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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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Faces of Chabad: Amanda Spiro
“I grew up in a very well-to-do home. From a young age, I was searching—I just didn’t know what I was looking for. When I…
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From Ellenville to Everywhere: Camp Gan Israel Turns 70
This summer in Bangkok, a group of Jewish children will sing the same Hebrew songs being sung in Tucson, and wear t-shirts with the same…
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The Jewish State You’ve Never Heard Of
Eight hours by plane from Moscow, wedged between Siberia and the Chinese border, sits the only place on earth besides Israel with the word “Jewish”…
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After Centuries of Jewish Life, Pensacola Gets Its First Mikvah
Jews have lived in Pensacola a while — they built Florida’s first synagogue here in 1876. But in all that time, the city never had…
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TeaSpins Gaming Assessment 2024 – Comprehensive Gaming Guide
TeaSpins Casino Assessment 2024 – Complete Gambling Manual Overview to TeaSpins Gaming Games Library and Providers Offers and Promotions Banking Methods Safety and Compliance Player…
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Robert Kraft “Picks His Team” at Chestnut Hill Chabad Gala
Nearly 500 people filled Boston’s JFK Presidential Library on May 14 to mark the 25th anniversary of Chabad of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. While the occasion…
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Creating Community in Cambodia
It was the worst possible week to leave Phnom Penh. A shipping container from Israel was arriving — filled with matzah, wine, and kosher supplies.…
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A Welcome Center Nearly 4,000 Years in the Making
In 1677 BCE, Abraham purchased a plot of land in Hebron to bury his wife Sarah — the first Jewish land acquisition in history. The…
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Ask the Rabbi: Meaningful Chats and Viral Moments on the Beltline
On any given morning, the Atlanta Beltline moves the way most city trails do — runners with earbuds, dog walkers, cyclists cutting through. Just off…
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