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Chabad Rabbi First Non-Catholic Ever Offers Prayer at America’s Freedom Festival

July 24, 2008

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Benny Zippel, Director of Chabad of Utah, became the first non-Catholic clergy to offer the invocation at America’s Freedom Festival. Billed as the…

Senator Obama Meets With Chabad Rep in Sderot

July 23, 2008

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July 23, 2008

National Geographic Explores Chabad In Portuguese Edition

(lubavitch.com) This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the…

Hebrew Day School Educators Explore Alternative Teaching Techniques

July 23, 2008

(lubavitch.com) One hundred twenty teachers from Chabad Lubavitch yeshivas and day schools across North America tackled strategies that will allow them to better address the…

Jewish Life in Michigan Booming At the 50 Year Mark

July 23, 2008

(lubavitch.com) Back when Detroit churned out gas guzzlers with fins and chrome and President Eisenhower started building the interstate highway system, a young couple–married just…

Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Grows Vibrant in Bulgaria

July 21, 2008

(lubavitch.com) Three milestones of Jewish revival in Bulgaria were feted in grand style by dignitaries, the Chief Rabbi of Israel and hundreds of well wishers…

By E.J. Tansky

July 18, 2008

Chabad Opens New Center in Bangalore

(lubavitch.com) India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the…

Chabad Rabbi: “A Black Day for Israel”

July 17, 2008

(lubavitch.com) After two years of speculation about the condition of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah terrorists on the Israel-Lebanese border in the summer 2006,…

July 16, 2008

Court Rules In Favor of Condo’s Right to Remove Mezuzah

(lubavitch.com) A federal court ruling that denied a Chicago condo resident’s right to hang a mezuzah on her front door incensed a local legislator and…

Chabad Retreat in Salt Lake City Draws Jews from Boise, Plano, Missoula . . .

July 15, 2008

(lubavitch.com) Nadine Veibell is still looking for words to adequately capture her experience at the National Jewish Retreat over the Fourth of July weekend at…

With iCamp Robotics, Gan Israel Campers Get Hi-Tech, Hi-Jewish Camping

July 14, 2008

(lubavitch.com) Levi Stein is a Chabad rabbinical student from Michigan. Neil Voss is studying finance at a college in Fresno, CA. This summer they are…

Marshall Islands, Cartagena, Colombia On Chabad Rabbis’ Itinerary

July 14, 2008

(lubavitch.com) After hours of travel through the back-roads of the Rocky Mountains, Rabbis Daniel Cowen and Asaf Advocat, two young rabbis on the Chabad-Lubavitch community enrichment…

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 10, 2008

On Summer Travels, Jewish Tourists Pack Chabad Directory

(lubavitch.com) Eco-tourism, adventure travel, leisure cruise—for every kind of tourist there’s a travel plan. With the ubiquity of Chabad centers, travelers can just about choose…

By Dora Chernock

July 9, 2008

New Focus On Jewish Teens To Keep Them From Slipping Away

(lubavitch.com) Can religion be cool enough for teens? Chabad’s new teen initiative is working to make the answer “yes” – in a very big way.…

Australia’s Jewish Community Mourns Passing of Leading Rabbi

July 8, 2008

(lubavitch.com) The Jewish community of Australia, and Chabad-Lubavitch at large, were saddened to learn of the passing yesterday, July 6, of Rabbi Yitzchok D. Groner,…

July 7, 2008

Of Love and More on 3 Tammuz

So much has been written, and more said, about the Lubavitcher Rebbe whose 14th yahrzeit is marked on the third of Tammuz, this year July…

July 6, 2008

Children From Sderot Arrive in U.S. To Summer With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Jetlagged but happy, 70 children from Sderot, Israel, were given a heroes' welcome Wednesday, as they arrived at JFK International Airport for a summer…

By Dvora Lakein

July 2, 2008

In S. Petersburg, A Text Message Leads To Life Changes

(lubavitch.com) For many of the 100 S. Petersburg teenagers celebrating at an elaborate mass bar and bat mitzvah, their journey to the Jewish rite of…

Differences Wash Aside In Chabad’s Iowa Flood Relief

July 1, 2008

(lubavitch.com) News crew trucks have reeled in their satellite feeds and driven off to the next big story, but Iowans spent the weekend dragging the…

A New Crop of Students To Receive Rabbinic Ordination

June 30, 2008

(lubavitch.com) As college graduates flung mortarboards skyward and clutched their diplomas in hand, young men from Chabad rabbinicall yeshivas sweated out the demanding oral and written…

Extreme Adventure Camping With Chabad For Jewish Teens

June 26, 2008

(lubavitch.com) Michael Harari arrived in Seattle Tuesday morning. After stashing his camping gear in the bowels of a 46-passenger school bus, he settled in the…

By Dvora Lakein

June 25, 2008

Chabad’s SOS Raises Awareness, Activism for Elderly

(lubavitch.com) There’s something funny about Don Rickles, 82, headlining at the first annual Smile on Seniors “Joy and Laughter” event on June 29 at the New Jersey…