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Fun and Laughter in a Land of Chaos
Forty yellow school buses make the rounds through Buenos Aires and the surrounding suburbs morning and afternoon, ferrying over 900 children back and forth daily.…
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On the Slopes and At Chabad: Peak Season
Most of Rabbi Mendel Mintz’s congregants at Chabad of Aspen are in town now. Which is a nice thing, especially since it’s so unusual. In…
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A Different Sort of Magic
On your average Shabbos, a minyan at Chabad of South Orlando is usually made up of several dozen men and women, about half of whom…
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Not For Water
The ratings are in and they’ve never been better, says Michael Kigel, producer of Passages and Messages, two religiously themed shows that air weekly on…
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Creating Community
When Chabad at Flamingo, named for the obscure little road it sits on in Northern Thornhill, opened the doors of the Ernest Manson Lubavitch Center,…
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More Chanukah on Campus
The University of Chicago, a bastion of the American academic elite since its founding in 1890, is displaying its first ever Chanukah menorah in the…
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Around Africa in Eight Days
When you live in a remote country in central Africa, foreign residents will tell you, it’s not hard to feel isolated from the rest of…
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Kids n’ Olive Oil: The Real Thing
When Rabbi Yisroel Engel of Denver, Colorado hit upon the idea of a hands-on Olive Oil Press workshop in the winter of 1986, he had…
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A Menorah on the Slopes
Jason, a 24 year old Australian ski enthusiast was heading down the slopes one day in the winter of ’95 during a season-long ski stint,…
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Traditional Torah Training in a Progressive School
Six year old Simon Handmaker of St. Louis, Mo, is getting the best of both worlds, claims his father, Billy Handmaker. A father of two…
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A Light At The End of The Tunnel
Commuters passing through the Holland Tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey every day will soon be noticing a new sign of the season at…
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The Building on Lacplesa Street
Twice a year, a hunched, old man would make his way over to the Chabad school at 141 Lacplesa Street in Riga, Latvia, and offer…
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Healing for the Soul
In a diary entry written only days before her death, M., a 40-year old woman from New York battling cancer, listed several things she was…
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A Jewish House of Healing
Nine hundred and fifty dinner guests turned up on October 1 at the Westin Hotel, one of Sydney, Australia’s most prestigious venues, in a broad…
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Little People, Big Responsibilities
Thousands of guests at the annual banquet of the Chabad Lubavitch International Conference of Shluchim listened attentively as 12 year-old Motti Shochet of London, England…
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A Second Chance
Over the last few decades, a full 80% of Atlanta’s Jewish population of 100,000 migrated to the suburbs. For a while, it seemed as though…
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Have Degree, Will Mother
When Rabbi Avraham and Frumi Bekerman arrived in Moscow nine years ago to assume direction of the Machon Chaya Mushka Institute for Jewish Women, a…
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The Mitzvah Factory:Taking Fun Seriously
“Will your grandchildren be Jewish?” Rabbi Shraga Sherman of Chabad of the Mainline in suburban Philadelphia believes he has an answer to that question, so…
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Torah in the Technology Corridor
Coined the “technology corridor” of Illinois, Naperville and its surrounding areas are home to dozens of hi-tech firms and company headquarters for several large companies.…
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Emerging From the Floodwaters
Only several weeks after torrential rains and flooding left half of Prague submerged in water, Chabad here is back in business, and “stronger than ever,”…
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A Happy Reunion
The last time Karen Guttman, 28, had contact with her father was 14 years ago. By a series of serendipitous events that brought her to…
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“Thank You for Your Salt Lake City Chabad”
Ten years ago, newly arrived Chabad representative to the state of Utah, Rabbi Benny Zippel, received a call from a fellow Chabad Rabbi in California.…
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Sukkot in Donetsk
Like dozens of cities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, Donetsk, one of the largest cities in Ukraine, was home to a thriving Jewish…
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Eugene, Oregon
With the arrival this week of Rabbi Asi and Aviva Spiegel, the spiritual seekers of this city 100 miles south of Portland have a new…
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