Friday, / November 15, 2024
Posts by: Rivka Chaya Berman
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The Rewards of Jewish Reading
When Sholom Ber Rice of San Rafael, CA, saw the sleek lines of the computer offered as a prize for Kehot Publication Society’s Book-A-Thon, he…
Postcards From Camp Gan Israel
The Gan Israel Day Camp network began its 40th summer with hundreds of camps around the globe. One of the largest and most dynamic networks…
Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin–A First Since Holocaust
In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon…
New Biography of Baal Shem Tov Published
The Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, newly released by the Kehot Publication Society, publishing arm of the Lubavitch…
Jewish Children’s Museum Expects Steady Summer Tours
The fourth graders from Yeshivat Noam of Bergenfield, NJ, could not resist calling out answers to their struggling compatriots who were trying to score points…
A Mecca for Special Children
At first glance, the classroom at Chabad of Glen Cove Long Island’s Hebrew school for children with special needs looks like any other classroom. Brightly…
A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado
Looming gray clouds that lashed the mountainsides of Westminster, Colorado, with drenching rains blew out of town just in time for Chabad of Northwest Metro…
Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Home Services
On June 3, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in favor of an Orlando Chabad rabbi’s right to host prayer services…
Banner Year for Chabad on Campus
As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…
Community Defends and Celebrates Preschool
After city officials forced children out of their preschool at Chabad of Staten Island, NY, on May 25, the synagogue’s long-planned inauguration of its new…
Prayer Services at Home? A Supreme Court Test Case
Chabad of South Orlando’s neighborhood zoning woes may become a Supreme Court test case of a landmark religious freedom act signed by President Clinton. Over…
Finding Judaism On Waikiki Beach
Japanese teens wearing coral orange flip flops and matching “hang loose” Hawaii t-shirts over their swim trunks careen out of the elevator of the Ala…
120 Communities Participate in Chabad of Thailand’s Toy Drive
Ayelet Hematian and Chantal Keypour of Port Washington, New York, did not understand a word of the Thai pop tunes that pulsated through the air…
New Jewish Center To Open in Florida’s State Capitol
Chabad of Tallahasse’s brand new 3,000 square foot building on two acres of prime Florida real estate will soon resound with the melody of Jewish…
Mansichewitz and Chabad Reach Thousands in Lithuania, Ukraine and Beyond
A gaggle of teenage girls are packing up their sleek holiday skirts into small valises in anticipation of the Passover holiday. But they won’t be…
Purim In The Emerald Isle
Pubs filled as regular customers gathered and pints of Guiness were poured in anticipation of the Tel-Aviv vs. Ireland World Cup soccer qualifying match on…
Purim at Cambridge Takes An Orwellian Turn
Six-foot tall roosters, a charming butterfly and dancing cows lumbered through Chabad of Cambridge’s backyard barnyard for their Animal Farm Purim celebration. Under plastic bats…
A Queen, A King, A Hero and a Villain: Purim Celebrations Abound
As Purim revelers in Branford, CT, munch on sour pickles with enough punch to provoke puckers, they will be stepping back in time at Chabad…
Chabad Representative Awarded Prestigious Edmond Tenoudji Prize
The last time the Jewish community in Toulouse, France made news, it was the frightening report of hooligans opening fire on a kosher butcher shop.…
Sharansky Visits Lauder Chabad Campus in Vienna
A flock of kindergarten students at Vienna’s Lauder Chabad School filled the hallways waving hand-colored signs and homemade flags greeting Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky…
New Chabad Center On Phuket Island
The beaches of Phuket Island, Thailand, sparkling with fresh sand flung ashore by the tsunami, stretch out against blue skies so gorgeous it’s easy to…
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