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Last week when 25 girls, ages eleven to fifteen, stepped into inflated rafts and navigated them on a frothing whitewater river, they were learning more…

By E.J. Tansky

July 5, 2005

A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston

The music is throbbing; the drums pound to a crescendo as the capacity crowd at the Coolidge Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts rise to their feet…

By Fay Kranz Greene

July 3, 2005

Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin–A First Since Holocaust

In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 1, 2005

New Biography of Baal Shem Tov Published

The Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, newly released by the Kehot Publication Society, publishing arm of the Lubavitch…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 29, 2005

Father’s Day With Chabad At USC

Like many dads, Rabbi Dov Wagner of Chabad at USC positioned himself at the grill on Father’s Day, but he and his wife Runya were…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

June 29, 2005

Jewish Children’s Museum Expects Steady Summer Tours

The fourth graders from Yeshivat Noam of Bergenfield, NJ, could not resist calling out answers to their struggling compatriots who were trying to score points…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 24, 2005

Little Girls Make Lots of Light

At Mindel and Sara Yaffe’s third birthday party, they didn’t blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

June 22, 2005

A Mecca for Special Children

At first glance, the classroom at Chabad of Glen Cove Long Island’s Hebrew school for children with special needs looks like any other classroom. Brightly…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 19, 2005

Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life

The first Jewish university to open in Continental Europe—the Lauder Business School, has installed a new director/rabbi to run the Jewish Heritage Center on its…

By Baila Olidort

June 12, 2005

A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado

Looming gray clouds that lashed the mountainsides of Westminster, Colorado, with drenching rains blew out of town just in time for Chabad of Northwest Metro…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 9, 2005

Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Home Services

On June 3, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in favor of an Orlando Chabad rabbi’s right to host prayer services…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 7, 2005

A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding

As cocktails and hors d’oeuvres made the rounds last night on a Tel Aviv terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sea, guests greeted one another with the…

By Baila Olidort

June 6, 2005

Banner Year for Chabad on Campus

As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 2, 2005

Community Defends and Celebrates Preschool

After city officials forced children out of their preschool at Chabad of Staten Island, NY, on May 25, the synagogue’s long-planned inauguration of its new…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 30, 2005

Lag B’Omer in Har Chevron, Israel

Two hundred children from five settlements joined Chabad’s Lag B’omer festivities in Har Chevron. Against a stunning background of Israel’s hills, the children carried banners…

May 30, 2005

Lag B’omer in East River, Connecticut

Chabad: East of the River celebrated its fifth annual Jewish Family Fair in Glastonbury, CT, timed to coincide with the auspicious day of Lag B’Omer.…

May 30, 2005

New Chabad Reps to Azerbaijan

New Chabad representatives, Rabbi Matityahu and Chaya Mushka Luis have taken up residence in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The young couple will work with…

May 29, 2005

Forward, March, Together!

To Jewish boys impatient for the chance to beat a drum in a marching band, and little girls who fancy twirling a tasseled baton, Lag…

By Miriam Davids

May 27, 2005

Shabbat Dinner in London Draws Hundreds

Friends of Lubavitch are being asked to arrange regular Friday-night social events after 300 young Jews attended a lively Shabbat dinner last weekend at a…

May 27, 2005

Jewish Children Come of Age in the FSU

In the grand finale of a comprehensive Bar Mitzva project, more than 100 boys and girls celebrated their coming-of-age at a joyous Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration…

May 25, 2005

Prayer Services at Home? A Supreme Court Test Case

Chabad of South Orlando’s neighborhood zoning woes may become a Supreme Court test case of a landmark religious freedom act signed by President Clinton. Over…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 24, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

The Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, held a meeting with two Cossack leaders – Anatoly Shevchenko, the Head (Hetman) of the Ukrainian…

May 23, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

The Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, held a meeting with two Cossack leaders – Anatoly Shevchenko, the Head (Hetman) of the Ukrainian…

May 23, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Riverside, California

Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Fuss of Brooklyn, New York, were appointed Chabad representatives to Riverside, California. The couple will establish a Chabad House to serve…

May 19, 2005