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Chabad Rabbi Teams up with Former DreamWorks Artist

Marc Lumer’s early works have appeared on Warner Bros’ hit shows Batman and Superman. While Lumer was at DreamWorks, his paintings helped create the animated…

June 25, 2010

Local Chabad Center Leads Challah Baking Workshop for Deaf

Fun and tradition know no language barriers, as members of the Jewish Deaf community of Riverside discovered at a recent Challah-making workshop.

June 23, 2010

Coast-To-Coast, Chabad Centers In Shape For Summer Season

Although the U.S. economy is predicted to slow this quarter, more than fifty percent of Americans will be vacationing this summer. And if sunbathing and…

By Dvora Lakein

June 23, 2010

Rohr JLI 12th Annual Conference Explores New Themes in Jewish Life

Some 350 Chabad rabbis from around the world came together last week for the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute conference held on the campus of the…

By Mordechai Lightstone

June 22, 2010

Chabad Outreach Program Honors 250-Year Yahrzeit of Baal Shem Tov

Four hundred rabbinical students will begin a summer tour of duty that will take them to 2500 cities and over ten thousand communities, where they…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 21, 2010

In Conversation: New Chabad Representatives To Mumbai

As a rabbinical student, I spent time in Mumbai helping the Holtzbergs. Gabi was a dear friend, and I knew Mumbai and the community. But…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 17, 2010

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Appoints Full Time Representatives to Mumbai

Lubavitch World Headquarters has appointed Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman of Israel to serve as full time Chabad representatives to Mumbai.

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 17, 2010

Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, Chabad Representative, Age 49

Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, the Chabad-Lubavitch community, and the Jewish communities of Bethesda and Chevy Chase, MD, mourn the sudden passing of Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, at the…

June 14, 2010

Editorial: On The Biography of A Tzaddik

Biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who passed away on the third day of Tammuz in 1994, are making appearances in mainstream…

By Baila Olidort

June 14, 2010

Chabad Welcomes Israeli Heroes to the U.S.

Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler welcomed ten Israeli soldiers to the Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side. All ten were wounded in combat…

By Levi Margolin

June 10, 2010

First Jewish Senior Citizens Center To Open in Russia

On Wednesday June 2, several hundred Jewish community members participated at a historic groundbreaking in Vladimir, Russia, where the first Jewish senior citizens center in…

June 3, 2010

Saturday Night Face-Off at Yankee Stadium

Foreman, a Yarmulka clad observant Jew, is part of the IYYUN Chabad community in Brooklyn. He wears Tzizit, and wraps Tefilin daily. He is also…

By Yaacov Behrman

June 2, 2010

Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka

On August 11-12, 1942, German soldiers herded 27,000 residents of Rostov – most of them Jewish citizens – to a secluded area at the edge…

May 31, 2010

A First for Ukrainian City: Sumy Municipality Welcomes Torah Scroll

Hundreds of Jewish community residents joined the procession as they danced from the town’s main street to the Jewish community center.

May 26, 2010

Beating Dyslexia: Michael Zarchin’s Story

In 1960, when Michael Zarchin was six years old, he had yet to learn to speak normally. He could not read, write, or understand basic…

By Amihai Tzippor

May 26, 2010

Boutique Dairy Farm in Germany Goes Kosher

Germany’s kosher consumers can now enjoy a full line of locally produced boutique cheeses and milk that come from a small dairy farm near the…

By S. Fridman

May 25, 2010

Jews Concerned, Not Intimidated By Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in Salonica

Chabad representative to Salonica said he refuses to become intimidated after vandals desecrated the city’s Jewish cemetery...

May 17, 2010

Who Wrote the Bible: Reclaiming The Traditional View

According to tradition, Moses wrote the Five Books after the Sinaitic revelation, as transmitted to him by G-d, and gave it to the Jewish people

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 13, 2010

In Conversation: Natan Sharansky

Mr. Sharansky met with Baila Olidort at his office at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Jerusalem, where he talked about his vision, his respect for…

May 11, 2010

Miriam Peretz Visits With Chabad Reps in Moscow

Miriam Peretz, the Israeli woman who lost a second son in the IDF less than two months ago, accompanied Israel’s President Shimon Peres on a…

May 11, 2010

Dutch Government Acknowledges Failure To Protect Jews

On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland's Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration

By Mordechai Lightstone

May 11, 2010

Russian Jewish Community Remembers and Resolves

Holocaust survivors and Brooklyn community members commemorated Victory Day, Sunday, May 9, at the Holocaust Memorial Park on Emmons Avenue in Brooklyn

May 10, 2010