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Catholic Hospital Hangs 270 Mezuzahs on Facility, A California First

When Providence Tarzana Medical Center looked to become the first San Fernando Valley hospital to hang mezuzahs in all patient areas, they turned to Chabad…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 3, 2010

Lag B’Omer Parade In Moscow Russia [Photos]

May 2, 2010

Lag B’Omer: Of Mystics and Merriment

More than a million people visit annually, but it is during the 24-hour period of Lag B’Omer that the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai…

By Dvora Lakein

April 30, 2010

Baku Hosts World Interfaith Summit

Participants in the World Interfaith Summit expressed concern about the recent rise of extremism, terrorist acts committed world-wise, terrorists’ use of weapons of mass destruction,…

April 28, 2010

Chernigov Jewish Leaders Congratulate Governor at Inauguration

Vladimir Nikolaevitch Khomenko was inaugurated as the city’s new Governor at a ceremony April 27, at the Chernigov regional administration. The event was attended by…

April 28, 2010

Israel Deaf Football Team Does Shabbat With Chabad at Wimbledon

(lubavitch.com) Last Friday night Chabad House at Wimbledon hosted the Israeli Deaf Football Team, who had come to the UK to play Great Britain in…

April 27, 2010

Mrs. Chava Devorah Shusterman, Pioneer Chabad Emissary, 89

Rebbetzin Chava Devorah (Evelyn) Shusterman, a renowned educator and matriarch of the Chicago Jewish community, who served, along with her husband, Rabbi Tzvi Shusterman, as…

By Mordechai Lightstone

April 26, 2010

Chabad Reps Develop Hebrew Reading Learning Technique

Now children—and adults—can learn to read Hebrew in 20 hours or –less. For real. Chabad representatives in California have formally launched a new Hebrew reading…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 26, 2010

Machne Israel Development Fund Announces Major Gift

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Machne Israel, has announced a major gift by Mr. & Mrs. David Slager to the Machne Israel Development Fund.

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

April 21, 2010

Chabad of Central Africa Opens First Day Camp

This year, school break in Nigeria coincided with Passover. For Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chief Rabbi of Central Africa, it provided an opportunity too obvious…

By Yaacov Behrman

April 21, 2010

Remembering Israel’s Fallen

Traffic came to a halt and people stood in silence honoring Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror Monday morning as sirens wailed across Israel.…

By Amihai Tzippor

April 19, 2010

From Lodz to Montreal: The Life of Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky

Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, who fled Nazi occupied Poland and continued to help found and run the first Chabad yeshivah in Montreal, Canada, passed away…

By Mordechai Lightstone

April 19, 2010

New Generation of Scholars Ponders Jewish Existential Issues

Is it rational to believe in the historical accuracy and divine origin of the Bible? Can Jews exist as a community without a land of…

By Zalman Abraham

April 13, 2010

Kyrgyzstan Jewish Community Anxious

Protestors clashing with riot police last Wednesday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, left the small Jewish community in this Central Asian republic feeling particularly vulnerable and anxious

By Mordechai Lightstone

April 11, 2010

Hungarian Jews Concerned About National Elections

Hungary's Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on this Sunday's national elections, in which a right-wing extremist group is expected to garner an unprecedented…

By Chana Katz

April 9, 2010

Chabad Seders in Cusco, Peru

Despite widespread damage in January caused by Peru’s worst flooding in five years, with numerous access roads closed, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted some 700 guests for its…

April 7, 2010

Founder of Chabad Institutions in Canada, 94

Rabbi Moses E. Gerlitsky, one of the founders of the Rabbinical College of Canada and Chabad in Canada passed away Sunday April 4, 2010 in…

April 7, 2010

Passover Parade In Chicago

(lubavitch.com) Sporting T-shirts with “This Passover, Experience Your Freedom,” 75 rabbinical students and schoolchildren packed into 13 fifteen-passenger vans last Tuesday on a parade that…

By Mendy Rimler

March 25, 2010

600 Chabad Rabbinical Students Set Out On Passover Tour

Six hundred Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students, itineraries in hand, will disperse to some 280 cities worldwide, in time for the Passover Seders that begin on March…

By Staff Writer

March 25, 2010