chabad House
Israeli Knesset Member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer visited the ravaged Mumbai Chabad House in India earlier this week.
News | Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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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
French Consul General Visits Lubavitch Headquarters
France’s Consul General, Mr. Philippe Lalliot, toured Chabad Lubavitch’s international headquarters in Brooklyn, Wednesday.
Dvora Lakein | News | Friday, January 8, 2010
Chabad-Lubavitch Community In Grief As Two Die in Accident
Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters mourns the tragic deaths, Wednesday, of 10-year-old Avrohom Dovid Lieberow, and 20 year-old Mrs. Pesha Leah Azoulay.
Staff Writer | News | Thursday, January 7, 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
Jewish Children of Russian Immigrants At Winter Camp
For 20 Russian Jewish boys from Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey, a weeklong winter camp this past December in Monticello, New York, offered them an exhilarating change of scenery and spirit.
Mordechai Lightstone | 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
Chanukah First At Staples Center
"Fans came out to support their team and were privileged to witness the first Menorah lighting at Staples Center," said Rabbi Backman.
Levi Margolin | News | Tuesday, December 22, 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
Chanukah Pride Parade in NYC
200 teenagers were shuttled Tuesday in Hummer stretch limousines outfitted with rooftop menorahs, to the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York City.
News | Thursday, December 17, 2009
Illinois Governor At Chanukah Party in State Offices
Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois attended a Chanukah party on Monday in Downtown Chicago, hosted by Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois. State Senator Ira Silverstein, and State Representative Lou Lang
News | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
A Menorah Made of CROCS
They’ve been carved of chocolate and ice, constructed of lego and food cans, and now, Chabad of Hong Kong will light a menorah made of CROCS.
Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
World's First Single Malt Menorah
Two hundred people showed up at Buckhurst Hill Chabad to watch the lightning of a 7 foot menorah built out of clear piping filled with 65 Litres of Single Malt Scotch.
Yaacov Behrman | News | Tuesday, December 15, 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
Chabad Rabbi Attacked in Vienna
A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria.
Hana Levi Julian | News | Sunday, December 13, 2009
Uruguayan President Vázquez meets with Chabad
Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez met last Monday with members and friends of Chabad-Lubavitch of Uruguay, headed by Rabbi Eliezer Shemtov.
Mendy Rimler | 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
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"Russia Has Anti-Semites, Not Anti-Semitism"
(lubavitch.com) Earlier this month, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, said that "Russia has anti-Semites, not anti-Semitism."
News | Tuesday, December 8, 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
Jewish Victims Identified Among Dead in Perm Fire
(lubavitch.com) As Russia mourned 113 victims of a fire early Saturday in a Perm nightclub, the city’s rabbi, Zalman Deitsch, confirmed that two of the dead were Jewish.
News | Monday, December 7, 2009
Kosher Pizza A First for Ukraine's Jewish Consumers
(lubavitch.com) A new addition to the already wide assortment of kosher foods now produced in Ukraine, the Donetsk-based firm UkrKosher is now producing kosher pizza for distribution throughout the country.
News | Monday, December 7, 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
New South Wales Parliament Hosts First Ever Chanukah Celebration
For the first time since its inception in 1856, the New South Wales Parliament hosted a Chanukah celebration this week.
News | Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Chanukah First: Miami Heat to Host Jewish Heritage Night at AA Sports Arena
News | Thursday, December 3, 2009
As Chanukah Approaches, Florida Public Menorah Stolen
A 9-foot menorah has been stolen from the village green of Key Biscayne, Florida. The Chanukah icon, erected by the Chabad Key Biscayne Jewish Center, has been lit here for the past decade.
News | Thursday, December 3, 2009
Russia's President, Chief Rabbi, Confirm Declining Anti-Semitism
In a meeting last week with a delegation of Russia’s Jewish community, President Dmitry Medvedev noted that anti-Semitism in Russia seems to be waning.
News | Wednesday, December 2, 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
Mayanot Institute Opens New Administrative Center
(lubavitch.com) Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem dedicated a new administrative center last week.
News | Monday, November 30, 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
One Year Later, Mumbai Chabad House Survivor Turns Three
Moshe Zvi Holtzberg entered the party tent in Kfar Chabad, a suburb of Tel Aviv, escorted by his two grandmothers and his nursemaid Sandra Samuel.
Barbara Sofer | News | Thursday, November 19, 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
One Year Later Good Deeds Pledged for Mumbai Victims
Last year, the world watched in horror as a small, but organized group of terrorists hit Mumbai, India, with a series of coordinated attacks over the course of three frightening days.
Staff Writer | News | Tuesday, November 17, 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
Jewish Boxer, Undefeated, Moves on To Title of Rabbi
(lubavitch.com) The would-be-rabbi waited until Shabbat was over before heading to the ring to knock out opponent Daniel Santos and claiming the WBA super welterweight title. Yuri Foreman,
News | Sunday, November 15, 2009
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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
FBI, NYPD, State Department Address Security Concerns of Int'l Chabad Representatives
(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries at this year’s International Conference participated Thursday at a special session on security, presided over by leading security agencies.
News | Saturday, November 14, 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 Center Vandalized, Community Pulls Together
Three youths will be arraigned Friday morning in connection with Tuesday’s break-in at the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Cod. The local teenagers are accused of vandalizing the synagogue, pulling a charity box off the wall, smashing doors, and throwing phylacteries on the floor.
Dvora Lakein | News | Thursday, November 5, 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
Ukraine Closes Schools Nationwide For Fear of Swine Flu
In a drastic measure adopted to combat the swine flu virus, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine's schools.
News | Wednesday, November 4, 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
Shula Swerdlov Torah Writing Commencement
(lubavitch.com) Family and friends of Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov of Jerusalem, participated Tuesday, October 27th, in the launching of a new Torah scroll in honor of their daughter, Shula, who was killed October 19, when she was hit by a minivan.
News | Friday, October 30, 2009
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Visits Chabad Institutions in Chicago
Visiting Chicago last Monday to participate at a building dedication ceremony for the Ohel Shalom Torah Center, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel took time to visit the Lubavitch Girls High School...
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
Project Launched to Preserve Jewish Graves in Ukraine
The Jewish Community of Zhitomir, under the leadership of Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, has launched a project to restore and preserve approximately 1,500 Jewish cemeteries scattered throughout Ukraine.
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
Daughter of Chabad Representative Killed in Jerusalem Hit-and-Run
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters notes with grief and sorrow, the tragic death Monday of Shula Swerdlov, daughter of Chabad representatives Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov.
News | Monday, October 19, 2009
Chabad Representative to Marseille Recognized for Outreach Activities
Chabad representative in Marseille, France, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Labkowsky was presented with a medal of honor by the city’s police department for his work with Jewish inmates in the prisons of southern France.
Staff Writer | News | Sunday, October 18, 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
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In The Sukkah With Israel's Consul General, Assaf Shariv
Israel’s Consul General in New York, Assaf Shariv, was a guest at the sukkah of Rabbi Mendel Sharfstein, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening.
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
Chabad Representative to Arad Dies
Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters mourns the passing Wednesday of Rabbi Benzion Lipsker, a Chabad representative and Chief Rabbi of Israel’s southern city of Arad.
News | Wednesday, September 23, 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
New Torah for Chabad of Central Cascades
On Sunday, September 13, 2009, Chabad of Central Cascades welcomed a new Torah scroll.
Yaacov Behrman | 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
NBA's Ron Artest Scores For Chabad
KTLA Morning News (LA’s #1 Morning Show) featured LA Laker Ron Artest, shooting hoops for Chabad.
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
Russia's Chief Rabbi Rejects Award Citing Uzhgorod Mayor's Anti-Semitic Remarks
Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has refused to accept a medal presented to him as an honorary guest by the authorities of the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod.
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
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At Staten Island Russian Fest, Russian Jews Sample Judaism
Some 10,000 visitors descended on Staten Island's South Beach this past Sunday, for the annual Staten Island Russian Fest. Browsing the booths...
Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, September 1, 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
Latvia Celebrates Newly Renovated Old Synagogue
A distinguished crowd celebrated the completion of a renovation project on Riga’s 105 year-old synagogue last Wednesday.
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
Howie Mandel Moved By Visit to Chabad Treatment Center
Howie Mandel took time out of his production schedule today to visit the Chabad Residential Treatment in Los Angeles and talk with residents who are recovering from addiction to drugs and alcohol.
News | Monday, August 24, 2009
Jewish Hospitality Suite To Open at Broward General Medical Center
When patients are hospitalized their greatest comfort is often the presence of a family member at their bedside. That’s why Broward Health Broward General Medical Center (BGMC) and Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale have partnered to open a Jewish Hospitality Suite.
News | Monday, August 24, 2009
Chabad Dedicates Opening of New Building in Buenos Aires's Soho
A newly renovated Chabad center in Palermo Soho, a popular bohemian neighborhood of Buenos Aires's Palermo Viejo area, drew several hundred locals to the building's formal dedication last Thursday.
Staff Writer | News | Monday, August 24, 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
Battle to Free Kidnapped Israeli Soldier Has Taken to Twitter
Hamas terrorists kidnapped Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit in 2006, at the age of 19. He remains in captivity to this day and is believed to be alive. Diplomatic and rescue efforts have proven fruitless, and the battle to free this Israeli hero has taken to the web.
News | Tuesday, August 18, 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
Exploring Garments of the Soul in Urubamba
Last week, Chabad representative to Cusco, Peru, Rabbi Ofer Kripor, led a group of 12 travelers, far removed from ordinary distractions of cell phones and emails in the study of the Ten Sefirot in Urubamba, Peru.
News | Monday, August 17, 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-Lubavitch Issues Statement on Mumbai
"Since the terrorist onslaught in Mumbai, India, last November, when Chabad representatives Rabbi Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg were brutally murderd, the Government of India, including its consulates and embassies in New York and Israel, have been entirely supportive of our efforts to rebuild Chabad in Mumbai.
News | Monday, August 10, 2009
Chabad Rabbi Nominated for UJC Hero of the Year
Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, Chabad representative of Houston Texas, was nominated for Jewish Community Hero of the Year
Staff Writer | News | Monday, August 10, 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
Flashback! Lubavitch Office in Milwaukee Acquires New Center
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (LNS) - The Director of the Milwaukee regional office of the Lubavitch movement has announced the acquisition of a new building which will serve as the headquarters for its activities in the State of Wisconsin.
LNS Archive | News | Friday, August 7, 2009
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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
Chabad of Koh Samui Reaches Out after Crash
Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid brought hot kosher food and warm compassion to the 24 Jewish survivors of a Bangkok Airways flight that crashed Tuesday in Koh Samui. The plane, which crash-landed in a driving rain and slammed into an empty building, was carrying 72 people. The pilot was killed and seven passengers were injured. The Israelis were sitting in the rear of the plane which incurred little damage.
News | Tuesday, August 4, 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
Flashback: President Johnson's Proposal
In this week's Flashback! we've uncovered an interesting press release by our news service from 1965, in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe endorsed President Johnson's proposal that the federal aid education bill also include various provisions for the secular departments of parochial schools.
News | Friday, July 31, 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
Search Continues for Missing Israeli: Chabad Diary Takes Note
It has been a week since 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, an Israeli backpacker touring India, was last seen. Originally from Maaleh Levonah, the army veteran left Israel five months ago to tour India.
Levi Pekar | News | Tuesday, July 28, 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
Flashback: Teacher Donates Back Pay to Charity
Speaking at the Lubavitcher center in New York this week commemorating his father's 20th Yartzeit, the Rebbe told of the difficult plight of many teachers of Jewish studies in Yeshivos and other Jewish schools. They are often underpaid, said the Rebbe, and in most cases receive smaller salaries than teachers of secular studies. Often they are paid with a postdated check valid several weeks, and sometimes months, hence.
News | Thursday, July 23, 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
Popular St. Petersburg Restaurant Goes Kosher
Mikhail Mirilashvili of St. Petersburg sponsored the switch-over from non-kosher to strictly kosher, of the city’s popular 7:40 restaurant. According to the restaurant’s proprietor, Abram Israelashvili, “Our goal is not to earn as much money as possible, but to make kosher food available to all Jews of St. Petersburg.
News | Monday, July 20, 2009
Chabad of Running Springs Approved for $1 Million Solar Project
A $1 million allocation requested by Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands) for a solar power project at Chabad-Lubavitch of California's Running Springs Retreat Center, was approved Friday, as part of the Fiscal Year 20010 appropriations bill.
News | Monday, July 20, 2009
Flashback: It Was the Summer of '61 . . .
With the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical summer visitation program now in full swing, some 400 rabbinical students are visiting hundreds of cities worldwide under the aegis of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch
News | Thursday, July 16, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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