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Countdown to The Seder: Passover With Chabad

According to one matzah vendor interviewed by Lubavitch.com, he sold 150,000 pounds of shmurahmatzah, or hand-made matzah, to Chabad Shluchim this year. Add another handful…

By Baila Olidort

April 21, 2005

A Birthdate to Remember

During his lifetime, thousands celebrated the Rebbe’s birthday at an all night farbrengen, a Chasidic gathering. Seated at a table decked in a white cloth,…

April 20, 2005

Post Tsunami Pesach in Thailand

It is 5:00 a.m. and dawn has not yet broken in Bangkok. The typically teeming streets are bathed in the stillness of morning and there…

By Fay Kranz Greene

April 18, 2005

Children Come of Age in Vilnius

“I came specially from Klaipeda, more than three hours away, for my daughter to be part of this once in a lifetime event,” says a…

April 17, 2005

For Israelis . . . in Moscow

“More than 400 Israelis have reserved places for the Passover Seder in Moscow planned specifically for Israelis,” says Rabbi Yakov Fridman, “and we’ve yet another…

April 14, 2005

A Palpable Passover Experience

“We wanted the children of our community to experience a virtual Pesach and become one with the Passover story,” says Rabbi Chayim Friedman. Friedman, the…

By Fay Kranz Greene

April 13, 2005

Mansichewitz and Chabad Reach Thousands in Lithuania, Ukraine and Beyond

A gaggle of teenage girls are packing up their sleek holiday skirts into small valises in anticipation of the Passover holiday. But they won’t be…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 13, 2005

New Haggadah Keeps It Simple

The Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of the new, Haggadah For Pesach–Annotated Edition. The attractively designed, user-friendly Haggadah follows…

April 13, 2005

Passover Programs to Reach 437 Communities in the FSU

As in years past, the the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS is implementing a comprehensive Passover campaign designed to facilitate observance of this…

April 12, 2005

Helsinki Commission Urges State Department to Seek Return of Schneerson Collection

In a dramatic gesture in the Senate on Wednesday, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan), Chairman of the Helsinki Commission presiding over the hearings on the Schneerson…

By Baila Olidort

April 7, 2005

Center To Teach Life Skills To Children

A new facility for special needs children is also a dream-come-true for their parents and friends. A decade in the making, the new Ferber Kaufman…

By Eileen McCarville

April 7, 2005

Purim In The Emerald Isle

Pubs filled as regular customers gathered and pints of Guiness were poured in anticipation of the Tel-Aviv vs. Ireland World Cup soccer qualifying match on…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 7, 2005

Purim at Cambridge Takes An Orwellian Turn

Six-foot tall roosters, a charming butterfly and dancing cows lumbered through Chabad of Cambridge’s backyard barnyard for their Animal Farm Purim celebration. Under plastic bats…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 29, 2005

Bringing the Joy of Purim to Lithuania

It’s all part of a dramatic revival of Jewish life in this region, where Chabad’s religious, educational and social outreach programs are inspiring Jewish people…

March 28, 2005

Purim at University of Pennsylvania

Purim at UPENN included a distribution of over 1000 mishloach manot kits packed by the Sigma Delta Tau and Chi Omega Sororities. The packages were…

March 27, 2005

1300 Students Celebrate Purim With Chabad at Columbia U

“Judaism’s all about breaking barriers, transcending limits, and that’s really the idea here behind my music,” said Matisyahu, renowned Hassidic-reggae singer, to a crowd of…

By S. Olidort

March 27, 2005

Chabad Representative Named Among Top 25 Influential Community Leaders

The Acorn, an Agoural Hills, CA, community newspaper named Chabad-Lubavitch representative, Rabbi Moshe Bryski one of this year’s top 25 influential community leaders. The following…

March 25, 2005

Senator Boschwitz Gets A Sweet Sendoff

Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (1978-1991), was recently appointed by President Bush to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to The United Nations Commission on Human…

March 23, 2005

A Queen, A King, A Hero and a Villain: Purim Celebrations Abound

As Purim revelers in Branford, CT, munch on sour pickles with enough punch to provoke puckers, they will be stepping back in time at Chabad…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 22, 2005

Chabad Representative Awarded Prestigious Edmond Tenoudji Prize

The last time the Jewish community in Toulouse, France made news, it was the frightening report of hooligans opening fire on a kosher butcher shop.…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 20, 2005

West Coast Representatives Open Senate Session

When Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, director of Chabad activities in the state of California, opened the senate session Monday morning (March 14), he told the senators…

March 14, 2005

Sharansky Visits Lauder Chabad Campus in Vienna

A flock of kindergarten students at Vienna’s Lauder Chabad School filled the hallways waving hand-colored signs and homemade flags greeting Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 14, 2005

Jewish Education on the Rebound in Argentina

South America’s largest Jewish community is keeping its eyes peeled on the Wolfsohn School, a former flagship school of Argentina’s Conservative Jewish movement, which opened…

March 11, 2005

New Jewish Pre-School Opens In Potsdam

Jewish roots run deep here in this city situated some forty five minutes southwest of Berlin, where Stalin, Truman, and Churchill signed the Famous 1945…

By Mimi Weiszner

March 8, 2005