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Seniors Get A Second Wind With Chabad Programs

As more and more boomers get their welcome kit from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), Chabad programming for seniors is experiencing a boom of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 12, 2006

Remembering January 20, 1950 (Yud Shevat)

Today is a special date on the Hebrew calendar that brings thousands of visitors to the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.…

February 8, 2006

Even in New Orleans: A Time for Joy

When Mendy Traxler slipped the gold ring on Rachel Kaufmann’s finger under the wedding canopy last night, and when he crushed the glass underfoot to…

By Baila Olidort

February 7, 2006

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February 7, 2006

Jewish Children of Rome Get A New Preschool Facility

With a continuous presence of Jews from classical times to today, Rome’s Jewish community may well be the oldest one in the world. At approximately…

By Baila Olidort

January 30, 2006

Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives

When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 25, 2006

Aventura Teens Spend Shabbat With Chabad in New York

Because of its efficacy as a teaching tool, experience-based learning is now being advocated as a strategy in classrooms from preschool through college. When twelve…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 24, 2006

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January 24, 2006

Stranded in the Brutal Cold: Chabad to the Rescue

Some claim that the last time the mercury fell to 30 below zero in Russia, it was 1927; others say it’s a ten year cycle.…

By Miriam Davids

January 23, 2006

170 Chabad Representatives Gather at West Coast Convention

More than 170 Chabad rabbis and emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, gathered in Long Beach, California over the…

By Bradford Wiss

January 18, 2006

New Orleans Day School Reopens

When 26 students trickled back into Chabad-Lubavitch of New Orleans’s Torah Academy on January 5, the only thing that looked familiar was the school building…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 18, 2006

Jewish Community of Mission Viejo Celebrates 10 Years With Chabad

Creative to the hilt, it’s fitting that Chabad Jewish Center of Mission Viejo, CA, is housed in a former bank building. Transforming ennui into excitement…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 17, 2006

Chabad and birthright: Israel: Partners In Jewish Awareness

Over college winter break, a fourteen buses loaded with 575 students from schools across North America cruised down the neon-bathed streets of Tel Aviv. Edgy…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 13, 2006

Russia’s Chief Rabbi: Synagogue Attack A Wake-Up Call

MosNews–Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told the Itar-Tass news agency that the main conclusion to be drawn from the incident was that it’s too late…

January 12, 2006

Moscow Stabbing Likened to ‘Pogroms of Old’

International news agencies continue to cover developments in the attack earlier today on worshipers at a Chabad synagogue in Moscow. Photos of the attack indicate…

January 11, 2006

Eight Wounded in Attack on Moscow Synagogue (UPDATED)

INTERFAX Eight people have been wounded in an attack at a synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya street in downtown Moscow Wednesday evening, Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev…

January 11, 2006

College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up

Most college students are forgiven if they sleep in on January 1, nursing a headache from the past night’s excesses, but Erik Steel awoke early…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 8, 2006

Chabad Rabbi Awarded by the Jewish Community Professional Association

When Chabad representative Shiffy Landa brought multiple intelligences to her classroom in St. Louis’s Epstein Hebrew Academy, her husband Rabbi Yosef Landa took note. For…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 5, 2006

Chasidic Mapquest

Chemists looking for solutions to chemical mysteries keep an eye on the periodic table of elements. Now Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has…

By E.J. Tansky

January 3, 2006

Chabad of South Broward Tops Ekaterinburg’s 6,000!

Editor’s Note: With its December 28 posting of a 6,000 person turnout at a Chanukah celebration in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Lubavitch.com challenged Chabad Shluchim worldwide to…

By Reuven Arazi

January 2, 2006

Chanukah Chabad Style at Camp Victory

The U.S. Army took control of Al-Faw several years ago, but there’s still something surreal about the idea of a grand Chanukah celebration at Saddam…

By Baila Olidort

December 29, 2005

Top This: Six Thousand Attend Chabad Chanukah Celebration

Will Chabad Shluchim top this one?Chabad representative to Ekaterinburg, Russia, Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi, reported to Lubavitch.com that 6,000 people attended Chabad’s Chanukah event yesterday. There…

December 28, 2005

Chabad Gives Chanukah 2005 Greatest Exposure Ever

A blue Lego piece clutched in his chubby fingers, Zhak Goldemberg-Levy, just 21 months old, built a menorah with a little help from his grandfather…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 27, 2005

From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Great Wall of China: Chabad Lights Up the Skies

It’s hard to litigate against light, which explains why despite scattered attempts around the country by church- and-state purists to take down the eight-armed menorahs…

By Baila Olidort

December 25, 2005