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Australia Honors Pioneer of Chabad Synagogue

Today, Australia National Day, Ian Harris was one of 84 individuals to be awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for “service worthy of…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 26, 2015

Ottawa Government Grant Supports Chabad’s Initiative for Seniors

For its work teaching seniors to navigate the rapidly evolving technological and medical fields, the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa received a $10,000 grant from…

By Staff Writer

January 22, 2015

Deaf, But Not Excluded

A Jewish overnight summer camp may be an experience most Jewish kids have come to expect. Not so deaf Jewish children.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 21, 2015

Historic Nevada Cemetery Restored

In 1864, The Eureka Hebrew Society purchased a plot of ground on Cedar Hill, in Virginia City, Nevada, for a cemetery.

By Staff Writer

January 21, 2015

Dust Particles: Levi Robin, Singer/Songwriter

Dressed in plaid shirt and grey slacks with wisps of curly hair poking out of his black Fedora, Levi Robin sits in his studio cradling…

January 20, 2015

Musicians With Special Needs Release Recording

Chauffeured in limousines, dressed in formal attire, prepped by stylists, these aspiring musicians with special needs had the red carpet rolled out for them and…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 18, 2015

Learning Parenting To Raise Healthy Children

A parenting course that looks to Jewish values that have stood the test of time may surprise participants as it cuts the sacrosanct “what are…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 18, 2015

Unseen, Unheard, Poor Philadelphia Demographic Becomes Community Concern

Philadelphia’s Jewish Relief Agency a meeting ground for goodness

By Rena Greenberg

January 15, 2015

Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad, Israel, Rabbi Mordechai Ashkenazi, 71

Long-time Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad and the Emek Lod vicinity, Rabbi Modechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, suffered a fatal heart-attack this afternoon.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 14, 2015

Promise Made by Little Hungarian Girl During WWII Fulfilled

When Robert Rubinstein, a Toronto businessman, had to fulfill the dying wish of a Hungarian Christian woman, he reached out to the Chabad rabbi in…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 14, 2015

$1 Million Ruderman Chabad Initiative To Promote Inclusion

The Ruderman Family Foundation (RFF) has put $1 million towards the establishment of a partnership with Chabad-Lubavitch in order to create a culture of inclusion…

January 13, 2015

STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS

Prime Minister Valls was right in acknowledging that France will be judged a failure if its Jews are forced to flee. We urge Paris’s city…

January 11, 2015

France: In Face of Anti-Semitism, Jews Deepen Identity

Friday's terror siege on a kosher supermarket in France, in which four people were killed, is the most recent of anti-Semitic violence that has targeted…

By Rena Greenberg

January 11, 2015

Parshat Shemot: “Je Suis Charlie”

Today, I am not only Chanie. I am Charlie. I am Shmuel, Mordechai, Andrea, Zeri, Noach, Mery, Sara

By Chanie Zaklikovsky

January 9, 2015

All Dressed Up And Ready To Go

Some time ago, they accepted an invitation to a dinner in the hope of meeting new friends. “I’m not much of a believer, but that…

By Natalie Ling

January 8, 2015

In Prison and Desperate, But Not Alone

The photo of a rabbi reaching through the prison bars embracing the inmate on the other side, begs for background.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 7, 2015

Students Pack the House at Chabad of UVM

Burlington, the largest city in Vermont, was named as the “best college town in America” by Travel and Leisure last year.

By Natalie Ling

January 6, 2015

Eldest of Chabad Representatives, Rabbi Dovid Edelman, 90

Rabbi Dovid Edelman, dean of the Lubavitch Yeshivah Academy (LYA), in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, passed away this past Friday, at the age of 90.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 4, 2015

Town with “No Jews” Gets Its Own Jewish Center

Back in 1850, Solano County’s Indian Chief didn’t bargain for a Chabad Center, but chances are he’d be a proud man today knowing that one…

By Rena Greenberg

December 31, 2014

Tokyo, Japan, Gets Its First Kosher Restaurant

In a country where baba ghanoush, a Middle-Eastern favorite made of eggplant and mayonnaise or tahini is hard to come by, Chabad of Tokyo is…

By Staff Writer

December 30, 2014

Jewish, Deaf and Proud at Historic Chanukah Events

At the first ever Chanukah event for the deaf community in New York, the excitement was silent but palpable.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 30, 2014

Building Bridges Across the Ocean with Israel Connect

An innovative program recently established in canada is fast becoming an international story of building bridges that answers with a resounding “yes.”

By Rena Greenberg

December 30, 2014