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On the first Friday of the month, hundreds of culture hounds out to sniff and sneer at contemporary paintings and sculptures catch a whiff of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 10, 2007

Financing the Fun

Shimmering above the weatherman’s smile is a headline forecasting “Deadly Heat.” Next week’s weather predictions for Glendale, AZ, sizzle between 108 and 111 degrees. Beating…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 9, 2007

South Korea, Taiwan, on Chabad’s Summer Itinerary

Before the ink dried on a free trade deal between U.S. and South Korea, a first-time ever import arrived in Seoul: two young Chabad rabbis.…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 3, 2007

Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn: America Is No Different

The 12th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, this year corresponding to June 4th, marks the date 82 years ago, that Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak…

June 26, 2007

Sderot Residents Tread Nervously

Less than a month ago, Sderot’s streets were deserted. Most of the city's residents remained indoors, afraid of the barrage of kassams that has turned…

By Erika Snyder

June 25, 2007

Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Elected Vice President of NCPSA

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, head of the education department of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, Chabad Lubavitch headquarters was elected Vice President/Vice Chair of the National Council foe…

June 21, 2007

Interview: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on the Lubavitcher Rebbe

In honor of the 13th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Lubavitch.com presents the following excerpts and video clips of an interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz,…

June 19, 2007

At the Ohel

At 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard, in Cambria Heights, Queens, a small, single story cape house on a tree-lined residential street, preparations are in high gear.…

By Baila Olidort

June 18, 2007

Chabad of NOVA Celebrates Sixteen Years

When Chabad of Northern Virginia celebrated their 16th anniversary with a black-tie dinner and concert, two weeks ago, more than 350 people came to pay…

By Fay Kranz Greene

June 17, 2007

Jewish Educational Media Releases 35-Year Old Video Recording of Rebbe

The younger generation of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives barely knew the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In another era, they might have been decidedly impoverished by second-hand recollections as their…

June 15, 2007

Chabad Campus Rabbi Takes Award For Book on Comics

“For most of my life I’ve lived a Clark Kent existence . . . my desire to assimilate required no less.” So begins Up Up…

By S. Olidort

June 13, 2007

A Brit in Mormon Country

A brit milah in Providence, Utah? There are so few Jews in this picturesque tiny town nestled between the Utah Rocky mountain ranges, that the…

By Stacey Kalish

June 13, 2007

French Jews Find A Sunny Home in Miami Beach

When French Jews bid au revoir to their country’s laissez faire attitude toward anti-Semitism, where do they go? Israel and French-sections of Canada are classic…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 11, 2007

From Orphan Child to Beaming Bride, A Jewish Wedding in Vilnius

Without Chabad of Vilnius, the bride would have walked down the aisle alone. Or maybe, she wouldn’t have married Jewish altogether. Chaya (Luba) Gelemson had…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

June 6, 2007

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Plans To Reopen Mikvah By Rosh Hashana

When congregants arrived at Chabad-Lubavitch of Ft. Lauderdale's synagogue for Shabbat services this past Saturday, they found themselves in the dark. Hours earlier a 165-ton…

By Staff Writer

June 4, 2007

Chabad Expands Focus on Jewish Adult Education Services

Following a recent initiative to expand the adult education services offered by Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide and abroad, Lubavitch Headquarters disclosed today through Lubavitch.com the names…

By Baila Olidort

June 2, 2007

A Six-Day War Inspiration: Forty Years Later, And Still Binding

In the months before the Six Day War earned its name and blazed into the history books as an open miracle, pundits were predicting a…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 30, 2007

Lubavitcher Rebbe Proposes Summer Time Be Used for Fortifyting and Expansion of Jewish Education

New York (LNS) May 4, 1977 “The summer vacation period should be utilized for fortifying and expanding the Jewish education of children,” said the Lubavitcher…

By FLASHBACK!

May 29, 2007

Shabbat With Chabad at the Cannes Film Festival

The International Cannes Film Festival, emblematic in all ways of material girls (and boys), seemed a most unlikely venue for a spiritual encounter. Indeed, curious…

By Baila Olidort

May 28, 2007

Chabad Mourns Untimely Passing of Rabbi Avraham Levitansky

Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, Chabad's longtime representative in S. Monica, passed away at his home this morning at the age of 67 following a lengthy illness.…

By Bradford Wiss

May 27, 2007

Guest Editorial: “Rabbi, I’m A Bad Jew!”

Why do people lie to their dentists? You know, "So, Jim, have you been flossing?" "Yeah, kind of, sure…well, last couple of weeks it was…

By Rabbi Yossi Marcus

May 21, 2007

Asleep at Sinai? Chabad Raises Shavuot Awareness

What if the Torah threw a party and nobody came? Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates G-d’s gift of the Torah to the Jewish people at…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 20, 2007

Estonia: New Synagogue Rises in Country Once Declared “Judenfrei”

"You can burn down a building but you can't burn down a prayer," Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday at the inauguration ceremony…

By Staff Writer

May 17, 2007