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Hawaiian Island of Kauai’s First Torah Scroll

The Hawaiian Island of Kauai, where people come to get away, never had its own Torah scroll. Now, Richard Seigel, a local resident and his…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 18, 2014

New Home for Peabody Chabad in the New Year

Chabad of Peabody, Massachusetts, bursting at the seams of its current location, will begin the Jewish New Year with the purchase of a new building.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 18, 2014

Chabad to Remain Open in Hurricane Devastated Cabo

Chabad representatives of Cabo San Lucas will stay in town to help locals following the devastation of Hurricane Odile.“It looks like the city was bombed,”…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 17, 2014

Birthday Challah Bake for Cleveland’s Rebbetzin

How do you celebrate the 70th birthday of a Chabad Rebbetzin? In Cleveland, Ohio, 500 children, mothers and grandmothers came out for a mega Challah…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 17, 2014

Arsonists Set Fire to Brussels Synagogue

A fire that broke out in a Brussels synagogue Tuesday morning was the work of arsonists, say investigators. Three people at the Machzikei Hadath Synagogue…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 16, 2014

Door-to-Door Mezuzah Service

Check your “Jewish door bell!” That’s the message on Israel radio and bus ads from Chabad in Israel. While most homes in Israel have a…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 15, 2014

Searching for Jews Off the Beaten Path

The tiny, high-desert town of Taylor, Arizona, could almost be from another era. There are a few fast food joints and high-speed Internet. But there’s…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 15, 2014

Got A Kosher Dog?

Can I have a kosher hotdog? If this is what stands in the way of Jewish families who would entertain switching to a kosher diet,…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 15, 2014

A Welcome Sign in the Tel Aviv Skyline

It was a confining season for Israelis who stayed close to bomb shelters all summer long while missiles rained on Israel. Chabad’s paraglider, a summer…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 15, 2014

220 Chabad Centers in CA

The first Chabad center in the State of California opened in 1964. Today, there are 220 centers in the state, something worth whistling about. At…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 15, 2014

Chabad Preschool Selected For TACSEI National Study

Aleph Academy, the only Jewish preschool in the Sierra-Nevada region, is the first private early childhood program in Nevada to become an implementation site for…

By S. Fridman

September 4, 2014

Coffee at Dartmouth, One Cup At A Time

On a mild spring afternoon last May at a café in the small idyllic town of Hanover, New Hampshire, Rabbi Moshe Gray was holding his…

By Rena Greenberg

September 1, 2014

A First At 83: Survivor, Philosopher, Wraps Tefillin

Frithjof Bergmann is well-versed in Judaic ritual but had never wrapped tefillin.

By Rena Greenberg

August 28, 2014

Six Years After Mumbai Attack, Chabad House Reopens

“We can overcome challenges, even the most horrific of challenges. We can and must rebuild, and this building serves as a beacon of light and…

By S.B. Nemanow

August 26, 2014

CTeen Europe Shabbaton Gives Jewish Teenagers a Boost of Jewish Pride

Jewish Teens spend a weekend together, having fun and making lifelong connections

By S.B. Nemanow

August 25, 2014

Donetsk Jews in Exile: Pray for Us

Back in Donetsk, an eerie emptiness has replaced the noisy, boisterous JCC. The school building is closed, as is the kosher restaurant. A few Jews…

By Baila Olidort

August 25, 2014

Sweden’s Jewish Leadership: We Will Stand Strong

One elderly resident of a local nursing home, originally from Hungary, was brought to tears when 11-year-old Ari Raskin, the son of Budapest’s Chabad representatives,…

By Baila Olidort

August 20, 2014

Photo Gallery: JLI Retreat 2014, Chicago

Photos from five days at JLI’s National Jewish Retreat

August 20, 2014

Video: Canadian Rabbis Look Out for Jewish Inmates

Rabbi Zushe Silberstein works with Jewish Inmates of Quebec’s prisons.

August 19, 2014

A Walk Through the Pages of History

In 1475, a Hebrew printing press in southern Italy printed a book that stands as one of the earliest examples of an industry that would…

By S.B. Nemanow

August 18, 2014

The Rebbe’s Father: The 70th Yahrzeit

Jewish communities worldwide will this Shabbat (20 Av) be marking the 70th yahrzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944), the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,…

By Baila Olidort

August 15, 2014