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S. Pete Chabad Opens 18,000-Square-Foot Center
There is no name on the new Chabad Center for Jewish Life in S. Petersburg, Florida — at least not yet. The $11 million, 18,000-square-foot…
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In London’s Bromley, Chabad Brings Jewish Life Into the Open
In the summer of 1940, the British army’s Spitfires that held off the Luftwaffe flew out of Biggin Hill, in what is now the London…
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The Chabad House That Is Also a Farm
For many, walking into a synagogue or Chabad House for the first time can be harder than it looks. There is a door, and a…
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Tending to Tanzania
Dar es Salaam means “abode of peace” in Arabic, and it’s where the call to prayer carries over the rumbling of generators. The heat comes…
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Faces of Chabad: Rivky Hertzel
“People think Zambia is exotic, but when people in Zambia hear I grew up in Alaska, they think that’s the crazy part. Alaska never felt…
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Chabad of Kenya Opens New Center, Starts Search for Bigger One
For nearly two years, Rabbi Levi and Chaya Mushka Notik searched Nairobi for a new home for Chabad of Kenya. Space, budget and security were…
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Faces of Chabad: Yehuda Ferris
“My father was a cantor at a Conservative synagogue—that’s how we grew up. Reform, conservative, wherever my father worked, that was our level of observance.…
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Faces of Chabad: Sorella Abrahams
“When I was a child, I was walking with a friend on a Friday afternoon in London and we met these 2 Israelis schlepping suitcases.…
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The Shofar’s Blast Beyond the Synagogue
On a Rosh Hashanah morning in 2011, a curious crowd gathered by the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. When the blast of the shofar cut…
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An Address in the Amazon
Guests at the Raichmans’ Shabbat table in Manaus, Brazil think they’re eating chicken schnitzel. It’s pirarucu — a massive Amazonian fish, served kosher in a…
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Chabad at USC Opens New Center With Campus’s First Kosher Restaurant
“A proud Jew rather than a fearful one.” That, student Noah Razak told some 400 people gathered on Severance Street Sunday night, is what Chabad…
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Faces of Chabad: Shmuli Nachlas
“My parents gave us a home where Judaism, the Rebbe, and education weren’t just talked about—they were lived. Going to the Rebbe in New York…
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Fourth Chabad Center Opens on the Island of Corsica
A storefront on the main road in Calvi, on Corsica’s northwest coast, is now home to the island’s fourth Chabad center. Walk out of the…
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Building Connection in Barbados
Shabbos comes at nearly the same time every week in Barbados, the furthest southeast island in the Caribbean. Close to the equator, the days barely…
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Faces of Chabad: Talia Voskoboynik
“I grew up in California in a traditional conservative family. I always had a strong sense of Jewish identity, but Judaism was never something I…
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New Youth Center and Mikvah for Thornhill’s Russian Jewish Community
In the 1950s, Chaya Esther Zaltzman traveled 36 hours by train each way — every month — from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to reach a mikvah in…
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Innisfil Gets Its First Year-Round Jewish Home
For decades, Jewish families from Toronto have spent their summers on the shores of Lake Simcoe. “This is the Canadian Catskills,” said David Turk, a…
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Faces of Chabad: Elie Estrin
“I remember seeing on the news that the army would allow bearded chaplains. I figured—let me go to a recruiter. I thought that being a…
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Where the Continent Ends
Newfoundland runs on its own time — literally. The province keeps a half-hour time zone found almost nowhere else in the Western Hemisphere, thirty minutes…
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A Mikvah in Mat-Su, Alaska
More than 350 residents of Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley contributed to the construction of a local mikvah. The first to be built in the state outside…
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Iceland Gets Its First Jewish Center in History
The sign went up on one of Reykjavik’s main streets, and people stopped to stare. For a community that had spent decades gathering in living…
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From Florida to Hawaii, Chabad Rabbis Fight for the Right to Gather
A Legal Battle in Boca Raton For fifteen years, Rabbi Naftaly and Henya Hertzel ran the Chabad Israel Center in Boca Raton. For fifteen years,…
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Faces of Chabad: Dovid Gurevich
“I had a pretty typical Soviet upbringing—just being aware of my Jewishness without really knowing what it entailed. There was little access to anything Jewish…
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Going to Yeshiva for Johnny
Johnny Ellis had a plan. He’d wrapped up his old job, had a new one starting in June, and was going to spend the time…
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