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Grant Will Bring Preschool from Trailers to Building

Lovell, and Member Parliament for Bentleigh, Elizabeth Miller, announced an upgrade to the Gan Gabi and Rivki Early Learning Centre at the Bentleigh East’s Beis…

By Staff Writer

November 10, 2014

Survivor of Nepal Bus Accident Grateful For Chabad Rabbi

The Nepalese man arrived at the Chabad House last Monday “looking for the man with the white shirt and the beard.”

By Staff Writer

November 9, 2014

New Courses in Jewish Texts For Millennials in Former Soviet Union Cities

Twenty new academies of higher Jewish learning in the former Soviet Union opened their doors in the past month. The move spells a dramatic shift…

By Staff Writer

November 7, 2014

Los Angeles Principal Receives Prestigious Award

Teachers and students at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles were called for an assembly on Monday. All they knew was that one…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 6, 2014

New Chabad Ottawa Torah Center Takes City Builder Award

The Chabad representatives serving the Barrhaven suburb of Canada’s capital took many community-building steps before crowning it with a $4.5 million edifice that garnered the…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 6, 2014

Leader, Mentor, Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, 69, Mourned by Paris Jewish Community

Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, director of Chabad-Lubavitch in Paris, France, passed away this morning after a stroke. Azimov built more than three dozen communities, but will…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 5, 2014

Rabbinical Seminary Opens in Hamburg as Germany’s Jewish Revival Grows

In some significant way, the opening this month of a rabbinical seminary in Hamburg, Germany, harks back to its glory pre-war days when the city…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 4, 2014

Early Childhood Studies Spur Parents To Choose Jewish Preschools

Chabad preschools, consistently in the vanguard of progressive early-childhood methodologies, are contributing to a marked shift in the educational priorities of Jewish families with little…

By Rena Greenberg

November 4, 2014

At Chabad Conference, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein Won’t Talk Politics

It doesn’t take much to get Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, to reminisce about the times he spent with members of the…

By Staff Writer

November 3, 2014

Murdered by Soviets in 1938, Jewish Activist’s Gravesite Found

After years of digging through the files of the KGB—the communist state security agency formerly known as the NKVD—a mass grave with over a dozen…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 3, 2014

A Conversation With Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Podcast)

In the following conversation, former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Jonathan Sacks, speaks with Baila Olidort, Editor-in-Chief of Lubavitch International and lubavitch.com on current concerns: Anti-Semitism, Jewish…

By Baila Olidort

November 2, 2014

Meet the Pickle Rabbi at Agoura Kosher Week

In conjunction with Chabad of the Conejo’s Kosher Week, Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, known as the “Pickle Rabbi,” and sometimes, the “Soup Rabbi” will give a…

By Staff Writer

November 2, 2014

Talenti Founder on Surviving the Rough Times

Josh Hochschuler, founder of Talenti Gelato has what to celebrate after seeing his brand’s profits double each year since 2008. The ice cream company turned…

By Staff Writer

November 2, 2014

Monday the Rabbi Brought Soup

Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, Chabad emissary to Los Alamitos, California is driving very, very carefully. In the back seat of his car is a box with…

By Rena Greenberg

October 31, 2014

Gino’s East, a Chicago-based restaurant chain famous for its deep-dish pizza will soon have a kosher branch in The Living Room, a space under construction…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

October 31, 2014

Pre-War Chabad Yeshiva Building in Poland Long Thought Gone, Is Found

A rookie researcher from S. Paulo, Brazil made it her goal to locate the former glorious building of the Lubavitch Yeshivah school, known as Tomchei…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

October 30, 2014

Jewish Federation Head Visits Chabad

Last week, Jerry Silverman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Jewish Federations of North America, met with Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch…

By Staff Writer

October 29, 2014

Grieving Family of Fallen Soldier Finds a Way to Celebrate

When the parents of a soldier in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) killed in Operation Protective Edge during this past summer told a Chabad representative…

By Staff Writer

October 28, 2014

Chabad at WVU Opens New Space on Campus

Location, location, location. For Chabad of Morgantown, West Virginia, that was at the top of their wish list in their search for a new home.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

October 28, 2014

Chabad Opens Lehrhaus at Cambridge University

Cambridge, England, home to one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious universities, has for centuries provided students with access to some of the best…

By Natalie Ling

October 27, 2014

Israel’s Welfare Minister Visits Chabad Humanitarian Program

Israel’s Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Meir Cohen, visited the humanitarian organization Yad B’Yad, to learn about the plight of Israel’s impoverished.

By Staff Writer

October 27, 2014

For Law Student at Chapel Hill, A Circle Closes

When Kathryn Kushner first walked into Chabad at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, her grandfather Abraham Kushner, a Lieutenant in the New…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

October 26, 2014

Teenagers Make Their Own Charity Boxes for Ukraine’s Needy

Teenagers in Fairfax, Virginia, created charity boxes that, once filled, will go to the needy in Ukraine. A part of the CTeen program at Chabad…

By Staff Writer

October 24, 2014

New Building for Growing Moscow School

Hundreds turned out last week to mark the dedication of a new building for Moscow’s Cheder Menachem Jewish day school. Standing near the Marina Roscha…

By Staff Writer

October 23, 2014