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Governor Schwarzenegger Joins Chabad’s Chanukah Celebration

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger performed a symbolic menorah lighting at the State Capitol today as part of the 12th annual Chabad Chanukah celebration. The Governor joined…

By Bradford Wiss

December 22, 2005

Chabad Opens Yeshiva in Poland

The arrival of ten Yeshiva students last month from the Chabad Yeshiva in Montreal to the newly formed branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Warsaw…

By Raizy Metzger

December 21, 2005

Chabad Schools Chosen For Pilot Program in Childhood Education

Two Chabad preschools have been chosen to participate in a new pilot program aimed at creating models of excellence in Jewish childhood education. After a…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 19, 2005

Menorah Lights Triumph Yet Again

In Shrewsbury, MA, a Chanukah miracle took place when the town Board of Selectmen voted to reverse their original vote to deny the Chabad Jewish…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

December 14, 2005

Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios

Will the ten thousand people who flood Universal City Walk’s cinema square to witness Chabad of the Valley’s menorah lighting and watch the giant Astrovision…

By E.J. Tansky

December 12, 2005

Tzivos Hashem Celebrates 25th Anniversary

A biting wind whipped down Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, across the courtyard of the Jewish Children’s Museum, but that’s not why the 450 people…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 8, 2005

Science and Torah: Conflict or Complement?

Some of today’s most hotly debated issues, including the instruction of evolution vs. the theory of intelligent design, the role of DNA testing in determining…

By Raizy Metzger

December 5, 2005

New Chabad Centers Open at University of Kansas and Cal State Northridge

By the time students at University of Kansas and California State University, Northridge, return from holiday break, they will meet the two newest members of…

By E.J. Tansky

December 2, 2005

New Chabad House Opens In Warsaw

With the opening of a Chabad House in Warsaw, the city’s Jewish community will finally enjoy the full range of Jewish communal services offered by…

By Raizy Metzger

December 1, 2005

Major Revolution on Campuses Stimulated by Chabad, Declares Alan Dershowitz

Guest speaker at last night’s Gala Banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim, Professor Alan Dershowitz spoke glowingly of the work of Chabad. Looking…

By Baila Olidort

November 28, 2005

A Most Unusual Event

Shoppers, fresh from the streets of a city mad with holiday glitter swept into the lobby of the New York Hilton and found themselves in…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 28, 2005

Shluchim Conference: A Time for Taking Stock

A Chasidic quip attributed to Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi says, “Your neighbor’s material wellbeing is the stuff of your spiritual wellbeing.” This idea, delivered…

November 25, 2005

International Representation of World Jewry Convenes at Annual Conference

Conference organizers at Lubavitch Headquarters are expecting a record-breaking 3000 participants at this year’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim. That’s a marked increase from last…

By Baila Olidort

November 23, 2005

New Center to Rise in New Jersey

Two hundred people celebrated the best kind of growing pains when Chabad Center of Northwest New Jersey broke ground for its new 12,000 square foot…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 23, 2005

Celebrating 30 Years in Vancouver

Thirty years ago this month, when Rabbi Yitzchak and Henia Wineberg arrived in Vancouver, B.C. to establish a Chabad presence, there was little to be…

By Raizy Metzger

November 20, 2005

From New Orleans to New Jersey: A Torah Is Welcomed

As Eric Sion prepared to read from the Torah at his bar mitzvah, he could not have imagined that he would be reading from the…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 15, 2005

Tefillin Bank: Every Jew A Pair to Call His Own

Most banks give out complimentary pens. Generous banks give out toasters. But the Kushner International Tefillin Bank has given out 2,500 pairs of tefillin–for free–in…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 12, 2005

Terror Survivors in Israel Offer Thanksgiving

It’s usually the drama of tragic stories that make the news. Here’s one where near-tragedy turns to joy, and a family gets a second chance…

By Raizy Metzger

November 10, 2005

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower

Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of…

November 9, 2005

A New Home For Chatsworth’s Jewish Community

For Yolanda Richman, there’s no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there’s no place like…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 8, 2005

Reaching for the Infinite: Scholars At NYU On the Rebbe

“Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life,” said Elliot Wolfson, a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. “To speak of him is fraught with…

November 6, 2005

Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad

From Oxford, England. From Columbus, Ohio. Dartmouth, Boston, Princeton, NYU, USC . . . Four hundred students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted…

By E.J. Tansky

November 2, 2005

Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift

Elderly Jews in south Florida have two strikes against them: Hurricane Wilma wiped out their electrical power, their lifeline to self-sufficiency, and, after Hurricane Katrina…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 1, 2005

Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again

Stuart Katz, general manager of IsraAir, never thought he’d spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that’s what happened…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 28, 2005