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		<title>lubavitch.com Chabad-Lubavitch news site</title>
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			<title>Israel's PM Netanyahu with Chabad of Shanghai Rabbi Sholom Greenberg (China News)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On a state visit to China, PM Netanyahu with his wife Sara and their sons took time to meet the Shanghai Jewish community. Chabad representative Rabbi Sholom Greenberg greeted the PM and his family a the Jewish Refugee Museum in Shanghai.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:26:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad Float Wins People’s Choice Award at Kentucky Derby Festival Pegasus Parade</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038277/Chabad-Float-Wins-People-s-Choice-Award-at-Kentucky-Derby-Festival-Pegasus-Parade.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This yearly the Pegasus Parade featured a float built by Chabad of Kentucky. Chabad’s entry promoted random acts of goodness.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rabbi Yonah Grossman presiding over the opening prayer in the North Dakota House of Representatives.</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/gallery/2038273/Rabbi-Yonah-Grossman-presiding-over-the-opening-prayer-in-the-North-Dakota-House-of-Representatives.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The prayer, facilitated by Representative Bette Grande, paid homage to the important role of justice and government.
Grossman and his wife Esti, moved to Fargo in 2011, to serve as Chabad representatives to the state’s 500 Jews.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Lag B'Omer Celebrated Around The World</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038271/Lag-BOmer-Celebrated-Around-The-World.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Chabad led Jewish communities around the world in celebration of Jewish pride and love.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>In Aftermath of Terror, North Shore Residents Pledge To Do Good For Boston</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thousands of individuals who attended a local unity event Thursday, in Salem, Mass. for the Boston Marathon victims, are finding empowerment by pledging commitments to explicit acts of goodness,]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Florida: Jewish Leaders Lobby for State Funding for Jewish Schools</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038257/Florida-Jewish-Leaders-Lobby-for-State-Funding-for-Jewish-Schools.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Educators, lay leaders and rabbis representing South Florida Jewish day schools met in Tallahassee in a concerted effort to advocate state legislators for funds to alleviate a Jewish school tuition crisis. T]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rabbi Eliezer Lippman Dubrawsky, 56.</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038239/Rabbi-Eliezer-Lippman-Dubrawsky-56.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Chabad-Lubavitch community and its emissaries worldwide mourn the sudden passing Sunday, 27 Nissan, of Rabbi Eliezer Lippman Dubrawsky. He was 56 years old.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Russian Jews Take Ownership, Embrace Identity, Community With F.R.E.E. of Brighton Beach</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038237/Russian-Jews-Take-Ownership-Embrace-Identity-Community-With-F-R-E-E-of-Brighton-Beach.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Successful, motivated and informed by two cultures, this generation of Russian Jews is establishing a new paradigm for their children that allows them to retain their Russian culture while benefiting from a distinctly American Jewish experience.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Largest Seder in the World</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This photo was taken shortly before the largest seder in the world began, with Chabad of Nepal in Kathmandu. Chabad representatives, Rabbi Chezki and Chani Lifshitz led the seder with the help of Chabad rabbinical students.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slovak Leadership Meets With European Jewish Delegates</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038223/Slovak-Leadership-Meets-With-European-Jewish-Delegates.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fico acknowledges Slovakian Jewish contribution to the country's culture and heritage and insists on protecting historical Jewish sites in Slovakia as an integral part of the country's heritage.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Interview: Dr. Ira Weiss</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038177/Interview-Dr-Ira-Weiss.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ira Weiss, Senior Attending Cardiologist at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL, was called in to attend to the Lubavitcher Rebbe after he suffered a severe heart attack in late 1977. He stayed on for several weeks and remained the Rebbe’s cardiologist through 1992. In that capacity, he had rare access to the Rebbe. Baila Olidort spoke with Dr. Weiss about his experience.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>New Faces in Malta Drawing a Crowd for Passover Seder</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038107/New-Faces-in-Malta-Drawing-a-Crowd-for-Passover-Seder.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two weeks before Passover, new Chabad representatives to Malta counted 200 reservations for its communal Passover Seder.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kosher Restaurant Opens in Puerto Rico</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038025/Kosher-Restaurant-Opens-in-Puerto-Rico.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Jewish travelers to Puerto Rico are delighted to discover a kosher eatery in the heart of Old San Juan.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:37:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Russian President Vladimir Putin Tours World's Largest Jewish Museum</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2038013/Russian-President-Vladimir-Putin-Tours-Worlds-Largest-Jewish-Museum.html]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Re-imagining the Barn: Chabad of Rhinebeck Goes Green</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037995/Re-imagining-the-Barn-Chabad-of-Rhinebeck-Goes-Green.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Standing on the site of a 100 year-old barn will be the new Rhinebeck Jewish Center, as green and integrative a project as any community can hope for.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>In Loving Memory of Rabbi Shaya Gansbourg, Director of Chabad of Harlem</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037991/In-Loving-Memory-of-Rabbi-Shaya-Gansbourg-Director-of-Chabad-of-Harlem.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Shaya Gansbourg, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Harlem, passed away Sunday, February 17 - 7 Adar. He was 57]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Happy Learning! A Student at the Chabad School in LA (photo: Israel Bardugo)</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Bim, The Boy From Beit Chabad</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037985/Bim-The-Boy-From-Beit-Chabad.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Bim arrived at the Chabad House last year, naked but for a plastic bag that he used for some cover. One of hundreds of children exploited for profit on Kathmandu’s dangerous streets, he fixed his eyes on a Chabad rabbinical student, and asked for help.]]></description>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037985/Bim-The-Boy-From-Beit-Chabad.html]]></guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>In World of Chabad, Women Hold 50 Percent of Leadership Roles</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037931/In-World-of-Chabad-Women-Hold-50-Percent-of-Leadership-Roles.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[“The issues we talk about today are very similar in nature to the ones we were dealing with when we first went out."]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Women Leaders Convene At Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037787/Women-Leaders-Convene-At-Chabad-Lubavitch-Headquarters.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The women’s division of the International Conference for Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchot convened Thursday morning at Lubavitch Headquarters in New York.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Aaron Swartz and the Pursuit of Knowledge</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037773/Aaron-Swartz-and-the-Pursuit-of-Knowledge.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Aaron's drive to disseminate knowledge that would help others, to fight against restrictive access to scholarly works intended to be shared, and his willingness to do this at personal risk to himself was profoundly resonant of Jewish ideals.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Aleph Institute, an affiliate of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, held a military training conference at the Shul of Bal Harbour in Surfside, Florida. Some 50 US military personnel from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines traveled to Florida to spend four days participating in important training sessions at the Aleph Institute headquarters.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad Opens First Mikvah in Tokyo</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037733/Chabad-Opens-First-Mikvah-in-Tokyo.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Israel’s ambassador to Japan, Nissim Ben Shitrit, joined last week’s grand opening. He described the Mikvah’s completion as nothing short of a “miracle.”]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Bicentennial Yahrzeit of Chabad Founder</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037729/Bicentennial-Yahrzeit-of-Chabad-Founder.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Jewish communities worldwide are preparing to mark the bicentennial yahrzeit of R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadian PM Lights Menorah</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/gallery/2037707/Canadian-PM-Lights-Menorah.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and wife Laureen light the Chanukah menorah at their official residence in New Edinburg, Ottawa with Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg, executive director of Chabad-Lubavitch of British Columbia.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>New Chabad Center Rises in Fort Washington</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037705/New-Chabad-Center-Rises-in-Fort-Washington.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after its grand opening, the $4 million Lubavitch of Montgomery County Center for Jewish Life and Learning still feels like a work in progress.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The Gift of Time</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037703/The-Gift-of-Time.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has participated, up close and personal at a religious burial may have observed Judaism’s expectation that, even in their moments of great grief, mourners grieve with mindful respect of this difference. The imperative is finally, that the living carry on, and that while there is a time to mourn, they look ahead knowing that there will be a time to dance.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>They Covered Their Eyes . . .</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037701/They-Covered-Their-Eyes.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA["When tragedy strikes, we cannot say the Shema with our eyes open...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Missouri Governor Nixon Hosts Chanukah Lighting</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037699/Missouri-Governor-Nixon-Hosts-Chanukah-Lighting.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and First Lady Georganne hosted a Chanukah celebration at the Governor’s Mansion on the fifth night of Chanukah. The Governor issued a proclamation marking the Chanukah holiday.]]></description>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037699/Missouri-Governor-Nixon-Hosts-Chanukah-Lighting.html]]></guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A Chanukah Thaw in Chelyabinsk</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037697/A-Chanukah-Thaw-in-Chelyabinsk.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many ventured out this Chanukah to witness an exciting first for this city: public menorah lightings in shopping centers city-wide.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:53:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Amitim Bronfman Youth Fellows Explore Chabad</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Twenty Israeli high school seniors—Bronfman Youth Fellows, took time to learn about Chabad on their recent tour of New York.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Montreal Mayor Lights Menorah at McGill</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Montreal Mayor Michael Appelbaum joined Chabad at McGill on the first night of Chanukah to light the “Official Canned Menorah” on the lower field. The Canned Menorah was built from cans of food raised through a student led food drive.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadian PM's Facebook Photo: Menorah Lighting With Chabad</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037457/Canadian-PMs-Facebook-Photo-Menorah-Lighting-With-Chabad.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA["Laureen and I lighting the Menorah at 24 Sussex, as Rabbi Wineberg looks on," wrote the PM on his facebook page.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Germany's President: Jewish Revival Gift To German Nation</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037447/Germanys-President-Jewish-Revival-Gift-To-German-Nation.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Only 500 of Ulm’s general population of 180,000, are Jewish. And yet 2,000—a majority of them non-Jewish locals—came Sunday, December 2, to witness a historic milestone: the opening of a synagogue, the first and only one in 75 years, to grace the city’s center.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>St. Petersburg: Then and Now</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Among Chasidim, S. Petersburg is often associated with the arrest and liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Rabbi Mendel Labkowski, 58</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Menachem Mendel Labkowski, a Chabad Lubavitch emissary to Los Angeles, California passed away on Saturday, November 24, after a lengthy illness.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Rebbetzin Devorah Krinsky</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rebbetzin Devorah Krinsky, wife of 55 years of יבלח"ט  Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky—secretary to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe—passed away on Friday night after a brief illness.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Cutting Costs, New York Jewish Day School Goes Modular</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037379/Cutting-Costs-New-York-Jewish-Day-School-Goes-Modular.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[For a school that opened its doors in 2000 with 15 children in a nursery class , the new building marks an inflection point for some 300 young girls who will enjoy the benefits of a brand new home.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Few and Far Between, North Dakota's Jews Work With Chabad</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today, there are less than 500 Jews in the state. But that gives Rabbi Yonah and Esti Grossman, who have recently moved to Fargo, nearly 500 reasons for being there.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>How To Secure the Jewish Future</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In their shoes, whom would you place in the leadership position? The savvy, worldly Esau—the hunter who always catches his prey—or straightforward, principled Jacob, somewhat naïve, who spends his days sequestered in the ivory tower of the Yeshiva?]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>On Gabi’s and Rivky’s Yahrzeit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today, Rosh Chodesh Kislev is the yahrzeit of Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg. The day takes us back four years, when these young Shluchim and the people they were hosting in their Chabad Center in Mumbai, were murdered in their home after several days of agonizing terror.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Three Israeli Civilians Killed in Gaza Rocket Attacks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Three Israelis were killed at about 9 a.m. Thursday morning after a rocket hit their apartment building in the city of Kiryat Malakhi (Qiryat Malakhi) in Israel’s southern district. The victims were members of the city’s Chabad community.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Chabad of Germany To Open Centers in Dortmund and Essen</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Despite recent reports that raise questions about whether Jews can feel at home in Germany, Chabad will be opening additional centers in two North Rhine Westphalian cities.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Rabbis and Supporters Convene For 25th Annual International Conference of Chabad Emissaries</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Despite setbacks by Hurricane Sandy, the 25th annual conference of Chabad Lubavitch emissaries was held yesterday evening at the Hilton New York in Manhattan.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Life not always a beach for first Chabad reps in Cancun</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mexican resort city offers opportunities, challenges to its pioneering ultra-Orthodox emissaries, a family of five with roots in Detroit and Brooklyn.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Vladimir Putin: No Anti-Semitism at State Level</title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2037157/Vladimir-Putin-No-Anti-Semitism-at-State-Level.html]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Anti-Semitism “does not exist at the State level,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, in a meeting with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Amid Loss and Devastation, People Reach Out To Help</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At Chabad of the Beaches, as in many other communities where so many are traumatized by the loss and the havoc of Hurricane Sandy, thoughts of Shabbos came early this week.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Jewish Visitors to NC Furniture Trade Show Find Warm Welcome</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When the show opened last week, Rabbi Yosef Plotkin and his wife, Hindy, directors of Chabad of Greensboro, NC, had prayer services, kosher meals and hospitality in place, making Jewish business people feel right at home.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>STATEMENT BY RABBI YEHUDA KRINSKY</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Fact Checking and Creative Speaking</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The plotlines of the stories recounted in recent Torah readings revolve around failures to communicate with integrity, which, commonplace and middling as this has become today, was of extraordinary  consequence in the days of Noah.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:18:00 EDT</pubDate>
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