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Chabad House of Greater Toledo gets approval to construct new community center in Sylvania Township

Chabad House of Greater Toledo will be allowed to build a nearly $2 million community center.

Jewish Exponent
‘My Name is Asher Lev’ Adaptation Explores Connections Between Art and Religion

Chabad Jewish Center for Students in Philadelphia and the Kugel Collaborative: A Jewish Student Arts Space will put on a production of My Name is Asher Lev, an adaptation by Aaron Posner of the novel by Philadelphian Chaim Potok, at the Gershman Y starting on Feb. 25 at 8 p.m.

Jewish Voice NY
‘A Time to Heal’ Earns Best Religion Book Award

A Time to Heal, Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson’s rendering of the responses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe(Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory) to tragedy and suffering, has received the “Best Book Award” under the general category of religion in the “Best Book Awards” international competition.

Breaking Israel News
Elevating Souls Through Bible Study

While most charitable organizations concern themselves with caring for the living, Colel Chabad, established in 1788, making it the oldest continuously operating network of social services in Israel, serves not only the living but also the deceased.

The Jewish Press
Colel Chabad ‘Smart Apartments’ Project Helps Disabled Live Independently

The new independent living project provides maximum accessibility and support for disabled Israelis.

The Gleaner
Jewish Community Ready To Help In Curtailing Crime

The Jewish community in Jamaica says that it is prepared to join in the fight against crime by bringing youth closer to God through the introduction of its doctrine to schools across the country.

Chicago Tribune
Skokie’s Lubavitch school celebrates arrival of new Torah

When a new Torah arrives for the first time, it is cause for celebration, rabbis at Seymour J. Abrams Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School in Skokie say.

JTA
Rabbi’s expulsion rattles Russian Jews fearful of Kremlin crackdown

Three years ago, Rabbi Ari Edelkopf and his wife, Chana, worked around the clock for weeks to show off their community and city to the many foreigners in town for the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Student Life
Chabad hosts first-ever landfill free Shabbat dinner

Chabad held its first landfill free Shabbat dinner this January, an effort it hopes to make weekly.

Arutz Sheva
Welfare Ministry to provide food vouchers to Israel’s poor

New initiative provides poor families with monthly 500 NIS debit card for food.

Times of Israel
In ultra-Orthodox fashion, you can tell a lot about a person by his button holes

Crown Heights Jews set themselves apart with such nuance that getting the lowdown on Hasidic chic takes a trained eye

the Algemeiner
Image of Jews Being Marched Into Nazi Gas Chambers Scrawled in Minnesota Student’s Room Example of ‘Skyrocketing’ Campus Antisemitism, School’s Chabad Rabbi Says

A rabbi at the University of Minnesota (UMN) told The Algemeiner on Thursday that he was disheartened but not surprised by the “disgusting” image of a Nazi gas chamber and crematorium scrawled on a Jewish student’s whiteboard, since “though such incidents used to be very rare, antisemitism on campus has been skyrocketing of late.”

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