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Road Sages: Finding Jews in All the Right Places

While en route from Chicago to Minneapolis last weekend, three guys in a Dodge Sprinter heard about a small town halfway to their destination.

By Dvora Lakein

August 12, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was secretary to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, for a period of 40 years. As a young boy of 13,…

August 11, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Issues Statement on Mumbai

Since the terrorist onslaught in Mumbai, India, last November, when Chabad representatives Rabbi Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg were brutally murderd, the Government of India, including…

August 10, 2009

Chabad Rabbi Nominated for UJC Hero of the Year

Chabad Rabbi Nominated for UJC Hero of the YearChabad Rabbi Nominated for UJC Hero of the Year

By Staff Writer

August 10, 2009

Chabad Center To Open in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Chabad-Lubavitch, has appointed Chabad representatives to Cambodia, a first for this South East Asian country.

By S. Fridman

August 10, 2009

Flashback! Lubavitch Office in Milwaukee Acquires New Center

In this week's Flashback! lubavitch.com presents a news release dated August 1973 announcing the purchase of a new building by Chabad-Lubavitch of Wisconsin that will…

By Lubavitch News Service

August 7, 2009

80 Years After Massacre, Baby Named For Hebron Matriarch

On that fateful day, thousands of bloodthirsty Arabs carrying knives, hatchets and pitchforks rampaged through the streets of Hebron hunting Jews for slaughter.

By Yaacov Behrman

August 5, 2009

A Match Made In Iraq

It is as unlikely a place as any, but for Laurie Zimmet and Moshe Lans, Iraq will always remind them of how much they have…

By Dvora Lakein

August 5, 2009

Chabad of Koh Samui Reaches Out after Crash

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid brought hot kosher food and warm compassion to the 24 Jewish survivors of a Bangkok Airways flight that crashed Tuesday in…

August 4, 2009

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Broadway

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To BroadwayYishaya and Shira met each other as students during a Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House at …

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 4, 2009

Manali Diary 3: Chabad Rabbis Continue To Search For Missing Israeli

When an Israeli traveler, Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, was discovered missing in India, Chabad rabbinical students Levi Pekar and Yehuda Kirsh took an active role in organizing search parties.…

By Levi Pekar

August 4, 2009

Children Learn Through Art and Community Service At A Toronto Chabad School

A new Chabad center in an unlikely Toronto neighborhood is getting noticed for its unique Hebrew arts school. Chabad of York Mills quietly opened before…

By David Lipson

August 3, 2009

Flashback: President Johnson’s Proposal

In this week's Flashback! we've uncovered an interesting press release by our news service from 1965, in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe endorsed President Johnson's proposal…

July 31, 2009

In Cusco, Peru, Backpackers Observe Jewish Fast Day

It was a record breaking pre-fast meal Wednesday evening, as 75 backpackers took their final meal before the Tisha b'Av fast at the Chabad center…

July 31, 2009

Summer School, Yeshiva Style

Nine weeks ago, Josh Weinstein packed up his blue Corolla for the 284-mile drive from Norfolk, Virginia to Morristown, New Jersey. The semester at Virginia…

By Dvora Lakein

July 29, 2009

Search Continues for Missing Israeli: Chabad Diary Takes Note

It has been a week since 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, an Israeli backpacker touring India, was last seen. Originally from Maaleh Levonah, the army veteran…

By Levi Pekar

July 28, 2009

Chabad Hebrew Day School Integrates SMART Boards In All Classes

Dusty chalk and dry-erase boards are so Twentieth-century. The Hebrew Academy of Huntington Beach, California, known for its progressive educational methods is moving ahead once…

By Dvora Lakein

July 28, 2009

Entrepreneur Says It’s Time To “Give Back” To Chabad

What’s a successful entrepreneur doing sponsoring the publication of an esoteric, Chasidic discourse? Or repairing the gravesite of its author in some remote Ukrainian townlet?…

By S. Fridman

July 27, 2009

Manali Diary: Chabad Rabbinical Students Search For Missing Israeli

An Israeli search team is expected to arrive in India on Monday, to search for a 24-year-old Israeli backpacker missing in the Parvati Valley area.…

By Levi Pekar

July 26, 2009

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Sunday, July 26, marks the anniversary of the passing, of Rabbi Isaac Luria on the fifth of the Hebrew month of Av.

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 26, 2009

Flashback: Teacher Donates Back Pay to Charity

Speaking at the Lubavitcher center in New York this week commemoratinghis father's 20th Yartzeit, the Rebbe told of the difficult plight ofmany teachers of Jewish…

July 23, 2009