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A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula

North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea are not…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 11, 2006

Fun and Festive After Praying and Fasting

The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the makeshift huts that the Jewish people dwelled in for forty years in the desert. Alternatively, it’s the clouds of…

By Mordechai Shinefield

October 10, 2006

Davening With the Stars

Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 5, 2006

Yom Kippur Joy?

When the day of fasting and contrition was nearly over, after all the prayers had been exhausted, the pages now wet with the hot tears…

October 1, 2006

Personal Reflections: Yom Kippur Baby

Asher Scherer-Smokey will have to wait until nightfall for a birthday cake, but that’s life for a Yom Kippur baby. His mom, Dr. Beth Scherer-Smokey,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 30, 2006

Trends: College Campuses Dedicate Their Own Torah Scrolls

Slipping from USC fight song into the Jewish pride anthem “David Melech Yisrael” threw trombone player Nathan Tiras for a few beats. He and nine…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 28, 2006

Canoe Team Member Chooses Rosh Hashana Over Race

To build the abs, the muscle and cardio endurance it takes to cross 41 miles of Pacific blue in an outrigger canoe race, Karen Dunai…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

September 25, 2006

Open Door Policy Draws Newcomers To Shul

Sometimes it takes 40 years for Chabad’s open door, no tickets required policy on the High Holidays to bear fruit. At Debbie’s Luncheonette on Troy…

By E.J. Tansky

September 21, 2006

Going Kosher Grows in Boulder

Smoky sweet pastrami, lamb and pine nuts, couscous spiked with kosher harissa flown in from a Parisian suburb and more filled the air with piquancy…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

September 19, 2006

1300 Turn Out for Walk4Friendship

At the Walk4Friendship, where 1,300 participants walked, wheeled, rolled and strolled to raise close to $200,000 for the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, MI, there…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 15, 2006

Chabad Educator Wins National Award

Rabbi Meir Muller, a Shaliach of Chabad Lubavitch and director of the Columbia Jewish Day School, has been named as a national early childhood professional…

September 13, 2006

In the Trenches, From Illinois to Kiryat Shmona

With putty in his ears to protect them from the roaring report of mortar fire, Morton Friedman of Wilmette, IL, supported Israel during the war…

By E.J. Tansky

September 11, 2006

Tales from the Suburbs of the Diaspora

Jews scattered by the winds of exile tend to land in metropolitan clumps or at least in suburban splotches. But then there are those who…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

September 7, 2006

On Campus: Students Support for Israel Strong

After a summer-long diet of one-sided media reports and images favoring Lebanese suffering and ignoring that to Israeli civilians and cities, many college students are…

By E.J. Tansky

September 4, 2006

A Year After Katrina: A Jewish Community Grows

FEMA trailers block sidewalks along Marcy Fertel’s path to Chabad of Metairie. She walks in the street to get to the synagogue on Shabbat. Electricity…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 29, 2006

An Innovative Yeshiva Opens in Twin Cities

Wrapping tefillin on strangers at the airport, climbing into cherry pickers to scale jumbo menorahs, Chabad’s creative zeal for returning Jews to the fold is…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 27, 2006

Jewish Learning 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level

Ed Brown covered over 970 miles of blacktop and jaw-dropping mountain passes to make his way to the first annual National Jewish Retreat from his…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

August 23, 2006

Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union

Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,”…

By Baila Olidort

August 20, 2006

Jewish Festival A First for Shoreline Community

On the Guilford Green, where colonial settlers’ cattle once grazed and where thespians from Shakespeare on the Shoreline would take the stage later that evening,…

By E.J. Tansky

August 18, 2006

Jewish Identity Grows Among Lithuania’s Gan Israel Campers

Statistics compiled by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry project that of the 60 singing, cheering Jewish girls, who piled onto the bus to attend…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 17, 2006

Editor’s Journal: “My Heart, My Heart, Over Their Slain…”

You don’t get very far in Israel without coming across a marker of a soldier who gave his life in defense of the land, of…

By Baila Olidort

August 16, 2006

Israel File: The Day After

Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a…

By Baila Olidort

August 15, 2006

Israel File: Punctuated Grief

Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel…

By Baila Olidort

August 14, 2006

Chabad Educators Meet At National Conference

One hundred teachers and principals from across North America bade an early farewell to summer, and headed to Newark, NJ, for the annual conference hosted…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 11, 2006