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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

At Year-End: Despite Statistics, Chabad on Campus Deepens Jewish Commitment

When Ethan Samuels clutches a freshly printed diploma in his hands in a few weeks, he will be among the tens of thousands of college…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 15, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Informs Court Decision on Kosher Privileges for Inmates

Chabad of New Hampshire’s Rabbi Levi Krinsky showed up at U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire, to offer moral support to Albert Kuperman, a…

By E.J. Tansky

May 10, 2007

Teenagers Take Charge

During Zoe Pinter’s freshman year in Frankel Jewish Academy she absorbed notebooks and textbooks full of knowledge, but she learned even more from Matthew. Matthew…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 8, 2007

Lag B’omer 2007

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May 6, 2007

Stanford University Celebrates Opening of New Rohr Chabad House

When he first met Rabbi Dov and Rachel Greenberg, Amichai Magen doubted that he, a self-described “Yitzchak Rabin Fulbright Scholar who grew up in the…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

May 3, 2007

“Chabad At Stanford . . . Knowledge, Courage and Commitment”

In retrospect it seems highly symbolic – even poetic – to me that I first met Rabbi Dov Greenberg when he was busy assembling a…

May 2, 2007

Jewish Outreach: A Lifelong Calling

By the time Rabbi Levi and Brynie Stiefel were old enough to follow their dreams of becoming Chabad representatives, all the major, easily accessible cities…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 1, 2007

Ida Crown Academy Honors Chabad Representative

“It’s quite a feat for one woman to be able to change an entire family’s lineage, but Rebbitzen Michla Schanowitz is capable of just that.”…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 26, 2007

Guest Editorial: Random Kindness in the Face of Random Terror

Up until the morning of April 16, things were pretty much happening as they should on most American campuses at this time of year. Students and…

By Rabbi Dov Wagner

April 23, 2007

Chabad of Brandeis: Success Invites New Challenges

For 85 Brandeis University students, Sunday night marked the end of an experimental semester of seminar style Jewish classes. A paradigm shift for Chabad of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 23, 2007

A Brighter Shabbat for Students on Campus (video clip)

This past Friday night, Jewish women on college campuses across America participated in an initiative to dispel some of the darkness experienced by events of…

April 23, 2007

Facilitators of Tahara

The glamour of Jewish professions are predictably with the pulpit rabbi and the cantor, whose skills may reward them with generous salaries, prestige and recognition.…

By Baila Olidort

April 20, 2007

New Chabad House To Open At Virginia Tech

Lubavitch of the Virginias, headed by Rabbi Yossel Kranz, will be opening a new Chabad House at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va, to serve the…

April 19, 2007

A Time To Cry, A Time To Act

Virginia Tech students sat quietly, some weeping at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center’s brief prayer service Tuesday night, too overcome, too emotionally exhausted to do…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

April 19, 2007

Tefillin At Auschwitz

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April 18, 2007