Tuesday, / February 25, 2025
Lubavitch News Service
A Jewish House of Healing
Nine hundred and fifty dinner guests turned up on October 1 at the Westin Hotel, one of Sydney, Australia’s most prestigious venues, in a broad…
Sun and Surf and Soul
“The idea of a Lubavitch center springing up here on the island was just surreal,” perhaps as surreal as the island itself, says Kim Barkan,…
Chanukah Gelt for Thousands
Thousands of children nationwide will soon be checking the post for their Chanukah gelt and gifts. Sponsored by an anonymous donor, Lubavitch World Headquarters will…
Ukrainian Government Awards Chabad Rabbi
Once a capital crime in this region, Jewish outreach and spiritual leadership were recently awarded the highest government recognition. Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski, Chabad representative to…
Siberia’s Warming Trend
For the 25,000 Jews living in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city, Jewish identity has long become no more than a sad footnote in their personal…
A Second Chance
Over the last few decades, a full 80% of Atlanta’s Jewish population of 100,000 migrated to the suburbs. For a while, it seemed as though…
Rebuilding Jewish Life in Dresden
DRESDEN, GERMANY–The elderly man expressed interest in receiving Chabad’s new weekly update, providing that its cover won’t display anything too Jewish. It wasn’t a good…
Have Degree, Will Mother
When Rabbi Avraham and Frumi Bekerman arrived in Moscow nine years ago to assume direction of the Machon Chaya Mushka Institute for Jewish Women, a…
Torah in the Technology Corridor
Coined the “technology corridor” of Illinois, Naperville and its surrounding areas are home to dozens of hi-tech firms and company headquarters for several large companies.…
Bulgaria Blooms
For the better part of the last half-century, Bulgaria’s Jewish population (12,000) has not had the benefit of educational and social institutions so integral to…
Memorial On The Black Sea
In a moment of heartrending closure, the kaddish was recited on a ship in the Black Sea in the area where flight Tu-154 went down…
Emerging From the Floodwaters
Only several weeks after torrential rains and flooding left half of Prague submerged in water, Chabad here is back in business, and “stronger than ever,”…
Shabbos House All Week Long
Jason Kirsch, a sophomore psychology major, loves jamming nights at Shabbos House on campus. Jason is one of seventy students who bring their musical instruments…
A Happy Reunion
The last time Karen Guttman, 28, had contact with her father was 14 years ago. By a series of serendipitous events that brought her to…
Sukkot in Donetsk
Like dozens of cities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, Donetsk, one of the largest cities in Ukraine, was home to a thriving Jewish…
A Hut in Bryant Park
Only fifty feet from the glamour and glitz of the fall fashion show in Bryant Park last week, an odd looking hut became a curiosity…
Eugene, Oregon
With the arrival this week of Rabbi Asi and Aviva Spiegel, the spiritual seekers of this city 100 miles south of Portland have a new…
A Sanctuary of Light
Surrounded by wetlands and woodlands in the heart of suburban West Bloomfield, The Shul, Chabad’s newest project, was completed just a couple of hours before…
3,000 Tributes for 3,000 Victims
Fourteen hundred students and faculty members took part in a 36 hour-long September 11th commemorative event at Binghamton University last week. Chabad’s Mitzvah Marathon, co-sponsored…
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