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A Special Moment for Harvard’s Jewish Community
Under the hammerbeam trusses and stenciled ceiling of Harvard’s Annenberg Hall, between stained glass windows and oil paintings with Civil War themes, in the soaring…
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A New Chabad Centre for Oxford Students
Amit Pundik began lugging a satchel of books and paper around Oxford University four months ago when he arrived to study law. Excelling in an…
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Tu B’Shvat: Fruits and Trees, and the Human Being
Pomegranates were on Leah Brackman’s mind. The fruits, a splash of ruby against the muted tones of the winter-scape, were not the only exotics on…
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Seniors Get A Second Wind With Chabad Programs
As more and more boomers get their welcome kit from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), Chabad programming for seniors is experiencing a boom of…
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Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives
When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given…
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Aventura Teens Spend Shabbat With Chabad in New York
Because of its efficacy as a teaching tool, experience-based learning is now being advocated as a strategy in classrooms from preschool through college. When twelve…
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Jewish Community of Mission Viejo Celebrates 10 Years With Chabad
Creative to the hilt, it’s fitting that Chabad Jewish Center of Mission Viejo, CA, is housed in a former bank building. Transforming ennui into excitement…
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Chabad and birthright: Israel: Partners In Jewish Awareness
Over college winter break, a fourteen buses loaded with 575 students from schools across North America cruised down the neon-bathed streets of Tel Aviv. Edgy…
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College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up
Most college students are forgiven if they sleep in on January 1, nursing a headache from the past night’s excesses, but Erik Steel awoke early…
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Chabad Gives Chanukah 2005 Greatest Exposure Ever
A blue Lego piece clutched in his chubby fingers, Zhak Goldemberg-Levy, just 21 months old, built a menorah with a little help from his grandfather…
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Chabad Schools Chosen For Pilot Program in Childhood Education
Two Chabad preschools have been chosen to participate in a new pilot program aimed at creating models of excellence in Jewish childhood education. After a…
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Tzivos Hashem Celebrates 25th Anniversary
A biting wind whipped down Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, across the courtyard of the Jewish Children’s Museum, but that’s not why the 450 people…
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A Most Unusual Event
Shoppers, fresh from the streets of a city mad with holiday glitter swept into the lobby of the New York Hilton and found themselves in…
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New Center to Rise in New Jersey
Two hundred people celebrated the best kind of growing pains when Chabad Center of Northwest New Jersey broke ground for its new 12,000 square foot…
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From New Orleans to New Jersey: A Torah Is Welcomed
As Eric Sion prepared to read from the Torah at his bar mitzvah, he could not have imagined that he would be reading from the…
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A New Home For Chatsworth’s Jewish Community
For Yolanda Richman, there’s no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there’s no place like…
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Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again
Stuart Katz, general manager of IsraAir, never thought he’d spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that’s what happened…
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Lulav, Etrog, Sukkah–Familiarity With The Festival Grows
Kenneth Alan Spector’s mother’s medical bills were such a puzzle that when the insurance company’s telephone rep read the record she could not help but…
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United Jewish Communities Partners With Chabad
United Jewish Communities allocated over $38,000 to Chabad-Lubavitch for its hurricane relief efforts in Southern Mississippi and for its chevra kaddisha, Jewish burial society, work…
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Bakersfield Welcomes New Chabad Facility
California may not be known for its Bible Belt, but it has one, and the city of Bakersfield is right at its buckle. Chabad of…
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Striving for Excellence at Chabad Preschool
Josh is on the waiting list to get into Chabad of S. Mateo’s brand new Chai Jewish Preschool of Excellence, but he doesn’t know it.…
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American Children Give To Orphans In Ukraine
Chana Luzhetskaya’s mother was not there to celebrate her daughter’s birthday party, but Chana was not forgotten. For her special day, Chana and the 31…
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A New Mikvah To Open In Oregon
Three hundred miles. That’s the distance from Chabad of Ashland, Oregon, to the closest traditional mikvah. Ashlander women who wished to keep the mitzvah of…
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JLI To Launch Holocaust Studies Series
The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will reach its widest audience yet when it launches its new course, “Beyond Never Again: The Holocaust Speaks to Our…
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