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			<title>Russia Denies Right of U.S. Courts To Rule On Chabad Claims To Confiscated Library</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026552/Russia-Denies-Right-of-U-S-Courts-To-Rule-On-Chabad-Claims-To-Confiscated-Library.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>School's Out, Chabad Campus Emissaries In For Annual Conference</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bar Mitzvah Celebration for Israel's Orphans [Photos]</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026542/Bar-Mitzvah-Celebration-for-Israels-Orphans-Photos.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Israel's President Peres Meets With Azerbaijan Jewish Leaders</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026534/Israels-President-Peres-Meets-With-Azerbaijan-Jewish-Leaders.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dominican Republic Welcomes Chabad Rabbi</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026530/Dominican-Republic-Welcomes-Chabad-Rabbi.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Jewish Learning Instructors: Students For A Day</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026528/Jewish-Learning-Instructors-Students-For-A-Day.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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).]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad Campus Reps Prepare for New Academic Year</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026508/Chabad-Campus-Reps-Prepare-for-New-Academic-Year.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(lubavitch.com) Chabad-on-Campus representatives convened yesterday at Lubavitch Headquarters for a special session with Mr. George Rohr.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>IN CONVERSATION WITH RABBI ADIN EVEN YISRAEL STEINSALTZ[Video]</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026504/IN-CONVERSATION-WITH-RABBI-ADIN-EVEN-YISRAEL-STEINSALTZ-Video.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Still the Rebbe Reaches Out</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dear Rebbe, I Have A Story For you</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026500/Dear-Rebbe-I-Have-A-Story-For-you.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The following letter was sent to the Lubavitcher Rebbe probably in the early 1980s, and brought to the attention of the Wellspringsjournal by the Rebbe’s secretariat. To protect the identity of theindividuals involved, the writer’s name, and that of her partner’s werechanged. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>50,000 To Visit Rebbe’s Resting Place in Queens</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026498/50-000-To-Visit-Rebbe-s-Resting-Place-in-Queens.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>El Al Passengers Stranded in Thailand, Do Shabbat With Chabad</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026490/El-Al-Passengers-Stranded-in-Thailand-Do-Shabbat-With-Chabad.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bielski Brothers Survivors Raise Funds for Jewish Camping</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026488/Bielski-Brothers-Survivors-Raise-Funds-for-Jewish-Camping.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026488/Bielski-Brothers-Survivors-Raise-Funds-for-Jewish-Camping.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Touchdown: Chabad Jets to Success in Western Monmouth</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026482/Touchdown-Chabad-Jets-to-Success-in-Western-Monmouth.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last year David Findel made international news when he purchased the rights to two seats at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. For $400,000.  When Findel believes in something, he goes the whole 100 yards.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Israel's PazGaz Gas Company Partners With Chabad</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026480/Israels-PazGaz-Gas-Company-Partners-With-Chabad.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Needy children in the Israeli coastal city of Yavne had much to cheerabout last week thanks to an unsolicited generous donation from thePazGaz natural gas company to Chabad Computers for the Needy program.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kosher Comes to Wimbledon</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026476/Kosher-Comes-to-Wimbledon.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Drug Rabbi Gets High Award</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026472/Drug-Rabbi-Gets-High-Award.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(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). ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Atlanta Yields A New Crop of Rabbis</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026444/Atlanta-Yields-A-New-Crop-of-Rabbis.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026444/Atlanta-Yields-A-New-Crop-of-Rabbis.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Vatican Responds to Yad L'Achim Appeal</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026442/Vatican-Responds-to-Yad-LAchim-Appeal.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 firstofficial acknowledgement of the issue, called it a “very delicate” and“complex” matter on which the Pope had already taken some action.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026442/Vatican-Responds-to-Yad-LAchim-Appeal.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Jewish South Florida Leads in World Unity Awareness Event</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026434/Jewish-South-Florida-Leads-in-World-Unity-Awareness-Event.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[“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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026434/Jewish-South-Florida-Leads-in-World-Unity-Awareness-Event.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Far Right Gains Shock Hungarian Jewish Community</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026428/Far-Right-Gains-Shock-Hungarian-Jewish-Community.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026428/Far-Right-Gains-Shock-Hungarian-Jewish-Community.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Southern California Communities to Mark Rebbe's Yahrzeit</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026414/Southern-California-Communities-to-Mark-Rebbes-Yahrzeit.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Chabad of Orange County invites friends and supporters to an eveningexploring the unique relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe andIsrael’s Leaders.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026414/Southern-California-Communities-to-Mark-Rebbes-Yahrzeit.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Love the Cause, Hate the Dinner? Farbrengen With Chabad!</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026412/Love-the-Cause-Hate-the-Dinner-Farbrengen-With-Chabad.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026412/Love-the-Cause-Hate-the-Dinner-Farbrengen-With-Chabad.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Northwest NJ Jewish Community Dedicates New Chabad Educational Center</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026410/Northwest-NJ-Jewish-Community-Dedicates-New-Chabad-Educational-Center.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026410/Northwest-NJ-Jewish-Community-Dedicates-New-Chabad-Educational-Center.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>At Tulane, Jewish Student Life Grows With Chabad Family</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026402/At-Tulane-Jewish-Student-Life-Grows-With-Chabad-Family.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Tulane itself has done remarkably well since Katrina. Unlike the city itself, which has not rebounded because of poor leadership, Tulane’spresident, Scott Cowen, rebranded in the aftermath of the hurricane. Hehad a real vision, and he used the opportunity to revamp the school,closing down departments that weren’t so successful, and recruiting amore serious element of students.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026402/At-Tulane-Jewish-Student-Life-Grows-With-Chabad-Family.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>New Synagogue to Rise in Derbent</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026400/New-Synagogue-to-Rise-in-Derbent.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Derbent’s Jewish community recently celebrated a ground-breakingceremony for the construction a new synagogue. Home to one of Russia’soldest Jewish communities, the city counts some 8000 Jews today, underthe leadership of its Chief Rabbi Ovadya Isaakov, a Chabad-Lubavitchrepresentative. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Troye Sivan “Tell Me Why” in Memory of the Mumbai Victims [Video]</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026394/Troye-Sivan-Tell-Me-Why-in-Memory-of-the-Mumbai-Victims-Video.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Israel's Foreign Minister Takes Time With Chabad on His Birthday</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026390/Israels-Foreign-Minister-Takes-Time-With-Chabad-on-His-Birthday.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Laugh Tracks Chabad’s Funny Side</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Scholarship Requests Soar As Chabad Camps Try To Meet Demand</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Shoes for Children through IFCJ and Shaarei Tsedek</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kosher Food Online In Moscow</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Israel’s Welfare, Social Services Ministry Exhibit in Kfar Chabad</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kfar Chabad: It Takes A Village . . .</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Statement By Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026334/Statement-By-Chabad-Lubavitch-World-Headquarters.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>"Defiance" Survivors Help Send Kids To Camp</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026332/Defiance-Survivors-Help-Send-Kids-To-Camp.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad's Rabbi S.B. Gourarie of S.A Passes Away</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026328/Chabads-Rabbi-S-B-Gourarie-of-S-A-Passes-Away.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Gourarie, a notable Rabbi in South Africa and a Chabad Shliach, passed away Tuesday morning at age 77.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Passenger of Air France 447, Member of French Jewish Community</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026326/Passenger-of-Air-France-447-Member-of-French-Jewish-Community.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While the investigation into the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 continues, and inquiries about the 228 passengers and crew membersabound, the Jewish community of Paris has confirmed knowledge of one ofthe passengers.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad Remembers Israel's Efraim Katzir</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Tashkent First Graders Celebrate Siddur Party</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026322/Tashkent-First-Graders-Celebrate-Siddur-Party.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[First grade students at the Ohr Avner-Chabad School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan performed for family members, showed off their Hebrewlanguage skills, and received their own prayer books at a traditionalMesibat HaSiddur ceremony to mark an important milestone in Jewisheducation – achieving basic Hebrew proficiency.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Summer Traveler: Kosher in Vancouver</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026318/Summer-Traveler-Kosher-in-Vancouver.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Chabad of Vancouver is opening a kosher catering service to serve thousands of Jewish tourists traveling through Vancouver during the summer.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026318/Summer-Traveler-Kosher-in-Vancouver.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>IDF Soldiers Stationed in Hebron Find A Home With Chabad</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026316/IDF-Soldiers-Stationed-in-Hebron-Find-A-Home-With-Chabad.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Shavuot with Chabad: It’s a Kid Thing</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026296/Shavuot-with-Chabad-It-s-a-Kid-Thing.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[“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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 07:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Supreme Court Nominee Ruled In Favor Of Public Menorah Display</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026292/Supreme-Court-Nominee-Ruled-In-Favor-Of-Public-Menorah-Display.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026292/Supreme-Court-Nominee-Ruled-In-Favor-Of-Public-Menorah-Display.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 09:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad Reaches Out To Japan's Jewish Inmates</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026288/Chabad-Reaches-Out-To-Japans-Jewish-Inmates.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>A Couple of Volunteers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 07:47:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad Unveils New Website on Maimonides</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>A Jerusalem Landmark: Chabad's Tzemach Tzedek Shul</title>
			<link>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026278/A-Jerusalem-Landmark-Chabads-Tzemach-Tzedek-Shul.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Russian President Intervenes On Behalf Of Jewish Students</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<guid>http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2026266/Russian-President-Intervenes-On-Behalf-Of-Jewish-Students.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad at Cannes Film Festival</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 06:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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