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The Siberian Jewish community of Tomsk, Russia, will soon welcome new Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi Levi and Gitty Kaminetzki. Appointed by Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar,…

October 13, 2004

The Priest In The Sukkah

The photographs that continue to come into the offices of Lubavitch.com, tell colorful stories of Chabad’s sukkot activities, penetrating every segment of Jewish society, and…

October 12, 2004

Jewish Students at Duke University to Pre-empt Negative Publicity

In advance of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, the remains of a civilian passenger bus bombed by terrorists in Israel this…

October 11, 2004

. . . and For Those Who Couldn’t Come . . .

For those who couldn’t make out to the fairgrounds–like the elderly and the bed-bound at the Merwick Nursing Home in Princeton, NJ, Chabad brought the…

October 6, 2004

Bikers Take To The Lulav

Jewish bikers identifying as The Tribe Motorcycle Club (DC), Chai Riders (NY), Hillel’s Angels (NJ), The Stars of Davidson, King David Bikers (FL) and the…

October 5, 2004

. . . and at the University of Arizona at Tucson

Chabad rabbinical students in Tuscon, Arizona set a sukkah up on campus at the University of Arizona, Tucson. A curious sight, the sukkah was visited…

October 5, 2004

Sukkot: On the Sea, At the Army Bases, and In the Preschools . . .

When it’s time to celebrate, few match the get-up-and-go spirit of Chabad. Around the world, Chabad Shluchim have devised some of the most creative ways…

October 5, 2004

Pizza-in-a-Hut: Sukkot in Clarks Summit

Move over Pizza Hut. This one’s the real thing. Chabad of the Abingtons, in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, ran a “Pizza in-the-Hut” carnival. Kids and adults…

October 5, 2004

Sukkot and The New Europe: Parallel Themes

Father and son, Chabad representatives Rabbis Shimon and Mendel Samama, put up the first sukkah in Strasbourg, home to the European Parliament. Joining them in…

October 5, 2004

After the Hurricane: A Sukkah BBQ

The sight of the sukkah–the humble hovel assembled in the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes–that stands surrounded by debris of solidly constructed structures, seems layered…

By Baila Olidort

October 4, 2004

. . . and in Lithuania

With no full-time rabbi in Vilnius‘s neighboring cities of Kaunas (Kovno) and Klaipeda, Chabad of Vilnius with help from students of Beis Menachem Jewish Day…

October 3, 2004

Sukkot With Chabad in: Riga, Latvia

It’s a week of merrymaking in sukkahs everywhere. On college campuses, in the center of every metropolitan city, in suburban towns, and, well, even on…

October 3, 2004

Sharing the Festival: With the IDF in Hebron

For Chabad representatives around the world, it’s often a question of “Are you Jewish?” But in Israel, they usually cut to the chase. Nearly everyone…

October 3, 2004

Sukkah Hopping Round the World

It’s that time of year when those odd looking, ramshackle huts appear on every other porch and yard in Jewish neighborhoods around the world. The…

By Baila Olidort

September 28, 2004

Jewish Leaders Meet At Ukrainian Forum

On a listing of Jewish population centers, Ukraine comes in fifth at 400,000. So the quality of life for the country’s sizable Jewish population is…

By Baila Olidort

September 28, 2004

A Yom Kippur Tradition Returns to the Former Soviet Union

In the custom of kapparot, Jewish people prepare for Yom Kippur by purchasing a hen, and reciting the prayer: “This is my exchange, this is…

September 27, 2004

Chabad of Ukraine At Babi Yar Memorial

In his famous poem on Babi Yar, Yevgeny Yetushenko wrote, Here all things scream silently . . . Government representatives and other officials who came…

By Baila Olidort

September 26, 2004

Thank You For The Chance

In an email sent to Rabbi Eliezer Lazaroff of Chabad House at Texas Medical Center, a woman who attended Rosh Hashana services wrote: “I wanted…

By Baila Olidort

September 23, 2004

Hundreds Braved Ivan To Get To Rosh Hashana Services

“Man is likened to a broken potshard, to withering grass, to a fading flower, to a passing shadow, to a vanishing cloud, to a blowing…

By Fay Kranz Greene

September 22, 2004

More New Appointments

Chabad activities in Dallas, Texas, expand with the new appointments of: Rabbi Peretz and Michal Shapiro. Rabbi Zvi and Aidy Drizin. Plano, Texas: Rabbi and…

September 22, 2004

Mutual Respect Better Than Mutual Tolerance

At the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Conference on Tolerance and the Fight against Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, in Brussels, Jordan’s Prince…

September 21, 2004

A Torah is Dedicated by Jews of the European Union

It was a first for the Jewish community of the European Union last week when a Torah scroll was completed and dedicated to the synagogue…

By Baila Olidort

September 20, 2004

400 Jews Forced To Conduct Rosh Hashana Services In The Cold

In contrast to events that barred 400 Jews from entering the only synagogue in Lithuania’s capital, forcing them to conduct Rosh Hashana services out in…

By Baila Olidort

September 19, 2004

New Yom Kippur Machzor Published

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of the new Yom Kippur Maczhor — Annotated Edition. The Machzor follows the innovations…

September 13, 2004