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Jewish Teens: Chabad Keeps Them From Opting Out

A frisson sizzles through Chabad of Flamingo as 90 teens swivel in their seats to see how their Torah for Teens rabbi will handle a…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 21, 2006

Olmert Visits with Russia’s Chief Rabbi

Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on an official state visit to Russia, visited yesterday at the Marina Roscha Jewish Community Center where he was joined…

By Mark Rubin

October 20, 2006

Children Key to Rebuilding Jewish Life in Uruguay

Last week, DHL express delivery planes made a special delivery for terror orphans in Israel: 300 Simchat Torah flags hand painted by elementary school children…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 18, 2006

Jewish and Muslim Communities Cooperate to Pass US’s First Kosher-Halal Law

Over eleven million Americans will buy kosher food this year, according to LUBICOM, a marketing and consulting group for kosher interests. Up from six million…

By Mordechai Shinefield

October 16, 2006

Translation of 100-year-old-Chasidic Text Published

Spiritual seekers are delighted with Overcoming Folly as it is reintroduced in a new and improved format recently published by Kehot Publication Society. Revised to suit the…

October 12, 2006

Photo Feature: Sukkot Round the World

In most of the world, Sukkot comes just as the leaves are turning and early autumn chills prompt us to pull our sweaters out of…

October 12, 2006

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