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Chabad Invites Youngest of Schindler’s Saved Jews To Speak

Chabad-Lubavitch of El Paso has invited Leon Leyson, the youngest survivor known to have been saved by Oskar Schindler, to speak to the local community.…

February 5, 2008

In World of Chabad, Young Women Train for Leadership Through Internships

(lubavitch.com/LNS) On the screen, when they appear at all, Chasidic young women are portrayed as cloistered girls raised for a life in the kitchen. In reality,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 5, 2008

In Russia, Prison Attitudes Change to Accommodate Religious Practice

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Sergey K., whose last name is withheld for legal purposes, is a 48 year-old inmate serving a long sentence in a Russian penitentiary near…

By Alexander Lakshin

February 4, 2008

Chabad of Arizona Reaches Out . . . To Everyone

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Hotel rooms in Glendale, AZ, have been booked for months. Superbowl madness is running high in the Arizona town that’s home to the big…

By E.J. Tansky

February 3, 2008

Chabad Representative Addresses Council of Europe

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February 1, 2008

International Mikvah Website To Be Revamped

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Mikvah.org, the leading website for Jewish family life, is the grateful recipient of a significant grant that will make researching mikvah a newly rewarding…

February 1, 2008

At Brandeis University, Students To Host Gala In Support of Chabad

(lubavitch.com/LNS) The dynamic at Chabad on campus is typically a simple one: Campus Shluchim give and give, and then give some more. A warm home where…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 30, 2008

Chief Rabbi of Russia Speaks at World Economic Forum

Chabad Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, called on the participants in the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos to take a strong stance…

January 30, 2008

A Once Derided Jewish Ritual Now In High Vogue

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Back in the 1970s, women’s mikvah was something you might have heard about in hushed whispers, and then only among observant women. A private…

By Baila Olidort

January 29, 2008

Chabad Representative to Cracow At Auschwitz-Birkenau

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January 28, 2008

Port Washington: Jewish Life is Booming Here

You don’t find many storefront houses of prayer in Port Washington, NY. A modest home carries a $1 million price tag, double that for a…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 28, 2008

Rabbinic Response to Intelligent Design Debate in New Volume of Science/Torah Periodical

Jewish educators and scholars struggling to reconcile scientific thought with Torah views, will find the recently published volume of B'or Ha'Torah Journal of Science, Life…

January 24, 2008

EU Commissioner of Education Meets With Chabad Representative to Slovakia

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January 24, 2008

Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute To Probe Fundamentals of Faith

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) How did the world get here? If the Universe has a Creator, does He run the world? How does G-d communicate with us? Who…

January 23, 2008

37 Years Later, Survivor Meets Her Hero

Chabad’s Terror Victims Program in Israel is in the process of writing a Torah scroll that will have letters inscribed by family members and survivors…

January 23, 2008

International Conference Draws Chabad Women in Leadership To Study

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Perusing the instructions a Chabad leader leaves behind before she attends the annual Shluchos Convention in New York is exhausting. It takes lists, sticky…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 22, 2008

Review Essay: The Grammar of Women’s Spirituality

IN SEARCH OF THE GENDER-NEUTRAL It is now standard to include in book introductions a tedious apology for the lack of a graceful gender-neutral term…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

January 22, 2008

Chabad Opens Medical Clinic For Moscow’s Jewish Community

Chabad Lubavitch of Moscow recently opened an upscale medical clinic, the Rambam Medical center, serving the geriatric and indigent segment of the Jewish community. The…

January 21, 2008

In Remote Halifax, A Jewish Community Comes Into Its Own

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Nova Scotia’s most populated city with a Jewish community 1800 strong is far, far away from major centers of Jewish life. It’s an eighteen-hour…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 21, 2008

Mayor of Buenos Aires Visits the Children at Chabad’s Perla Rohr Home

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January 17, 2008

A Million Mitzvahs . . . And Still Counting

(lubavitch.com/LNS) An unlikely band of boosters helped the Million Mitzvahs campaign reach its goal. AEPi sorority sisters, students at Hebrew Academy Day School and bar…

By E.J. Tansky

January 17, 2008

Poland’s Lech Walesa Visits With Chabad in Israel

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Former Polish President Lech Walesa visited Tuesday with Chabad Chasidim and Chabad institutions in Kfar Chabad, Israel. In a desire to become better acquainted with…

January 15, 2008

As Kosher Awareness Grows, More Make the Switch Even When Eating Out

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) When Leslie Paskoff of Minnetonka, Minnesota, recently invited some friends to her kitchen table, it was a “going kosher” party. Guests peeled stickers off…

By Dvora Lakein

January 15, 2008

Matchmaking Online: Chabad Reps Give the Brides Away

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) No longer is the matchmaker the village busybody who knew families and their foibles. Today’s Yenta is an algorithm whirring in a server miles…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 14, 2008