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On Faith and Fortitude: Jewish Women Speak At Chabad International Conference

(lubavitch.com) The International Conference of Shluchos (f. representatives) concluded Sunday at the gala banquet at the New York Hilton. As 2,900 women poured into the…

By Dvora Lakein

February 16, 2009

Remembering the Life of a Jewish Feminine Role Model: Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson

Greatness comes in many forms. Often we imagine the character of a giant as someone who influences an entire world, forgetting the silent majesty of…

February 16, 2009

Chabad Conference Initiatives: Rivkah’s Tent

(lubavitch.com) The Midrash in Bereishit Rabbah 60 speaks of the candles that burned and the challah that remained fresh from week to week in Sarah’s…

By Dvora Lakein

February 15, 2009

Hitting the Books: Shluchim Take Their Study to the Web

(lubavitch.com) If he is not affixing a mezuzah to a doorpost, lighting a mega-menorah, or frantically picking up last-minute groceries for a large Shabbat dinner,…

By Dvora Lakein

February 15, 2009

Special Needs Children’s Program Helps Eliminate Stigma

What did you envision when you started the organization 14 years ago? Soon after my husband, Levi, and I were married in 1994, we set…

February 12, 2009

International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos Begins Wednesday

(Lubavitch.com) The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos begins Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn. Now in its 21st year, the Conference organizers anticipate 2500…

By Dvora Lakein

February 11, 2009

Traditional Yeshiva Embraces Women’s Career Ambitions

(Lubavitch.com) Jenna Domber, a recent Ithaca College graduate with work experience in marketing and communications, used to “look into the observant world” with the belief…

By Sarah Bronson

February 10, 2009

Chabad House Damaged Family OK

(lubavitch.com)Fire ripped through the Chabad Center near the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, Sunday. Though the Loschak family managed to escape unharmed, their house…

February 9, 2009

Google Earth Brings Exodus Story to Life

(lubavitch.com) Flying virtually around mountains and over seas, Adult Jewish education students in Carmiel are experiencing the Torah’s account of the Exodus from Egypt from…

By Zalman Nelson

February 9, 2009

300 Communities Unite in Shabbat Observance

(lubavitch.com) Concerns about the future of Jewish life and its continuity keep many community leaders, philanthropists and Jewish census professionals preoccupied. Overwhelmingly, it seems most…

By Dvora Lakein

February 5, 2009

Flashback 1950s: A Meeting With the Rebbe

In the summer of 1956, after our return from the Soviet Union, I made a visit to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneirson, better known as the…

February 3, 2009

CHABAD 2.0: The Next Generation

(lubavitch.com) With the arrival of the new first family and the 44th president of the United States into the White House last month, came a…

By Dvora Lakein

February 3, 2009

Got Question? Askmoses Website Counts More Than 1 Million Questions

(lubavitch.com) Askmoses.com, possibly the largest online Jewish knowledge base, took its one millionth chat session recently, garnering a spot on CBS's 6:15 Spotlight. After 10 years…

By Miriam Davids

February 3, 2009

Timeless Perspectives on Timely Problems Rohr JLI Course Examines Civil Law Through Jewish Principles

(lubavitch.com) If a son kills his parents in order to claim their estate, does he still get to inherit? This and five other provocative issues…

By Dvora Lakein

February 2, 2009

Hard Times Don’t Stop Opening of New Jewish School

(lubavitch.com) With the difficulties that Jewish communities everywhere are facing as philanthropic resources dry up, the completion this week of a new school building in…

By Zalman Nelson

January 30, 2009

Justice Scalia, Talmudic Scholars On Privacy, Free Speech

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By Dvora Lakein

January 29, 2009

Mumbai Relief Fund Names Director

(lubavitch.com) International Committee members of the Mumbai Relief Fund under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters named Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of Mosocw, Russia, to serve…

January 28, 2009

COUNTERVIEW of THE VIEW

What’s your response to Loving Leah and its promotion on the The View?As an actress and a Jewish woman, I can tell you that if…

By Baila Olidort

January 28, 2009

Body of Israeli Tourist, Chabad House Frequenter, Located after Hiking Accident

(lubavitch.com) The Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 26-year-old Israeli tourist, Ohad Dotan, was killed in New Zealand on Tuesday after falling from a height…

By Zalman Nelson

January 28, 2009

Judge Orders Russia To Report on Status of Chabad Library

(lubavitch.com) In the case of Chabad-Lubavitch vs. Russia, US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth today accepted Chabad’s request to deny Russia’s legal counselors release…

By Miriam Davids

January 27, 2009

Mr. Eduardo Elsztain Named Chairman of WJC

At Monday's 13th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem, Mr. Eduardo Elsztain was named Chairman of the Board of Governors, succeeding Matthew…

January 27, 2009

Torah Study, Then and Now

(lubavitch.com) For all the blessings of the internet age—and they are enormous—this generation may spell the end of certain social conditions vital to the existential…

By Baila Olidort

January 26, 2009

In View of Mumbai: JUDAISM A VOICE OF HOPE

UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to CNN about Chabad-Lubavitch and the idealism of its Mumbai representatives. Embedded video from &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.cnn.com/video&amp;quot; mce_href=&amp;quot;http://www.cnn.com/video&amp;quot;&amp;gt;CNN…

January 25, 2009