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Jewish Life in Germany 70 Years After Kristallnacht
(lubavitch.com) Survivors of Kristallnacht will tell you that they remember the flames. Fires shot out of the roofs of synagogues and the smell of burning…
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After A Polarizing Election, Jewish Women To Share A Shabbat of Unity
(lubavitch.com) On December 5, Jewish women from zip codes across America and from diverse backgrounds will participate at a Shabbat retreat in Boulder, Colorado.  Coming mere…
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TEACH ME, MASTER: Bankers and Businesspeople Become Today’s Talmudic Students
(lubavitch.com) The study of Talmud is high on the list of skills, most adults say ruefully, that you either got as a young yeshiva student,…
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SHE COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT Joy & Fervor On the Happiest Day of the Year
(lubavitch.com) The festivities of Simchas Torah, one of the happiest days on the Jewish calendar, begin Monday night. In communities around the world, people will…
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Chabad of Columbus Opens LifeTown for Developmentally Disabled Children
(lubavitch.com) Justin Swan has a busy day ahead of him. After getting his annual check-up at the doctor’s office, this developmentally disabled 17 year-old  must make…
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New Bill To Allow Condo Owners to Post Mezuzahs
(lubavitch.com) A new bill in Congress will seek to ensure that condo dwellers enjoy the same religious freedoms that others do. New York congressman, Jerrold…
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Pinellas County Jewish Community Celebrates Completion of Mikvah
(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch of Pinellas County and Young Israel of Clearwater completed construction on this Florida county’s first-ever mikvah, Sunday. “This is a really big step…
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Chabad Opens Center For Jewish Life for Memphis Jewish Community
(lubavitch.com) As in years past, two Memphis day schools and the community high school will be slicing and polishing rams’ horns as they participate in…
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Lubavitch Headquarters To Launch Mentoring Program for Chabad Representatives
(lubavitch.com) Chabad representatives are givers: of time, of advice, and a home-cooked meal. More commonly known as shluchim, the representatives—also referred to as emissaries or…
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Oklahoma City Celebrates First Jewish Center in 50 Years
(lubavitch.com) Hundreds of city locals looked on Sunday as the State Attorney General joined rabbis and cut the ribbon on the first Jewish building to…
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Delaware Jewish Community on Senator Joe Biden
(lubavitch.com) After hearing from Alaska's Jewish community on Governor Palin, lubavitch.com caught up with its Chabad representative in Delaware to learn about the Democratic candidate…
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Daily Minyan, Kosher Box Lunches For Jewish Guests in Twin Cities
(lubavitch.com) The streets of St. Paul this week are filled with both convention participants and protestors. Whoever they are, says Chabad representative Rabbi Mendel Feller,…
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At U.S. Campuses, Jewish Students Break The New Year In With Chabad
(lubavitch.com) As millions of college students packed up their IPODS and laptops and headed back to school, Chabad-Lubavitch campus representatives nationwide waited to welcome them. Students…
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Children From Sderot Arrive in U.S. To Summer With Chabad
(lubavitch.com) Jetlagged but happy, 70 children from Sderot, Israel, were given a heroes' welcome Wednesday, as they arrived at JFK International Airport for a summer…
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Extreme Adventure Camping With Chabad For Jewish Teens
(lubavitch.com) Michael Harari arrived in Seattle Tuesday morning. After stashing his camping gear in the bowels of a 46-passenger school bus, he settled in the…
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Southside Jewish Community Breaks Ground for Area’s First Jewish Facility
(lubavitch.com) Southside community members and leaders turned out Thursday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the area's first Jewish institution, a new Chabad-Lubavitch center.  The event spells…
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Chabad Inaugurates New JCC in Daytona Beach
(lubavitch.com) Daytona Beach evokes images of NASCAR’S most prestigious race, the country’s largest motorcycle rally, and college students’ first choice for spring break. That it…
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Chabad Buys New Space in Denver’s Booming South Metro
(lubavitch.com/lns) With Denver’s South Metro Jewish population up from 4,300 to 10,000 in the last decade, Chabad’s closing on a 1.2 million building last week…
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Largest Food Bank in Israel Prepares To Feed 25,000 Families
(lubavitch.com/LNS) At a warehouse in Kiryat Malachi, volunteers are working at a feverish pace packing canned goods, fruits and vegetables, oil, matzah, and wine into hundreds…
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American Jewish Suburbanites See Israel Up Close and Personal
A Chabad-led tour of Israel gave a group of American Jews from the Midwest an up close perspective on the extremes of daily life in…
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Chabad Rabbi First Rabbi Ever to Address U.S. Military Chaplaincy
(lubavitch.com/lns) In a speech hailed by one priest as the most inspiring talk since Martin Luther King Jr., Chabad Rabbi Yossi Jacobson addressed the Chief…
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Israeli Expats Strengthen Jewish Identity in Diaspora
As the Israeli government launches a dynamic campaign to lure expatriates back, many are conflicted as to which country they wish to call home. With…
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Challenge Aspen Works With Chabad To Welcome Israeli Soldiers
(lubavitch.com/LNS) On January 31, 2006, Gary Alfmon, a paramedic fighter in Y.A.M.A.M, a special IDF police, was sent into Jenin with his platoon. Working covertly…
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