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Chabad Representative Offers Invocation To Albany Legislature

It’s just about that time of year in Albany, when legislators might be heard wishing for money to grow on trees. Tu-B’shvat, the New Year…

By E.J. Tansky

February 15, 2006

A New Chabad Centre for Oxford Students

Amit Pundik began lugging a satchel of books and paper around Oxford University four months ago when he arrived to study law. Excelling in an…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 14, 2006

Lawrence H. Summers At Shabbos for 1000

Munching on gefilte fish and challah, more than 600 Harvard affiliates packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath.…

By Sam Teller

February 13, 2006

Tu B’Shvat: Fruits and Trees, and the Human Being

Pomegranates were on Leah Brackman’s mind. The fruits, a splash of ruby against the muted tones of the winter-scape, were not the only exotics on…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 13, 2006

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